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1. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Marbury v. Madison
Naturalization
Department
American dream
2. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Conference committee
Oversight
Rule
Natural law
3. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Patronage
Constitutional Convention
Commerce clause
Conservatism
4. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Dealignment
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Judicial restraint
Free exercise clause
5. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
National supremacy
Checks and balances
Manifest destiny
Issue advocacy
6. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Random sample
Presidential ticket
Contract clause
7. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional.
Medicaid
Direct orders
Political predisposition
Restrictive covenant
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.
Race
Conservatism
Cross-cutting requirements
Mass media
9. 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
Total and Partial Preemption
Redistributive policy
Oversight
Connecticut Compromise
10. 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.
Indictment
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Creative federalism
Issue advocacy
11. 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.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Deregulation
Affirmative action
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
12. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Amicus curiae brief
Political culture
Caucus
13. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Libertarianism
Attentive public
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Constitutionalism
14. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Normal trade relations
Bundling
Bicameralism
Constituents
15. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
National Intelligence Director
Clear and present danger test
Block grants
Progressive tax
16. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Political ideology
Line item veto
Closed rule
Public assistance
17. 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
Multilateralism
Hold
Tax expenditure
Crossover sanctions
18. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Free exercise clause
Random sample
Winner-take-all system
Attentive public
19. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Hatch Act
Attentive public
Popular consent
Nonprotected speech
20. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Ethnicity
Recall
Demographics
Presidential election
21. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Cloture
Lobbyist
Independent expenditures
Manifest destiny
22. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Racial gerrymandering
Natural rights
Minor party
'Necessary and proper' clause
23. 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.
Labor injunction
Excise tax
Inherent powers
Public opinion
24. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
De jure segregation
Connecticut Compromise
National debt
Cross-cutting requirements
25. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Progressive tax
Demographics
Soft money
Free rider
26. Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of the party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Trust
Majority-minority district
Safe seat
Class action suit
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.
Party caucus
Linkage institutions
Antifederalists
Closed rule
28. 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
Project grants
Sales tax
Presidential ticket
Decentralists
29. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Judicial review
Open shop
Reinforcing cleavages
Regressive tax
30. 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.
Party identification
Take care clause
Laissez-faire economics
Interested money
31. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Faction
Government corporation
Parliamentary system
Checks and balances
32. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Weapons of mass destruction
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Ethnicity
De facto segregation
33. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Lobbying
Prior restraint
Entitlement programs
Antifederalists
34. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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35. 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.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Categorical-formula grants
Shays's Rebellion
Competitive federalism
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.
Public choice
Commerce clause
Hard money
Chief of staff
37. 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.
Federalism
Interstate compact
Dissenting opinion
Dealignment
38. Tax levied on imports to help protect the nation's industries - labor - or farmers from foreign competition. It can also be used to raise additional revenue.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Capitalism
Political socialization
Tariff
39. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Senior Executive Service
Fiscal policy
Direct primary
Candidate appeal
40. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Department
amicus curiae brief
Manifest opinion
Capitalism
41. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Direct orders
Pluralism
Value-added tax (VAT)
National Intelligence Director
42. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Independent expenditures
Federal Reserve System
Racial profiling
Soft money
43. 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.
Connecticut Compromise
Political socialization
Leadership PAC
Social capital
44. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Candidate appeal
Public opinion
Cycle of decreasing influence
Express powers
45. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Gender gap
Attentive public
Literacy test
Reapportionment
46. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Presidential election
Regulation
Racial gerrymandering
Direct orders
47. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Regulation
Rally point
Obscenity
Midterm election
48. 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.
Interest group
Executive Office of the President
Precedent
Manifest opinion
49. 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
Oversight
Competitive federalism
Independent expenditure
Seniority rule
50. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Tariff
Democracy
Hard money
Judicial activism