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AP Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Weapons of mass destruction
Constitutional Convention
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Gender gap
2. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Executive Office of the President
Deregulation
Department
Defendant
3. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Trustee
Judicial review
Photo ops
Property rights
4. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Closed shop
Caucus
Winner-take-all system
Court of appeals
5. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Writ of certiorari
National party convention
Stare decisis
Faction
6. 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
Internationalism
Lobbying
Jim Crow laws
7. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Constitutional Convention
Ethnicity
Implied powers
Writ of mandamus
8. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Direct primary
Proportional representation
Democratic consensus
Appellate jurisdiction
9. 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.
Full faith and credit clause
Cooperative federalism
The Federalist
Due process
10. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Rule
Preemption
Random sample
Sedition
11. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Democracy
Independent agency
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Economic sanctions
12. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Reapportionment
Women's suffrage
Sound bites
Issue advocacy
13. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Concurrent powers
Treaty
Demographics
State's rights
14. 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.
Judicial review
Constitutional democracy
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Marble cake federalism
15. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Midterm election
Rally point
Patronage
16. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Electoral college
Docket
Means-tested entitlements
Enumerated powers
17. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
National tide
Ethnocentrism
Party identification
Keynesian economics
18. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Indexing
Regressive tax
Civil disobedience
Tax expenditure
19. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Fiscal policy
Rider
Representative democracy
Progressive tax
20. 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
Block grants
Attentive public
Medicare
Pocket veto
21. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Preemption
Regressive tax
Literacy test
Establishment clause
22. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Police powers
Plea bargain
Concurring opinion
Libertarian party
23. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Closed shop
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
News media
Monopoly
24. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Primary election
Necessary and proper clause
Take care clause
Majority-minority district
25. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Regulations
Regressive tax
General election
Means-tested entitlements
26. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Fundamentalists
Logrolling
Centralists
Appellate jurisdiction
27. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Party identification
Hard money
Tax expenditure
Random sample
28. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Minor party
Writ of mandamus
Hard power
Means-tested entitlements
29. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Popular consent
Ethnocentrism
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Unilateralism
30. Media that emphasize the news.
Take care clause
Tariff
Obscenity
News media
31. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Concurring opinion
President pro tempore
Referendum
Patronage
32. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Commercial speech
Mass media
Libertarian party
33. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Mandate
President pro tempore
Proportional representation
34. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many applications in the various social sciences such as political science - sociology - and
Retrospective issue of voting
Immunity
Collective action
Party identification
35. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Antitrust legislation
Direct orders
Honeymoon
Inherent powers
36. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Name recognition
Honeymoon
Department
State's rights
37. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Ethnicity
National party convention
Natural rights
Trust
38. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Unfunded mandates
Free rider
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
39. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments.
Jim Crow laws
Distributive policy
Closed rule
Open shop
40. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Medicare
Lobbyist
Procedural due process
Executive privilege
41. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Separation of powers
Cross-cutting requirements
Medicaid
Party registration
42. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Soft power
Seniority rule
Weapons of mass destruction
Political socialization
43. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Free exercise clause
Immunity
Public defender system
Majority leader
44. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Right of expatriation
Nonpartisan election
Adversary system
Executive Office of the President
45. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Discharge petition
Naturalization
Decentralists
Original jurisdiction
46. Views the national government - 50 states - and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes. Applies the analogy of the marketplace: we have some choice about which state and ci
Competitive federalism
Soft power
Plea bargain
Executive Office of the President
47. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Party registration
Standing committee
National supremacy
National party convention
48. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Reinforcing cleavages
'Our federalism'
Docket
Executive privilege
49. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Political predisposition
Reapportionment
Appellate jurisdiction
Sound bites
50. The right of women to vote.
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