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1. 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.
Pocket veto
Internationalism
Issue advocacy
Quid pro quo
2. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.
Pocket veto
Executive agreement
Checks and balances
Unemployment
3. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.
Electoral college
'Necessary and proper' clause
Libel
Bicameralism
4. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Court of appeals
Permissive federalism
Cross-cutting cleavages
Search warrant
5. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Literacy test
Selective incorporation
Restrictive covenant
Selective exposure
6. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Implied powers
Hold
Justiciable dispute
Conservatism
7. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Reapportionment
Revolving door
Closed rule
Union shop
8. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Due process
Political culture
De jure segregation
Deficit
9. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Equal protection clause
Commercial speech
Open rule
Democracy
10. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Standing committee
Political culture
Due process
Capitalism
11. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Speaker
Public policy
Selective exposure
Federal Register
12. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Right of expatriation
Cloture
Civil disobedience
Statism
13. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Political action committee (PAC)
Bipartisanship
Ethnicity
Plea bargain
14. 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
Cabinet
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Party identification
Merit system
15. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Fundamentalists
Override
Unitary system
Cycle of decreasing influence
16. 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.
Collective action
Seniority rule
Bundling
National party convention
17. 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.
Commerce clause
Federal mandate
Marbury v. Madison
Preemption
18. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Bicameralism
Faction
Midterm election
Cross-cutting requirements
19. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Retrospective issue of voting
Interested money
Direct democracy
Line item veto
20. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Class action suit
Bad tendency test
Caucus
Obscenity
21. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Keynesian economics
Random sample
Social capital
Logrolling
22. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Double jeopardy
Demographics
Ethnocentrism
Honeymoon
23. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Democratic consensus
Independent agency
Whip
Public policy
24. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Turnout
Executive Office of the President
Search warrant
Leadership PAC
25. 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.
Plea bargain
Selective incorporation
Extradition
Libel
26. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
National Intelligence Director
Mandate
Executive Office of the President
Unilateralism
27. 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.
New Jersey Plan
Gerrymandering
Contract clause
Connecticut Compromise
28. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).
Isolationism
Bicameralism
Poll tax
World Trade Organization (WTO)
29. 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
Leadership PAC
Hold
Constitutional democracy
30. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Rider
Senatorial courtesy
Offshoring
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
31. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Rule
Plea bargain
Fundamentalists
Party registration
32. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Open shop
Full faith and credit clause
Interested money
Issue network
33. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Entitlements
Free exercise clause
Crossover voting
Monetarism
34. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Community policing
Annapolis Convention
Substantive due process
Independent regulatory commission
35. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.
Demographics
Proportional representation
Search warrant
Reapportionment
36. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Tariff
Public choice
Idealism
Court of appeals
37. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Indictment
Keynesian economics
Opinion of the Court
38. A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.
Bush Doctrine
Majority rule
Demographics
Constitutional Convention
39. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Medicaid
Virginia Plan
National Intelligence Director
Tax expenditure
40. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Docket
Independent expenditures
Writ of habeas corpus
Initiative
41. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.
Standing committee
Redistricting
Midterm election
Party identification
42. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Executive Office of the President
Gender gap
Political socialization
Deregulation
43. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Social capital
Contract clause
Closed shop
Policy agenda
44. 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).
Direct primary
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Redistributive policy
Racial gerrymandering
45. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Opinion of the Court
Substantive due process
Australian ballot
Interested money
46. 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.
Lobbying
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
State's rights
Horse race
47. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Collective bargaining
Public choice
Manifest opinion
Libertarian party
48. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Caucus
Dissenting opinion
Entitlement programs
Redistricting
49. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Political ideology
Hold
Fiscal federalism
Keynesian economics
50. The authority of a court to hear a case 'in the first instance.'
Original jurisdiction
Australian ballot
News media
National tide