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1. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Seniority rule
Free rider
Petit jury
Cycle of decreasing influence
2. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Representative democracy
Capitalism
Closed shop
Attentive public
3. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.
Community policing
'Necessary and proper' clause
Search warrant
Regressive tax
4. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Entitlement programs
Public opinion
Rule-making process
Libel
5. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Restrictive covenant
Independent regulatory commission
Manifest destiny
Creative federalism
6. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Collective bargaining
Express powers
Filibuster
Competitive federalism
7. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Constitutional Convention
Photo ops
Commercial speech
Party identification
8. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Preferred position doctrine
Collective action
Green party
Antitrust legislation
9. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Writ of habeas corpus
Racial gerrymandering
Popular consent
Immunity
10. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Department
Inherent powers
Rule
Linkage institutions
11. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Coattail effect
Keynesian economics
Libel
Procedural due process
12. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Judicial restraint
Conference committee
Crossover voting
Weapons of mass destruction
13. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Enumerated powers
Referendum
Restrictive covenant
Fighting words
14. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Federal Register
Issue advocacy
Natural rights
Impeachment
15. Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.
Free exercise clause
Closed shop
Virginia Plan
Primary election
16. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Antitrust legislation
Enumerated powers
Socialism
Rule
17. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Popular consent
Standing committee
Vouchers
Court of appeals
18. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Impeachment
Random sample
Federal Register
19. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Impeachment
Minority leader
Writ of habeas corpus
Referendum
20. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Take care clause
Connecticut Compromise
Commerce clause
Democratic consensus
21. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Distributive policy
Constitutionalism
Initiative
22. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Community policing
Original jurisdiction
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
23. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Closed primary
Leadership PAC
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Special or select committee
24. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Trust
Writ of habeas corpus
Literacy test
Attentive public
25. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Rally point
Mass media
Grand jury
Whip
26. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Inherent powers
Hatch Act
Bicameralism
Initiative
27. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Mandate
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Adversary system
Nonpartisan election
28. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Suffrage
Laissez-faire economics
Original jurisdiction
Normal trade relations
29. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Trade deficit
Civil law
Centralists
Administrative discretion
30. 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.
Political predisposition
Inflation
Monetarism
Oversight
31. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Extradition
Caucus
Administrative discretion
Amicus curiae brief
32. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Adversary system
Docket
Reinforcing cleavages
Natural law
33. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Revolving door
Safe seat
Plea bargain
Implied powers
34. 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
Green party
Cross-cutting requirements
White primary
Social Security
35. 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).
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Proportional representation
Concurring opinion
Poll tax
36. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Caucus
Open shop
Issue advocacy
Offshoring
37. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Federal Register
Public defender system
Bipartisanship
Chief of staff
38. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Natural rights
Majority leader
Exclusionary rule
Constituents
39. 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.
Clear and present danger test
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Public defender system
Right of expatriation
40. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Nonpartisan election
Voter registration
Isolationism
Commerce clause
41. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Winner-take-all system
Civil disobedience
Independent expenditures
Unitary system
42. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Fighting words
Justiciable dispute
Executive Office of the President
Internationalism
43. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Bundling
Substantive due process
Conference committee
44. The difference between the revenues raised annually from sources of income other than borrowing and the expenditures of government - including paying the interest on past borrowing.
Deficit
Nonprotected speech
Government corporation
Statism
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.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Labor injunction
Right of expatriation
Economic sanctions
46. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Hard money
Social Security
Theocracy
Monetarism
47. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
Extradition
Party identification
Statism
Horse race
48. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Commerce clause
Take care clause
Tax expenditure
Conference committee
49. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Monopoly
Candidate appeal
Closed rule
Majority rule
50. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Labor injunction
Community policing
Marble cake federalism
Bill of attainder
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