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1. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Voter registration
Leadership PAC
Racial profiling
Treaty
2. 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
Primary election
Party registration
Cross-cutting requirements
Regulatory taking
3. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Regulations
Eminent domain
Selected perception
Movement
4. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Bicameralism
Reform party
Single-member district
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
5. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Stare decisis
Women's suffrage
Divided government
6. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
Public policy
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Fiscal policy
Issue network
7. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Inherent powers
Bundling
Revolving door
Antifederalists
8. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Naturalization
Soft power
Plurality
Random sample
9. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Political party
Deficit
Demographics
Literacy test
10. 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.
Independent expenditure
Executive orders
Community policing
Political predisposition
11. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Medicaid
Independent regulatory commission
Minority leader
Class action suit
12. 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
Affirmative action
Crossover sanctions
Parliamentary system
Joint committee
13. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Judicial restraint
Treaty
National tide
Monopoly
14. 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.
Separation of powers
527 organizations
Public choice
Antitrust legislation
15. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Independent expenditure
Antitrust legislation
Class action suit
Grand jury
16. A president's claim of broad public support.
Due process
Mandate
Caucus
Concurrent powers
17. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Redistributive policy
Antitrust legislation
Constitutional Convention
Union shop
18. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Policy agenda
Immunity
Regressive tax
Community policing
19. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Reinforcing cleavages
Party identification
Impeachment
Bad tendency test
20. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Popular consent
Joint committee
Monetary policy
Reform party
21. Power of a government to take private property for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.
Eminent domain
Three-fifths compromise
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Writ of certiorari
22. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Constituents
Theory of deterrence
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Ex post facto law
23. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Connecticut Compromise
State of the Union Address
Pocket veto
24. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Civil law
Clear and present danger test
Lobbyist
Standing committee
25. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Categorical-formula grants
Senatorial courtesy
Independent expenditures
Vouchers
26. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Hard money
Entitlement programs
News media
Safe seat
27. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Offshoring
Nonprotected speech
Democratic consensus
Fiscal federalism
28. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Veto
Writ of habeas corpus
Petit jury
Majority-minority district
29. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Override
Ex post facto law
Restrictive covenant
Eminent domain
30. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Policy agenda
Central clearance
Opinion of the Court
Trust
31. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Public assistance
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Redistributive policy
Petit jury
32. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Keynesian economics
Popular consent
Soft money
Natural rights
33. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Judicial review
Department
National tide
Quid pro quo
34. 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
Fiscal policy
Obscenity
Prospective issue voting
Block grants
35. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Political predisposition
Filibuster
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Open rule
36. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Name recognition
Natural law
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Prospective issue voting
37. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Political ideology
Soft money
Unilateralism
Commercial speech
38. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Total and Partial Preemption
De jure segregation
Discharge petition
Weapons of mass destruction
39. 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.
Presidential ticket
Clear and present danger test
Due process clause
American dream
40. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Unemployment
Chief of staff
Plea bargain
Special or select committee
41. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Eminent domain
Contract clause
Regulation
Three-fifths compromise
42. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Independent expenditure
Judicial review
Natural law
43. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Rule-making process
Issue network
Earmarks
Fundamentalists
44. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Attentive public
amicus curiae brief
Annapolis Convention
Substantive due process
45. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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46. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Party identification
Interest group
Lobbyist
Pocket veto
47. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
New Jersey Plan
Minor party
Public defender system
Protectionism
48. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Oversight
Monopoly
Vouchers
Rule-making process
49. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Representative democracy
Suffrage
Judicial activism
Libertarianism
50. 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.
Honeymoon
Treaty
Majority leader
Project grants