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1. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Party identification
Criminal law
Pluralism
The Federalist
2. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Party identification
Full faith and credit clause
Contract clause
Voter registration
3. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
Override
Gender gap
Closed shop
Three-fifths compromise
4. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Manifest opinion
Congressional-executive agreement
Sales tax
Random sample
5. 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.
Hard money
Fighting words
Virginia Plan
Indictment
6. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Whip
Original jurisdiction
Monetarism
Conservatism
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.
Inflation
Plea bargain
Socialism
Initiative
8. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Closed primary
Lobbying
Primary election
Mass media
9. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Ethnocentrism
Voter registration
Majority rule
De facto segregation
10. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Congressional-executive agreement
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Annapolis Convention
Retrospective issue of voting
11. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Winner-take-all system
Selected perception
Independent expenditures
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
12. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Issue network
Candidate appeal
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Democracy
13. Media that emphasize the news.
American dream
News media
Distributive policy
Isolationism
14. Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.
Referendum
Cooperative federalism
Political socialization
Indexing
15. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Laissez-faire economics
Justiciable dispute
Search warrant
Conservatism
16. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Voter registration
Civil law
Spoils system
Medicaid
17. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Jim Crow laws
Sales tax
Australian ballot
Plea bargain
18. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Vouchers
Lobbying
Presidential ticket
Bush Doctrine
19. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Labor injunction
Obscenity
Honeymoon
Linkage institutions
20. 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
Earmarks
Executive privilege
527 organizations
Full faith and credit clause
21. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Indictment
Lobbyist
Enumerated powers
Economic sanctions
22. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Presidential election
Federal mandate
Bill of attainder
Issue advocacy
23. 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.
Federal Reserve System
Literacy test
Constitutional democracy
Logrolling
24. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Cross-cutting requirements
Criminal law
Discharge petition
Open rule
25. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Medical savings account
Antitrust legislation
Independent agency
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
26. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Libel
Devolution revolution
National tide
27. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Decentralists
Independent regulatory commission
Procedural due process
Majority
28. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Indexing
Override
Interested money
Parliamentary system
29. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Independent regulatory commission
Sedition
Party identification
Unitary system
30. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Separation of powers
Department
Hard money
Enumerated powers
31. 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
Plurality
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Realism
Leadership PAC
32. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
Hold
Party convention
Constituents
33. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Referendum
Extradition
Bicameralism
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
34. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate - and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation.
Issue advocacy
Hard power
Cycle of decreasing influence
Rule
35. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Federalists
American dream
Faction
Monopoly
36. 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.
Devolution revolution
Entitlements
Decentralists
Amicus curiae brief
37. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Rule
Dissenting opinion
Defendant
Regulations
38. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Recall
Cooperative federalism
amicus curiae brief
Hold
39. 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.
Regulations
Oversight
Closed rule
Normal trade relations
40. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Antitrust legislation
Natural rights
Executive Office of the President
Union shop
41. 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.
Precedent
Affirmative action
Interest group
Tax expenditure
42. A provision attached to a bill
Political socialization
Property rights
Rider
Proportional representation
43. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Liberalism
Selective incorporation
Logrolling
Minority leader
44. 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.
Logrolling
Public opinion
American dream
Redistricting
45. Promoting a particular position or an issue by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate and - until 2004 had not been subject to regulation.
Independent expenditures
Monopoly
Issue advocacy
Filibuster
46. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Indictment
Medical savings account
Cross-cutting cleavages
Policy agenda
47. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Contract clause
Writ of mandamus
Writ of certiorari
Statism
48. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
Executive Office of the President
Filibuster
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
State's rights
49. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Special or select committee
Federal mandate
Medicare
Green party
50. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Implementation
Majority rule
Federalism
Horse race