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1. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Impoundment
Medical savings account
Crossover voting
Movement
2. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Means-tested entitlements
Federal Reserve System
Candidate appeal
Express powers
3. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Hard power
Manifest opinion
Issue network
Distributive policy
4. 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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5. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Photo ops
Ethnicity
Monopoly
Value-added tax (VAT)
6. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Majority rule
Name recognition
Independent expenditure
Executive orders
7. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Issue network
Commerce clause
Original jurisdiction
Bureaucrat
8. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Property rights
Enumerated powers
Constitutional Convention
Party convention
9. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
National debt
Open rule
Three-fifths compromise
Value-added tax (VAT)
10. 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
Safe seat
National tide
Jim Crow laws
Total and Partial Preemption
11. A legislative practice that assigns the chair of the committee or subcommittee to the member of the majority party with the longest continuous service on the committee.
Quid pro quo
Demographics
Seniority rule
Vouchers
12. 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
Total and Partial Preemption
Executive order
Poll tax
Cross-cutting cleavages
13. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Establishment clause
Federal mandate
Interested money
14. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Caucus
Joint committee
527 organizations
Labor injunction
15. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Midterm election
Plea bargain
Government corporation
16. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
Affirmative action
Open shop
Override
New Jersey Plan
17. A government that enforces recognized limits on those who govern and allows the voice of the people to be heard through free - fair - and relatively frequent elections.
Free exercise clause
Reform party
American dream
Constitutional democracy
18. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Docket
Multilateralism
Independent expenditure
Cross-cutting cleavages
19. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Monetarism
Defendant
Judicial activism
Demographics
20. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Racial gerrymandering
Attentive public
Class action suit
Direct democracy
21. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Free exercise clause
Appellate jurisdiction
Manifest destiny
National Intelligence Director
22. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Uncontrollable spending
Ethnicity
Override
Procedural due process
23. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Preemption
Theocracy
Jim Crow laws
Total and Partial Preemption
24. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Enumerated powers
Multilateralism
Cabinet
Environmental impact statement
25. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Political ideology
Isolationism
Socialism
Petit jury
26. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
Soft money
Hard money
Issue advocacy
The Federalist
27. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Indictment
Public defender system
Referendum
Standing committee
28. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Executive privilege
Selective incorporation
Party convention
Rule
29. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Pocket veto
Hard money
Fiscal federalism
Monetarism
30. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Cooperative federalism
Bicameralism
Executive privilege
Unfunded mandates
31. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Substantive due process
Sound bites
Closed rule
Federal Reserve System
32. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Interest group
'Necessary and proper' clause
Contract clause
Closed shop
33. 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.
Hard money
'Necessary and proper' clause
Congressional-executive agreement
Issue advocacy
34. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Monetarism
Override
Constitutional democracy
Selected perception
35. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Take care clause
Nonprotected speech
Exclusionary rule
Natural rights
36. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
Plurality
Political party
Social Security
Voter registration
37. A national meeting of delegates elected at primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.
Collective action
National party convention
Constituents
Due process clause
38. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Precedent
Fundamentalists
Closed shop
Concurring opinion
39. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Collective action
Libel
Implied powers
Value-added tax (VAT)
40. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Patronage
Constitutional democracy
Central clearance
Due process clause
41. 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.
Procedural due process
Impoundment
Manifest opinion
Extradition
42. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Race
Independent agency
Natural rights
Natural law
43. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Due process
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Federalism
Conservatism
44. A president's claim of broad public support.
Issue network
Theory of deterrence
Mandate
Senatorial courtesy
45. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Libertarianism
Virginia Plan
Tariff
Express powers
46. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
National party convention
Liberalism
Plea bargain
Hard money
47. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Voter registration
Cooperative federalism
Leadership PAC
Environmental impact statement
48. The current holder of the elected office.
President pro tempore
Docket
Incumbent
Photo ops
49. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Primary election
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Social insurance
50. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Antifederalists
Public choice
Federalism
Shays's Rebellion