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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Ethnicity
Natural law
Winner-take-all system
Contract clause
2. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Racial profiling
Executive privilege
Express powers
Preemption
3. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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4. 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.
Political predisposition
Checks and balances
Impoundment
Trustee
5. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Conservatism
Judicial restraint
Constitutionalism
Override
6. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Candidate appeal
Issue advocacy
Class action suit
Proportional representation
7. 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
Closed primary
Due process clause
The Federalist
8. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Merit system
Executive orders
Executive privilege
Executive agreement
9. 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.
Issue advocacy
Search warrant
Hard power
Collective action
10. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Statism
Means-tested entitlements
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Impoundment
11. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Federal Reserve System
Hard money
Leadership PAC
Issue network
12. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Initiative
General election
Implied powers
Soft money
13. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Unfunded mandates
Affirmative action
Safe seat
Party identification
14. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Senatorial courtesy
Divided government
Unemployment
Public policy
15. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Deregulation
Political predisposition
Voter registration
World Trade Organization (WTO)
16. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
'Our federalism'
Race
Senatorial courtesy
Substantive due process
17. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Issue network
Political ideology
Party identification
Open rule
18. 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.
Substantive due process
Majority leader
Constitutional democracy
Demographics
19. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Merit system
Senatorial courtesy
Libel
Majority rule
20. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Free rider
Fighting words
Virginia Plan
Labor injunction
21. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Quid pro quo
Inherent powers
Tax expenditure
Political predisposition
22. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Executive order
Impeachment
Nonpartisan election
Delegate
23. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
Inherent powers
Rider
Statism
Mass media
24. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Winner-take-all system
Judicial review
Crossover sanctions
Entitlement programs
25. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Realism
Minority leader
Hold
Fundamentalists
26. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Precedent
Prior restraint
Soft money
Divided government
27. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
Constituents
Crossover sanctions
Recall
Pocket veto
28. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Popular consent
Public choice
Pluralism
Public assistance
29. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Senatorial courtesy
Affirmative action
Political predisposition
Weapons of mass destruction
30. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Name recognition
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Antitrust legislation
Democratic consensus
31. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Rally point
Electoral college
Soft power
Theory of deterrence
32. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Equal protection clause
Majority rule
Presidential election
Candidate appeal
33. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Movement
Central clearance
Mandate
Cross-cutting requirements
34. A large body of people interested in a common issue - idea - or concern that is of continuing significance and who are willing to take action. Movements seek to change attitudes or institutions - not just policies.
Political ideology
Fighting words
Movement
Libertarianism
35. A rise in the general price level (and decrease in dollar value) owing to an increase in the volume of money and credit in relation to available goods.
Inflation
Gender gap
Crossover voting
Gross domestic product (GDP)
36. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Bad tendency test
Political culture
Coattail effect
Cross-cutting requirements
37. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
General election
Spoils system
Executive order
Bicameralism
38. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
Plurality
Political culture
Revolving door
Seniority rule
39. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Seniority rule
Ethnicity
Proportional representation
Civil law
40. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
Regulation
Green party
Independent regulatory commission
Issue advocacy
41. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Crossover sanctions
Implementation
Public assistance
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
42. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Sound bites
National debt
Safe seat
Impeachment
43. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Socialism
Trade deficit
Clear and present danger test
Indictment
44. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Police powers
Ethnicity
Statism
Centralists
45. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Establishment clause
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Safe seat
Sound bites
46. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Offshoring
Implementation
Impeachment
Political culture
47. 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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48. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Suffrage
Political ideology
Open rule
National Intelligence Director
49. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Federalists
Fiscal federalism
Civil law
Department
50. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Selective exposure
Police powers
Party convention
Federalists