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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Closed shop
Collective bargaining
Adversary system
Indictment
2. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Original jurisdiction
Impoundment
Closed primary
Direct orders
3. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Due process clause
Fighting words
Writ of certiorari
Candidate appeal
4. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Manifest opinion
Initiative
Plea bargain
Categorical-formula grants
5. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Administrative discretion
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Cabinet
Independent expenditures
6. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Senatorial courtesy
Redistributive policy
Regulatory taking
Obscenity
7. Views the national government - 50 states - and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes. Applies the analogy of the marketplace: we have some choice about which state and ci
Commerce clause
Creative federalism
Competitive federalism
Liberalism
8. 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.
Offshoring
Bundling
Horse race
Speaker
9. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Excise tax
Popular sovereignty
Full faith and credit clause
Movement
10. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Women's suffrage
Constitutional democracy
Substantive due process
Political socialization
11. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Sedition
Articles of Confederation
Turnout
Pluralism
12. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Direct democracy
Candidate appeal
Horse race
Trustee
13. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Conservatism
Environmental impact statement
Trust
Marbury v. Madison
14. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Political socialization
Prior restraint
Due process clause
Earmarks
15. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Random sample
Selected perception
Libertarianism
Issue network
16. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Department
Collective bargaining
Independent regulatory commission
Medicaid
17. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Procedural due process
Free exercise clause
'Our federalism'
Federal Register
18. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Primary election
Entitlements
Deregulation
Concurrent powers
19. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
Open rule
Open shop
Extradition
Environmental impact statement
20. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Class action suit
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Public defender system
21. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Weapons of mass destruction
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Total and Partial Preemption
The Federalist
22. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Turnout
Constitutionalism
Popular sovereignty
White primary
23. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Means-tested entitlements
Winner-take-all system
Executive privilege
Public assistance
24. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Hard power
Sedition
Impoundment
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
25. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Constituents
Treaty
Natural law
Conference committee
26. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Protectionism
Initiative
Natural rights
General election
27. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Iron triangle
Rule-making process
Competitive federalism
Bush Doctrine
28. 30-second statements on the evening news shows. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on sound bites to explain them to the public.
Executive agreement
Constituents
Selective exposure
Sound bites
29. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Implied powers
Bureaucracy
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Divided government
30. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Initiative
Isolationism
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Political socialization
31. A president's claim of broad public support.
Independent agency
Oversight
Revolving door
Mandate
32. 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
Enumerated powers
Independent regulatory commission
Majority leader
33. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Open primary
Trust
Free exercise clause
Merit system
34. 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.
Faction
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Bush Doctrine
Linkage institutions
35. Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government - the actions of the federal government will prevail.
Medicare
Nonprotected speech
Civil disobedience
National supremacy
36. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Filibuster
Police powers
37. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Police powers
Bicameralism
Closed shop
38. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Preferred position doctrine
Central clearance
Sound bites
Rule
39. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Appellate jurisdiction
Cloture
Movement
Direct primary
40. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Due process
Capitalism
Due process clause
Trust
41. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Regulation
Restrictive covenant
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Mass media
42. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Due process clause
Department
Means-tested entitlements
Monetary policy
43. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Implementation
Majority
Constitutional Convention
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
44. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
Unfunded mandates
Filibuster
Concurring opinion
Nonpartisan election
45. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Redistricting
Political predisposition
Minor party
Minority leader
46. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Ex post facto law
Project grants
Minor party
Trust
47. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Eminent domain
Fiscal federalism
Green party
Theory of deterrence
48. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
National debt
Fiscal federalism
Policy agenda
Obscenity
49. 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.
Unemployment
Realism
Regulatory taking
Normal trade relations
50. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Normal trade relations
Competitive federalism
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