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1. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.






2. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.






3. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.






4. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.






5. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.






6. 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






7. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.






8. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.






9. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.






10. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.






11. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.






12. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.






13. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.






14. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.






15. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.






16. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.






17. A president's claim of broad public support.






18. Promoting a particular position or an issue 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 regulation.






19. 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.






20. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.






21. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.






22. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.






23. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.






24. 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.






25. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.






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.






27. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.






28. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.






29. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.






33. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.






34. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.






35. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.






36. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.






37. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.






38. 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.'






39. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.






40. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.






41. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.






42. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.






43. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm






44. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.






45. The principle of a two-house legislature.






46. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.






47. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.






48. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o






49. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.






50. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.







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