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1. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Divided government
Minor party
Statism
Popular sovereignty
2. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Closed primary
Direct primary
Equal protection clause
Original jurisdiction
3. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Labor injunction
Open rule
Public opinion
Initiative
4. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
Rally point
Statism
Adversary system
Judicial restraint
5. Power of a government to take private property for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.
Monopoly
Eminent domain
Unfunded mandates
Horse race
6. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Plea bargain
Policy agenda
Coattail effect
Earmarks
7. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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8. Political contributions given to a party - candidate - or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds - hence the term 'hard money.'
Regulations
Dissenting opinion
Hard money
Libel
9. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Hard power
Inherent powers
Women's suffrage
Soft power
10. 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.
527 organizations
Federal Register
Soft money
Turnout
11. 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
Lobbying
Regulation
Pocket veto
Cross-cutting requirements
12. The formal process for making regulations.
Commerce clause
Monetary policy
Free rider
Rule-making process
13. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Pocket veto
Regressive tax
Bipartisanship
Establishment clause
14. 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
527 organizations
Independent expenditure
Laissez-faire economics
Impeachment
15. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Reapportionment
Trust
Green party
Class action suit
16. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Antitrust legislation
Oversight
Adversary system
Special or select committee
17. 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.
National party convention
Cross-cutting cleavages
Whip
Stare decisis
18. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Bill of attainder
Writ of certiorari
Federalism
Hatch Act
19. Constitutional division of powers among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches - with the legislative branch making law - the executive applying and enforcing the law - and the judiciary interpreting the law.
Concurrent powers
Separation of powers
National supremacy
Keynesian economics
20. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Unfunded mandates
Annapolis Convention
Race
Search warrant
21. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Restrictive covenant
Conservatism
Unilateralism
Parliamentary system
22. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
National party convention
Voter registration
Political predisposition
Attentive public
23. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Adversary system
Judicial restraint
Racial gerrymandering
Social insurance
24. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Hard money
Economic sanctions
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Sound bites
25. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
President pro tempore
Selected perception
National supremacy
Manifest destiny
26. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Commerce clause
Delegate
Plurality
Presidential ticket
27. 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.
Federalists
Checks and balances
Executive order
General election
28. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Senatorial courtesy
Racial profiling
Sound bites
29. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Trustee
Inflation
Criminal law
Natural law
30. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Indexing
Connecticut Compromise
Nonpartisan election
31. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Three-fifths compromise
Line item veto
Ethnocentrism
Defendant
32. 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.
Court of appeals
Commerce clause
Reapportionment
Merit system
33. A president's claim of broad public support.
Mandate
Interested money
Court of appeals
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
34. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Natural rights
Writ of certiorari
Social insurance
Three-fifths compromise
35. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Petit jury
Judicial review
Executive order
Reform party
36. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Merit system
Environmental impact statement
Line item veto
Categorical-formula grants
37. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Standing committee
Open primary
Commerce clause
Manifest destiny
38. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Free exercise clause
Medicare
Iron triangle
Nonprotected speech
39. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Constituents
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Inherent powers
Federalism
40. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Coattail effect
Precedent
Procedural due process
Civil disobedience
41. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Candidate appeal
Judicial activism
Hold
Normal trade relations
42. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
National Intelligence Director
Merit system
Hard money
Political socialization
43. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Due process clause
Divided government
Iron triangle
Closed shop
44. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Random sample
Public opinion
Antitrust legislation
Pocket veto
45. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Turnout
Labor injunction
Political socialization
Cloture
46. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Random sample
Isolationism
Incumbent
Bipartisanship
47. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Minority leader
Public policy
Public defender system
Indictment
48. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Docket
Lobbying
Executive privilege
National debt
49. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Executive privilege
Soft money
Judicial review
Primary election
50. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Tariff
Environmental impact statement
Gross domestic product (GDP)
American dream