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1. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Federalists
Popular sovereignty
Full faith and credit clause
Clear and present danger test
2. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Turnout
Majority
Writ of certiorari
Total and Partial Preemption
3. 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.
Fiscal federalism
Indexing
Constitutional democracy
Restrictive covenant
4. 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.
Trade deficit
Regulatory taking
Bundling
American dream
5. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Proportional representation
Project grants
Due process
Issue advocacy
6. 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
Majority-minority district
Public policy
Popular sovereignty
7. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Affirmative action
Oversight
Federalists
Independent expenditures
8. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Free rider
Commerce clause
Antitrust legislation
Checks and balances
9. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Gender gap
Union shop
Exclusionary rule
Selected perception
10. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Impoundment
Seniority rule
Pocket veto
Monetarism
11. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Department
Caucus
Civil disobedience
Antitrust legislation
12. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Popular consent
Democratic consensus
Cycle of decreasing influence
Categorical-formula grants
13. An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point - redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties.
Writ of habeas corpus
Realigning election
Coattail effect
Checks and balances
14. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Annapolis Convention
Interstate compact
Conservatism
Establishment clause
15. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Rule
Keynesian economics
Majority-minority district
Stare decisis
16. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
State of the Union Address
Crossover voting
Civil disobedience
Soft money
17. These are broad state grants to states for prescribed activities—welfare - child care - education - social services - preventive health care - and health services—with only a few strings attached. States have greater flexibility in deciding how to sp
Cross-cutting cleavages
Block grants
Regressive tax
Unfunded mandates
18. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Judicial activism
Party identification
De facto segregation
Joint committee
19. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Laissez-faire economics
Executive order
Social Security
Hard money
20. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Proportional representation
Initiative
Exclusionary rule
Popular sovereignty
21. The presiding officer in the House of Representatives - formally elected by the House but actually selected by the majority party.
Direct orders
Political socialization
Women's suffrage
Speaker
22. 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.
Divided government
Police powers
Right of expatriation
Preferred position doctrine
23. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Inherent powers
State's rights
Independent expenditures
Checks and balances
24. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Closed shop
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Decentralists
Naturalization
25. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Random sample
Three-fifths compromise
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Internationalism
26. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Bicameralism
Treaty
Conservatism
Libel
27. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Laissez-faire economics
Political party
Administrative discretion
Closed primary
28. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Spoils system
Political predisposition
Selective exposure
29. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Soft power
Justiciable dispute
Indexing
Checks and balances
30. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Monetary policy
Keynesian economics
State of the Union Address
Federal Register
31. 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
Progressive tax
Entitlements
Cooperative federalism
32. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Sedition
The Federalist
Libertarianism
33. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
National party convention
Senatorial courtesy
Docket
National debt
34. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Excise tax
Soft power
Rally point
Closed shop
35. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Crossover voting
Horse race
Unitary system
Dissenting opinion
36. 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
Discharge petition
Union shop
Fighting words
37. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Procedural due process
Constitutional democracy
Immunity
Senatorial courtesy
38. 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.
Discharge petition
Cabinet
Redistricting
Iron triangle
39. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Monopoly
Protectionism
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Marbury v. Madison
40. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Commerce clause
De facto segregation
Selective exposure
Speaker
41. 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.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Connecticut Compromise
Libertarianism
Direct orders
42. 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.
Dealignment
Collective action
Bundling
Equal protection clause
43. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Bureaucracy
Independent expenditures
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
44. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Express powers
Presidential election
Horse race
Natural rights
45. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Iron triangle
Gerrymandering
Petit jury
Due process
46. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Virginia Plan
Linkage institutions
Speaker
Spoils system
47. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Antitrust legislation
Double jeopardy
Collective bargaining
Trustee
48. Segregation imposed by law.
De jure segregation
Coattail effect
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Horse race
49. 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.
Winner-take-all system
Conference committee
Horse race
Three-fifths compromise
50. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
National tide
Weapons of mass destruction
Multilateralism
Bureaucrat
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