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1. A provision attached to a bill
Shays's Rebellion
Antitrust legislation
Rider
Natural rights
2. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Literacy test
Impeachment
Retrospective issue of voting
Natural rights
3. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Uncontrollable spending
Winner-take-all system
Direct primary
Gross domestic product (GDP)
4. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
527 organizations
Gerrymandering
Uncontrollable spending
Regulations
5. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Medicaid
Demographics
Trustee
Total and Partial Preemption
6. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Community policing
Offshoring
Midterm election
Proportional representation
7. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Dual citizenship
Project grants
Pocket veto
National supremacy
8. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Direct democracy
Block grants
Bicameralism
Majority rule
9. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Hatch Act
Entitlement programs
Bush Doctrine
Socioeconomic status (SES)
10. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Joint committee
Prior restraint
Realism
Affirmative action
11. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t
Equal protection clause
Reapportionment
Closed rule
Antifederalists
12. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Revolving door
Reapportionment
Line item veto
Normal trade relations
13. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Electoral college
Senatorial courtesy
Public policy
Referendum
14. 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.
Libel
Monopoly
Sedition
Labor injunction
15. 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.
Movement
Libertarianism
Devolution revolution
Divided government
16. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Poll tax
National tide
Speaker
Closed shop
17. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Manifest opinion
Constitutional Convention
Regressive tax
Merit system
18. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Government corporation
Project grants
Labor injunction
Public opinion
19. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Inherent powers
Soft money
Electoral college
Nonprotected speech
20. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Soft money
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Marbury v. Madison
Plea bargain
21. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Nonpartisan election
Policy agenda
Referendum
Writ of certiorari
22. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Caucus
Iron triangle
Community policing
Precedent
23. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Majority rule
Competitive federalism
Federalists
Linkage institutions
24. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.
Bush Doctrine
Laissez-faire economics
Unitary system
Full faith and credit clause
25. 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.
Treaty
Green party
Trade deficit
Incumbent
26. 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.
Congressional-executive agreement
Extradition
Linkage institutions
Plea bargain
27. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Soft money
Incumbent
Bicameralism
Central clearance
28. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Implementation
Medical savings account
Leadership PAC
Original jurisdiction
29. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Political socialization
Closed rule
Turnout
Bureaucrat
30. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Grand jury
Bipartisanship
Competitive federalism
Public policy
31. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
National tide
Conservatism
Rally point
Iron triangle
32. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Entitlement programs
Theory of deterrence
Majority-minority district
Recall
33. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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34. Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of the party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Double jeopardy
Racial gerrymandering
Safe seat
Primary election
35. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Docket
Manifest opinion
Pluralism
Indexing
36. Promoting a particular position or an issue 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 regulation.
Representative democracy
Issue advocacy
Means-tested entitlements
Special or select committee
37. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Winner-take-all system
Vouchers
Marbury v. Madison
Selected perception
38. A legislative practice that assigns the chair of the committee or subcommittee to the member of the majority party with the longest continuous service on the committee.
Seniority rule
Patronage
News media
Natural rights
39. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Commerce clause
Photo ops
Judicial review
Commercial speech
40. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Antitrust legislation
Interest group
Bundling
Regulatory taking
41. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Party registration
Theory of deterrence
Competitive federalism
Independent expenditures
42. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Filibuster
Gerrymandering
Political socialization
Theocracy
43. A large body of people interested in a common issue - idea - or concern that is of continuing significance and who are willing to take action. Movements seek to change attitudes or institutions - not just policies.
Grand jury
Crossover sanctions
Reinforcing cleavages
Movement
44. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Hold
Honeymoon
Proportional representation
Constitutional Convention
45. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Midterm election
Regulatory taking
Constitutionalism
Majority leader
46. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Executive privilege
Interstate compact
Commerce clause
Quid pro quo
47. A rise in the general price level (and decrease in dollar value) owing to an increase in the volume of money and credit in relation to available goods.
Social capital
Connecticut Compromise
Inflation
World Trade Organization (WTO)
48. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Class action suit
President pro tempore
Rule-making process
49. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Protectionism
Senatorial courtesy
Fiscal federalism
Search warrant
50. 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.
Social Security
Impoundment
Trustee
527 organizations