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1. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Fiscal policy
Writ of habeas corpus
Indictment
Regressive tax
2. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Democracy
Unitary system
Exclusionary rule
Selective incorporation
3. 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
Double jeopardy
Adversary system
Creative federalism
Cross-cutting requirements
4. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Bipartisanship
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Political socialization
State of the Union Address
5. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Linkage institutions
Project grants
Interested money
Virginia Plan
6. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Attentive public
Creative federalism
Due process clause
Mass media
7. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Whip
Theory of deterrence
Interstate compact
Literacy test
8. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Senior Executive Service
Judicial restraint
Inherent powers
Manifest opinion
9. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that freedom of expression is so essential to democracy that governments should not punish persons for what they say - only for what they do.
Preferred position doctrine
Monetary policy
Federalism
Search warrant
10. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Liberalism
Libel
Initiative
Equal protection clause
11. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Government corporation
Direct primary
President pro tempore
Manifest destiny
12. A meeting of the members of a party in a legislative chamber to select party leaders and to develop party policy. Called a conference by the Republicans.
Regulatory taking
President pro tempore
Party caucus
Monopoly
13. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Political action committee (PAC)
Cloture
amicus curiae brief
Political culture
14. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
American dream
Caucus
Rally point
Issue advocacy
15. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Antitrust legislation
Hard power
Soft money
Unilateralism
16. 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.
Name recognition
Eminent domain
Judicial review
Medicare
17. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Natural rights
Quid pro quo
Executive agreement
Divided government
18. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Direct primary
Party registration
'Necessary and proper' clause
Prior restraint
19. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Attentive public
Public choice
Proportional representation
Independent expenditures
20. 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.
Cross-cutting cleavages
Discharge petition
Plea bargain
Civil law
21. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Annapolis Convention
Soft power
Centralists
Iron triangle
22. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Policy agenda
Constituents
Independent expenditure
23. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Collective action
Coattail effect
Regulations
Party registration
24. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Economic sanctions
Chief of staff
Ex post facto law
Union shop
25. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Defendant
Patronage
'Our federalism'
Political party
26. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
27. An economic system characterized by private property - competitive markets - economic incentives - and limited government involvement in the production - distribution - and pricing of goods and services.
Antitrust legislation
Capitalism
Sound bites
Social insurance
28. A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.
Standing committee
Bush Doctrine
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Primary election
29. These are broad state grants to states for prescribed activities—welfare - child care - education - social services - preventive health care - and health services—with only a few strings attached. States have greater flexibility in deciding how to sp
Proportional representation
Naturalization
Commerce clause
Block grants
30. 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.
Prior restraint
Redistributive policy
Selected perception
Separation of powers
31. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
General election
Environmental impact statement
Direct democracy
Iron triangle
32. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Court of appeals
Bipartisanship
Ex post facto law
Speaker
33. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Criminal law
Initiative
Cross-cutting cleavages
Administrative discretion
34. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Seniority rule
Patronage
Idealism
Soft power
35. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Confederation
White primary
Senior Executive Service
Restrictive covenant
36. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).
Monetary policy
Social Security
Redistributive policy
Libertarianism
37. A provision attached to a bill
The Federalist
Majority leader
Tax expenditure
Rider
38. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Implied powers
Monopoly
Random sample
39. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Independent expenditures
Regulations
Indexing
Central clearance
40. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Indictment
Dealignment
Selective incorporation
Party registration
41. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Divided government
Cross-cutting requirements
Party identification
Minority leader
42. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
National party convention
Crossover sanctions
Police powers
Connecticut Compromise
43. 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.
Deficit
Honeymoon
Due process clause
Express powers
44. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Executive order
Rider
Weapons of mass destruction
Opinion of the Court
45. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Annapolis Convention
Political party
Separation of powers
Ethnicity
46. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo
Petit jury
Constitutional democracy
527 organizations
Impeachment
47. 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.
Socialism
Opinion of the Court
Deficit
Means-tested entitlements
48. Media that emphasize the news.
Project grants
News media
Recall
Realism
49. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments.
Dual citizenship
Bureaucracy
Closed shop
Closed rule
50. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
State's rights
Bundling
Political socialization
Federalists