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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Enumerated powers
Unilateralism
Political ideology
Due process clause
2. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Presidential ticket
Naturalization
Impeachment
Offshoring
3. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Cloture
State of the Union Address
Racial profiling
Dealignment
4. 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
Free rider
Leadership PAC
Minor party
National tide
5. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Direct primary
Closed rule
Stare decisis
Spoils system
6. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Executive agreement
Senior Executive Service
Party registration
Safe seat
7. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Rule-making process
Leadership PAC
Direct democracy
Literacy test
8. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Presidential ticket
Community policing
Discharge petition
9. 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.
Eminent domain
Libertarianism
National supremacy
Majority leader
10. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Connecticut Compromise
Direct primary
Trade deficit
Right of expatriation
11. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Linkage institutions
Closed primary
Caucus
Due process clause
12. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Civil disobedience
Trustee
Express powers
Sedition
13. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Nonpartisan election
Exclusionary rule
Selective incorporation
Proportional representation
14. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo
Coattail effect
Speaker
Party convention
527 organizations
15. 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.
Bicameralism
Natural law
General election
Regulatory taking
16. 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
Midterm election
Marbury v. Madison
Stare decisis
Cross-cutting requirements
17. 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
Entitlements
Capitalism
Appellate jurisdiction
18. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Checks and balances
Department
Property rights
Override
19. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Medicaid
Naturalization
Defendant
Total and Partial Preemption
20. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments.
Closed rule
Attentive public
Proportional representation
Concurring opinion
21. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Inflation
Nonprotected speech
Government corporation
Weapons of mass destruction
22. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Direct democracy
Manifest destiny
Sedition
23. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Cooperative federalism
Writ of mandamus
Class action suit
Prior restraint
24. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Judicial review
Override
Multilateralism
Attentive public
25. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Crossover voting
Cross-cutting cleavages
Nonprotected speech
Suffrage
26. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Writ of habeas corpus
National Intelligence Director
Soft money
Senior Executive Service
27. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Reform party
New Jersey Plan
Spoils system
Indexing
28. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Theocracy
Popular consent
Bill of attainder
Medicaid
29. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Selective exposure
Political ideology
Pocket veto
Administrative discretion
30. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Australian ballot
Minority leader
Override
Linkage institutions
31. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Majority rule
Due process
Antitrust legislation
Bureaucracy
32. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Confederation
Public opinion
Multilateralism
Public defender system
33. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Honeymoon
Obscenity
Confederation
Single-member district
34. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Multilateralism
Political culture
Soft money
Midterm election
35. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Civil law
Deregulation
Dissenting opinion
Right of expatriation
36. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Senior Executive Service
Hatch Act
Confederation
Enumerated powers
37. The right to vote.
Suffrage
Regulations
Free rider
Independent regulatory commission
38. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Socialism
Naturalization
Bill of attainder
Administrative discretion
39. Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government - the actions of the federal government will prevail.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
National supremacy
Statism
Realism
40. A president's claim of broad public support.
Nonprotected speech
Mandate
National supremacy
Rally point
41. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Bush Doctrine
Writ of habeas corpus
Labor injunction
Recall
42. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Policy agenda
Judicial review
National debt
Democracy
43. 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.
Fiscal federalism
Progressive tax
Soft money
Labor injunction
44. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Constitutional Convention
Separation of powers
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Candidate appeal
45. 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.
Political ideology
Dissenting opinion
Judicial review
Virginia Plan
46. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Quid pro quo
Collective bargaining
Attentive public
Trustee
47. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Quid pro quo
Affirmative action
Deficit
Presidential election
48. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Issue network
Nonprotected speech
Bipartisanship
Project grants
49. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Substantive due process
Coattail effect
Preferred position doctrine
Executive privilege
50. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Restrictive covenant
Political ideology
Ethnicity
Initiative