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1. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Issue network
Issue advocacy
Realism
Logrolling
2. 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.
Horse race
Electoral college
Bureaucracy
Isolationism
3. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Green party
Collective bargaining
Revolving door
Joint committee
4. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Express powers
Defendant
Marbury v. Madison
Theocracy
5. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Green party
Party identification
Interested money
Closed primary
6. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Uncontrollable spending
Cross-cutting cleavages
Electoral college
Hard money
7. 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.
Regressive tax
Bicameralism
Full faith and credit clause
De jure segregation
8. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Name recognition
'Necessary and proper' clause
Proportional representation
Impoundment
9. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Poll tax
Government corporation
Fiscal policy
Labor injunction
10. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Prior restraint
Natural law
Regulation
11. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Categorical-formula grants
Theocracy
Medical savings account
Social capital
12. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
News media
Concurrent powers
Delegate
Rider
13. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Exclusionary rule
Caucus
Rider
Writ of certiorari
14. Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.
Virginia Plan
Selective exposure
Original jurisdiction
Enumerated powers
15. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Bill of attainder
Hold
Executive privilege
Special or select committee
16. 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.
Amicus curiae brief
Laissez-faire economics
Joint committee
Defendant
17. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
National Intelligence Director
Statism
Proportional representation
National debt
18. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Direct democracy
Seniority rule
Bill of attainder
Means-tested entitlements
19. 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.
Lobbyist
National Intelligence Director
Political ideology
Preferred position doctrine
20. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Due process clause
Natural law
Divided government
Enumerated powers
21. A president's claim of broad public support.
Faction
Mandate
Rider
Interested money
22. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Concurrent powers
Regulation
Cycle of decreasing influence
Joint committee
23. 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.
Fiscal policy
Deficit
Value-added tax (VAT)
Antifederalists
24. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Defendant
Fiscal policy
Policy agenda
Marble cake federalism
25. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Medicare
Indexing
Central clearance
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
26. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Equal protection clause
Referendum
Hatch Act
Impoundment
27. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Dealignment
Tax expenditure
Linkage institutions
Double jeopardy
28. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Policy agenda
Free exercise clause
Due process clause
Proportional representation
29. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Quid pro quo
Independent expenditures
Plurality
Soft money
30. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Libertarianism
Political socialization
Public opinion
Unfunded mandates
31. 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.
Soft money
General election
Labor injunction
Women's suffrage
32. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Rally point
Demographics
Commerce clause
Impoundment
33. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Government corporation
Internationalism
Electoral college
Constitutionalism
34. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Plea bargain
Whip
Attentive public
Right of expatriation
35. 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.
Judicial review
Racial gerrymandering
Bicameralism
Political action committee (PAC)
36. An opinion that agrees with the majority in a Supreme Court ruling but differs on the reasoning.
Representative democracy
Revolving door
Concurring opinion
New Jersey Plan
37. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Extradition
Due process
Keynesian economics
Naturalization
38. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Socialism
Racial gerrymandering
Decentralists
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
39. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Natural law
Closed primary
Right of expatriation
Confederation
40. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Independent regulatory commission
Federalists
Interstate compact
Reapportionment
41. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Separation of powers
Affirmative action
Commerce clause
42. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Three-fifths compromise
De facto segregation
Marble cake federalism
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
43. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Annapolis Convention
Express powers
Bicameralism
Stare decisis
44. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Majority
Bicameralism
Dissenting opinion
Class action suit
45. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Marble cake federalism
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Impoundment
Unilateralism
46. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Public assistance
Labor injunction
Fiscal federalism
Isolationism
47. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Literacy test
Winner-take-all system
Executive order
Cycle of decreasing influence
48. 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
Name recognition
Necessary and proper clause
Fundamentalists
Mandate
49. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
President pro tempore
Police powers
Full faith and credit clause
Laissez-faire economics
50. 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.
Cross-cutting requirements
Party caucus
Treaty
Executive Office of the President
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