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1. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Laissez-faire economics
Uncontrollable spending
Pocket veto
Cooperative federalism
2. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Reapportionment
Independent agency
Direct orders
Unitary system
3. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Issue network
Medicare
Delegate
Take care clause
4. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Fighting words
Exclusionary rule
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Cross-cutting cleavages
5. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Selective incorporation
Jim Crow laws
Tariff
Isolationism
6. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover
Normal trade relations
Pocket veto
Direct orders
Deficit
7. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
News media
Soft power
Popular sovereignty
Eminent domain
8. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Realigning election
Concurring opinion
Incumbent
Caucus
9. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Class action suit
Hatch Act
Dissenting opinion
Preemption
10. 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.
Issue advocacy
News media
Sales tax
Fiscal federalism
11. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Crossover voting
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Movement
Executive agreement
12. 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
Tariff
State's rights
Medicare
13. 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.
Electoral college
Commerce clause
Opinion of the Court
Federal Register
14. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Senatorial courtesy
Eminent domain
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Soft power
15. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Override
Random sample
Project grants
Take care clause
16. 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
Appellate jurisdiction
Offshoring
Normal trade relations
17. A president's claim of broad public support.
Mandate
Spoils system
Safe seat
De jure segregation
18. 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.
Bush Doctrine
Issue advocacy
Soft money
Competitive federalism
19. 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.
Popular consent
Filibuster
Cooperative federalism
Federal mandate
20. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Selective incorporation
Department
Closed rule
Defendant
21. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Theory of deterrence
Race
Executive agreement
Speaker
22. 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.
Devolution revolution
Plea bargain
Search warrant
News media
23. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Medical savings account
Clear and present danger test
Regulation
Earmarks
24. 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.
Cloture
Party identification
Shays's Rebellion
Eminent domain
25. 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.
Monopoly
Virginia Plan
Bipartisanship
Redistricting
26. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.
Trustee
Interest group
Offshoring
Pocket veto
27. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Majority rule
Statism
Faction
Appellate jurisdiction
28. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Implementation
Property rights
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Women's suffrage
29. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Lobbyist
Special or select committee
Criminal law
30. 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.
Safe seat
Search warrant
Entitlement programs
Checks and balances
31. 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.
Distributive policy
Due process clause
Liberalism
Defendant
32. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Executive order
Concurrent powers
Sales tax
Leadership PAC
33. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Reform party
Lobbyist
Linkage institutions
Bad tendency test
34. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Judicial restraint
Inherent powers
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Hold
35. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Democratic consensus
Cabinet
Majority-minority district
Adversary system
36. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Poll tax
Laissez-faire economics
Independent expenditures
Special or select committee
37. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Cabinet
Concurring opinion
38. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Caucus
Majority leader
Permissive federalism
Dealignment
39. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Centralists
Open rule
Economic sanctions
Writ of habeas corpus
40. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Central clearance
Indexing
Federal Register
Rider
41. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Entitlement programs
Chief of staff
Conservatism
Monopoly
42. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Connecticut Compromise
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Free exercise clause
Independent expenditures
43. 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
Grand jury
National Intelligence Director
Multilateralism
Ethnicity
44. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Deregulation
Issue network
Unilateralism
Due process
45. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Sedition
Bush Doctrine
Bicameralism
Direct primary
46. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Racial gerrymandering
Coattail effect
Hard power
Selected perception
47. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Competitive federalism
De jure segregation
Impeachment
Isolationism
48. 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
Socioeconomic status (SES)
National tide
Bicameralism
Prior restraint
49. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Social insurance
Gender gap
News media
Initiative
50. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
National tide
Racial profiling
Executive Office of the President
Gross domestic product (GDP)
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