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1. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Prior restraint
Logrolling
Enumerated powers
Commerce clause
2. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Writ of habeas corpus
Interest group
Fighting words
Ethnocentrism
3. The current holder of the elected office.
Pluralism
Right of expatriation
Incumbent
Grand jury
4. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Preemption
Political socialization
Collective bargaining
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
5. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Monetary policy
Federalists
Medicare
6. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Socialism
Unilateralism
Separation of powers
Direct primary
7. 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.
Entitlement programs
General election
Federalism
Theory of deterrence
8. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Central clearance
Party identification
Lobbyist
Plea bargain
9. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Chief of staff
Mandate
Judicial activism
Take care clause
10. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Patronage
Party caucus
Bush Doctrine
Treaty
11. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Standing committee
Preemption
Environmental impact statement
Logrolling
12. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Permissive federalism
Parliamentary system
Issue network
13. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Proportional representation
Political predisposition
Idealism
Due process
14. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Libel
Interstate compact
Fighting words
Petit jury
15. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Faction
'Our federalism'
Search warrant
Quid pro quo
16. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Keynesian economics
Labor injunction
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Dissenting opinion
17. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Executive Office of the President
Labor injunction
Fighting words
Joint committee
18. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Regulation
Earmarks
Amicus curiae brief
Demographics
19. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Restrictive covenant
Judicial review
Tariff
20. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Social insurance
Bicameralism
Coattail effect
Lobbyist
21. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Total and Partial Preemption
Administrative discretion
Seniority rule
Medicaid
22. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go
Revolving door
Bad tendency test
Progressive tax
Categorical-formula grants
23. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Selected perception
Unemployment
Express powers
24. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Regulatory taking
Laissez-faire economics
Competitive federalism
Annapolis Convention
25. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Stare decisis
Hatch Act
Affirmative action
Racial profiling
26. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Grand jury
Delegate
Constitutional democracy
Voter registration
27. 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
Divided government
Total and Partial Preemption
Opinion of the Court
De jure segregation
28. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Judicial activism
Closed rule
Offshoring
Unfunded mandates
29. 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.
Reapportionment
Preferred position doctrine
Redistricting
Parliamentary system
30. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Naturalization
Double jeopardy
National party convention
amicus curiae brief
31. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
Minor party
Internationalism
National tide
Literacy test
32. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Conservatism
Political culture
Justiciable dispute
Bill of attainder
33. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Horse race
Progressive tax
New Jersey Plan
Joint committee
34. The right to vote.
Cooperative federalism
Suffrage
Majority leader
Direct orders
35. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Community policing
Theocracy
Bill of attainder
Pluralism
36. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Executive orders
Connecticut Compromise
Commerce clause
Iron triangle
37. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Federalism
Department
Majority-minority district
Australian ballot
38. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Veto
Monopoly
Social capital
Interested money
39. 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.'
Permissive federalism
Presidential election
Veto
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
40. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Incumbent
Exclusionary rule
Cross-cutting requirements
Party registration
41. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Government corporation
Independent expenditure
National party convention
42. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Marbury v. Madison
Oversight
Selected perception
Class action suit
43. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Midterm election
Open primary
Hold
Judicial review
44. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Environmental impact statement
Impeachment
Mandate
American dream
45. Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.
Public opinion
Popular sovereignty
Leadership PAC
Virginia Plan
46. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
Adversary system
New Jersey Plan
Caucus
Progressive tax
47. 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
Public policy
Hard power
Conservatism
48. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.
Party caucus
Referendum
Hard money
Full faith and credit clause
49. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Multilateralism
Enumerated powers
Rule-making process
Majority rule
50. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Opinion of the Court
National Intelligence Director
Medicare
Public choice