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1. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Soft money
Literacy test
Exclusionary rule
Senatorial courtesy
2. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Keynesian economics
Plurality
National tide
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
3. An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point - redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties.
Theory of deterrence
Concurring opinion
Realigning election
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
4. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Issue network
Natural rights
Public opinion
Logrolling
5. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Manifest destiny
The Federalist
Laissez-faire economics
Iron triangle
6. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Annapolis Convention
Federal mandate
Whip
Government corporation
7. The presiding officer in the House of Representatives - formally elected by the House but actually selected by the majority party.
Speaker
Annapolis Convention
Bad tendency test
Project grants
8. 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.
Sedition
Constituents
Clear and present danger test
Inherent powers
9. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Establishment clause
Interstate compact
Ethnocentrism
10. 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).
Full faith and credit clause
Delegate
Poll tax
Gross domestic product (GDP)
11. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Attentive public
Weapons of mass destruction
Exclusionary rule
12. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Manifest destiny
Property rights
Poll tax
Natural law
13. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Party convention
Collective action
Hard money
Vouchers
14. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
National Intelligence Director
Full faith and credit clause
Issue advocacy
Independent expenditures
15. 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.
Issue network
Preferred position doctrine
Original jurisdiction
Tariff
16. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Dissenting opinion
Dealignment
Independent regulatory commission
General election
17. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Photo ops
Libel
Administrative discretion
Redistricting
18. 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.
Equal protection clause
Bicameralism
Gender gap
Search warrant
19. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Whip
Progressive tax
Judicial review
Senatorial courtesy
20. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Proportional representation
Class action suit
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Protectionism
21. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Reform party
Economic sanctions
Trust
Excise tax
22. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Single-member district
Ex post facto law
Reapportionment
Collective bargaining
23. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Union shop
Immunity
Women's suffrage
Block grants
24. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Reinforcing cleavages
Uncontrollable spending
Open shop
Due process clause
25. 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.
Retrospective issue of voting
Electoral college
Suffrage
Social capital
26. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Joint committee
Distributive policy
Constitutionalism
Uncontrollable spending
27. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Line item veto
Revolving door
Due process
Special or select committee
28. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Cooperative federalism
Mass media
Executive orders
Primary election
29. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Preemption
Caucus
Connecticut Compromise
Prior restraint
30. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Rule
Indexing
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Inflation
31. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Faction
Unfunded mandates
President pro tempore
Rule
32. 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.
Free exercise clause
Gerrymandering
The Federalist
Libertarianism
33. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Federalism
Express powers
Inflation
Executive agreement
34. 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.
Class action suit
Majority rule
Issue advocacy
Logrolling
35. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
Political socialization
State of the Union Address
Enumerated powers
Hard power
36. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that freedom of expression is so essential to democracy that governments should not punish persons for what they say - only for what they do.
Preferred position doctrine
Selected perception
Monopoly
Party identification
37. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Reform party
Creative federalism
Bureaucrat
Political socialization
38. 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.
Rally point
Checks and balances
Cabinet
Contract clause
39. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Random sample
Total and Partial Preemption
Monetarism
Iron triangle
40. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Democracy
De facto segregation
Impeachment
Direct primary
41. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Impoundment
Open shop
Regulation
Executive Office of the President
42. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Caucus
Dealignment
Senatorial courtesy
Realism
43. 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.
Trustee
Racial profiling
Minor party
Political predisposition
44. 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.
Issue network
Prospective issue voting
Soft money
Theocracy
45. 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.
Bush Doctrine
Precedent
Annapolis Convention
Tariff
46. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Monopoly
Separation of powers
Social capital
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
47. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Party identification
Defendant
Party identification
Appellate jurisdiction
48. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Cross-cutting requirements
Entitlement programs
Union shop
Constitutional Convention
49. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm
Laissez-faire economics
Monopoly
Grand jury
Antitrust legislation
50. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Due process
Impeachment
Monetary policy
Dissenting opinion