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1. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Impeachment
Enumerated powers
Minority leader
Libertarian party
2. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Bad tendency test
Social Security
General election
Hard money
3. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Libel
Constitutionalism
527 organizations
Honeymoon
4. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Fundamentalists
Theory of deterrence
Civil law
Libel
5. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Police powers
Attentive public
Joint committee
Department
6. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Natural rights
Minority leader
Override
Political ideology
7. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Political culture
Regressive tax
Political party
Political predisposition
8. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Community policing
Laissez-faire economics
Leadership PAC
Preemption
9. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Women's suffrage
Reinforcing cleavages
Administrative discretion
Representative democracy
10. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Suffrage
Laissez-faire economics
Patronage
Centralists
11. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Bad tendency test
Demographics
Executive agreement
World Trade Organization (WTO)
12. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Unitary system
Department
Executive Office of the President
'Necessary and proper' clause
13. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Affirmative action
Line item veto
Necessary and proper clause
Restrictive covenant
14. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Marble cake federalism
Line item veto
Bicameralism
Court of appeals
15. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Unemployment
Plurality
Pocket veto
Iron triangle
16. A national meeting of delegates elected in primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.
Public defender system
Regulation
National party convention
Green party
17. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
Linkage institutions
Impeachment
Leadership PAC
Revolving door
18. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Search warrant
Connecticut Compromise
Due process clause
Public policy
19. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Line item veto
Permissive federalism
Right of expatriation
Impoundment
20. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Indexing
Democratic consensus
Party identification
Public policy
21. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Plea bargain
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Unfunded mandates
Political socialization
22. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Inflation
Racial profiling
Social Security
Prospective issue voting
23. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).
Independent expenditure
Indictment
Redistributive policy
Policy agenda
24. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Majority rule
Chief of staff
Honeymoon
Impeachment
25. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional.
The Federalist
Obscenity
Fundamentalists
Restrictive covenant
26. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Issue advocacy
Political socialization
Bipartisanship
amicus curiae brief
27. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Idealism
Political socialization
Theocracy
Iron triangle
28. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Double jeopardy
Clear and present danger test
Oversight
Discharge petition
29. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Democracy
Affirmative action
Appellate jurisdiction
Impeachment
30. 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.
Democracy
'Our federalism'
Tariff
Trust
31. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
amicus curiae brief
Grand jury
Collective action
Cross-cutting requirements
32. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Centralists
Racial gerrymandering
Caucus
Presidential ticket
33. 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.
Inherent powers
Crossover sanctions
Administrative discretion
National Intelligence Director
34. 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).
Weapons of mass destruction
Poll tax
Laissez-faire economics
Right of expatriation
35. 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.
Libertarianism
The Federalist
Issue network
Coattail effect
36. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Justiciable dispute
Judicial review
Manifest opinion
Writ of habeas corpus
37. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Federalists
Union shop
Racial gerrymandering
Hard money
38. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Grand jury
amicus curiae brief
Double jeopardy
Veto
39. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Plurality
Literacy test
Recall
Proportional representation
40. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Categorical-formula grants
Offshoring
Oversight
Pocket veto
41. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Issue advocacy
Class action suit
Closed shop
Quid pro quo
42. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Criminal law
Hard power
Immunity
Referendum
43. 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.
Open primary
Social insurance
Environmental impact statement
Naturalization
44. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Nonpartisan election
Political action committee (PAC)
Entitlements
Antitrust legislation
45. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Logrolling
amicus curiae brief
Antifederalists
Writ of mandamus
46. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
Decentralists
Indexing
Sales tax
47. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Stare decisis
Commerce clause
Poll tax
Reinforcing cleavages
48. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Laissez-faire economics
Due process clause
Monetary policy
Impeachment
49. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Petit jury
Deregulation
Majority rule
Bad tendency test
50. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Deficit
National tide
Express powers
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