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1. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Standing committee
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Unfunded mandates
Impoundment
2. 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.
Divided government
Plea bargain
Bureaucracy
Popular sovereignty
3. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Literacy test
Categorical-formula grants
Poll tax
Party identification
4. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Popular consent
Creative federalism
Direct democracy
Environmental impact statement
5. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Executive Office of the President
Total and Partial Preemption
Hatch Act
Democracy
6. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Separation of powers
Political socialization
White primary
Class action suit
7. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Department
Cycle of decreasing influence
Gender gap
Articles of Confederation
8. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Inflation
Revolving door
Clear and present danger test
Democratic consensus
9. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Voter registration
Senatorial courtesy
Parliamentary system
Realigning election
10. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Closed rule
Independent regulatory commission
Bicameralism
Dissenting opinion
11. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Centralists
Judicial review
Creative federalism
Poll tax
12. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Sales tax
Unilateralism
Constitutional Convention
Writ of mandamus
13. 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.
Commerce clause
Pluralism
New Jersey Plan
Discharge petition
14. 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.
Issue advocacy
Writ of habeas corpus
Protectionism
Seniority rule
15. 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
Monopoly
Party caucus
Libertarianism
16. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Name recognition
Laissez-faire economics
Constitutional Convention
Independent agency
17. Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government - the actions of the federal government will prevail.
Reform party
Dual citizenship
National supremacy
Hard money
18. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Iron triangle
Pocket veto
Chief of staff
Implied powers
19. Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.
Three-fifths compromise
Conservatism
Direct democracy
Virginia Plan
20. 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
Independent expenditures
Indexing
Majority rule
Filibuster
21. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Keynesian economics
Name recognition
Laissez-faire economics
Categorical-formula grants
22. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Pluralism
Bad tendency test
Voter registration
Mass media
23. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Public defender system
Direct democracy
Normal trade relations
Lobbying
24. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Party identification
Public assistance
Reapportionment
25. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Express powers
Medical savings account
Oversight
Appellate jurisdiction
26. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Impoundment
Regulation
Selective incorporation
Libertarian party
27. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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28. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Exclusionary rule
National Intelligence Director
Treaty
Green party
29. A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free - fair - and relatively frequent elections.
Filibuster
Judicial restraint
Constitutional democracy
Public assistance
30. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
American dream
Writ of habeas corpus
Union shop
Cycle of decreasing influence
31. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Party identification
Administrative discretion
Preemption
Impoundment
32. 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
Constitutionalism
Trustee
Reform party
Special or select committee
33. Media that emphasize the news.
Laissez-faire economics
Public assistance
News media
Bipartisanship
34. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Judicial activism
Precedent
Hard money
National tide
35. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Political predisposition
Coattail effect
Rally point
Bundling
36. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Bush Doctrine
Pocket veto
Senatorial courtesy
Open primary
37. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Theocracy
Divided government
Open rule
Mandate
38. 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.
Bicameralism
Cooperative federalism
Unitary system
Senatorial courtesy
39. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Impoundment
Chief of staff
Issue advocacy
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
40. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Parliamentary system
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Free exercise clause
Natural rights
41. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many applications in the various social sciences such as political science - sociology - and
Social Security
Executive agreement
Collective action
Mandate
42. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Racial profiling
Soft power
Direct primary
Executive orders
43. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Antitrust legislation
Judicial review
Social capital
Direct orders
44. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Free rider
Issue advocacy
Progressive tax
Initiative
45. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.
Cabinet
Excise tax
Social Security
Hatch Act
46. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Majority-minority district
Excise tax
Impeachment
Prospective issue voting
47. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Jim Crow laws
Normal trade relations
Nonpartisan election
Conservatism
48. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Federalists
Nonpartisan election
Due process clause
Logrolling
49. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Reapportionment
Party convention
Open primary
Writ of mandamus
50. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Override
Patronage
Government corporation