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1. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.
Idealism
Selective incorporation
Safe seat
Ethnicity
2. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Adversary system
Congressional-executive agreement
Electoral college
New Jersey Plan
3. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Attentive public
Popular sovereignty
Primary election
Means-tested entitlements
4. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Judicial review
Double jeopardy
Open rule
Defendant
5. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Bush Doctrine
Linkage institutions
Search warrant
Discharge petition
6. Clause in the Constitution that states that 'Congress should have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. . . .' This clause is also known as the elastic clause as is a major and significant p
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7. 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.
Sedition
Due process clause
Political socialization
Bad tendency test
8. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Substantive due process
Collective bargaining
Senatorial courtesy
Direct primary
9. Photo opportunities set up by the candidates. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on photo ops to explain them to the public.
Photo ops
Block grants
Redistributive policy
Excise tax
10. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Independent expenditures
Civil law
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Popular consent
11. 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.
Fiscal federalism
Caucus
National Intelligence Director
Primary election
12. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Party registration
Recall
Deregulation
Sales tax
13. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Department
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Referendum
14. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Libel
Political predisposition
Bill of attainder
Executive order
15. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.
Attentive public
Marble cake federalism
Separation of powers
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
16. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Double jeopardy
General election
Creative federalism
'Necessary and proper' clause
17. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
Interest group
State's rights
Separation of powers
The Federalist
18. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Rally point
Merit system
Monetarism
Nonprotected speech
19. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Crossover voting
Divided government
Bundling
Independent expenditure
20. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Inherent powers
Reinforcing cleavages
Judicial activism
'Necessary and proper' clause
21. A career government employee.
Regressive tax
Interested money
Bureaucrat
Adversary system
22. 30-second statements on the evening news shows. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on sound bites to explain them to the public.
Deregulation
Political culture
Redistricting
Sound bites
23. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
National tide
Keynesian economics
Judicial activism
Direct primary
24. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
Bipartisanship
Winner-take-all system
Reapportionment
State of the Union Address
25. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Civil disobedience
Progressive tax
Rule
Petit jury
26. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Senior Executive Service
Independent expenditures
Criminal law
World Trade Organization (WTO)
27. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Presidential ticket
Cabinet
Selected perception
Value-added tax (VAT)
28. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Vouchers
Open rule
Fundamentalists
Senior Executive Service
29. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Trade deficit
Opinion of the Court
Impeachment
Earmarks
30. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Regulatory taking
Selected perception
Bipartisanship
Caucus
31. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Bicameralism
Virginia Plan
Mass media
Congressional-executive agreement
32. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.
Minority leader
Inherent powers
Precedent
Cabinet
33. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Executive order
Racial gerrymandering
Fiscal policy
Civil disobedience
34. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Justiciable dispute
Permissive federalism
Popular consent
Representative democracy
35. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Public choice
Linkage institutions
Sound bites
Selective exposure
36. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Party identification
Voter registration
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Whip
37. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Cloture
Indexing
Naturalization
National supremacy
38. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Redistributive policy
Candidate appeal
Theocracy
Civil disobedience
39. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Contract clause
Preferred position doctrine
Immunity
Direct primary
40. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Centralists
Realism
Federal Reserve System
Bill of attainder
41. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
'Our federalism'
Commerce clause
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Monopoly
42. 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.
Due process clause
Divided government
Inherent powers
Articles of Confederation
43. Segregation imposed by law.
Popular sovereignty
Political party
Virginia Plan
De jure segregation
44. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Social capital
Interested money
Minority leader
Government corporation
45. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Isolationism
Government corporation
Deregulation
Prior restraint
46. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Iron triangle
Horse race
Monetary policy
Commerce clause
47. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Dealignment
Bundling
Independent agency
Majority
48. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Prospective issue voting
State of the Union Address
Criminal law
Internationalism
49. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Medical savings account
Selected perception
Dual citizenship
Impoundment
50. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Manifest destiny
Racial profiling
Logrolling
Preferred position doctrine