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1. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Enumerated powers
President pro tempore
Soft money
Double jeopardy
2. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.
Electoral college
National party convention
Party registration
Liberalism
3. 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.
National party convention
Executive Office of the President
Minority leader
Delegate
4. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Political socialization
Delegate
Class action suit
Cloture
5. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.
Independent regulatory commission
Monetary policy
Confederation
Issue advocacy
6. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Medicare
Criminal law
Pluralism
Value-added tax (VAT)
7. 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.
Department
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Plea bargain
Incumbent
8. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Turnout
Antitrust legislation
Isolationism
Conference committee
9. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Party identification
Attentive public
Idealism
Impeachment
10. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Voter registration
Issue advocacy
Natural rights
Community policing
11. 30-second statements on the evening news shows. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on sound bites to explain them to the public.
Sound bites
Proportional representation
Natural rights
Original jurisdiction
12. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
General election
Majority-minority district
Hold
Divided government
13. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Direct primary
Libertarianism
Opinion of the Court
Impeachment
14. 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.
Court of appeals
Community policing
Bush Doctrine
Federalism
15. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Trust
Reinforcing cleavages
Independent expenditures
16. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Normal trade relations
Caucus
Name recognition
American dream
17. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Collective bargaining
Immunity
Hatch Act
Political culture
18. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Merit system
Gender gap
Protectionism
19. 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)
Vouchers
Internationalism
Plea bargain
20. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Reapportionment
Mass media
Docket
Federalism
21. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Regressive tax
Plea bargain
Preferred position doctrine
Suffrage
22. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Racial profiling
Representative democracy
Petit jury
Name recognition
23. 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
Equal protection clause
Federal Register
Social insurance
Issue advocacy
24. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Implied powers
Executive order
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
National Intelligence Director
25. 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.'
Writ of mandamus
Labor injunction
Marble cake federalism
Hard money
26. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Sedition
Political ideology
Bipartisanship
Judicial activism
27. 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.
Bad tendency test
Soft money
Party registration
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
28. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Bad tendency test
Affirmative action
Party caucus
National debt
29. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Trade deficit
Manifest destiny
Naturalization
Socialism
30. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Bundling
National Intelligence Director
Liberalism
Mandate
31. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Political predisposition
Free rider
Nonprotected speech
Senior Executive Service
32. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Hard money
Entitlement programs
Double jeopardy
Trade deficit
33. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Party identification
Writ of habeas corpus
Federal Register
Coattail effect
34. Media that emphasize the news.
News media
Proportional representation
Photo ops
Federal mandate
35. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
Poll tax
Fundamentalists
amicus curiae brief
Social Security
36. Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
Implied powers
Connecticut Compromise
'Necessary and proper' clause
Means-tested entitlements
37. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.
Free rider
Soft money
Democratic consensus
Executive privilege
38. 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.
Virginia Plan
Idealism
Majority rule
Monetary policy
39. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Excise tax
Majority
Logrolling
Ethnocentrism
40. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Soft money
Seniority rule
Clear and present danger test
Natural rights
41. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Linkage institutions
Labor injunction
Senior Executive Service
Senatorial courtesy
42. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Speaker
Nonprotected speech
Selective incorporation
Means-tested entitlements
43. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Turnout
Direct primary
Presidential ticket
'Our federalism'
44. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Federal Reserve System
Keynesian economics
Political socialization
45. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
General election
Eminent domain
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Gerrymandering
46. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
State of the Union Address
Constitutional Convention
Spoils system
Merit system
47. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Movement
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Racial gerrymandering
Permissive federalism
48. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
National Intelligence Director
Environmental impact statement
Bundling
49. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
National tide
Antitrust legislation
Interstate compact
Checks and balances
50. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Redistributive policy
Civil disobedience
Progressive tax
Docket