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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Pocket veto
Idealism
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Issue advocacy
2. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Due process clause
Collective action
Ethnocentrism
Civil disobedience
3. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Devolution revolution
Natural rights
Party registration
Majority
4. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Filibuster
Policy agenda
Coattail effect
World Trade Organization (WTO)
5. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Rally point
Revolving door
Creative federalism
Natural rights
6. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Vouchers
Distributive policy
Candidate appeal
Reform party
7. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Excise tax
Federal mandate
Medicare
Safe seat
8. A career government employee.
Recall
Inherent powers
Policy agenda
Bureaucrat
9. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Suffrage
Indictment
Labor injunction
Collective bargaining
10. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Soft money
Race
Political predisposition
Antifederalists
11. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Random sample
Executive privilege
Nonpartisan election
Rally point
12. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Protectionism
Union shop
Entitlements
Soft money
13. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Establishment clause
Selected perception
Natural law
Libertarian party
14. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Jim Crow laws
Soft money
Party identification
Plea bargain
15. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Substantive due process
Safe seat
Majority-minority district
Judicial review
16. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm
Grand jury
Movement
Civil disobedience
Cross-cutting requirements
17. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
Bad tendency test
Medicaid
Federalists
Social Security
18. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
Redistributive policy
Poll tax
Take care clause
19. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Socialism
Amicus curiae brief
Public assistance
Free rider
20. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
Keynesian economics
Community policing
Independent expenditure
Reinforcing cleavages
21. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.
Public defender system
Equal protection clause
Closed shop
Selective incorporation
22. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Political socialization
Soft money
Keynesian economics
Public assistance
23. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.
Executive privilege
Sound bites
White primary
Standing committee
24. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Political socialization
Economic sanctions
Entitlement programs
25. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Political socialization
Recall
Mandate
Closed shop
26. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
Attentive public
Normal trade relations
Political predisposition
Sedition
27. A large body of people interested in a common issue - idea - or concern that is of continuing significance and who are willing to take action. Movements seek to change attitudes or institutions - not just policies.
Safe seat
Democratic consensus
Direct primary
Movement
28. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Soft power
Due process clause
Cross-cutting requirements
Closed primary
29. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Women's suffrage
Marbury v. Madison
Statism
Writ of habeas corpus
30. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Fundamentalists
American dream
Retrospective issue of voting
Union shop
31. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Project grants
Docket
'Our federalism'
Bicameralism
32. Constitutional division of powers among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches - with the legislative branch making law - the executive applying and enforcing the law - and the judiciary interpreting the law.
Referendum
Sedition
Separation of powers
White primary
33. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
Civil disobedience
Obscenity
Safe seat
34. Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.
Virginia Plan
Laissez-faire economics
Block grants
Isolationism
35. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Closed shop
Coattail effect
Monetarism
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
36. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Mass media
Laissez-faire economics
Bureaucracy
Oversight
37. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Concurrent powers
Winner-take-all system
American dream
Multilateralism
38. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Gerrymandering
Socialism
Public assistance
Separation of powers
39. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Prospective issue voting
Linkage institutions
Issue advocacy
Amicus curiae brief
40. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Lobbying
Random sample
Federal mandate
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
41. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).
Poll tax
National Intelligence Director
Dissenting opinion
Cabinet
42. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Indictment
Criminal law
Writ of habeas corpus
Direct primary
43. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Independent regulatory commission
Uncontrollable spending
Ethnicity
Safe seat
44. Photo opportunities set up by the candidates. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on photo ops to explain them to the public.
Commerce clause
Direct primary
Antitrust legislation
Photo ops
45. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Judicial restraint
Prior restraint
De facto segregation
Race
46. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Opinion of the Court
Vouchers
Senatorial courtesy
Exclusionary rule
47. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Normal trade relations
Adversary system
Community policing
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
48. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Independent agency
Obscenity
Prospective issue voting
Community policing
49. Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.
Selective incorporation
Cooperative federalism
Closed primary
Bicameralism
50. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.
Independent regulatory commission
Monetarism
Senatorial courtesy
Redistricting