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1. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils system
Single-member district
Devolution revolution
Caucus
2. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Popular consent
The Federalist
Safe seat
National Intelligence Director
3. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
De jure segregation
Bureaucrat
Direct primary
Monetary policy
4. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.
Direct primary
527 organizations
Confederation
Single-member district
5. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Department
Interstate compact
Free rider
Criminal law
6. 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.
Political socialization
Commerce clause
Filibuster
Horse race
7. 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.
Central clearance
Cycle of decreasing influence
Idealism
Caucus
8. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
National party convention
Standing committee
Inherent powers
Independent regulatory commission
9. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Direct primary
Prospective issue voting
Appellate jurisdiction
Stare decisis
10. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Political socialization
Regulatory taking
amicus curiae brief
Selected perception
11. 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.
Civil disobedience
Marbury v. Madison
Jim Crow laws
Full faith and credit clause
12. 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.
Gender gap
Issue network
Caucus
Inherent powers
13. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Representative democracy
amicus curiae brief
Collective bargaining
Plea bargain
14. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Natural rights
Executive privilege
Pocket veto
Commercial speech
15. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Isolationism
Project grants
Three-fifths compromise
Hard power
16. 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
Cross-cutting requirements
'Necessary and proper' clause
Precedent
Federal mandate
17. Segregation imposed by law.
De jure segregation
Rule
Seniority rule
Immunity
18. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
Bureaucracy
White primary
Majority-minority district
Idealism
19. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Safe seat
Primary election
Liberalism
Political socialization
20. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Congressional-executive agreement
Marbury v. Madison
Political ideology
Public opinion
21. 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.
State of the Union Address
Fiscal policy
Necessary and proper clause
Majority leader
22. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Plurality
Selected perception
Political action committee (PAC)
Congressional-executive agreement
23. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Political party
Immunity
Preferred position doctrine
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
24. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Liberalism
Line item veto
Preemption
Party identification
25. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Spoils system
Inherent powers
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Senatorial courtesy
26. 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.
Political culture
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Discharge petition
Bush Doctrine
27. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Deficit
Obscenity
Conference committee
Impoundment
28. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Suffrage
Lobbying
Interested money
Marble cake federalism
29. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Concurrent powers
Executive privilege
Oversight
Entitlements
30. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Prospective issue voting
Federal mandate
Soft money
31. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Property rights
Political action committee (PAC)
Fundamentalists
Dual citizenship
32. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Suffrage
Indexing
Community policing
Writ of mandamus
33. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
Public opinion
State of the Union Address
Primary election
Property rights
34. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Socialism
Defendant
Laissez-faire economics
Proportional representation
35. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Necessary and proper clause
Marbury v. Madison
Civil disobedience
36. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Public policy
Demographics
Retrospective issue of voting
National Intelligence Director
37. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
National party convention
Public assistance
Social Security
Writ of mandamus
38. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Obscenity
Exclusionary rule
Bureaucracy
Race
39. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Veto
Override
National party convention
Keynesian economics
40. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Protectionism
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Express powers
Public opinion
41. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Party caucus
Hold
Override
Ethnocentrism
42. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Plurality
Administrative discretion
Judicial activism
Linkage institutions
43. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Party convention
Independent expenditures
Seniority rule
Uncontrollable spending
44. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
National tide
Federalists
Minor party
Connecticut Compromise
45. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
National party convention
Impoundment
Attentive public
Economic sanctions
46. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Amicus curiae brief
Realigning election
Federal mandate
Free exercise clause
47. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Bipartisanship
Collective bargaining
Antitrust legislation
Value-added tax (VAT)
48. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Monetarism
Trust
Manifest opinion
Contract clause
49. Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.
Racial profiling
Literacy test
Direct primary
Cooperative federalism
50. The head of the White House staff.
Chief of staff
Public opinion
Establishment clause
White primary