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1. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Petit jury
Conference committee
Uncontrollable spending
Political predisposition
2. A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.
Amicus curiae brief
Judicial review
Lobbyist
Whip
3. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Monetarism
Party identification
Whip
Divided government
4. 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.
Judicial activism
Natural rights
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Closed primary
5. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Literacy test
Central clearance
Interstate compact
Hatch Act
6. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Safe seat
Decentralists
Patronage
National tide
7. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Regulatory taking
Free rider
Union shop
Primary election
8. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
President pro tempore
Excise tax
Entitlements
Demographics
9. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Closed shop
Community policing
Articles of Confederation
Immunity
10. 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).
Precedent
Photo ops
Racial gerrymandering
Safe seat
11. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Majority-minority district
Free exercise clause
Candidate appeal
Political socialization
12. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Full faith and credit clause
Hard money
Clear and present danger test
Keynesian economics
13. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Recall
Merit system
Central clearance
14. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Constituents
Decentralists
Electoral college
Due process clause
15. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Entitlements
Government corporation
Inherent powers
Electoral college
16. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.
Annapolis Convention
Electoral college
Inherent powers
Racial profiling
17. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Trustee
Fiscal federalism
Redistributive policy
Pluralism
18. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
Equal protection clause
Revolving door
Selected perception
Delegate
19. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
527 organizations
Judicial activism
Leadership PAC
Distributive policy
20. 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.
Sedition
Majority rule
Minor party
Independent expenditure
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.
Natural law
Nonpartisan election
Majority
Socialism
22. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Police powers
Special or select committee
Realism
Bush Doctrine
23. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Theory of deterrence
Midterm election
Bipartisanship
Libertarianism
24. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Treaty
Whip
Independent expenditure
Senatorial courtesy
25. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Unfunded mandates
Plurality
Winner-take-all system
Divided government
26. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Australian ballot
Dissenting opinion
Pocket veto
Enumerated powers
27. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Majority rule
Party identification
Direct primary
Monetary policy
28. 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.'
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Open rule
Permissive federalism
Cross-cutting requirements
29. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Block grants
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Marble cake federalism
Political socialization
30. 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
Rider
Sales tax
Unfunded mandates
31. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Implementation
Excise tax
Entitlements
New Jersey Plan
32. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Caucus
Fiscal policy
Free exercise clause
Competitive federalism
33. 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
Crossover sanctions
Executive privilege
Australian ballot
Open rule
34. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Cabinet
Medicare
Turnout
Due process
35. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Progressive tax
Environmental impact statement
Political culture
Issue network
36. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Due process clause
Monopoly
Political socialization
Winner-take-all system
37. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Antitrust legislation
Pocket veto
Primary election
Socioeconomic status (SES)
38. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Immunity
Political socialization
Selected perception
Closed rule
39. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Hard money
Tax expenditure
Excise tax
Police powers
40. Power of a government to take private property for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.
Executive privilege
Police powers
Isolationism
Eminent domain
41. 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.
Vouchers
Ethnocentrism
Federal mandate
Restrictive covenant
42. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Uncontrollable spending
Interstate compact
Original jurisdiction
Fiscal federalism
43. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
Preferred position doctrine
New Jersey Plan
Australian ballot
Dealignment
44. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
State of the Union Address
Isolationism
Bad tendency test
Natural rights
45. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Stare decisis
Class action suit
Public defender system
46. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Entitlement programs
Executive privilege
Minor party
47. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Pluralism
Earmarks
Class action suit
Eminent domain
48. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Keynesian economics
Ex post facto law
Marbury v. Madison
Popular sovereignty
49. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Criminal law
Retrospective issue of voting
Decentralists
Closed shop
50. An opinion that agrees with the majority in a Supreme Court ruling but differs on the reasoning.
Concurring opinion
Eminent domain
Writ of certiorari
Recall