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1. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Issue advocacy
Cross-cutting cleavages
Safe seat
Pluralism
2. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Reapportionment
Judicial review
Selective incorporation
Earmarks
3. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Initiative
Distributive policy
Regulations
National party convention
4. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Leadership PAC
Independent expenditures
Bicameralism
Implied powers
5. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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6. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Petit jury
Preferred position doctrine
Soft money
Whip
7. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Party convention
Senatorial courtesy
Checks and balances
Proportional representation
8. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
Liberalism
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Redistricting
Selected perception
9. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Name recognition
Monopoly
Court of appeals
Party convention
10. 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
Full faith and credit clause
Equal protection clause
Recall
11. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Justiciable dispute
Normal trade relations
Realism
Redistricting
12. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Executive Office of the President
Excise tax
Caucus
Closed rule
13. A provision attached to a bill
Indictment
Rider
Natural rights
Single-member district
14. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Reinforcing cleavages
Issue network
Natural law
'Our federalism'
15. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Decentralists
Manifest destiny
Standing committee
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
16. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Manifest opinion
Caucus
Political socialization
Commerce clause
17. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Regressive tax
Devolution revolution
Monopoly
Regulation
18. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Hatch Act
Antitrust legislation
Collective action
General election
19. Congress appropriates a certain sum - which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies - based on applications from those who wish to participate. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universi
Project grants
Caucus
Deficit
Libertarianism
20. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Racial gerrymandering
Substantive due process
Defendant
Hard power
21. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Libertarian party
Plea bargain
Interested money
Inflation
22. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Treaty
Project grants
Manifest opinion
Rider
23. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
Laissez-faire economics
Fiscal policy
Environmental impact statement
Party identification
24. 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.
Libertarianism
Necessary and proper clause
Treaty
Cross-cutting requirements
25. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Horse race
Administrative discretion
Theory of deterrence
De jure segregation
26. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Due process
Linkage institutions
Interest group
Deregulation
27. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Iron triangle
Keynesian economics
Judicial activism
Cloture
28. An economic system characterized by private property - competitive markets - economic incentives - and limited government involvement in the production - distribution - and pricing of goods and services.
Statism
National supremacy
Turnout
Capitalism
29. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
Ex post facto law
Random sample
Merit system
White primary
30. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Turnout
Indictment
Rally point
Representative democracy
31. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Presidential election
Party identification
Direct primary
Random sample
32. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Indictment
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Open rule
Selected perception
33. A career government employee.
Impeachment
Bureaucrat
Representative democracy
Filibuster
34. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Due process
Issue network
Public opinion
Unfunded mandates
35. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Nonprotected speech
Reform party
Single-member district
American dream
36. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Trade deficit
Federalists
Civil law
Political party
37. 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.
Closed rule
Inherent powers
Full faith and credit clause
Constitutional democracy
38. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Implementation
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Political socialization
Justiciable dispute
39. A national meeting of delegates elected at primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.
Primary election
National party convention
Literacy test
Enumerated powers
40. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
De facto segregation
Antitrust legislation
Necessary and proper clause
Inflation
41. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Crossover voting
Majority rule
Direct democracy
Incumbent
42. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Electoral college
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Due process clause
Medicare
43. 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.
Cooperative federalism
Laissez-faire economics
Economic sanctions
Race
44. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Criminal law
Bicameralism
Initiative
Democratic consensus
45. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Soft money
Issue network
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Logrolling
46. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Recall
Candidate appeal
Project grants
Realigning election
47. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Writ of certiorari
Centralists
Popular consent
Quid pro quo
48. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Hatch Act
Regressive tax
Logrolling
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
49. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Democratic consensus
Demographics
Nonpartisan election
Manifest destiny
50. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Establishment clause
Executive agreement
Presidential ticket
Lobbying