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1. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Cloture
Unemployment
Jim Crow laws
Mass media
2. 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).
Racial gerrymandering
Realigning election
News media
Impeachment
3. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Safe seat
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Majority
National party convention
4. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Policy agenda
Dual citizenship
Bureaucracy
5. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Party caucus
Bicameralism
Grand jury
Medicare
6. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Cross-cutting requirements
The Federalist
Hold
Concurrent powers
7. The head of the White House staff.
Social Security
Contract clause
General election
Chief of staff
8. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Attentive public
Joint committee
Line item veto
Express powers
9. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Gerrymandering
Union shop
Administrative discretion
10. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Joint committee
Initiative
Political socialization
Literacy test
11. 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
Progressive tax
Impeachment
Hard power
Grand jury
12. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Spoils system
Trustee
Public opinion
Plea bargain
13. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Sedition
Petit jury
Express powers
Hatch Act
14. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Antitrust legislation
Rule-making process
Retrospective issue of voting
Due process
15. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Majority leader
Independent expenditure
Medicare
Virginia Plan
16. Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
Prospective issue voting
Soft money
Independent regulatory commission
Fiscal federalism
17. A legislative practice that assigns the chair of the committee or subcommittee to the member of the majority party with the longest continuous service on the committee.
Connecticut Compromise
Checks and balances
Nonpartisan election
Seniority rule
18. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Antifederalists
Affirmative action
Hatch Act
Majority rule
19. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
Normal trade relations
Protectionism
Primary election
Treaty
20. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Inherent powers
Preemption
Executive Office of the President
Social insurance
21. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
Turnout
Party identification
Midterm election
Filibuster
22. 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
Bad tendency test
Equal protection clause
National supremacy
Earmarks
23. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Shays's Rebellion
Bicameralism
Nonpartisan election
Affirmative action
24. 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.
Free exercise clause
Unemployment
Categorical-formula grants
Issue advocacy
25. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Impeachment
Federal Register
Majority
Normal trade relations
26. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Plea bargain
Constituents
Honeymoon
Decentralists
27. 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
Categorical-formula grants
Conservatism
Hard money
National supremacy
28. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Federal Register
Sound bites
Environmental impact statement
Public choice
29. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Rider
Earmarks
Prior restraint
World Trade Organization (WTO)
30. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Override
Unitary system
Political action committee (PAC)
Public policy
31. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Open rule
Attentive public
Bipartisanship
Political socialization
32. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Gender gap
Leadership PAC
Racial profiling
Veto
33. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Social capital
Photo ops
Central clearance
Single-member district
34. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.
Selective incorporation
Independent expenditures
Caucus
Soft money
35. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Protectionism
Patronage
Public assistance
Enumerated powers
36. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Public choice
Preferred position doctrine
Interstate compact
Regulations
37. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Tariff
Bicameralism
Constitutional democracy
The Federalist
38. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Popular sovereignty
News media
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Federal Register
39. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Trade deficit
Writ of habeas corpus
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Ethnicity
40. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Direct primary
Crossover sanctions
Laissez-faire economics
Lobbying
41. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Minority leader
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Honeymoon
Concurrent powers
42. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Devolution revolution
Jim Crow laws
Party convention
Gerrymandering
43. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Demographics
Amicus curiae brief
Rule
Gender gap
44. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Department
Earmarks
Hold
Socioeconomic status (SES)
45. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Mass media
Tax expenditure
Minority leader
Independent regulatory commission
46. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Delegate
Executive agreement
Direct democracy
Revolving door
47. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Separation of powers
Selected perception
Plea bargain
Stare decisis
48. 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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49. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Ethnocentrism
Reform party
Manifest destiny
Closed shop
50. Political contributions given to a party - candidate - or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds - hence the term 'hard money.'
The Federalist
Bush Doctrine
Hard money
Judicial review