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1. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Impoundment
Revolving door
Senatorial courtesy
Justiciable dispute
2. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Majority-minority district
Democratic consensus
Medical savings account
Preemption
3. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Closed shop
Closed primary
Monopoly
Presidential election
4. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Civil disobedience
Bureaucracy
Safe seat
Annapolis Convention
5. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Hold
Manifest opinion
Majority
Ethnocentrism
6. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Immunity
Executive order
'Necessary and proper' clause
Party identification
7. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Australian ballot
Lobbying
Federalists
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
8. 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.
Keynesian economics
President pro tempore
Social Security
Majority leader
9. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Regressive tax
Conservatism
Distributive policy
Reform party
10. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Gerrymandering
Natural rights
Dealignment
Restrictive covenant
11. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Devolution revolution
Monopoly
Enumerated powers
Quid pro quo
12. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Literacy test
Demographics
Conference committee
Hold
13. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Hold
Bureaucracy
Popular sovereignty
Sedition
14. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Single-member district
Sales tax
National party convention
Excise tax
15. 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.
Political socialization
Ex post facto law
Community policing
Random sample
16. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Antifederalists
Competitive federalism
Reinforcing cleavages
De jure segregation
17. 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.'
Total and Partial Preemption
Hard money
Police powers
Cloture
18. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
Open shop
Fiscal policy
Plea bargain
World Trade Organization (WTO)
19. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
Party identification
Concurring opinion
Marbury v. Madison
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
20. 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.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Precedent
Entitlements
Executive orders
21. 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
Discharge petition
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Preferred position doctrine
22. 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.
Union shop
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Rule-making process
Electoral college
23. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Bad tendency test
Interest group
Libertarianism
Fighting words
24. The head of the White House staff.
Chief of staff
Public choice
Writ of mandamus
Monetary policy
25. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Inherent powers
Majority leader
Constitutionalism
26. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Writ of mandamus
Political socialization
Recall
Direct orders
27. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Weapons of mass destruction
Soft money
Community policing
Pluralism
28. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Restrictive covenant
Tax expenditure
Progressive tax
Divided government
29. 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
Interest group
Horse race
Independent agency
Block grants
30. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Majority rule
Progressive tax
Caucus
Sound bites
31. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Bush Doctrine
Majority-minority district
Sedition
Closed shop
32. 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.
Lobbyist
Inflation
Antifederalists
Bundling
33. 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
Crossover voting
527 organizations
Sound bites
News media
34. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Manifest destiny
Bureaucrat
Isolationism
Project grants
35. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Bipartisanship
Judicial restraint
Marble cake federalism
Collective bargaining
36. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Sound bites
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Nonprotected speech
Medicaid
37. A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.
Political culture
'Our federalism'
Regulatory taking
Bush Doctrine
38. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Presidential ticket
Central clearance
Party identification
Name recognition
39. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Majority
Party identification
Liberalism
40. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Candidate appeal
The Federalist
Racial profiling
Fiscal policy
41. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
New Jersey Plan
Presidential election
Dealignment
Interest group
42. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Majority rule
Executive orders
Due process clause
Executive agreement
43. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Proportional representation
Justiciable dispute
Laissez-faire economics
Override
44. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Creative federalism
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Progressive tax
Direct democracy
45. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Trustee
Indictment
Literacy test
46. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Treaty
Separation of powers
News media
Monopoly
47. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Precedent
Public defender system
Literacy test
Social insurance
48. 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.
Ex post facto law
Due process clause
Socialism
Honeymoon
49. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Commercial speech
Executive Office of the President
Turnout
Initiative
50. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Fighting words
President pro tempore
Hard money
Theory of deterrence