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1. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Monetary policy
Preemption
Closed shop
Manifest opinion
2. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Special or select committee
Conference committee
Natural law
3. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Federal mandate
Inflation
Candidate appeal
Linkage institutions
4. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Theocracy
Libertarian party
Selective exposure
Department
5. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Commerce clause
Labor injunction
Initiative
Civil law
6. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Regulation
Concurrent powers
Bundling
Hold
7. Political contributions given to a party - candidate - or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds - hence the term 'hard money.'
Manifest opinion
Chief of staff
Hard money
Free exercise clause
8. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Horse race
Recall
State of the Union Address
Mandate
9. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
President pro tempore
Line item veto
Trade deficit
Nonpartisan election
10. 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.
Appellate jurisdiction
American dream
Vouchers
Federal Reserve System
11. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Labor injunction
Leadership PAC
Independent regulatory commission
Racial profiling
12. 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.
Majority-minority district
Caucus
Reform party
Rule-making process
13. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Competitive federalism
Trade deficit
Single-member district
Political socialization
14. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Fundamentalists
Independent regulatory commission
Racial gerrymandering
Safe seat
15. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Faction
Appellate jurisdiction
Trade deficit
Tax expenditure
16. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Government corporation
Mandate
Regulatory taking
Enumerated powers
17. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Standing committee
Reapportionment
Realism
Seniority rule
18. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Proportional representation
Selective exposure
Uncontrollable spending
Commercial speech
19. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
New Jersey Plan
Political ideology
Senior Executive Service
Constituents
20. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Government corporation
Search warrant
Mass media
Selected perception
21. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Single-member district
Lobbying
Medicaid
Isolationism
22. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
Independent regulatory commission
Federal mandate
Winner-take-all system
Original jurisdiction
23. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Free exercise clause
Federal Register
Interstate compact
Libel
24. 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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25. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Electoral college
Preemption
Free rider
Sedition
26. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Regressive tax
Free rider
Parliamentary system
Commerce clause
27. 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
Collective action
Bill of attainder
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Plea bargain
28. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Monopoly
Impeachment
Environmental impact statement
Inherent powers
29. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Concurring opinion
Caucus
Writ of mandamus
Laissez-faire economics
30. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.
Concurrent powers
Proportional representation
Full faith and credit clause
White primary
31. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Hatch Act
Fundamentalists
Federal Register
32. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Indictment
Hard money
Stare decisis
Preemption
33. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
American dream
Executive agreement
Normal trade relations
Total and Partial Preemption
34. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Antitrust legislation
Fiscal policy
Constitutionalism
Socialism
35. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Decentralists
Preemption
Weapons of mass destruction
Constitutionalism
36. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Regulation
Executive privilege
Green party
Natural law
37. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Candidate appeal
Cloture
Impoundment
Judicial activism
38. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Indexing
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Presidential ticket
Name recognition
39. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Grand jury
Congressional-executive agreement
Marbury v. Madison
Separation of powers
40. Tax levied on imports to help protect the nation's industries - labor - or farmers from foreign competition. It can also be used to raise additional revenue.
Proportional representation
Tariff
Hard money
Excise tax
41. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Public assistance
Protectionism
Closed rule
Three-fifths compromise
42. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Free rider
Preferred position doctrine
Bicameralism
Commerce clause
43. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Bill of attainder
Virginia Plan
Fighting words
American dream
44. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Senior Executive Service
Natural rights
Entitlement programs
Bipartisanship
45. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Confederation
'Necessary and proper' clause
Uncontrollable spending
Prospective issue voting
46. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Commercial speech
Winner-take-all system
Attentive public
47. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Political socialization
Popular consent
Initiative
48. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Conference committee
Vouchers
Executive privilege
Dealignment
49. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Party identification
Pluralism
Lobbying
Senior Executive Service
50. Segregation imposed by law.
Executive order
De jure segregation
Constitutional Convention
Express powers