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1. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Civil disobedience
Federal mandate
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
2. 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
Extradition
Impoundment
Jim Crow laws
Necessary and proper clause
3. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Initiative
Proportional representation
Keynesian economics
Hard power
4. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Standing committee
Soft money
Issue network
Impoundment
5. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Ethnicity
Bill of attainder
Senior Executive Service
Public policy
6. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
The Federalist
Civil law
Obscenity
Hard money
7. 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.
Hard money
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Discharge petition
Federalists
8. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Bad tendency test
Natural rights
Equal protection clause
Preferred position doctrine
9. 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.
Bundling
Speaker
Winner-take-all system
Political party
10. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Unilateralism
Obscenity
Tax expenditure
11. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Political socialization
Articles of Confederation
Express powers
Majority rule
12. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Marbury v. Madison
Articles of Confederation
Executive order
Majority-minority district
13. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Bill of attainder
Bicameralism
Quid pro quo
Bureaucrat
14. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Writ of certiorari
Photo ops
Establishment clause
Procedural due process
15. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Substantive due process
Labor injunction
Whip
Necessary and proper clause
16. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Due process clause
Marble cake federalism
Women's suffrage
Presidential ticket
17. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Impoundment
Recall
Justiciable dispute
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
18. 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.
Party identification
Rule-making process
Political party
Cabinet
19. Media that emphasize the news.
News media
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Connecticut Compromise
Linkage institutions
20. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Restrictive covenant
Racial profiling
Earmarks
Single-member district
21. 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.
Public policy
Majority leader
National party convention
Union shop
22. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Justiciable dispute
State's rights
Entitlement programs
Vouchers
23. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Community policing
Bureaucrat
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Administrative discretion
24. Congress appropriates a certain sum - which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies - based on applications from those who wish to participate. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universi
Party convention
Hard money
Distributive policy
Project grants
25. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Writ of habeas corpus
Bureaucrat
Green party
Conservatism
26. 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
Direct democracy
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Political party
27. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Express powers
Procedural due process
Amicus curiae brief
De facto segregation
28. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Plea bargain
Conservatism
Value-added tax (VAT)
Confederation
29. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Due process clause
Necessary and proper clause
Manifest opinion
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
30. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Creative federalism
Crossover voting
Search warrant
Three-fifths compromise
31. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Police powers
Grand jury
Uncontrollable spending
Implementation
32. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
De jure segregation
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Gerrymandering
Single-member district
33. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.
Issue advocacy
Community policing
Total and Partial Preemption
Redistricting
34. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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35. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Direct orders
Party identification
Regressive tax
Collective action
36. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Adversary system
Attentive public
Monopoly
Soft money
37. 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.
Immunity
Ethnicity
Extradition
Hard money
38. The head of the White House staff.
Weapons of mass destruction
Party registration
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Chief of staff
39. 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.
Free rider
Popular consent
Regulations
Bush Doctrine
40. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Free exercise clause
Deregulation
Photo ops
41. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Express powers
Reform party
Impoundment
Retrospective issue of voting
42. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Writ of habeas corpus
Value-added tax (VAT)
National party convention
Bicameralism
43. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Double jeopardy
Trade deficit
Tax expenditure
Justiciable dispute
44. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Affirmative action
Extradition
Bad tendency test
45. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Bureaucracy
Implementation
Standing committee
Theocracy
46. A minor party dedicated to the environment - social justice - nonviolence - and the foreign policy of nonintervention. Ralph Nader ran as the Green party's nominee in 2000.
Green party
Majority-minority district
Veto
Theocracy
47. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Due process clause
Presidential election
Constitutional Convention
Plurality
48. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Jim Crow laws
Impoundment
Prospective issue voting
Electoral college
49. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Treaty
Divided government
Antitrust legislation
Project grants
50. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Prior restraint
Electoral college
Impoundment
Three-fifths compromise