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1. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
Medicaid
Extradition
Capitalism
Popular sovereignty
2. Clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 10) originally intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; for a while interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affec
Contract clause
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Hatch Act
Direct democracy
3. The current holder of the elected office.
Executive Office of the President
Incumbent
Congressional-executive agreement
Democratic consensus
4. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Natural rights
Judicial restraint
Movement
Commercial speech
5. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Defendant
Bundling
Rule
Crossover voting
6. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Immunity
Interest group
Permissive federalism
Party registration
7. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Federalists
Executive privilege
Lobbyist
Independent agency
8. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Honeymoon
Social insurance
Socioeconomic status (SES)
National supremacy
9. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Congressional-executive agreement
Reinforcing cleavages
Jim Crow laws
Recall
10. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Majority rule
Override
State of the Union Address
Political socialization
11. 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
Unitary system
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Libertarianism
Safe seat
12. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Implementation
Retrospective issue of voting
Bush Doctrine
Value-added tax (VAT)
13. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Unilateralism
Plea bargain
Civil disobedience
Writ of habeas corpus
14. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Minority leader
Coattail effect
Libel
Bill of attainder
15. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Soft money
Central clearance
Collective action
Clear and present danger test
16. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Public choice
Name recognition
Winner-take-all system
Line item veto
17. 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.
Dissenting opinion
Inherent powers
Creative federalism
Medical savings account
18. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Naturalization
Gender gap
White primary
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
19. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Preemption
Cycle of decreasing influence
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Deficit
20. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Entitlements
Linkage institutions
Checks and balances
Fighting words
21. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Medicaid
Majority
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
White primary
22. 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.
Rally point
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Laissez-faire economics
Bureaucracy
23. 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.
National tide
Attentive public
Proportional representation
Cabinet
24. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Interstate compact
Linkage institutions
Offshoring
25. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Racial profiling
Due process
Manifest opinion
Plurality
26. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Random sample
Popular consent
National Intelligence Director
Unemployment
27. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Coattail effect
Executive orders
Lobbying
Open rule
28. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Theory of deterrence
Medicare
Connecticut Compromise
Administrative discretion
29. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Unfunded mandates
Plurality
News media
Rule-making process
30. 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.
Horse race
Unilateralism
Judicial review
Jim Crow laws
31. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
Natural rights
Property rights
Clear and present danger test
Independent regulatory commission
32. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Due process clause
Regressive tax
Redistricting
Entitlement programs
33. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Centralists
Property rights
Idealism
Stare decisis
34. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Permissive federalism
Constituents
Manifest opinion
Political socialization
35. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Social Security
Original jurisdiction
Normal trade relations
Cycle of decreasing influence
36. These are broad state grants to states for prescribed activities—welfare - child care - education - social services - preventive health care - and health services—with only a few strings attached. States have greater flexibility in deciding how to sp
Block grants
Public choice
Ethnicity
Senatorial courtesy
37. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Joint committee
Clear and present danger test
Earmarks
Race
38. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Confederation
Single-member district
Senatorial courtesy
Turnout
39. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Public policy
Trade deficit
Criminal law
Adversary system
40. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Excise tax
Court of appeals
Bill of attainder
Trust
41. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Administrative discretion
Three-fifths compromise
Social Security
World Trade Organization (WTO)
42. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
Decentralists
Executive privilege
Filibuster
Party identification
43. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Multilateralism
Search warrant
Fundamentalists
Political culture
44. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Connecticut Compromise
Antifederalists
Adversary system
National debt
45. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Judicial review
Dealignment
Theocracy
Connecticut Compromise
46. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Logrolling
Senior Executive Service
Fundamentalists
Writ of habeas corpus
47. The right to vote.
Social capital
Bad tendency test
Preemption
Suffrage
48. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Selected perception
Political culture
Interest group
Medical savings account
49. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Soft money
Candidate appeal
Keynesian economics
Literacy test
50. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Independent expenditure
Original jurisdiction
Libel
Impeachment