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1. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Laissez-faire economics
Political predisposition
Writ of habeas corpus
Medical savings account
2. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Internationalism
Court of appeals
Fundamentalists
Political action committee (PAC)
3. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Regulation
Federalism
Free exercise clause
Commerce clause
4. 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.
Double jeopardy
Hatch Act
Inherent powers
Hold
5. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Dissenting opinion
Uncontrollable spending
Racial profiling
Regressive tax
6. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Writ of habeas corpus
Democratic consensus
Entitlement programs
Unfunded mandates
7. 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.
Hard money
Australian ballot
Natural law
Selective incorporation
8. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Presidential ticket
Soft money
Three-fifths compromise
Political ideology
9. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Majority rule
Offshoring
Independent expenditures
Medical savings account
10. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
Reapportionment
Linkage institutions
Liberalism
Iron triangle
11. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Virginia Plan
Unemployment
Civil disobedience
Closed shop
12. 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
Political socialization
Independent expenditure
Constituents
Block grants
13. 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).
Mass media
Proportional representation
Virginia Plan
White primary
14. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Preferred position doctrine
Majority leader
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
National party convention
15. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Ex post facto law
Total and Partial Preemption
Impoundment
Fiscal policy
16. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Regulation
Democracy
Unemployment
Social insurance
17. 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.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Voter registration
Three-fifths compromise
Monetary policy
18. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Fiscal policy
Natural rights
Due process clause
'Our federalism'
19. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Single-member district
Civil law
Protectionism
White primary
20. 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
Manifest destiny
Department
Public assistance
Competitive federalism
21. 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.
Annapolis Convention
Selected perception
Nonprotected speech
Writ of habeas corpus
22. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Civil disobedience
Racial gerrymandering
Party convention
Exclusionary rule
23. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Movement
Bundling
Merit system
Free rider
24. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Party caucus
Collective bargaining
Soft money
Standing committee
25. 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.
Selected perception
Offshoring
Establishment clause
Liberalism
26. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Laissez-faire economics
Weapons of mass destruction
Vouchers
Issue advocacy
27. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
527 organizations
Senatorial courtesy
Docket
28. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Monopoly
Central clearance
Necessary and proper clause
Winner-take-all system
29. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Bicameralism
Democratic consensus
Executive orders
Sales tax
30. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Procedural due process
Chief of staff
Party convention
Commerce clause
31. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Earmarks
Double jeopardy
Restrictive covenant
Writ of habeas corpus
32. 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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33. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Australian ballot
Establishment clause
De facto segregation
Sedition
34. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Normal trade relations
Obscenity
Bicameralism
Divided government
35. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
President pro tempore
Substantive due process
Open primary
Merit system
36. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Constitutionalism
Bicameralism
Social insurance
Fiscal policy
37. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate - and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation.
Issue advocacy
Department
Equal protection clause
Referendum
38. 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
Civil disobedience
Majority leader
Crossover sanctions
39. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Majority leader
Regulations
Creative federalism
Enumerated powers
40. The right of women to vote.
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41. A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.
Hard power
Conservatism
Bush Doctrine
'Necessary and proper' clause
42. The right to vote.
Suffrage
Cooperative federalism
State of the Union Address
Cabinet
43. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Demographics
Bill of attainder
Independent agency
Crossover voting
44. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Photo ops
Presidential election
Divided government
Candidate appeal
45. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Impoundment
Theocracy
Closed primary
Permissive federalism
46. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Monopoly
Public opinion
Ethnicity
47. 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.
Amicus curiae brief
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Commerce clause
Interstate compact
48. 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.
Indexing
Justiciable dispute
Gender gap
Pocket veto
49. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Soft money
Parliamentary system
Political action committee (PAC)
Competitive federalism
50. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Issue network
Deregulation
Creative federalism
Turnout