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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Inflation
Chief of staff
American dream
Soft money
2. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Medicaid
Appellate jurisdiction
Inherent powers
Extradition
3. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Recall
Earmarks
Literacy test
Writ of habeas corpus
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.
Search warrant
Open rule
Reform party
Photo ops
5. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Realigning election
Federal Register
Race
Social capital
6. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
The Federalist
Political socialization
Bush Doctrine
Tax expenditure
7. 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.
Stare decisis
Parliamentary system
Regulation
Inherent powers
8. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Democracy
Prior restraint
Capitalism
Petit jury
9. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Open primary
General election
Movement
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
10. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Vouchers
Whip
Electoral college
General election
11. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
Civil disobedience
Random sample
Express powers
Judicial activism
12. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Department
Executive Office of the President
Electoral college
Quid pro quo
13. Clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 10) originally intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; for a while interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affec
President pro tempore
Contract clause
Necessary and proper clause
State's rights
14. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Reinforcing cleavages
Pocket veto
Fundamentalists
Direct orders
15. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Executive privilege
Patronage
Bad tendency test
Theocracy
16. 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.
Majority-minority district
Confederation
Majority leader
Government corporation
17. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Congressional-executive agreement
Monetary policy
Multilateralism
Open primary
18. The right of women to vote.
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19. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Statism
Party registration
Special or select committee
Constitutionalism
20. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Australian ballot
Sedition
Hard money
Joint committee
21. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Standing committee
Issue network
Bureaucracy
Candidate appeal
22. 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.
Bad tendency test
Deficit
Obscenity
Concurrent powers
23. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Adversary system
Collective bargaining
Party registration
Party identification
24. 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.
Electoral college
Amicus curiae brief
Connecticut Compromise
Initiative
25. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Representative democracy
President pro tempore
National supremacy
Soft money
26. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Demographics
General election
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Free rider
27. The right to vote.
Indictment
Proportional representation
Discharge petition
Suffrage
28. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
Keynesian economics
Statism
Mass media
Federal mandate
29. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Direct primary
Value-added tax (VAT)
Regulatory taking
Realigning election
30. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Plurality
Multilateralism
Democratic consensus
Single-member district
31. 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
Necessary and proper clause
Weapons of mass destruction
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Conservatism
32. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Federal mandate
Medicare
Soft money
Procedural due process
33. A large body of people interested in a common issue - idea - or concern that is of continuing significance and who are willing to take action. Movements seek to change attitudes or institutions - not just policies.
Movement
Logrolling
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Bill of attainder
34. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Popular sovereignty
Justiciable dispute
National debt
Medicare
35. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Implementation
Economic sanctions
Government corporation
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
36. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Criminal law
Commercial speech
Nonprotected speech
Virginia Plan
37. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Patronage
Congressional-executive agreement
Political socialization
National supremacy
38. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Hard money
Joint committee
Unfunded mandates
Turnout
39. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Winner-take-all system
New Jersey Plan
Economic sanctions
Direct primary
40. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Coattail effect
Racial profiling
Spoils system
Ethnicity
41. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Pluralism
Civil disobedience
Initiative
Natural rights
42. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Initiative
Government corporation
Executive agreement
Policy agenda
43. 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
National party convention
Bureaucrat
Cross-cutting requirements
Prior restraint
44. The difference between the political opinions or political behavior of men and of women.
Gender gap
Caucus
Federalists
Proportional representation
45. A provision attached to a bill
Rider
White primary
Electoral college
Random sample
46. 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.
Divided government
Connecticut Compromise
Take care clause
Free rider
47. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Issue network
Community policing
Soft power
Enumerated powers
48. An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point - redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties.
Obscenity
Enumerated powers
Prior restraint
Realigning election
49. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Bureaucracy
Interest group
'Necessary and proper' clause
National debt
50. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Racial profiling
Rally point
Extradition
Express powers