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1. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.






2. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.






3. The study of the characteristics of populations.






4. 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.






5. Views the national government - 50 states - and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes. Applies the analogy of the marketplace: we have some choice about which state and ci






6. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.






7. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.






8. A small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or - if composed of ideologies on the right or left - usually persists over time; also called a third party.






9. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.






10. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.






11. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.






12. The current holder of the elected office.






13. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.






14. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.






15. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.






16. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.






17. Clause in the Constitution that states that 'Congress should have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. . . .' This clause is also known as the elastic clause as is a major and significant p

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18. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.






19. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.






20. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.






21. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.






22. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.






23. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.






24. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.






25. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.






26. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.






27. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.






28. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.






29. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.






30. A career government employee.






31. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.






32. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that freedom of expression is so essential to democracy that governments should not punish persons for what they say - only for what they do.






33. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.






34. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.






35. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.






36. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.






37. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.






38. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.






39. Election in which voters choose party nominees.






40. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.






41. Media that emphasize the news.






42. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.






43. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.






44. A minor party dedicated to the environment - social justice - nonviolence - and the foreign policy of nonintervention. Ralph Nader ran as the Green party's nominee in 2000.






45. Elections held midway between presidential elections.






46. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.






47. 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.






48. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.






49. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.






50. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.







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