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1. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Stare decisis
Annapolis Convention
Petit jury
Decentralists
2. The right to vote.
Suffrage
Political party
Leadership PAC
Monopoly
3. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Horse race
Immunity
Political ideology
Executive order
4. 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.
Obscenity
Delegate
Criminal law
Suffrage
5. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Incumbent
Override
Gerrymandering
Police powers
6. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Divided government
Proportional representation
Civil law
Candidate appeal
7. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Candidate appeal
Minority leader
Cabinet
8. 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.
Central clearance
Three-fifths compromise
Tariff
Delegate
9. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Express powers
Retrospective issue of voting
Normal trade relations
National tide
10. 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.
Majority rule
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Issue advocacy
amicus curiae brief
11. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Due process clause
Sedition
Writ of habeas corpus
Deregulation
12. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Federalists
National party convention
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Socioeconomic status (SES)
13. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Reapportionment
Honeymoon
Rule-making process
Justiciable dispute
14. The presiding officer in the House of Representatives - formally elected by the House but actually selected by the majority party.
Speaker
'Our federalism'
Amicus curiae brief
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
15. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Majority leader
Single-member district
Standing committee
Exclusionary rule
16. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Selected perception
Inflation
Ethnicity
Antifederalists
17. 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.
Fiscal federalism
Three-fifths compromise
National Intelligence Director
Iron triangle
18. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Libertarian party
Labor injunction
Issue network
Winner-take-all system
19. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Plea bargain
Regulations
Closed shop
Commerce clause
20. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Fundamentalists
Retrospective issue of voting
Democracy
Inflation
21. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Commercial speech
Quid pro quo
Issue network
Selective exposure
22. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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23. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Congressional-executive agreement
Natural rights
Amicus curiae brief
Political party
24. 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).
White primary
Filibuster
Property rights
Movement
25. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Substantive due process
Issue advocacy
Free rider
Decentralists
26. 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
Democratic consensus
Idealism
27. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Collective action
Due process
Administrative discretion
28. 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.
Single-member district
Plea bargain
Special or select committee
Total and Partial Preemption
29. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Civil law
Independent expenditures
Special or select committee
Closed shop
30. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Bipartisanship
Random sample
Political party
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
31. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Equal protection clause
Unilateralism
Hard money
Literacy test
32. 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
Due process clause
Honeymoon
Virginia Plan
Cross-cutting requirements
33. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Confederation
Cooperative federalism
Excise tax
Closed shop
34. 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.
Majority rule
National supremacy
Majority rule
Oversight
35. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Dissenting opinion
General election
Normal trade relations
Public opinion
36. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
The Federalist
Direct primary
News media
Party identification
37. Segregation imposed by law.
Statism
De jure segregation
Docket
National party convention
38. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Entitlements
Offshoring
Representative democracy
Prior restraint
39. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Reinforcing cleavages
Standing committee
Special or select committee
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
40. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Name recognition
Safe seat
Economic sanctions
Plurality
41. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Political socialization
Party identification
Independent regulatory commission
Cabinet
42. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Libertarianism
Medicaid
Senior Executive Service
Decentralists
43. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Substantive due process
Plea bargain
Party registration
Political socialization
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.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Issue advocacy
Department
Override
45. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Commerce clause
Caucus
Spoils system
Preferred position doctrine
46. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Green party
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Due process clause
Dual citizenship
47. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Progressive tax
Initiative
Federal Register
Divided government
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.
Closed primary
Central clearance
Realigning election
Standing committee
49. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Judicial review
Deregulation
Primary election
Federal Reserve System
50. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Multilateralism
Coattail effect
Hard money
Parliamentary system