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1. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Preferred position doctrine
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Open rule
Community policing
2. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Police powers
Initiative
Executive Office of the President
Annapolis Convention
3. 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.
Interest group
Direct democracy
Party caucus
Public opinion
4. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Affirmative action
Confederation
Immunity
Chief of staff
5. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Unitary system
Executive order
Ethnicity
Racial gerrymandering
6. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Safe seat
Statism
Party identification
Candidate appeal
7. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Political socialization
Federalism
Defendant
Inherent powers
8. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Civil law
Natural law
Libertarianism
Bicameralism
9. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Right of expatriation
Selected perception
Referendum
10. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Due process clause
Suffrage
Executive agreement
Appellate jurisdiction
11. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Obscenity
Grand jury
Fundamentalists
Deregulation
12. 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.
Extradition
Safe seat
De facto segregation
Seniority rule
13. 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.
Women's suffrage
Rally point
Cooperative federalism
Majority
14. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Virginia Plan
Candidate appeal
Regressive tax
15. A career government employee.
Public defender system
Indexing
Bureaucrat
Mandate
16. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Trade deficit
Presidential election
Take care clause
Bipartisanship
17. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Obscenity
Cycle of decreasing influence
Senior Executive Service
Medicare
18. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Justiciable dispute
Executive Office of the President
Closed primary
Open rule
19. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Free rider
Racial gerrymandering
Progressive tax
Social insurance
20. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Party registration
Attentive public
State of the Union Address
Keynesian economics
21. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Coattail effect
Redistricting
Earmarks
Preemption
22. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.
Impeachment
Plurality
Trustee
New Jersey Plan
23. An opinion that agrees with the majority in a Supreme Court ruling but differs on the reasoning.
Closed rule
Reinforcing cleavages
Concurring opinion
Property rights
24. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Trade deficit
Women's suffrage
Spoils system
Shays's Rebellion
25. An economic system characterized by private property - competitive markets - economic incentives - and limited government involvement in the production - distribution - and pricing of goods and services.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Hard money
Capitalism
Laissez-faire economics
26. 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.
Grand jury
amicus curiae brief
Commerce clause
Conference committee
27. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Judicial restraint
Reinforcing cleavages
Decentralists
Party identification
28. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Single-member district
Judicial restraint
Closed primary
Plurality
29. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Opinion of the Court
Nonpartisan election
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Categorical-formula grants
30. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Necessary and proper clause
Restrictive covenant
Sedition
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
31. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Democracy
Bipartisanship
Hold
Majority leader
32. The presiding officer in the House of Representatives - formally elected by the House but actually selected by the majority party.
Free exercise clause
Naturalization
Photo ops
Speaker
33. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Centralists
Recall
'Necessary and proper' clause
Caucus
34. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Impoundment
Vouchers
Realigning election
Writ of habeas corpus
35. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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36. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Rider
Civil disobedience
Constitutional democracy
Natural rights
37. 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.
Safe seat
Means-tested entitlements
Honeymoon
Union shop
38. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
General election
Plea bargain
Divided government
Safe seat
39. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Random sample
Popular sovereignty
Realism
Public policy
40. 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.
Restrictive covenant
Candidate appeal
Demographics
Search warrant
41. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Hard money
Indexing
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Cross-cutting requirements
42. The right of women to vote.
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43. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Department
Federal Reserve System
Justiciable dispute
Writ of habeas corpus
44. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Reapportionment
Deficit
Party convention
Monopoly
45. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
National tide
Retrospective issue of voting
Commerce clause
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
46. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Unilateralism
Policy agenda
Hard money
Honeymoon
47. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
Safe seat
Constitutionalism
Categorical-formula grants
Extradition
48. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Manifest destiny
Realism
Proportional representation
Iron triangle
49. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Free exercise clause
Winner-take-all system
Senatorial courtesy
Political culture
50. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Hard power
Due process clause
Deregulation
Civil law