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1. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
amicus curiae brief
The Federalist
Veto
Party caucus
2. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Independent agency
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Substantive due process
Executive privilege
3. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Reform party
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
American dream
Crossover sanctions
4. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Permissive federalism
Tax expenditure
Social insurance
Grand jury
5. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Revolving door
Race
Redistricting
Judicial review
6. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Incumbent
Restrictive covenant
Gerrymandering
Federalism
7. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Midterm election
Proportional representation
Safe seat
Natural rights
8. A rising public approval of the president that follows a crisis as Americans 'rally 'round the flag' and the chief executive.
Constitutional democracy
Rally point
Majority leader
Bureaucrat
9. A national meeting of delegates elected at primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.
Bureaucracy
Soft money
Rule
National party convention
10. 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
Caucus
Veto
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Excise tax
11. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Shays's Rebellion
Issue advocacy
Reinforcing cleavages
Libertarianism
12. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Unemployment
Court of appeals
Gender gap
Socioeconomic status (SES)
13. The right of women to vote.
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14. 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
Project grants
Racial profiling
Unfunded mandates
Recall
15. 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
Regulations
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Take care clause
Bureaucracy
16. 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.
Constituents
Appellate jurisdiction
Indictment
Fiscal federalism
17. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Inflation
Proportional representation
Laissez-faire economics
Dissenting opinion
18. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Virginia Plan
Ethnocentrism
Logrolling
National supremacy
19. 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.
Project grants
Statism
Majority
Libertarianism
20. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Senatorial courtesy
Pluralism
Rally point
Equal protection clause
21. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Three-fifths compromise
Unitary system
Minority leader
Libel
22. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Administrative discretion
Unemployment
Earmarks
Incumbent
23. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Public opinion
Medicaid
Pocket veto
Naturalization
24. Agency that administers civil service laws - rules - and regulations.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Union shop
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Spoils system
25. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Soft money
Annapolis Convention
Medical savings account
Political predisposition
26. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Racial profiling
Concurring opinion
Original jurisdiction
Theory of deterrence
27. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Clear and present danger test
Constitutional Convention
Oversight
Bush Doctrine
28. 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.
Federalism
Monetarism
Inherent powers
Lobbying
29. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Environmental impact statement
Executive agreement
Selected perception
Union shop
30. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Linkage institutions
Quid pro quo
Bicameralism
Women's suffrage
31. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Sound bites
Bicameralism
Senatorial courtesy
Inherent powers
32. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Judicial restraint
Women's suffrage
Plea bargain
Sound bites
33. A provision attached to a bill
Divided government
Socialism
Rider
Impoundment
34. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Impoundment
Community policing
Free rider
Stare decisis
35. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Original jurisdiction
Block grants
Random sample
Joint committee
36. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Patronage
Soft power
Bicameralism
Crossover sanctions
37. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Creative federalism
Closed shop
Discharge petition
Fiscal policy
38. Constitutional division of powers among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches - with the legislative branch making law - the executive applying and enforcing the law - and the judiciary interpreting the law.
Separation of powers
Bicameralism
Selective exposure
Safe seat
39. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Majority-minority district
Devolution revolution
Progressive tax
Direct primary
40. 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.
Majority leader
Veto
Political party
Mandate
41. 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.
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Indexing
Soft money
Capitalism
42. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Trustee
Patronage
Excise tax
Gross domestic product (GDP)
43. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Due process clause
Hold
Tariff
Joint committee
44. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Original jurisdiction
Impeachment
Trust
Regressive tax
45. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo
Devolution revolution
527 organizations
Judicial restraint
Electoral college
46. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
Independent regulatory commission
Regressive tax
Race
Referendum
47. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Sound bites
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Judicial review
Idealism
48. A veto exercised by the president after Congress has adjourned; if the president takes no action for 10 days - the bill does not become law and does not return to Congress for possible override.
Caucus
Constitutional Convention
Unemployment
Pocket veto
49. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Leadership PAC
Lobbyist
Indictment
Inherent powers
50. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Libel
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Political action committee (PAC)