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1. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Medicaid
Literacy test
Cross-cutting cleavages
Executive orders
2. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Monopoly
Medicare
President pro tempore
Rule
3. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Obscenity
Closed primary
Due process clause
Policy agenda
4. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Exclusionary rule
Representative democracy
Federal Register
Gender gap
5. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Majority rule
Bureaucrat
Preemption
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
6. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Majority rule
Three-fifths compromise
De facto segregation
Permissive federalism
7. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Closed shop
Federal mandate
National Intelligence Director
8. Congress appropriates a certain sum - which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies - based on applications from those who wish to participate. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universi
Project grants
Popular consent
Monetarism
Annapolis Convention
9. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Gerrymandering
Independent expenditures
Democracy
Political ideology
10. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Soft power
Presidential ticket
Cooperative federalism
Party convention
11. 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.
Libertarian party
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Bicameralism
Fiscal federalism
12. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Due process clause
Libel
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Liberalism
13. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Isolationism
Candidate appeal
Class action suit
Prior restraint
14. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Petit jury
Criminal law
National tide
Libertarianism
15. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Direct primary
Decentralists
Obscenity
Joint committee
16. A provision attached to a bill
Bureaucracy
Isolationism
Rider
Gross domestic product (GDP)
17. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Referendum
Soft power
Direct democracy
Manifest destiny
18. 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.
Virginia Plan
Socialism
Judicial activism
Confederation
19. 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.
Commerce clause
National debt
Closed rule
Federalism
20. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Crossover sanctions
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Jim Crow laws
Bureaucracy
21. 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.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Pocket veto
Bill of attainder
Due process clause
22. 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.
Ex post facto law
Issue advocacy
Direct democracy
Open primary
23. The head of the White House staff.
Chief of staff
Bill of attainder
Attentive public
Value-added tax (VAT)
24. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Bicameralism
Executive agreement
Indictment
Regulations
25. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Union shop
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Lobbyist
Whip
26. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Search warrant
Midterm election
Environmental impact statement
Soft money
27. Media that emphasize the news.
News media
Unemployment
Cloture
Democratic consensus
28. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Regressive tax
Gerrymandering
Political socialization
Closed shop
29. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Regressive tax
Natural rights
Delegate
Party convention
30. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Winner-take-all system
Fiscal federalism
Hold
Civil disobedience
31. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
32. 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.
Coattail effect
Confederation
Bush Doctrine
Redistricting
33. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Decentralists
Chief of staff
Civil law
Pluralism
34. 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.
American dream
Bicameralism
Hard money
Bush Doctrine
35. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Australian ballot
Lobbyist
Senatorial courtesy
Property rights
36. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Rule
Libertarianism
Keynesian economics
Iron triangle
37. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Means-tested entitlements
Attentive public
Inherent powers
Delegate
38. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Issue network
Naturalization
Reapportionment
39. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Retrospective issue of voting
Federal mandate
Constitutional democracy
Override
40. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Connecticut Compromise
Liberalism
Linkage institutions
Interest group
41. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Incumbent
Entitlement programs
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Special or select committee
42. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Means-tested entitlements
Safe seat
Open shop
Exclusionary rule
43. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Nonprotected speech
White primary
Marbury v. Madison
Iron triangle
44. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Candidate appeal
Government corporation
Single-member district
Multilateralism
45. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Enumerated powers
Entitlements
Bad tendency test
Turnout
46. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Writ of habeas corpus
Independent agency
Executive Office of the President
Docket
47. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Joint committee
Procedural due process
Cloture
Stare decisis
48. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Confederation
Party identification
Standing committee
Majority rule
49. 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).
Unemployment
Regulations
Poll tax
Progressive tax
50. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Issue advocacy
Collective bargaining
Whip
Recall