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1. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Federal Reserve System
Constituents
Marble cake federalism
Petit jury
2. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Medical savings account
Preemption
Majority rule
Prospective issue voting
3. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Closed rule
Dissenting opinion
Democracy
Cabinet
4. 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
Incumbent
Attentive public
Safe seat
5. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Writ of certiorari
Proportional representation
Indexing
Categorical-formula grants
6. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Override
Docket
Natural rights
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
7. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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8. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Amicus curiae brief
Open shop
State's rights
Redistricting
9. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Idealism
New Jersey Plan
Constitutional democracy
Selective exposure
10. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover
De jure segregation
Public opinion
Natural rights
Direct orders
11. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Express powers
Line item veto
Constituents
Rule-making process
12. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Closed shop
Plea bargain
Statism
Impeachment
13. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Writ of certiorari
Dual citizenship
Collective action
Voter registration
14. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Veto
Collective bargaining
Racial gerrymandering
Soft money
15. 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.
National party convention
Safe seat
Political party
Court of appeals
16. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Executive orders
Merit system
Equal protection clause
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
17. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Libertarian party
Majority-minority district
Conservatism
Open primary
18. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Deficit
Federal Register
Electoral college
Collective bargaining
19. 30-second statements on the evening news shows. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on sound bites to explain them to the public.
Single-member district
Sound bites
Grand jury
Senatorial courtesy
20. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Judicial review
Mass media
Interested money
Race
21. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Unitary system
Cross-cutting requirements
Reform party
Australian ballot
22. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Recall
Hard power
Commerce clause
Adversary system
23. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Project grants
Eminent domain
Majority
Divided government
24. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Midterm election
Race
Closed shop
Court of appeals
25. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
Redistricting
Retrospective issue of voting
Independent regulatory commission
Rule
26. 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.
Hard money
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Horse race
Direct orders
27. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Weapons of mass destruction
Rally point
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Independent expenditures
28. 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.
Community policing
Presidential ticket
Interest group
Statism
29. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
Conference committee
Australian ballot
Crossover sanctions
Deficit
30. 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.
National party convention
Political socialization
Commerce clause
Obscenity
31. 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.
Iron triangle
Hard money
Inherent powers
Commerce clause
32. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
Concurrent powers
Permissive federalism
Congressional-executive agreement
33. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Veto
Political culture
Regressive tax
Antifederalists
34. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.
Executive privilege
Administrative discretion
Unemployment
Free exercise clause
35. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Distributive policy
Rule
Attentive public
Bill of attainder
36. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Senatorial courtesy
Presidential election
Coattail effect
Express powers
37. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Reform party
State's rights
Hatch Act
Entitlements
38. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Referendum
Caucus
Take care clause
Crossover voting
39. 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.
amicus curiae brief
Direct democracy
Judicial review
Trust
40. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Veto
Speaker
Unilateralism
Racial profiling
41. 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.
Inherent powers
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Realigning election
Confederation
42. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Appellate jurisdiction
Impoundment
Inherent powers
Hold
43. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Majority-minority district
Natural rights
Women's suffrage
Libertarian party
44. 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.
Executive Office of the President
Checks and balances
Oversight
Deficit
45. 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.
Natural rights
Reform party
Cooperative federalism
Libertarianism
46. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Public defender system
Popular sovereignty
Midterm election
Cabinet
47. 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.
Enumerated powers
Environmental impact statement
Constituents
Filibuster
48. Tax levied on imports to help protect the nation's industries - labor - or farmers from foreign competition. It can also be used to raise additional revenue.
Tariff
Categorical-formula grants
Issue network
Direct democracy
49. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Judicial review
Senatorial courtesy
Impoundment
Racial profiling
50. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Revolving door
Party caucus
Adversary system
Writ of habeas corpus