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1. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Senatorial courtesy
Fiscal policy
Turnout
Open rule
2. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that freedom of expression is so essential to democracy that governments should not punish persons for what they say - only for what they do.
Preferred position doctrine
Majority-minority district
Candidate appeal
Candidate appeal
3. 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.
Gerrymandering
Public choice
Bush Doctrine
Issue advocacy
4. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Sales tax
Distributive policy
Creative federalism
Cabinet
5. 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.
Antitrust legislation
Obscenity
Safe seat
Redistricting
6. 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.
Indictment
Executive order
Representative democracy
Soft money
7. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Keynesian economics
Deficit
Joint committee
Adversary system
8. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Whip
Dissenting opinion
Monetary policy
Tax expenditure
9. 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).
Party registration
White primary
Prospective issue voting
Hold
10. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Executive order
Party caucus
Plea bargain
Natural rights
11. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Proportional representation
Soft money
Libel
Presidential election
12. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Cloture
Interest group
The Federalist
Interstate compact
13. 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
Deficit
Independent regulatory commission
Distributive policy
14. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Clear and present danger test
Social insurance
Collective action
Jim Crow laws
15. 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
Fiscal policy
Cross-cutting requirements
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Constituents
16. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
Protectionism
Crossover sanctions
Medicare
Ethnicity
17. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Entitlement programs
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Dual citizenship
Criminal law
18. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Economic sanctions
Grand jury
Progressive tax
Tariff
19. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Popular consent
Defendant
Party identification
Shays's Rebellion
20. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Open rule
Oversight
Congressional-executive agreement
Annapolis Convention
21. 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
Gender gap
Progressive tax
Women's suffrage
Necessary and proper clause
22. 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.
Popular consent
Cabinet
Adversary system
Dealignment
23. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Demographics
Double jeopardy
Prospective issue voting
Poll tax
24. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Ethnocentrism
Linkage institutions
Public choice
Commerce clause
25. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Prospective issue voting
Public choice
Total and Partial Preemption
Plea bargain
26. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Medicare
Liberalism
Commercial speech
Prior restraint
27. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Turnout
Implementation
Executive privilege
Preemption
28. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Candidate appeal
Public choice
Poll tax
Hatch Act
29. 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.'
Trade deficit
Hard money
Cabinet
Appellate jurisdiction
30. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Decentralists
National debt
Executive privilege
Tariff
31. The difference between the revenues raised annually from sources of income other than borrowing and the expenditures of government - including paying the interest on past borrowing.
Offshoring
Open shop
Deficit
Substantive due process
32. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Preferred position doctrine
Internationalism
Patronage
Electoral college
33. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Cabinet
Adversary system
Concurrent powers
Environmental impact statement
34. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Standing committee
Rule
Women's suffrage
35. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Offshoring
Due process clause
Antitrust legislation
Closed shop
36. 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.
Civil disobedience
Labor injunction
Rule-making process
Clear and present danger test
37. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Party registration
Natural law
Collective action
Trust
38. Constitutional division of powers among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches - with the legislative branch making law - the executive applying and enforcing the law - and the judiciary interpreting the law.
Take care clause
Separation of powers
Issue advocacy
Lobbying
39. The current holder of the elected office.
Incumbent
Impoundment
Plea bargain
Political socialization
40. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Public opinion
Representative democracy
Trust
Veto
41. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Class action suit
Standing committee
Community policing
Photo ops
42. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Mass media
Trustee
Direct primary
Bicameralism
43. A president's claim of broad public support.
Mandate
Cloture
Central clearance
Cycle of decreasing influence
44. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Selected perception
Bill of attainder
National supremacy
Manifest opinion
45. 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.
State's rights
Photo ops
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Plea bargain
46. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Standing committee
Unilateralism
Line item veto
Theocracy
47. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Medicare
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Popular consent
Executive orders
48. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Medicaid
Ethnocentrism
Manifest destiny
Political predisposition
49. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Environmental impact statement
Unfunded mandates
National Intelligence Director
Majority rule
50. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.
Ex post facto law
Referendum
Executive privilege
Issue advocacy