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1. 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.
Dual citizenship
Social Security
Manifest opinion
Precedent
2. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
Minority leader
Majority leader
Selected perception
3. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Closed shop
Socialism
Green party
Race
4. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Hard power
Justiciable dispute
Express powers
Congressional-executive agreement
5. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Antitrust legislation
Independent regulatory commission
Open rule
Annapolis Convention
6. 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
Free rider
527 organizations
Natural rights
National supremacy
7. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
President pro tempore
Independent agency
Antitrust legislation
Lobbyist
8. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Statism
National Intelligence Director
Implied powers
Federal Register
9. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Excise tax
Writ of mandamus
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Chief of staff
10. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
Green party
White primary
Entitlement programs
Hard money
11. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Political predisposition
'Necessary and proper' clause
Libel
Override
12. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils system
Exclusionary rule
Mass media
Closed rule
13. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Minority leader
Congressional-executive agreement
Winner-take-all system
Social insurance
14. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Hard money
Senatorial courtesy
Marbury v. Madison
Direct orders
15. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
Reform party
Referendum
Liberalism
Issue advocacy
16. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Protectionism
Safe seat
Executive agreement
Articles of Confederation
17. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Dual citizenship
Nonpartisan election
Majority
Libertarian party
18. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Bad tendency test
Preemption
Cooperative federalism
Trust
19. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
Senatorial courtesy
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Presidential ticket
Crossover sanctions
20. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Articles of Confederation
Take care clause
Vouchers
Stare decisis
21. 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
Candidate appeal
Speaker
Political predisposition
22. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Indictment
Permissive federalism
Representative democracy
Direct primary
23. 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.
Reform party
Free rider
Trade deficit
Federalism
24. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
President pro tempore
Crossover sanctions
Ethnocentrism
Faction
25. 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
Constituents
Block grants
Due process clause
Independent regulatory commission
26. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Restrictive covenant
Recall
Executive Office of the President
Theocracy
27. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Offshoring
Majority rule
Trust
Selective incorporation
28. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Due process clause
Constitutionalism
Demographics
Concurrent powers
29. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Fighting words
Unemployment
Attentive public
Writ of mandamus
30. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Adversary system
Value-added tax (VAT)
American dream
Exclusionary rule
31. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Judicial activism
Independent expenditures
Independent agency
Faction
32. A veto exercised by the president after Congress has adjourned; if the president takes no action for 10 days - the bill does not become law and does not return to Congress for possible override.
Pocket veto
Cloture
Total and Partial Preemption
Issue network
33. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Selective incorporation
Winner-take-all system
Tax expenditure
Monetary policy
34. A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free - fair - and relatively frequent elections.
Natural rights
Constitutional democracy
Proportional representation
Political party
35. 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
Attentive public
Checks and balances
Impoundment
36. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Libertarianism
Majority-minority district
Impoundment
37. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Checks and balances
Policy agenda
Progressive tax
Categorical-formula grants
38. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Establishment clause
Reapportionment
Regulation
Necessary and proper clause
39. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Fighting words
Libertarianism
Closed shop
Reinforcing cleavages
40. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Centralists
Immunity
Dissenting opinion
Monopoly
41. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Double jeopardy
Indexing
Keynesian economics
Project grants
42. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Independent expenditures
Uncontrollable spending
Soft money
Preemption
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.
National tide
Judicial review
Entitlements
Race
44. The head of the White House staff.
Fiscal federalism
Search warrant
Chief of staff
Eminent domain
45. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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46. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Reapportionment
Impeachment
State's rights
Suffrage
47. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
Property rights
Community policing
Independent expenditure
Special or select committee
48. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
Enumerated powers
Justiciable dispute
Statism
Central clearance
49. 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.
Civil disobedience
New Jersey Plan
Sound bites
The Federalist
50. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Cross-cutting requirements
Ethnocentrism
Government corporation
Monetary policy
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