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1. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Cabinet
Express powers
National Intelligence Director
Monetarism
2. The right of women to vote.
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3. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Petit jury
Realism
Inherent powers
De jure segregation
4. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Party convention
Democratic consensus
National supremacy
Right of expatriation
5. A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free - fair - and relatively frequent elections.
Redistricting
Selective incorporation
Executive privilege
Constitutional democracy
6. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t
Presidential election
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Congressional-executive agreement
Equal protection clause
7. An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point - redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties.
Closed rule
White primary
Issue advocacy
Realigning election
8. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Name recognition
Trade deficit
Senatorial courtesy
Nonpartisan election
9. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Seniority rule
Political culture
Excise tax
Iron triangle
10. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Necessary and proper clause
Party registration
Collective action
Political culture
11. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Keynesian economics
Preferred position doctrine
Attentive public
Deficit
12. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Logrolling
Public choice
Electoral college
Court of appeals
13. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
Representative democracy
The Federalist
Impoundment
Soft money
14. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Natural rights
Antifederalists
Executive agreement
American dream
15. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go
Rule-making process
Public assistance
Categorical-formula grants
Economic sanctions
16. 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.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Impoundment
Establishment clause
Take care clause
17. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bureaucrat
Bicameralism
Deregulation
Inherent powers
18. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Single-member district
Reinforcing cleavages
Political predisposition
Contract clause
19. 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.
Keynesian economics
Ethnicity
Centralists
Bush Doctrine
20. 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.
Libertarian party
Checks and balances
Amicus curiae brief
Antitrust legislation
21. 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.
Open shop
Reinforcing cleavages
Medicare
Issue advocacy
22. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Manifest opinion
Winner-take-all system
Political predisposition
Minor party
23. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Uncontrollable spending
Implied powers
Democracy
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
24. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Sound bites
Civil disobedience
Senior Executive Service
Judicial review
25. 30-second statements on the evening news shows. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on sound bites to explain them to the public.
Judicial review
Single-member district
Dealignment
Sound bites
26. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Writ of mandamus
Presidential election
Pocket veto
Civil law
27. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Quid pro quo
Ex post facto law
Categorical-formula grants
Democratic consensus
28. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Central clearance
Labor injunction
Keynesian economics
Political party
29. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
Free rider
Inflation
Independent regulatory commission
Popular consent
30. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Policy agenda
Honeymoon
Block grants
Entitlements
31. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Keynesian economics
Dealignment
Turnout
Rider
32. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Permissive federalism
Entitlements
Political action committee (PAC)
33. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Dual citizenship
Take care clause
Treaty
Medical savings account
34. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Referendum
Commerce clause
Cloture
Recall
35. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Majority leader
Medicaid
Cloture
36. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Shays's Rebellion
Popular sovereignty
Unitary system
Party identification
37. 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.
Political predisposition
Excise tax
Minor party
Due process clause
38. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Natural rights
Democracy
Virginia Plan
Speaker
39. 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.
Pluralism
Liberalism
Stare decisis
Connecticut Compromise
40. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many applications in the various social sciences such as political science - sociology - and
Extradition
Monopoly
Tax expenditure
Collective action
41. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Separation of powers
Stare decisis
Veto
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
42. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Winner-take-all system
Party convention
Public policy
43. 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.
Earmarks
Public choice
Independent expenditures
Judicial review
44. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
De jure segregation
Impeachment
Issue advocacy
Antitrust legislation
45. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Soft money
Political ideology
Closed primary
Department
46. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Manifest opinion
Cabinet
The Federalist
Executive orders
47. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
National Intelligence Director
Establishment clause
Offshoring
Party registration
48. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Labor injunction
Cycle of decreasing influence
Override
Manifest destiny
49. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Political socialization
National tide
Direct democracy
Conference committee
50. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Political socialization
Property rights
Commerce clause
White primary