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1. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Interstate compact
Demographics
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Procedural due process
2. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Stare decisis
Winner-take-all system
Executive orders
Affirmative action
3. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Ethnicity
Dissenting opinion
amicus curiae brief
Primary election
4. The right of women to vote.
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5. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
New Jersey Plan
Vouchers
Manifest opinion
Excise tax
6. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Initiative
Referendum
Delegate
Natural rights
7. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Unilateralism
Name recognition
Eminent domain
Naturalization
8. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Australian ballot
Bundling
Socialism
Majority rule
9. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Naturalization
Tax expenditure
Revolving door
Competitive federalism
10. 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.
Policy agenda
Lobbying
Soft money
Selective incorporation
11. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Plea bargain
Labor injunction
Preemption
Environmental impact statement
12. Segregation imposed by law.
Marbury v. Madison
Democratic consensus
De jure segregation
Immunity
13. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Nonprotected speech
Social insurance
Special or select committee
Party identification
14. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Medicaid
Permissive federalism
Chief of staff
Inherent powers
15. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Total and Partial Preemption
Prior restraint
Civil disobedience
National Intelligence Director
16. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Sales tax
Prior restraint
Cross-cutting requirements
Interstate compact
17. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Fiscal policy
Bicameralism
Dual citizenship
Reapportionment
18. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Justiciable dispute
National Intelligence Director
Medicare
Unfunded mandates
19. The formal process for making regulations.
Rule-making process
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Demographics
Oversight
20. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Regulations
Regulatory taking
Political socialization
Protectionism
21. 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
Justiciable dispute
Independent expenditure
Inherent powers
Racial gerrymandering
22. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Representative democracy
Movement
Right of expatriation
Trust
23. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
Three-fifths compromise
Electoral college
Tariff
Seniority rule
24. 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.
Theocracy
Mass media
Establishment clause
Senatorial courtesy
25. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Medicaid
Manifest opinion
Regulation
Competitive federalism
26. A president's claim of broad public support.
Clear and present danger test
Mandate
Party identification
Antifederalists
27. 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.
Laissez-faire economics
Cabinet
Devolution revolution
Bush Doctrine
28. 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.
Mass media
Collective bargaining
Constitutional democracy
National supremacy
29. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Political party
White primary
Tax expenditure
Express powers
30. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Pocket veto
Senior Executive Service
Democratic consensus
Trust
31. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Independent expenditure
Midterm election
Political socialization
Virginia Plan
32. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Iron triangle
Monopoly
Incumbent
33. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Medicaid
National party convention
Exclusionary rule
34. A career government employee.
Bureaucrat
Inflation
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Eminent domain
35. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Commerce clause
Candidate appeal
Party convention
Class action suit
36. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Incumbent
Isolationism
Writ of habeas corpus
Civil law
37. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Direct democracy
Bush Doctrine
Opinion of the Court
Marble cake federalism
38. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Open primary
Constitutionalism
Closed shop
Literacy test
39. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Union shop
Ex post facto law
Fiscal policy
Open rule
40. 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.
Logrolling
Hard money
Selective incorporation
Coattail effect
41. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Total and Partial Preemption
Writ of habeas corpus
Green party
Proportional representation
42. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Interested money
Party registration
Political culture
Union shop
43. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Prior restraint
Veto
Executive privilege
Horse race
44. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Idealism
Social Security
Independent expenditures
45. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Manifest opinion
Executive Office of the President
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Community policing
46. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Natural rights
Literacy test
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Executive order
47. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Offshoring
Unfunded mandates
De facto segregation
Trade deficit
48. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Monetary policy
Criminal law
Theocracy
Midterm election
49. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Majority-minority district
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Natural rights
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
50. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Public assistance
Special or select committee
Police powers
Literacy test