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1. 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.
National party convention
Delegate
Issue advocacy
Conference committee
2. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Patronage
Bush Doctrine
Chief of staff
Indexing
3. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Constitutional Convention
Procedural due process
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Divided government
4. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
Community policing
Movement
Normal trade relations
Dealignment
5. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Immunity
Bundling
Judicial restraint
6. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Bill of attainder
Government corporation
Constitutional Convention
Judicial review
7. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Earmarks
Manifest opinion
Interstate compact
Appellate jurisdiction
8. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Stare decisis
Nonpartisan election
Trust
Closed rule
9. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Realigning election
Weapons of mass destruction
Uncontrollable spending
Line item veto
10. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Extradition
Virginia Plan
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
11. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Gerrymandering
Clear and present danger test
Impeachment
Political culture
12. Clause in the Constitution that states that 'Congress should have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. . . .' This clause is also known as the elastic clause as is a major and significant p
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13. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Treaty
Movement
Midterm election
Presidential ticket
14. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Recall
Sales tax
National Intelligence Director
Immunity
15. The idea that a just government must derive its powers from the consent of the people it governs.
Popular consent
Appellate jurisdiction
Candidate appeal
Policy agenda
16. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Issue advocacy
Capitalism
National Intelligence Director
Substantive due process
17. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Standing committee
Total and Partial Preemption
National tide
Uncontrollable spending
18. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Categorical-formula grants
Joint committee
Ex post facto law
Safe seat
19. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Crossover voting
Hard power
Ethnocentrism
Joint committee
20. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official - the first step in removal from office.
Candidate appeal
Express powers
Impeachment
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
21. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Presidential election
Direct primary
National supremacy
Closed shop
22. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Open primary
Commercial speech
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Racial profiling
23. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
National supremacy
Immunity
Popular sovereignty
Medicare
24. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Commerce clause
Isolationism
Inherent powers
Closed primary
25. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Majority
Closed shop
Excise tax
Federalists
26. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Public policy
Electoral college
Bureaucracy
27. 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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28. 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.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Writ of habeas corpus
Independent expenditures
Issue network
29. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Party registration
Issue advocacy
Executive order
Reapportionment
30. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Majority leader
Clear and present danger test
Bill of attainder
Senatorial courtesy
31. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Manifest opinion
Hard money
Regulations
Direct orders
32. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Majority-minority district
Fiscal federalism
Extradition
Rule
33. 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.
Lobbyist
Extradition
Capitalism
Trustee
34. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Public choice
Candidate appeal
Open shop
Senior Executive Service
35. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Conservatism
Indictment
Extradition
Revolving door
36. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Inherent powers
Special or select committee
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
De facto segregation
37. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Standing committee
Natural law
Single-member district
Monopoly
38. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Senatorial courtesy
Independent expenditures
Soft power
Keynesian economics
39. 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.
Closed shop
Democracy
'Necessary and proper' clause
Clear and present danger test
40. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Union shop
Racial gerrymandering
Executive orders
Laissez-faire economics
41. 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
527 organizations
Indexing
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Dual citizenship
42. The head of the White House staff.
Manifest destiny
Treaty
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Chief of staff
43. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Bundling
Indexing
Executive order
Bureaucracy
44. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Regulation
Ethnicity
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Constitutional Convention
45. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Cloture
Divided government
Proportional representation
Speaker
46. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Labor injunction
Express powers
Popular sovereignty
Judicial restraint
47. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Regulatory taking
Regressive tax
Obscenity
Iron triangle
48. A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.
Bush Doctrine
Majority rule
Majority rule
Devolution revolution
49. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Prior restraint
Deficit
Interested money
National party convention
50. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.
Trustee
Extradition
Tariff
Parliamentary system