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1. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Appellate jurisdiction
Fundamentalists
Adversary system
Confederation
2. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Theory of deterrence
Progressive tax
Public opinion
Federal Register
3. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Democratic consensus
Seniority rule
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Electoral college
4. 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.
Party caucus
Open rule
Total and Partial Preemption
Interest group
5. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Veto
Writ of habeas corpus
Candidate appeal
Monetarism
6. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Double jeopardy
Safe seat
Inherent powers
Vouchers
7. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
Veto
Extradition
Preferred position doctrine
Unemployment
8. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Docket
American dream
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Referendum
9. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Racial profiling
Open shop
Checks and balances
Project grants
10. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Union shop
Medicare
Impeachment
Preemption
11. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
Impeachment
Inherent powers
White primary
'Necessary and proper' clause
12. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
Permissive federalism
Minor party
Independent expenditure
Poll tax
13. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Statism
National debt
Naturalization
Jim Crow laws
14. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Antitrust legislation
Executive privilege
Double jeopardy
Policy agenda
15. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Ex post facto law
Jim Crow laws
Majority leader
Libertarian party
16. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Proportional representation
Idealism
Democratic consensus
Federalism
17. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Reinforcing cleavages
Direct primary
Checks and balances
Fighting words
18. 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.
Social Security
Laissez-faire economics
National party convention
Issue advocacy
19. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Impoundment
Race
Keynesian economics
Writ of mandamus
20. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Electoral college
Attentive public
Selective exposure
Gender gap
21. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Leadership PAC
Voter registration
Administrative discretion
Search warrant
22. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Movement
Candidate appeal
Medical savings account
Right of expatriation
23. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Writ of certiorari
Bill of attainder
Jim Crow laws
Redistributive policy
24. Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.
Statism
Tariff
Cooperative federalism
Issue advocacy
25. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Cloture
Antifederalists
National party convention
Normal trade relations
26. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Open primary
De facto segregation
Preferred position doctrine
Issue advocacy
27. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
State of the Union Address
Bicameralism
Monopoly
Political socialization
28. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.
Monetary policy
'Necessary and proper' clause
Nonprotected speech
Executive privilege
29. The current holder of the elected office.
White primary
Rule
Incumbent
Democracy
30. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Public opinion
Trust
Impeachment
Means-tested entitlements
31. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Minority leader
Natural rights
Literacy test
Justiciable dispute
32. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Libertarianism
Australian ballot
Executive order
Open rule
33. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Line item veto
Stare decisis
Winner-take-all system
Popular consent
34. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Standing committee
State of the Union Address
Monetarism
Implementation
35. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Popular sovereignty
Executive privilege
Permissive federalism
Bureaucrat
36. Photo opportunities set up by the candidates. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on photo ops to explain them to the public.
Mandate
Sound bites
Photo ops
Judicial review
37. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Retrospective issue of voting
Issue network
Stare decisis
Competitive federalism
38. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils system
Civil law
Filibuster
Policy agenda
39. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Property rights
Writ of mandamus
Due process
Midterm election
40. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
American dream
Trade deficit
Direct primary
Monopoly
41. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Independent regulatory commission
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Class action suit
Opinion of the Court
42. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.
Mass media
Search warrant
Creative federalism
Free exercise clause
43. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Distributive policy
Bipartisanship
Direct democracy
Presidential election
44. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Federal Reserve System
Racial gerrymandering
Inherent powers
Writ of habeas corpus
45. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Preemption
Clear and present danger test
Cooperative federalism
Majority
46. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.
Inherent powers
Sales tax
Seniority rule
Trustee
47. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Deficit
Tax expenditure
Independent regulatory commission
Property rights
48. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Cooperative federalism
Jim Crow laws
Right of expatriation
State's rights
49. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Normal trade relations
President pro tempore
Medicare
Issue advocacy
50. 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.
Cross-cutting cleavages
Coattail effect
Checks and balances
Pluralism