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1. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Realism
Discharge petition
Checks and balances
Ex post facto law
2. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Quid pro quo
Attentive public
Protectionism
Majority
3. 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.
Laissez-faire economics
Libertarianism
Selective exposure
Immunity
4. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
Public choice
Revolving door
Federalism
The Federalist
5. The current holder of the elected office.
Incumbent
Attentive public
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Articles of Confederation
6. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
Extradition
Revolving door
Issue advocacy
Public defender system
7. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Unfunded mandates
Stare decisis
Majority rule
Full faith and credit clause
8. 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.
Stare decisis
Federal Register
Mass media
Preferred position doctrine
9. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Criminal law
Bicameralism
Block grants
Constitutional Convention
10. 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.
Indexing
Political action committee (PAC)
Weapons of mass destruction
Virginia Plan
11. A provision attached to a bill
Closed shop
Rider
Australian ballot
Merit system
12. 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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13. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Regulation
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Right of expatriation
Treaty
14. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Political socialization
Interest group
Appellate jurisdiction
Keynesian economics
15. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Realigning election
Concurrent powers
Presidential ticket
Virginia Plan
16. 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.'
Honeymoon
Naturalization
Hard money
Take care clause
17. 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.
Gender gap
Connecticut Compromise
Closed shop
Issue network
18. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Single-member district
Fiscal federalism
Amicus curiae brief
Racial gerrymandering
19. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Women's suffrage
Devolution revolution
Override
Constituents
20. 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.
De facto segregation
Attentive public
Literacy test
Deficit
21. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
National tide
Adversary system
Due process
Enumerated powers
22. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Necessary and proper clause
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Pluralism
Nonprotected speech
23. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).
Direct democracy
Poll tax
Normal trade relations
American dream
24. 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.
Stare decisis
Honeymoon
Political predisposition
Bureaucrat
25. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Tax expenditure
Jim Crow laws
Adversary system
Plea bargain
26. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Hard money
Movement
Impoundment
Prospective issue voting
27. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Bundling
Fiscal policy
Entitlements
Literacy test
28. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Due process clause
Open primary
Defendant
Federalists
29. 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
Libertarianism
Independent expenditures
Bill of attainder
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
30. An economic system characterized by private property - competitive markets - economic incentives - and limited government involvement in the production - distribution - and pricing of goods and services.
Attentive public
Capitalism
Chief of staff
Monetary policy
31. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Multilateralism
Issue advocacy
Closed shop
Justiciable dispute
32. 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).
Hatch Act
Checks and balances
Immunity
White primary
33. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils system
Distributive policy
Environmental impact statement
Project grants
34. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Public opinion
Idealism
Right of expatriation
Libertarianism
35. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Enumerated powers
Australian ballot
Literacy test
Value-added tax (VAT)
36. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Nonprotected speech
Earmarks
Commerce clause
Green party
37. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
President pro tempore
Public policy
Creative federalism
Hold
38. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Union shop
Impeachment
Rally point
Soft money
39. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Logrolling
Speaker
Primary election
Independent expenditure
40. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Mandate
Independent expenditures
Attentive public
Excise tax
41. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Laissez-faire economics
Double jeopardy
Federalism
Manifest destiny
42. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Plea bargain
Internationalism
Idealism
Issue network
43. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Independent regulatory commission
Rule
Cross-cutting cleavages
Checks and balances
44. Promoting a particular position or an issue by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate and - until 2004 had not been subject to regulation.
Union shop
Issue advocacy
Public assistance
Gross domestic product (GDP)
45. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Representative democracy
Devolution revolution
Faction
Entitlement programs
46. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Adversary system
Devolution revolution
Realism
Gross domestic product (GDP)
47. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Prior restraint
Antifederalists
Federal Reserve System
Incumbent
48. Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.
Cooperative federalism
Candidate appeal
Turnout
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
49. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Racial profiling
Vouchers
Name recognition
Ethnicity
50. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Political socialization
Single-member district
Candidate appeal
Unitary system