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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The difference between the political opinions or political behavior of men and of women.
Gender gap
Writ of mandamus
Indictment
Protectionism
2. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Appellate jurisdiction
General election
Idealism
Concurring opinion
3. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Electoral college
Entitlements
Cabinet
Ex post facto law
4. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Executive order
Social capital
Ex post facto law
Inherent powers
5. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Revolving door
Iron triangle
Federal Reserve System
Plea bargain
6. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Eminent domain
Discharge petition
Plea bargain
Race
7. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Bush Doctrine
New Jersey Plan
Precedent
Dual citizenship
8. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Primary election
Articles of Confederation
Keynesian economics
Revolving door
9. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Bureaucrat
Party convention
Closed shop
Fiscal policy
10. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Implied powers
Bundling
Closed primary
Photo ops
11. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Property rights
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Indictment
Monetarism
12. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Decentralists
Majority
Mass media
Spoils system
13. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
Liberalism
Means-tested entitlements
Lobbying
State's rights
14. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Independent expenditures
National party convention
Property rights
Incumbent
15. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Divided government
Name recognition
Turnout
Interested money
16. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Literacy test
Cross-cutting requirements
Administrative discretion
World Trade Organization (WTO)
17. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
Crossover sanctions
Criminal law
Monetarism
Rider
18. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Incumbent
Direct primary
Political action committee (PAC)
Logrolling
19. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.
Regressive tax
Stare decisis
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Closed shop
20. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Recall
Interest group
Indictment
Bureaucrat
21. 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
Means-tested entitlements
Class action suit
Concurring opinion
Independent expenditure
22. Election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Search warrant
Bicameralism
Winner-take-all system
Medical savings account
23. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Establishment clause
Policy agenda
Closed primary
Bicameralism
24. 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.
Procedural due process
Jim Crow laws
Checks and balances
Issue advocacy
25. A rise in the general price level (and decrease in dollar value) owing to an increase in the volume of money and credit in relation to available goods.
Federalists
Inflation
Double jeopardy
Leadership PAC
26. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Double jeopardy
Political socialization
Sound bites
Safe seat
27. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Public choice
Selected perception
Parliamentary system
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
28. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
National tide
Federal Reserve System
Executive Office of the President
Writ of habeas corpus
29. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Interested money
Cross-cutting cleavages
Impeachment
Rule
30. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Australian ballot
Special or select committee
Devolution revolution
Justiciable dispute
31. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Capitalism
Cross-cutting cleavages
Constitutional democracy
Majority rule
32. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Marble cake federalism
Majority leader
Midterm election
Primary election
33. Photo opportunities set up by the candidates. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on photo ops to explain them to the public.
Writ of habeas corpus
Photo ops
Police powers
Rule
34. 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.
Senior Executive Service
Soft money
Constitutional democracy
Precedent
35. 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
White primary
Annapolis Convention
National tide
Medicare
36. 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
Class action suit
Virginia Plan
Keynesian economics
37. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Movement
Commerce clause
Progressive tax
Popular consent
38. A national meeting of delegates elected in 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.
Nonprotected speech
Inherent powers
Unemployment
National party convention
39. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Executive privilege
Dissenting opinion
Idealism
Open shop
40. 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.
Preferred position doctrine
Public policy
Random sample
Independent agency
41. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.
Redistricting
Patronage
Selective incorporation
Hard money
42. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Medicaid
Issue network
Constituents
Competitive federalism
43. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Community policing
State of the Union Address
Soft money
Proportional representation
44. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Democracy
Direct orders
Multilateralism
Judicial review
45. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Pocket veto
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Stare decisis
Veto
46. 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.
Impoundment
Hold
Issue advocacy
Redistricting
47. 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.
Indictment
Total and Partial Preemption
Party identification
Normal trade relations
48. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Pocket veto
Free exercise clause
Trust
Independent expenditures
49. 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.
Necessary and proper clause
Class action suit
Establishment clause
Party identification
50. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Popular sovereignty
Independent agency
amicus curiae brief
Contract clause