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AP Government

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1. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.






2. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.






3. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.






4. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.






5. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.






6. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.






7. 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.






8. The right of women to vote.

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9. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.






13. 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.






14. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.






15. 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.






16. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.






17. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.






18. 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).






19. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.






20. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.






21. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.






22. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.






23. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.






24. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.






25. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.






26. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.






27. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.






28. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.






29. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go






30. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.






31. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.






32. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.






33. A secret ballot printed by the state.






34. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.






35. A president's claim of broad public support.






36. A provision attached to a bill






37. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.






38. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.






39. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.






40. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.






41. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.






42. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.






43. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.






44. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.






45. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for 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 any regulation.






46. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.






47. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.






48. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.






49. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.






50. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.






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