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1. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Majority
Creative federalism
Soft power
2. 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.
Writ of habeas corpus
Plea bargain
amicus curiae brief
Women's suffrage
3. 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.
Socialism
Public policy
Realigning election
Prior restraint
4. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Bad tendency test
Property rights
Appellate jurisdiction
Safe seat
5. 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.
News media
Precedent
Plea bargain
Eminent domain
6. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Honeymoon
Selected perception
Special or select committee
Marble cake federalism
7. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Minority leader
Race
Proportional representation
Double jeopardy
8. 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
National tide
Caucus
National party convention
Marble cake federalism
9. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
Means-tested entitlements
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
De facto segregation
Affirmative action
10. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Vouchers
Multilateralism
Plurality
Labor injunction
11. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Cross-cutting requirements
Senatorial courtesy
Opinion of the Court
Commerce clause
12. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Preemption
Political socialization
Deficit
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
13. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Unemployment
State's rights
Voter registration
Manifest destiny
14. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Inherent powers
Government corporation
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Community policing
15. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Safe seat
Reform party
Initiative
Writ of habeas corpus
16. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t
Plurality
Representative democracy
Equal protection clause
Clear and present danger test
17. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
De jure segregation
Candidate appeal
Equal protection clause
Hold
18. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Categorical-formula grants
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Equal protection clause
Referendum
19. 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.
Medical savings account
Tax expenditure
Issue advocacy
Safe seat
20. 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.
Executive order
Closed primary
Majority leader
Deficit
21. 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.
Natural rights
Photo ops
Faction
Theory of deterrence
22. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Executive Office of the President
Oversight
Entitlements
Majority rule
23. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Weapons of mass destruction
Parliamentary system
Faction
Gross domestic product (GDP)
24. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Civil disobedience
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Confederation
Connecticut Compromise
25. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Selective exposure
Pocket veto
Keynesian economics
Demographics
26. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Iron triangle
Collective action
Independent expenditure
Attentive public
27. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments - called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Public opinion
Procedural due process
Exclusionary rule
Federalism
28. 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.
Full faith and credit clause
Judicial review
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Cabinet
29. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Antitrust legislation
Justiciable dispute
Devolution revolution
Policy agenda
30. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Pocket veto
Realigning election
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Party registration
31. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Reform party
Bipartisanship
Marbury v. Madison
Social Security
32. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Constitutional democracy
Bureaucracy
Impoundment
Caucus
33. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Women's suffrage
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Appellate jurisdiction
Labor injunction
34. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Sedition
Means-tested entitlements
Normal trade relations
Defendant
35. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
Laissez-faire economics
Bush Doctrine
National party convention
36. These are broad state grants to states for prescribed activities—welfare - child care - education - social services - preventive health care - and health services—with only a few strings attached. States have greater flexibility in deciding how to sp
Joint committee
Internationalism
Block grants
Shays's Rebellion
37. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many applications in the various social sciences such as political science - sociology - and
Candidate appeal
Collective action
Excise tax
Original jurisdiction
38. 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
Political party
Direct orders
Marble cake federalism
Inherent powers
39. A career government employee.
Independent expenditure
Bureaucrat
Cross-cutting cleavages
Direct primary
40. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or 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
Majority-minority district
Regressive tax
Quid pro quo
41. A national meeting of delegates elected at 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.
Independent expenditure
Bill of attainder
National party convention
Concurrent powers
42. 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.
Shays's Rebellion
Preferred position doctrine
Name recognition
Movement
43. 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.
Opinion of the Court
De jure segregation
Hatch Act
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
44. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Antitrust legislation
Democracy
Antitrust legislation
Realism
45. The difference between the revenues raised annually from sources of income other than borrowing and the expenditures of government - including paying the interest on past borrowing.
Deficit
Prior restraint
Competitive federalism
Natural law
46. An opinion that agrees with the majority in a Supreme Court ruling but differs on the reasoning.
Concurring opinion
Sedition
Plea bargain
Divided government
47. Political contributions given to a party - candidate - or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds - hence the term 'hard money.'
Winner-take-all system
Shays's Rebellion
Hard money
Tariff
48. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
Prior restraint
Statism
Proportional representation
Direct orders
49. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Monetarism
Civil disobedience
Independent regulatory commission
Merit system
50. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Enumerated powers
Petit jury
Jim Crow laws
Property rights