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1. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Interested money
Independent expenditures
Party identification
Department
2. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Commerce clause
Inherent powers
Soft money
Trade deficit
3. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Proportional representation
President pro tempore
Defendant
Reform party
4. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Commercial speech
Means-tested entitlements
De facto segregation
Bicameralism
5. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Realism
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Random sample
Demographics
6. 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
Issue advocacy
Proportional representation
Candidate appeal
Crossover sanctions
7. A large body of people interested in a common issue - idea - or concern that is of continuing significance and who are willing to take action. Movements seek to change attitudes or institutions - not just policies.
Socialism
Movement
Shays's Rebellion
Caucus
8. 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
Judicial review
Independent regulatory commission
Political socialization
9. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Monetary policy
Cross-cutting cleavages
Demographics
Special or select committee
10. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Equal protection clause
Bush Doctrine
The Federalist
11. 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.
Appellate jurisdiction
Judicial review
Naturalization
Senior Executive Service
12. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Plea bargain
Name recognition
Midterm election
De facto segregation
13. 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.
Constitutional democracy
527 organizations
Honeymoon
Total and Partial Preemption
14. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.
Full faith and credit clause
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Impoundment
Popular consent
15. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Virginia Plan
Monetary policy
Electoral college
Take care clause
16. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Adversary system
Permissive federalism
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Majority-minority district
17. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Proportional representation
Dealignment
Political ideology
18. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Mandate
Incumbent
Excise tax
Treaty
19. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Horse race
Full faith and credit clause
Search warrant
20. 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.
Eminent domain
Libertarianism
Interstate compact
Civil disobedience
21. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Soft power
Monetarism
Public defender system
Faction
22. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Substantive due process
Project grants
Closed primary
Writ of certiorari
23. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Minority leader
Divided government
Unfunded mandates
Capitalism
24. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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25. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Entitlement programs
Judicial restraint
Random sample
Medicare
26. 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
Labor injunction
Project grants
Extradition
Naturalization
27. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Monopoly
Veto
National party convention
Inherent powers
28. 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.
Commerce clause
Three-fifths compromise
Selective incorporation
Iron triangle
29. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Entitlement programs
Policy agenda
Immunity
Earmarks
30. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Writ of mandamus
Isolationism
Judicial review
Keynesian economics
31. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Parliamentary system
Weapons of mass destruction
Photo ops
Monopoly
32. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Appellate jurisdiction
Establishment clause
Independent agency
Commercial speech
33. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Direct primary
Delegate
Decentralists
Linkage institutions
34. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Writ of certiorari
Political culture
Laissez-faire economics
Regulatory taking
35. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Public choice
Presidential ticket
Statism
Political culture
36. 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.
Executive order
Natural law
Monetary policy
Clear and present danger test
37. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Court of appeals
Divided government
Initiative
Natural rights
38. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Socialism
President pro tempore
Pocket veto
Political socialization
39. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Multilateralism
National debt
Executive agreement
Manifest destiny
40. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Protectionism
Majority leader
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Suffrage
41. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Trust
Hold
Hatch Act
Open rule
42. 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.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Labor injunction
Hard power
Due process clause
43. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Impoundment
Equal protection clause
Impoundment
Libertarian party
44. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Independent expenditure
Bipartisanship
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Free exercise clause
45. 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.
Executive order
Closed rule
Discharge petition
Special or select committee
46. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Tax expenditure
Photo ops
Discharge petition
Popular consent
47. 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
Double jeopardy
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Environmental impact statement
Conference committee
48. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Distributive policy
Hold
Project grants
Public defender system
49. 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).
Poll tax
World Trade Organization (WTO)
De facto segregation
Seniority rule
50. 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.
Representative democracy
White primary
Parliamentary system
Federalism