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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Social insurance
Entitlements
Executive order
Unemployment
2. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Candidate appeal
Demographics
Nonpartisan election
Green party
3. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Divided government
Rule-making process
Candidate appeal
Medicare
4. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Cabinet
Ex post facto law
Substantive due process
Divided government
5. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Name recognition
Unilateralism
Single-member district
Writ of mandamus
6. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Hatch Act
Precedent
Civil law
Decentralists
7. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
Primary election
Caucus
Public opinion
Liberalism
8. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Tariff
Public defender system
Movement
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
9. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Means-tested entitlements
Deficit
Right of expatriation
Closed shop
10. 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.
Prospective issue voting
Antitrust legislation
Green party
Writ of certiorari
11. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Docket
Issue network
Fundamentalists
Writ of habeas corpus
12. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Party convention
Hard money
Linkage institutions
Monopoly
13. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Photo ops
National debt
'Our federalism'
Race
14. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Primary election
Iron triangle
Tax expenditure
Nonprotected speech
15. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Regulation
Presidential election
Deregulation
Devolution revolution
16. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Representative democracy
De facto segregation
Executive Office of the President
Offshoring
17. 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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18. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Federal mandate
Preferred position doctrine
Nonpartisan election
Isolationism
19. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Take care clause
Reform party
'Necessary and proper' clause
Devolution revolution
20. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Winner-take-all system
Property rights
Trade deficit
Procedural due process
21. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Due process
Hard money
Mass media
Retrospective issue of voting
22. 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.
Winner-take-all system
Party convention
Interest group
Confederation
23. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many applications in the various social sciences such as political science - sociology - and
Collective action
Executive privilege
Ethnocentrism
Confederation
24. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Writ of habeas corpus
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Writ of certiorari
Extradition
25. The formal process for making regulations.
Rule-making process
The Federalist
Mass media
Progressive tax
26. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Substantive due process
Quid pro quo
'Our federalism'
Divided government
27. 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.
Candidate appeal
Executive agreement
Horse race
Contract clause
28. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Docket
Environmental impact statement
Implementation
Capitalism
29. The clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 8 - Clause 3) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Coattail effect
Weapons of mass destruction
Commerce clause
Preemption
30. 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.
Implied powers
Single-member district
Search warrant
Separation of powers
31. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Democracy
Direct primary
Dealignment
Competitive federalism
32. 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.
Selective incorporation
Override
Single-member district
Laissez-faire economics
33. 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.
Spoils system
Liberalism
Social Security
Union shop
34. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Race
Reform party
Nonpartisan election
35. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
General election
Referendum
Contract clause
Minority leader
36. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Court of appeals
Midterm election
Articles of Confederation
Executive orders
37. 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.
Commerce clause
Conservatism
Tariff
Deficit
38. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Annapolis Convention
Original jurisdiction
Take care clause
Plea bargain
39. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.
Hard money
Confederation
Extradition
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
40. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Pluralism
Soft money
Internationalism
Stare decisis
41. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Soft money
Centralists
Environmental impact statement
Electoral college
42. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Writ of mandamus
Obscenity
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Public opinion
43. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Due process clause
Australian ballot
Monetarism
Literacy test
44. 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.
Race
Preferred position doctrine
Political socialization
Central clearance
45. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
American dream
Collective bargaining
Judicial restraint
Plurality
46. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional.
Restrictive covenant
Issue advocacy
Veto
Democratic consensus
47. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Socialism
Vouchers
Chief of staff
Labor injunction
48. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Hatch Act
Impeachment
Checks and balances
Filibuster
49. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Monetarism
Australian ballot
Grand jury
50. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Fiscal federalism
Antitrust legislation
Direct primary
Cycle of increasing effectiveness