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AP Government

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1. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.






2. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.






3. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.






4. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.






5. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.






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






7. 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.






8. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.






9. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.

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10. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.






11. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.






12. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.






13. 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.






14. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.






15. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.






16. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.






17. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.






18. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.






19. 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.






20. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.






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






22. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.






23. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.






24. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.






25. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.






26. 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.






27. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.






28. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.






29. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.






30. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.






31. A law that defines crimes against the public order.






32. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.






33. 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






34. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.






35. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.






36. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.






37. 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






38. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.






39. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.






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






41. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.






42. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.






43. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.






44. 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.






45. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.






46. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.






47. 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






48. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.






49. 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






50. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.