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1. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Conference committee
Caucus
Faction
2. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.
Issue advocacy
Search warrant
Executive privilege
De facto segregation
3. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Entitlement programs
Popular consent
Public choice
Substantive due process
4. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Appellate jurisdiction
Preferred position doctrine
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Hard money
5. 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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6. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Deficit
Winner-take-all system
Tax expenditure
Executive privilege
7. 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.
Equal protection clause
Safe seat
Federal mandate
amicus curiae brief
8. 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.
Redistricting
Original jurisdiction
Open rule
Delegate
9. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Libertarian party
Decentralists
Distributive policy
Commerce clause
10. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Right of expatriation
Contract clause
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Sound bites
11. 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.
Impoundment
Literacy test
Social Security
Class action suit
12. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Due process clause
Hold
Popular consent
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
13. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Ethnocentrism
Gender gap
Voter registration
Cross-cutting requirements
14. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Independent regulatory commission
'Our federalism'
Plea bargain
Issue advocacy
15. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Weapons of mass destruction
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Total and Partial Preemption
Vouchers
16. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Prospective issue voting
Conservatism
Capitalism
Bill of attainder
17. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Honeymoon
Bundling
Prospective issue voting
Lobbying
18. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Independent expenditure
Unfunded mandates
Constitutional Convention
19. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Cross-cutting requirements
Docket
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Permissive federalism
20. 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.
Keynesian economics
Attentive public
Cross-cutting cleavages
Preferred position doctrine
21. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
Connecticut Compromise
National tide
Caucus
Bundling
22. 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.
Bundling
Immunity
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Retrospective issue of voting
23. Media that emphasize the news.
Trade deficit
Delegate
News media
Political culture
24. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Ethnicity
Internationalism
Keynesian economics
Policy agenda
25. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
News media
Direct primary
Majority rule
Medical savings account
26. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Incumbent
Joint committee
Implied powers
Theocracy
27. A veto exercised by the president after Congress has adjourned; if the president takes no action for 10 days - the bill does not become law and does not return to Congress for possible override.
Executive orders
Defendant
Pocket veto
Ethnocentrism
28. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Interstate compact
Confederation
Civil disobedience
Direct democracy
29. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Popular sovereignty
Candidate appeal
Winner-take-all system
Presidential election
30. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.
Rule-making process
White primary
Inherent powers
Majority rule
31. A president's claim of broad public support.
Rule-making process
Mandate
Referendum
Search warrant
32. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Double jeopardy
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Policy agenda
Dealignment
33. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.
Trustee
Eminent domain
Interested money
Whip
34. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Faction
Representative democracy
Monopoly
Prior restraint
35. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
National tide
Initiative
Winner-take-all system
Socioeconomic status (SES)
36. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Party identification
Federal Register
Substantive due process
Retrospective issue of voting
37. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Iron triangle
Administrative discretion
Immunity
Department
38. A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free - fair - and relatively frequent elections.
Constitutional democracy
Majority rule
Issue network
American dream
39. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Selective exposure
Regulatory taking
Retrospective issue of voting
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
40. 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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41. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Issue advocacy
Reinforcing cleavages
Independent agency
42. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Monopoly
Right of expatriation
Racial profiling
Party identification
43. Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government - the actions of the federal government will prevail.
Lobbyist
Divided government
Keynesian economics
National supremacy
44. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Rally point
Parliamentary system
Libertarianism
Inherent powers
45. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Realigning election
Cross-cutting cleavages
Standing committee
Recall
46. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Popular sovereignty
Preemption
Indexing
Leadership PAC
47. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
Fiscal policy
Mandate
Annapolis Convention
Liberalism
48. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Extradition
Party caucus
Protectionism
Permissive federalism
49. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Creative federalism
Full faith and credit clause
Women's suffrage
Reform party
50. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Issue network
De jure segregation
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Trust