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1. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Party identification
Whip
Public defender system
Patronage
2. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Writ of habeas corpus
Referendum
Plurality
Socioeconomic status (SES)
3. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Establishment clause
Implementation
Presidential election
Adversary system
4. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Impoundment
Redistricting
Idealism
Conference committee
5. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Closed shop
Democratic consensus
Fundamentalists
Political socialization
6. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Due process clause
Central clearance
Weapons of mass destruction
Senatorial courtesy
7. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Eminent domain
Exclusionary rule
Cooperative federalism
Manifest opinion
8. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Quid pro quo
Selected perception
Override
9. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Political party
Reapportionment
Bipartisanship
Bundling
10. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Literacy test
Regulation
Entitlements
Electoral college
11. 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.
Connecticut Compromise
President pro tempore
Due process clause
Regulations
12. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Manifest opinion
Race
Federal mandate
Hard money
13. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Appellate jurisdiction
Bad tendency test
Linkage institutions
Rule-making process
14. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Offshoring
Closed shop
Cloture
Executive orders
15. The formal process for making regulations.
American dream
Rule-making process
Ethnocentrism
Deregulation
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
Federal mandate
Patronage
Literacy test
Grand jury
17. A president's claim of broad public support.
Candidate appeal
Mandate
Turnout
Special or select committee
18. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Entitlement programs
Unitary system
Issue advocacy
American dream
19. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Selective exposure
Representative democracy
Special or select committee
Fiscal federalism
20. 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.
Government corporation
Delegate
Parliamentary system
Procedural due process
21. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Bureaucracy
Right of expatriation
Concurrent powers
Deregulation
22. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Public defender system
Medicaid
Issue advocacy
Jim Crow laws
23. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Due process
Presidential ticket
Lobbyist
Federal Reserve System
24. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Commerce clause
Natural rights
Executive order
25. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Impeachment
Honeymoon
amicus curiae brief
Judicial activism
26. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Horse race
Clear and present danger test
Implied powers
Marbury v. Madison
27. Media that emphasize the news.
Political ideology
News media
Bipartisanship
Line item veto
28. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Uncontrollable spending
Popular consent
Tax expenditure
Antitrust legislation
29. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Issue advocacy
Democracy
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Gender gap
30. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Administrative discretion
Confederation
Executive agreement
Cross-cutting cleavages
31. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Bush Doctrine
Sedition
Centralists
Unemployment
32. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Political culture
Issue network
Federalists
Bipartisanship
33. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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34. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
Filibuster
State of the Union Address
Preemption
Unitary system
35. The difference between the revenues raised annually from sources of income other than borrowing and the expenditures of government - including paying the interest on past borrowing.
Deficit
Political predisposition
Party convention
Party caucus
36. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Racial gerrymandering
State's rights
Writ of mandamus
Override
37. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Midterm election
Bureaucrat
Decentralists
Independent expenditures
38. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Hatch Act
Majority rule
Natural rights
Parliamentary system
39. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Rule-making process
Virginia Plan
Grand jury
Manifest destiny
40. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Natural rights
Treaty
Hard money
Discharge petition
41. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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42. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Rider
Writ of certiorari
Substantive due process
National supremacy
43. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
De facto segregation
Winner-take-all system
Judicial review
Three-fifths compromise
44. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Equal protection clause
Political socialization
Exclusionary rule
amicus curiae brief
45. 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.
Due process clause
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Offshoring
Plea bargain
46. A career government employee.
Closed rule
Substantive due process
Checks and balances
Bureaucrat
47. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Chief of staff
Divided government
Demographics
Implementation
48. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Department
Dual citizenship
Reform party
49. 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.
Plea bargain
Discharge petition
Minority leader
Separation of powers
50. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Minor party
Monopoly
Issue advocacy
Hard money