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1. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover
Inflation
Lobbying
Direct orders
Random sample
2. 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.
Issue advocacy
Theocracy
Property rights
Antifederalists
3. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Jim Crow laws
Department
Class action suit
Shays's Rebellion
4. Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of the party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Statism
Safe seat
Free exercise clause
Liberalism
5. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Primary election
Open rule
Political socialization
Civil law
6. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Political party
Candidate appeal
Democratic consensus
7. Power of a government to take private property for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.
Popular sovereignty
Honeymoon
Eminent domain
Immunity
8. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Tariff
Means-tested entitlements
Enumerated powers
Bill of attainder
9. 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.
Impoundment
Theocracy
Preferred position doctrine
Selective exposure
10. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Prior restraint
Constituents
Initiative
Realism
11. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Demographics
Civil disobedience
Indictment
Capitalism
12. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Bipartisanship
Dual citizenship
Civil disobedience
Rule
13. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Permissive federalism
Line item veto
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Proportional representation
14. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Dissenting opinion
Turnout
Idealism
Monetarism
15. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Iron triangle
Whip
Issue network
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.
Political socialization
Federal mandate
Proportional representation
New Jersey Plan
17. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Retrospective issue of voting
Incumbent
Candidate appeal
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
18. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Bicameralism
Public defender system
Means-tested entitlements
Inherent powers
19. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Joint committee
Safe seat
Socialism
Liberalism
20. 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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21. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Selective exposure
Public defender system
Patronage
Preemption
22. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Tax expenditure
Independent agency
Public assistance
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
23. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Keynesian economics
Conservatism
Criminal law
Democratic consensus
24. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Independent expenditure
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Caucus
Ethnicity
25. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Cloture
Exclusionary rule
Executive order
Open primary
26. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Means-tested entitlements
Caucus
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Internationalism
27. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils system
Interested money
Dealignment
Laissez-faire economics
28. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Soft power
Centralists
Independent expenditures
Presidential election
29. A large body of people interested in a common issue - idea - or concern that is of continuing significance and who are willing to take action. Movements seek to change attitudes or institutions - not just policies.
Movement
Express powers
Race
Candidate appeal
30. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Bush Doctrine
National debt
Reinforcing cleavages
Suffrage
31. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Midterm election
Fighting words
'Necessary and proper' clause
Direct orders
32. 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.
Australian ballot
Antitrust legislation
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Bush Doctrine
33. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
The Federalist
Plurality
Shays's Rebellion
Sedition
34. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Direct orders
Pocket veto
Independent regulatory commission
Permissive federalism
35. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Presidential ticket
Medical savings account
Value-added tax (VAT)
Majority rule
36. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Speaker
Property rights
Free rider
Entitlement programs
37. 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.
Grand jury
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Constitutional democracy
Cabinet
38. 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.
Progressive tax
Indexing
Full faith and credit clause
Crossover sanctions
39. 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.
Issue advocacy
Soft power
Sound bites
Restrictive covenant
40. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Political culture
Federalists
Redistricting
National Intelligence Director
41. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Idealism
Liberalism
Party registration
Government corporation
42. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Closed shop
Naturalization
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Writ of mandamus
43. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Libel
Interest group
Whip
Racial profiling
44. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.
Inherent powers
Progressive tax
Popular sovereignty
Realigning election
45. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Merit system
Judicial review
Idealism
Redistricting
46. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Natural rights
Interest group
Executive agreement
Idealism
47. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Recall
Fundamentalists
Sales tax
Manifest destiny
48. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Double jeopardy
Dissenting opinion
Libertarianism
Judicial review
49. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Australian ballot
Criminal law
Contract clause
Regressive tax
50. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Soft money
Bureaucrat
Procedural due process
Racial profiling
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