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1. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Logrolling
Executive orders
Commerce clause
Regulatory taking
2. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Standing committee
Environmental impact statement
Multilateralism
Federal mandate
3. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Competitive federalism
Constitutionalism
Devolution revolution
De facto segregation
4. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Initiative
Turnout
amicus curiae brief
Gerrymandering
5. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go
Executive order
Iron triangle
Categorical-formula grants
Public assistance
6. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Presidential election
Federal Register
Creative federalism
Government corporation
7. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover
Direct orders
Offshoring
Fundamentalists
Liberalism
8. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Executive privilege
Monopoly
Weapons of mass destruction
Pluralism
9. 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
Reform party
Monetarism
Marbury v. Madison
Social insurance
10. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Minority leader
Community policing
Selective incorporation
Lobbyist
11. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Constitutional Convention
Midterm election
Articles of Confederation
Federal mandate
12. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Turnout
Cross-cutting cleavages
Caucus
Suffrage
13. The difference between the political opinions or political behavior of men and of women.
Redistributive policy
Inherent powers
Gender gap
Prior restraint
14. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Means-tested entitlements
Establishment clause
Closed primary
Issue advocacy
15. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Attentive public
Parliamentary system
Realism
16. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Mandate
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Property rights
Writ of habeas corpus
17. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Immunity
Public defender system
Internationalism
Implied powers
18. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Centralists
Preferred position doctrine
Independent agency
Australian ballot
19. 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
Independent expenditures
Concurrent powers
Discharge petition
Federalism
20. 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.
President pro tempore
Sound bites
Commerce clause
Political culture
21. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Political ideology
Docket
The Federalist
Party caucus
22. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Extradition
Gerrymandering
Realism
Keynesian economics
23. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Party identification
Candidate appeal
Right of expatriation
Commerce clause
24. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Socialism
Veto
Bureaucrat
Property rights
25. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Precedent
Inherent powers
Demographics
Appellate jurisdiction
26. 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.
Selective incorporation
Executive agreement
Trustee
Natural rights
27. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Means-tested entitlements
Soft money
Monetary policy
Hard money
28. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Writ of mandamus
Economic sanctions
Entitlements
Government corporation
29. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Lobbyist
Gerrymandering
Issue advocacy
Commercial speech
30. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Decentralists
Civil disobedience
Executive Office of the President
Writ of certiorari
31. 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.
Commercial speech
Regressive tax
Cooperative federalism
Recall
32. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Safe seat
Antitrust legislation
Enumerated powers
Checks and balances
33. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Direct primary
Defendant
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Selective exposure
34. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Bicameralism
Virginia Plan
Bureaucracy
Impoundment
35. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Cross-cutting cleavages
Preemption
Political socialization
Unitary system
36. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
National supremacy
Prior restraint
Free rider
Line item veto
37. 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.
Normal trade relations
Poll tax
Chief of staff
Majority
38. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Public assistance
Libertarianism
Revolving door
Appellate jurisdiction
39. 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.
Adversary system
Property rights
Delegate
Soft money
40. 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
Seniority rule
Clear and present danger test
New Jersey Plan
41. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Cloture
Union shop
Reapportionment
Candidate appeal
42. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Majority
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Search warrant
43. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Congressional-executive agreement
Honeymoon
Commerce clause
Department
44. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.
Adversary system
Criminal law
Executive privilege
Social capital
45. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Electoral college
Impoundment
Vouchers
Parliamentary system
46. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Direct orders
527 organizations
Turnout
Bicameralism
47. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Executive order
Party identification
Adversary system
Marbury v. Madison
48. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Coattail effect
Public defender system
Trade deficit
Selective exposure
49. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Executive orders
Poll tax
White primary
Manifest opinion
50. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Express powers
Political socialization
Petit jury
Free rider