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1. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Executive privilege
Trustee
Economic sanctions
Concurrent powers
2. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Judicial review
Racial gerrymandering
Excise tax
Trade deficit
3. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Redistributive policy
Ethnicity
Midterm election
Medical savings account
4. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Inflation
Bicameralism
Plea bargain
Discharge petition
5. 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
Constitutionalism
Deregulation
Party registration
6. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Attentive public
Representative democracy
Sedition
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
7. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Necessary and proper clause
Public choice
Lobbying
Political culture
8. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Midterm election
Iron triangle
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Commerce clause
9. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Closed shop
Grand jury
Turnout
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
10. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Substantive due process
Federal Register
Caucus
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
11. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Crossover voting
'Our federalism'
De facto segregation
Political culture
12. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Manifest destiny
Conservatism
Protectionism
Direct primary
13. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Writ of mandamus
Political socialization
Social Security
Libertarian party
14. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Divided government
De jure segregation
Monopoly
Electoral college
15. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Closed shop
Double jeopardy
Natural law
Patronage
16. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Implied powers
Linkage institutions
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Laissez-faire economics
17. 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.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Precedent
Shays's Rebellion
Whip
18. 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.
Turnout
Idealism
Commerce clause
Safe seat
19. The political arm of an interest group that is legally entitled to raise funds on a voluntary basis from members - stockholders - or employees to contribute funds to candidates or political parties.
Medicaid
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Interstate compact
Political action committee (PAC)
20. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Interest group
Medicare
Discharge petition
Union shop
21. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Crossover voting
Public choice
Procedural due process
Issue network
22. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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23. 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 certiorari
Realigning election
Seniority rule
Appellate jurisdiction
24. 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.
Reinforcing cleavages
Due process clause
Centralists
Lobbyist
25. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Racial profiling
Original jurisdiction
Presidential ticket
Political predisposition
26. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Interested money
Deregulation
Hard money
27. 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.
Deficit
Civil disobedience
Petit jury
Interstate compact
28. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Direct primary
Political socialization
Lobbyist
Chief of staff
29. 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.
Plurality
Preferred position doctrine
Dual citizenship
Writ of mandamus
30. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Sound bites
Implementation
Commerce clause
Keynesian economics
31. 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
Natural rights
Inherent powers
Judicial restraint
32. 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
Nonprotected speech
amicus curiae brief
Coattail effect
33. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Deregulation
Amicus curiae brief
Court of appeals
Pocket veto
34. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Prior restraint
Natural law
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Obscenity
35. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Marbury v. Madison
Department
Party identification
Laissez-faire economics
36. A meeting of the members of a party in a legislative chamber to select party leaders and to develop party policy. Called a conference by the Republicans.
Majority-minority district
Offshoring
Party caucus
Regulatory taking
37. 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.
Special or select committee
Decentralists
Appellate jurisdiction
Horse race
38. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Tariff
Open rule
Centralists
Party caucus
39. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Patronage
Trade deficit
De jure segregation
World Trade Organization (WTO)
40. 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.
Party convention
Social Security
Constituents
Entitlement programs
41. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Obscenity
Civil law
Ethnicity
Decentralists
42. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Marbury v. Madison
Grand jury
Literacy test
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
43. 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.
527 organizations
Linkage institutions
National supremacy
Direct democracy
44. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Federal Register
Cycle of decreasing influence
Horse race
Earmarks
45. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Party registration
Keynesian economics
Commercial speech
Public policy
46. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
New Jersey Plan
State of the Union Address
Regulation
Impoundment
47. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Bicameralism
Impoundment
Fundamentalists
Hard money
48. 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
Dual citizenship
527 organizations
Isolationism
Bad tendency test
49. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Merit system
Indictment
Antitrust legislation
Concurrent powers
50. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Prior restraint
Dual citizenship
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Logrolling