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1. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Federalists
Judicial review
Inherent powers
Cross-cutting cleavages
2. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Majority leader
Party identification
Unemployment
Social capital
3. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Popular sovereignty
Constituents
Collective bargaining
Discharge petition
4. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Marble cake federalism
Unitary system
Free exercise clause
Procedural due process
5. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Regulations
Libertarianism
Take care clause
Monopoly
6. 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
Devolution revolution
Government corporation
Constitutional Convention
7. 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.'
Permissive federalism
Independent expenditures
Electoral college
Necessary and proper clause
8. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Articles of Confederation
Voter registration
Exclusionary rule
Hatch Act
9. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Reapportionment
Senatorial courtesy
The Federalist
Protectionism
10. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Ethnicity
Pluralism
Manifest destiny
11. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Clear and present danger test
Bicameralism
Excise tax
Full faith and credit clause
12. A small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or - if composed of ideologies on the right or left - usually persists over time; also called a third party.
Popular consent
Administrative discretion
Confederation
Minor party
13. 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.
Checks and balances
Majority
Soft money
Issue advocacy
14. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
New Jersey Plan
Green party
Direct democracy
Constitutional Convention
15. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Devolution revolution
Trust
Jim Crow laws
Presidential ticket
16. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Hard money
Party registration
Direct primary
Administrative discretion
17. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Government corporation
Majority leader
Whip
Cycle of decreasing influence
18. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Hold
Natural law
'Necessary and proper' clause
Implementation
19. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Bicameralism
Closed primary
Regulations
Keynesian economics
20. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Plea bargain
Hard power
Dual citizenship
Majority-minority district
21. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Public assistance
Antifederalists
Random sample
Criminal law
22. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Inherent powers
Independent agency
Executive privilege
Bureaucracy
23. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Progressive tax
Excise tax
Hard money
Fiscal policy
24. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Inherent powers
Bush Doctrine
Caucus
Bill of attainder
25. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Bill of attainder
Restrictive covenant
Treaty
World Trade Organization (WTO)
26. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Political socialization
Judicial review
Means-tested entitlements
27. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Independent agency
Distributive policy
National supremacy
28. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Impoundment
Reform party
'Necessary and proper' clause
Medical savings account
29. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
President pro tempore
Faction
Candidate appeal
Right of expatriation
30. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Constitutional Convention
Regulations
Obscenity
Environmental impact statement
31. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
Political culture
Open rule
Obscenity
Filibuster
32. 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.
Dissenting opinion
Bicameralism
Presidential election
Safe seat
33. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Cooperative federalism
Devolution revolution
Deregulation
Capitalism
34. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Permissive federalism
Attentive public
Standing committee
Issue network
35. 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.
Recall
Bundling
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Literacy test
36. Clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 10) originally intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; for a while interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affec
Contract clause
Categorical-formula grants
Ethnocentrism
Senatorial courtesy
37. The right to vote.
Direct primary
Ethnicity
Attentive public
Suffrage
38. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Political ideology
Quid pro quo
Docket
Lobbyist
39. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Sedition
Green party
Impeachment
Constituents
40. 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.
Monopoly
Seniority rule
Uncontrollable spending
Reinforcing cleavages
41. 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.
Collective bargaining
Search warrant
Contract clause
Indexing
42. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Commercial speech
Fiscal federalism
Ethnocentrism
Antitrust legislation
43. 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.
Regulatory taking
Political action committee (PAC)
Exclusionary rule
Affirmative action
44. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Writ of mandamus
Tariff
Manifest opinion
Economic sanctions
45. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
National supremacy
Value-added tax (VAT)
Caucus
Public defender system
46. 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
527 organizations
Presidential ticket
Chief of staff
Issue advocacy
47. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Express powers
Concurrent powers
Attentive public
Fighting words
48. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Independent expenditures
Crossover voting
Political predisposition
Public opinion
49. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Impoundment
Collective action
Full faith and credit clause
Competitive federalism
50. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Independent expenditures
Bureaucracy
Caucus