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1. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Special or select committee
Redistricting
Majority rule
Direct primary
2. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.
Social capital
Inherent powers
Marbury v. Madison
Inflation
3. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Filibuster
Single-member district
Direct primary
Judicial review
4. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.
Impeachment
Substantive due process
Commerce clause
Trustee
5. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Monetarism
Natural rights
Poll tax
Majority leader
6. 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.
Monopoly
Winner-take-all system
Commerce clause
Interest group
7. 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.
Reform party
Affirmative action
Pocket veto
Political action committee (PAC)
8. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Indexing
Primary election
Commerce clause
Public policy
9. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Soft power
Democratic consensus
Marbury v. Madison
Federal mandate
10. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Libertarian party
Indictment
Commerce clause
Patronage
11. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Leadership PAC
Entitlement programs
Permissive federalism
Party identification
12. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Electoral college
Libertarianism
Candidate appeal
Redistributive policy
13. 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.
Plurality
Prospective issue voting
Cooperative federalism
Interest group
14. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).
Centralists
Immunity
Affirmative action
Poll tax
15. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Soft power
Redistributive policy
Realism
Multilateralism
16. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Economic sanctions
Amicus curiae brief
Free rider
Conference committee
17. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Immunity
Photo ops
Cycle of decreasing influence
General election
18. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Environmental impact statement
Antitrust legislation
Public defender system
Vouchers
19. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Medicaid
Plea bargain
Nonprotected speech
Indictment
20. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Monopoly
Independent regulatory commission
Commerce clause
Concurrent powers
21. Clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 10) originally intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; for a while interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affec
Contract clause
Bundling
Statism
Interested money
22. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Speaker
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Due process clause
Union shop
23. 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.
Social Security
Federalists
Restrictive covenant
Medicare
24. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Commercial speech
Regulations
Impeachment
National Intelligence Director
25. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Fundamentalists
Logrolling
Progressive tax
Racial profiling
26. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Faction
Monetarism
Racial profiling
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
27. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Statism
Interested money
Reapportionment
Community policing
28. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Senatorial courtesy
Commerce clause
Chief of staff
Offshoring
29. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Offshoring
Iron triangle
National party convention
Referendum
30. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
President pro tempore
De jure segregation
Bicameralism
Connecticut Compromise
31. 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.'
Senior Executive Service
Hard money
Judicial activism
Uncontrollable spending
32. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Block grants
Laissez-faire economics
Excise tax
Public assistance
33. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Political ideology
Lobbying
Nonprotected speech
Interested money
34. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
National supremacy
Regulations
Political ideology
Judicial review
35. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Appellate jurisdiction
Antitrust legislation
Special or select committee
Issue advocacy
36. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Closed shop
Safe seat
Interest group
Conservatism
37. 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.
Judicial review
Due process
Due process clause
Rule
38. 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
Tariff
Political action committee (PAC)
Senatorial courtesy
39. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Manifest opinion
Revolving door
Race
Racial profiling
40. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Winner-take-all system
Closed rule
Federalism
Regressive tax
41. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Antitrust legislation
Inherent powers
Labor injunction
Adversary system
42. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.
Total and Partial Preemption
Parliamentary system
Name recognition
Unemployment
43. 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.
Standing committee
Ethnicity
Judicial activism
Bush Doctrine
44. 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.
Express powers
Presidential ticket
Bad tendency test
Bundling
45. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Seniority rule
Concurring opinion
Natural rights
Decentralists
46. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Implied powers
Natural law
Issue network
Administrative discretion
47. 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.
Unitary system
Issue advocacy
Impeachment
Soft money
48. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Earmarks
Constitutional democracy
Closed primary
Theory of deterrence
49. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Right of expatriation
Majority
Writ of habeas corpus
Checks and balances
50. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.
Selective incorporation
Natural rights
Cross-cutting cleavages
Judicial restraint
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