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1. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Fiscal policy
Regressive tax
Restrictive covenant
2. Segregation imposed by law.
Impoundment
Single-member district
De jure segregation
Eminent domain
3. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Writ of mandamus
Jim Crow laws
Laissez-faire economics
Monetary policy
4. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Federal Register
Reinforcing cleavages
Rally point
Capitalism
5. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Turnout
Policy agenda
Poll tax
Theory of deterrence
6. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Popular sovereignty
Dissenting opinion
Antitrust legislation
Vouchers
7. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Closed shop
Public opinion
Idealism
De facto segregation
8. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Party registration
Majority rule
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Judicial review
9. 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.
Inherent powers
Vouchers
Grand jury
Criminal law
10. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Uncontrollable spending
Judicial restraint
Writ of certiorari
Popular sovereignty
11. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Popular sovereignty
Faction
Direct democracy
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
12. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Immunity
Bicameralism
Judicial review
Federal Register
13. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
amicus curiae brief
Independent regulatory commission
Decentralists
Labor injunction
14. 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.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Public choice
Faction
Commerce clause
15. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Medicare
Popular sovereignty
Indictment
Impoundment
16. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Free rider
Winner-take-all system
Political socialization
Normal trade relations
17. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Necessary and proper clause
Proportional representation
Hatch Act
Name recognition
18. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Nonpartisan election
Monetarism
Indexing
Soft power
19. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Federal Register
Retrospective issue of voting
Civil disobedience
Whip
20. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Internationalism
Dissenting opinion
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Hard money
21. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Separation of powers
Ex post facto law
Coattail effect
Collective action
22. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go
amicus curiae brief
Categorical-formula grants
Federalists
National party convention
23. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Open primary
Procedural due process
Chief of staff
Racial profiling
24. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Green party
Crossover voting
Oversight
Australian ballot
25. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
President pro tempore
Department
Congressional-executive agreement
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
26. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Delegate
Logrolling
Senatorial courtesy
Referendum
27. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Demographics
Court of appeals
Soft power
Regressive tax
28. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Express powers
Rule
Entitlement programs
Senatorial courtesy
29. 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.
Demographics
Commerce clause
Community policing
Connecticut Compromise
30. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Mandate
Presidential election
Uncontrollable spending
Economic sanctions
31. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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32. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Fiscal federalism
Deficit
Writ of habeas corpus
Enumerated powers
33. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Open shop
Party identification
Women's suffrage
State's rights
34. 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
Plea bargain
Independent expenditures
Party identification
Creative federalism
35. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Safe seat
Community policing
Primary election
Soft power
36. 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.
De jure segregation
Regulatory taking
Social insurance
Medicare
37. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Special or select committee
Democratic consensus
Winner-take-all system
Cooperative federalism
38. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Plurality
Ethnocentrism
Offshoring
Fiscal federalism
39. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Name recognition
Tax expenditure
'Necessary and proper' clause
'Our federalism'
40. Political contributions given to a party - candidate - or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds - hence the term 'hard money.'
Gender gap
Hard money
Cooperative federalism
Competitive federalism
41. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Court of appeals
Federal mandate
Democratic consensus
Stare decisis
42. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Proportional representation
Checks and balances
Total and Partial Preemption
Bicameralism
43. 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.
Naturalization
Plurality
Selective incorporation
Conservatism
44. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Trade deficit
Presidential ticket
Ethnicity
Virginia Plan
45. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Jim Crow laws
Special or select committee
General election
Bush Doctrine
46. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Antitrust legislation
Policy agenda
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Keynesian economics
47. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Random sample
Hatch Act
Reapportionment
Honeymoon
48. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Connecticut Compromise
Medicare
Reinforcing cleavages
Social capital
49. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Labor injunction
Articles of Confederation
Party registration
Spoils system
50. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Political action committee (PAC)
Nonprotected speech
Racial profiling
Manifest destiny