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AP Government

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1. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.






2. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.






3. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.






4. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.






5. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.






6. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.






7. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t






8. Election in which voters choose party nominees.






9. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.






10. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.






11. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.






12. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.






13. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.






14. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.






15. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.






16. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.






17. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.






18. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f






19. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.






20. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.






21. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.






22. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.






23. 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






24. 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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25. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.






26. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.






27. 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.






28. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.






29. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.






30. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.






31. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.






32. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.






33. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.






34. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.






35. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.






36. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.






37. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.






38. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.






39. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo






40. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm






41. 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.






42. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.






43. The presiding officer in the House of Representatives - formally elected by the House but actually selected by the majority party.






44. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.






45. 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.






46. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.






47. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.






48. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.






49. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.






50. 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.






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