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1. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Hard money
Movement
Policy agenda
Soft power
2. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Monopoly
Executive Office of the President
Proportional representation
Preferred position doctrine
3. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Executive order
Pocket veto
Ex post facto law
Direct democracy
4. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Trade deficit
Political socialization
Selective incorporation
Total and Partial Preemption
5. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Trust
Winner-take-all system
Indexing
Reform party
6. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Writ of habeas corpus
Liberalism
Closed shop
Tax expenditure
7. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Hold
Laissez-faire economics
Political party
Bureaucrat
8. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Idealism
Impeachment
Referendum
Annapolis Convention
9. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Midterm election
Open rule
National tide
Dealignment
10. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Exclusionary rule
Bill of attainder
Class action suit
Stare decisis
11. 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
Decentralists
Project grants
Substantive due process
Crossover voting
12. 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.
Federal Reserve System
Search warrant
National debt
Dual citizenship
13. 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.
Implementation
Fiscal federalism
Inherent powers
Pluralism
14. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Antitrust legislation
Public policy
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Plea bargain
15. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Oversight
Joint committee
Rule
Soft money
16. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Selected perception
Federalism
Executive agreement
17. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
Stare decisis
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Central clearance
Bureaucracy
18. The difference between the revenues raised annually from sources of income other than borrowing and the expenditures of government - including paying the interest on past borrowing.
Regulations
Deficit
Manifest destiny
Medical savings account
19. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Nonprotected speech
Federalism
Party caucus
Economic sanctions
20. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Direct democracy
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Party identification
Sales tax
21. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Primary election
National tide
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Women's suffrage
22. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Social insurance
Laissez-faire economics
Constitutional Convention
Interested money
23. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments - called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Competitive federalism
Federalism
Rule-making process
Line item veto
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.
Medicaid
Preferred position doctrine
Realigning election
Cooperative federalism
25. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Enumerated powers
Majority-minority district
Manifest opinion
Unemployment
26. The right of women to vote.
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27. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Special or select committee
Single-member district
De facto segregation
Caucus
28. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Electoral college
Medical savings account
Executive agreement
Primary election
29. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Libertarianism
Sedition
Monetary policy
Jim Crow laws
30. 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.
Bad tendency test
Impoundment
Reform party
Protectionism
31. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Free rider
Poll tax
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Bureaucrat
32. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Immunity
Midterm election
Marbury v. Madison
Due process clause
33. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Discharge petition
Commerce clause
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Cross-cutting requirements
34. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Medicaid
New Jersey Plan
Regulation
Statism
35. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Monetarism
Soft money
Antifederalists
Independent agency
36. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Coattail effect
Political predisposition
Trustee
Public defender system
37. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Direct primary
Cross-cutting requirements
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Full faith and credit clause
38. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Photo ops
General election
Dissenting opinion
Double jeopardy
39. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Substantive due process
Collective action
Merit system
Popular sovereignty
40. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Chief of staff
Merit system
Community policing
Precedent
41. Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
Connecticut Compromise
Distributive policy
Constitutional democracy
Deficit
42. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Public defender system
Decentralists
Winner-take-all system
Leadership PAC
43. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Majority
Presidential ticket
Political predisposition
Open shop
44. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Bill of attainder
Soft money
Pocket veto
Jim Crow laws
45. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Issue advocacy
Free exercise clause
Federal Reserve System
Gerrymandering
46. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Exclusionary rule
Minor party
Monopoly
Hard power
47. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Special or select committee
Clear and present danger test
Override
Senatorial courtesy
48. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Constitutional democracy
Socialism
Judicial review
Horse race
49. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
State of the Union Address
Naturalization
Labor injunction
Plurality
50. A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free - fair - and relatively frequent elections.
Preferred position doctrine
Social insurance
Constitutional democracy
National supremacy
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