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1. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Monopoly
Logrolling
Deregulation
State's rights
2. Views the national government - 50 states - and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes. Applies the analogy of the marketplace: we have some choice about which state and ci
State's rights
Class action suit
Social Security
Competitive federalism
3. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Closed primary
White primary
Electoral college
Regulation
4. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Police powers
Uncontrollable spending
Substantive due process
Offshoring
5. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Due process clause
Bicameralism
Three-fifths compromise
Crossover sanctions
6. Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
Connecticut Compromise
Antifederalists
Racial gerrymandering
Coattail effect
7. 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.
Marbury v. Madison
Impoundment
Interest group
Fighting words
8. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
American dream
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Social Security
9. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Federalism
Full faith and credit clause
Writ of habeas corpus
Manifest destiny
10. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Opinion of the Court
Linkage institutions
Cycle of decreasing influence
Electoral college
11. 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
Unemployment
Rule-making process
Necessary and proper clause
News media
12. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
National tide
Indexing
Poll tax
Gross domestic product (GDP)
13. Government in which citizens vote on laws and select officials directly.
Conference committee
Open primary
Normal trade relations
Direct democracy
14. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
15. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Federalists
De facto segregation
Political action committee (PAC)
Leadership PAC
16. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Issue advocacy
Impeachment
Regulatory taking
Collective bargaining
17. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Regulations
Theory of deterrence
Laissez-faire economics
Tariff
18. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Rule
Preferred position doctrine
Cabinet
Democratic consensus
19. 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.
Regulations
Project grants
Literacy test
Oversight
20. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Deficit
Issue advocacy
Justiciable dispute
Soft power
21. A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.
Policy agenda
Judicial review
Lobbyist
Candidate appeal
22. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Cross-cutting cleavages
Patronage
Excise tax
Movement
23. 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
Attentive public
Standing committee
Preferred position doctrine
24. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Soft money
Hatch Act
Medicare
Judicial review
25. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Permissive federalism
Leadership PAC
Regressive tax
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
26. 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.
Trust
Liberalism
Restrictive covenant
Confederation
27. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Linkage institutions
527 organizations
Reapportionment
Implied powers
28. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Prospective issue voting
Interstate compact
Creative federalism
Double jeopardy
29. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Means-tested entitlements
National tide
Laissez-faire economics
Contract clause
30. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Deregulation
Attentive public
Popular sovereignty
Leadership PAC
31. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Socialism
Libertarian party
Defendant
Petit jury
32. 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.
Project grants
Clear and present danger test
Realigning election
Party caucus
33. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Manifest opinion
Closed rule
Impoundment
Selective exposure
34. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Keynesian economics
Judicial activism
Reapportionment
Party identification
35. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
Redistributive policy
Three-fifths compromise
Women's suffrage
Trustee
36. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
Seniority rule
Hatch Act
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Manifest opinion
37. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Court of appeals
Stare decisis
Ethnicity
Joint committee
38. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Nonprotected speech
Majority rule
Democracy
Political ideology
39. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Hard money
Majority-minority district
Keynesian economics
Environmental impact statement
40. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Tax expenditure
Vouchers
Naturalization
Reform party
41. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Dissenting opinion
Uncontrollable spending
Extradition
Democracy
42. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Congressional-executive agreement
Civil disobedience
Concurrent powers
Express powers
43. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Liberalism
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Commerce clause
Racial gerrymandering
44. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Pocket veto
Impeachment
Prospective issue voting
Crossover sanctions
45. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
State's rights
Special or select committee
Hard power
Unilateralism
46. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
amicus curiae brief
Conference committee
Safe seat
Clear and present danger test
47. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Full faith and credit clause
Normal trade relations
Total and Partial Preemption
Affirmative action
48. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Deficit
Majority rule
Direct democracy
Political socialization
49. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Social Security
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Merit system
Regulatory taking
50. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Realigning election
Monopoly
Ethnicity
Immunity