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1. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Voter registration
Primary election
Incumbent
Majority
2. The political arm of an interest group that is legally entitled to raise funds on a voluntary basis from members - stockholders - or employees to contribute funds to candidates or political parties.
Political action committee (PAC)
Administrative discretion
Fiscal policy
Public opinion
3. 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.
Chief of staff
Realism
Policy agenda
Precedent
4. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Demographics
National Intelligence Director
Right of expatriation
Trust
5. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
National supremacy
Cross-cutting cleavages
Retrospective issue of voting
Bureaucrat
6. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Class action suit
Monetarism
Bush Doctrine
Ex post facto law
7. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Open primary
Manifest destiny
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Manifest opinion
8. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Uncontrollable spending
Leadership PAC
Senatorial courtesy
Ex post facto law
9. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Earmarks
Federalists
Candidate appeal
Reform party
10. 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.'
Hard money
Parliamentary system
Federalists
Coattail effect
11. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Oversight
Joint committee
Safe seat
Criminal law
12. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Hatch Act
Gerrymandering
Democracy
Political ideology
13. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Environmental impact statement
De jure segregation
Hard power
14. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Divided government
Party identification
Idealism
Excise tax
15. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Executive privilege
Fiscal federalism
Plea bargain
Rule
16. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Conference committee
Australian ballot
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Value-added tax (VAT)
17. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Regressive tax
Justiciable dispute
Delegate
Party identification
18. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Party identification
Medicare
Collective action
Dual citizenship
19. 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.
Establishment clause
Direct democracy
Immunity
Constitutionalism
20. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
Sales tax
Reapportionment
Rider
21. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Interest group
Preemption
Checks and balances
Marbury v. Madison
22. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Executive privilege
Libel
Presidential election
Popular consent
23. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Proportional representation
'Necessary and proper' clause
Public policy
24. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Excise tax
Search warrant
Impeachment
Concurrent powers
25. 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.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Crossover sanctions
Direct democracy
Executive Office of the President
26. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Initiative
Selective exposure
Unitary system
Exclusionary rule
27. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Shays's Rebellion
Retrospective issue of voting
Caucus
Capitalism
28. Constitutional division of powers among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches - with the legislative branch making law - the executive applying and enforcing the law - and the judiciary interpreting the law.
Trustee
Cross-cutting requirements
Deregulation
Separation of powers
29. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Gerrymandering
Proportional representation
Proportional representation
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
30. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Direct primary
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Implied powers
Deficit
31. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Unilateralism
Racial profiling
Court of appeals
Pluralism
32. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Tax expenditure
Pocket veto
Keynesian economics
Commerce clause
33. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Bicameralism
Federalists
Progressive tax
Soft money
34. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Liberalism
Public assistance
Antitrust legislation
35. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Attentive public
Divided government
Civil law
Incumbent
36. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Random sample
Retrospective issue of voting
Judicial restraint
Bad tendency test
37. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Pocket veto
Writ of mandamus
Excise tax
Centralists
38. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Class action suit
Attentive public
Closed rule
Cycle of decreasing influence
39. A provision attached to a bill
Rider
Senatorial courtesy
Parliamentary system
Protectionism
40. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Discharge petition
Women's suffrage
Recall
Docket
41. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
President pro tempore
Closed shop
Stare decisis
Trust
42. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Issue network
Central clearance
Executive privilege
43. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Green party
Separation of powers
Natural law
President pro tempore
44. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments - called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Federalism
Libel
Seniority rule
Socioeconomic status (SES)
45. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Government corporation
Issue advocacy
Bureaucracy
Political party
46. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.
Search warrant
Pocket veto
Closed rule
Realigning election
47. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Judicial restraint
Bipartisanship
Theory of deterrence
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
48. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Theory of deterrence
Race
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Recall
49. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Amicus curiae brief
National party convention
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Full faith and credit clause
50. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Deregulation
Value-added tax (VAT)
Entitlement programs
Protectionism
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