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1. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Progressive tax
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Criminal law
Party identification
2. 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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3. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Keynesian economics
Cloture
Monetarism
Interest group
4. 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.
amicus curiae brief
Discharge petition
Independent expenditures
Medicaid
5. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Selected perception
Shays's Rebellion
Sales tax
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
6. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
amicus curiae brief
Lobbyist
Reapportionment
Government corporation
7. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Monetary policy
Impoundment
Congressional-executive agreement
Grand jury
8. Views the national government - 50 states - and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes. Applies the analogy of the marketplace: we have some choice about which state and ci
Line item veto
Political socialization
Competitive federalism
Regulations
9. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Divided government
Indictment
Rally point
Interest group
10. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Weapons of mass destruction
Libel
Faction
Closed rule
11. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Shays's Rebellion
Excise tax
Coattail effect
Devolution revolution
12. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.
Treaty
Honeymoon
Ethnocentrism
Prospective issue voting
13. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Political action committee (PAC)
Entitlement programs
amicus curiae brief
Indictment
14. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Normal trade relations
Implementation
Tax expenditure
Right of expatriation
15. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Regulation
Theocracy
Commerce clause
Indictment
16. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Incumbent
Competitive federalism
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Mandate
17. Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
Sound bites
Medicare
Soft money
Marble cake federalism
18. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Checks and balances
Antitrust legislation
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Unemployment
19. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Total and Partial Preemption
Winner-take-all system
Shays's Rebellion
Plea bargain
20. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Deregulation
Dissenting opinion
Dealignment
Regulations
21. 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.
American dream
Obscenity
Conservatism
Hard power
22. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Nonpartisan election
Immunity
Jim Crow laws
Collective bargaining
23. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Capitalism
Majority leader
Gerrymandering
Midterm election
24. 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.
Soft money
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Affirmative action
Issue network
25. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Indictment
Monetarism
State's rights
Majority rule
26. The formal process for making regulations.
Economic sanctions
Independent agency
Medicare
Rule-making process
27. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Impoundment
Primary election
Plea bargain
Sound bites
28. 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.
Labor injunction
New Jersey Plan
Plurality
Interest group
29. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Decentralists
De facto segregation
Amicus curiae brief
Public assistance
30. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Distributive policy
Constitutional Convention
Hatch Act
Quid pro quo
31. Clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 10) originally intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; for a while interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affec
Hard power
Precedent
Labor injunction
Contract clause
32. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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33. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Police powers
Search warrant
State's rights
Senatorial courtesy
34. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Laissez-faire economics
Defendant
Bureaucracy
Mass media
35. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Prior restraint
Judicial review
Cross-cutting cleavages
Linkage institutions
36. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Original jurisdiction
Civil disobedience
Bureaucracy
Constituents
37. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
De jure segregation
Standing committee
Idealism
Realism
38. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Inherent powers
Uncontrollable spending
Issue advocacy
Free rider
39. 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.
Party identification
Bicameralism
Three-fifths compromise
Plea bargain
40. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Public policy
Single-member district
Political ideology
Conservatism
41. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Plurality
Nonpartisan election
Independent expenditures
Laissez-faire economics
42. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Conference committee
Mandate
Political culture
Bush Doctrine
43. The right to vote.
Reapportionment
Affirmative action
Suffrage
Theory of deterrence
44. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Party identification
Mandate
President pro tempore
Open rule
45. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Green party
527 organizations
Federal Register
Rule
46. A small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or - if composed of ideologies on the right or left - usually persists over time; also called a third party.
Restrictive covenant
Trustee
Minor party
Normal trade relations
47. Tax levied on imports to help protect the nation's industries - labor - or farmers from foreign competition. It can also be used to raise additional revenue.
Tariff
Override
Exclusionary rule
Equal protection clause
48. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Internationalism
Regulation
Australian ballot
State's rights
49. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Presidential election
Annapolis Convention
Mass media
Federal Reserve System
50. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Divided government
Bill of attainder
Libertarian party
Articles of Confederation