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1. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Interest group
Green party
Candidate appeal
Ethnocentrism
2. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Marbury v. Madison
Entitlement programs
Class action suit
Prior restraint
3. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Quid pro quo
Civil law
Constituents
Concurring opinion
4. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Bureaucracy
Coattail effect
Social insurance
Hatch Act
5. The right to vote.
Weapons of mass destruction
Due process clause
Competitive federalism
Suffrage
6. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Distributive policy
Articles of Confederation
Party registration
Monopoly
7. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Senior Executive Service
Docket
Representative democracy
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.
Inherent powers
Isolationism
Horse race
Civil disobedience
9. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Executive orders
Prior restraint
Right of expatriation
Antifederalists
10. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Senatorial courtesy
Establishment clause
Commercial speech
Pluralism
11. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Democratic consensus
Independent expenditures
Multilateralism
Fighting words
12. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Senatorial courtesy
Docket
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Isolationism
13. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Suffrage
Civil disobedience
Entitlements
Issue network
14. 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.
Independent expenditure
Original jurisdiction
Idealism
Honeymoon
15. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Caucus
Selective incorporation
Centralists
Marble cake federalism
16. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Due process
Plurality
Congressional-executive agreement
17. Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
Connecticut Compromise
Socialism
Primary election
Gender gap
18. 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.
Antitrust legislation
Obscenity
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Constitutional democracy
19. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Public opinion
Theocracy
The Federalist
Unfunded mandates
20. 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.
Party identification
Issue advocacy
Issue network
Party convention
21. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Free rider
Party identification
Tax expenditure
Marbury v. Madison
22. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Majority rule
Selective exposure
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Writ of habeas corpus
23. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Hard money
Deregulation
Sedition
24. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Crossover voting
Equal protection clause
Public defender system
Annapolis Convention
25. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Parliamentary system
Revolving door
Medicaid
Random sample
26. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Realigning election
Movement
Congressional-executive agreement
Socioeconomic status (SES)
27. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Parliamentary system
Prospective issue voting
Party caucus
Social Security
28. The current holder of the elected office.
Gerrymandering
Social Security
Incumbent
Pocket veto
29. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Docket
Social Security
Socialism
Oversight
30. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Affirmative action
Political culture
Collective action
Closed primary
31. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Commercial speech
Natural rights
Confederation
Ex post facto law
32. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Political socialization
Closed rule
Naturalization
Representative democracy
33. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Senior Executive Service
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Iron triangle
Enumerated powers
34. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
'Our federalism'
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Political socialization
Court of appeals
35. 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
Take care clause
Majority leader
Appellate jurisdiction
Total and Partial Preemption
36. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Open shop
Unfunded mandates
Economic sanctions
Interstate compact
37. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
New Jersey Plan
Judicial review
Independent regulatory commission
Cross-cutting requirements
38. A legislative practice that assigns the chair of the committee or subcommittee to the member of the majority party with the longest continuous service on the committee.
amicus curiae brief
Nonprotected speech
Safe seat
Seniority rule
39. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Independent expenditures
Bad tendency test
Pocket veto
Representative democracy
40. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Permissive federalism
Literacy test
Progressive tax
Free exercise clause
41. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments - called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Federalism
Cycle of decreasing influence
Name recognition
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
42. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Virginia Plan
Hard power
Search warrant
Implementation
43. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Keynesian economics
Conference committee
Redistricting
President pro tempore
44. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Manifest opinion
Amicus curiae brief
Whip
Commercial speech
45. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Majority-minority district
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Referendum
Soft money
46. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Trust
Political socialization
Substantive due process
Attentive public
47. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Sales tax
Bicameralism
Fiscal federalism
Justiciable dispute
48. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Annapolis Convention
Libertarian party
Implementation
Manifest destiny
49. 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.
Majority rule
Bush Doctrine
Filibuster
Hard money
50. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Jim Crow laws
Democracy
Parliamentary system
Race