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AP Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Natural law
Value-added tax (VAT)
Candidate appeal
Prior restraint
2. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Incumbent
Distributive policy
Progressive tax
Central clearance
3. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Attentive public
Commercial speech
Horse race
4. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Divided government
Fiscal policy
Party convention
Defendant
5. 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.
Full faith and credit clause
Checks and balances
Isolationism
Racial profiling
6. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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7. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Gerrymandering
Popular consent
Presidential ticket
Rule-making process
8. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Bundling
Devolution revolution
General election
Unemployment
9. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Original jurisdiction
Primary election
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Judicial activism
10. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Selective incorporation
Turnout
Inherent powers
Party identification
11. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Labor injunction
Treaty
Take care clause
Constitutionalism
12. The right of women to vote.
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13. 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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14. 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.
Political culture
Selective exposure
Amicus curiae brief
Crossover voting
15. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Naturalization
Faction
Social capital
Writ of habeas corpus
16. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Constitutionalism
Federal mandate
Crossover voting
Racial gerrymandering
17. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Issue network
Impoundment
Laissez-faire economics
Stare decisis
18. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Collective action
Natural rights
Earmarks
Liberalism
19. 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.
Soft money
Naturalization
Isolationism
Indexing
20. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Excise tax
Cross-cutting cleavages
Unitary system
Electoral college
21. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Department
Take care clause
Prior restraint
Writ of habeas corpus
22. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
Commercial speech
Judicial activism
Special or select committee
New Jersey Plan
23. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Bicameralism
Open shop
Sound bites
Name recognition
24. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Public defender system
Public assistance
Preferred position doctrine
Ex post facto law
25. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
National party convention
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Concurrent powers
Issue advocacy
26. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Articles of Confederation
Medicaid
Defendant
Class action suit
27. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Party registration
Winner-take-all system
Implementation
Separation of powers
28. The head of the White House staff.
Normal trade relations
Merit system
Chief of staff
Deficit
29. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Patronage
Affirmative action
Closed shop
Property rights
30. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
De jure segregation
White primary
Establishment clause
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
31. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Social Security
Judicial activism
Social insurance
Speaker
32. 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
Medicare
Deregulation
Grand jury
Right of expatriation
33. 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.
Issue advocacy
Executive order
Women's suffrage
Collective action
34. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Regressive tax
Faction
Annapolis Convention
Movement
35. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Regulations
Political party
Annapolis Convention
Voter registration
36. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Ex post facto law
Bureaucrat
Minority leader
Docket
37. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Keynesian economics
Regulation
Initiative
Movement
38. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Inherent powers
Excise tax
Theory of deterrence
Entitlements
39. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Executive agreement
Sedition
Joint committee
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
40. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Excise tax
Dealignment
Closed shop
Distributive policy
41. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Independent expenditures
Line item veto
Divided government
Rule
42. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Writ of habeas corpus
Turnout
Antifederalists
Separation of powers
43. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Realigning election
Pocket veto
Single-member district
Redistricting
44. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Interest group
National Intelligence Director
Line item veto
Rule-making process
45. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Recall
Issue network
Fiscal federalism
Political party
46. 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
National party convention
Direct orders
Concurring opinion
Reinforcing cleavages
47. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Direct orders
Hold
Bureaucrat
Political socialization
48. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Dealignment
Commercial speech
Cloture
Entitlements
49. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Impoundment
Regressive tax
Federal Reserve System
Hold
50. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
Oversight
The Federalist
Dealignment
Jim Crow laws