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1. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Women's suffrage
National tide
Conference committee
Sedition
2. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
National party convention
Constituents
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Whip
3. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Enumerated powers
Project grants
Criminal law
Unitary system
4. 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.
Libertarianism
Hard money
Winner-take-all system
Coattail effect
5. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Political ideology
Executive privilege
Hard power
Women's suffrage
6. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
Competitive federalism
Right of expatriation
De facto segregation
7. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Senatorial courtesy
Faction
Judicial review
Realigning election
8. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Demographics
Treaty
Party convention
National party convention
9. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Due process clause
Special or select committee
Protectionism
Proportional representation
10. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Marbury v. Madison
Petit jury
Exclusionary rule
Pocket veto
11. A type of policy that takes benefits (usually through taxes) from one group of Americans and gives them to another (usually through spending).
Collective bargaining
Redistributive policy
Department
Implementation
12. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Divided government
Public policy
Merit system
Poll tax
13. 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.
Constitutional democracy
Executive agreement
Party caucus
Closed rule
14. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Movement
Patronage
Police powers
Ethnicity
15. 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.
Libertarian party
Libertarianism
Candidate appeal
Majority leader
16. 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.
De facto segregation
Tariff
Full faith and credit clause
Proportional representation
17. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Free exercise clause
Collective action
Regulatory taking
Suffrage
18. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Trust
Necessary and proper clause
Political predisposition
Issue advocacy
19. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Popular sovereignty
Marbury v. Madison
Recall
20. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Independent expenditures
Keynesian economics
Monopoly
Vouchers
21. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Community policing
Realism
Logrolling
Literacy test
22. 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.
Connecticut Compromise
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Democracy
Libertarianism
23. 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.
Bicameralism
Establishment clause
Safe seat
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
24. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Restrictive covenant
Executive orders
Patronage
Presidential election
25. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Political predisposition
Override
Majority rule
Ethnicity
26. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Affirmative action
Creative federalism
Single-member district
Articles of Confederation
27. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Iron triangle
Libel
Government corporation
Parliamentary system
28. 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.
Property rights
Discharge petition
Tax expenditure
Eminent domain
29. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Interest group
Court of appeals
Grand jury
Social insurance
30. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Rally point
Inherent powers
Congressional-executive agreement
Bill of attainder
31. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Proportional representation
Referendum
Primary election
Divided government
32. A president's claim of broad public support.
Mandate
Means-tested entitlements
Bicameralism
Hold
33. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Mandate
Laissez-faire economics
Reinforcing cleavages
Unilateralism
34. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Incumbent
Soft power
Political socialization
Exclusionary rule
35. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Sales tax
Political ideology
Majority-minority district
Patronage
36. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Government corporation
Name recognition
37. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Soft money
Rule-making process
Entitlements
Excise tax
38. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Crossover sanctions
Constitutional Convention
Political culture
Selective incorporation
39. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Permissive federalism
Inherent powers
Candidate appeal
Marble cake federalism
40. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Majority
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Social capital
Congressional-executive agreement
41. 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.
Public choice
Search warrant
Political socialization
Idealism
42. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
General election
Appellate jurisdiction
Uncontrollable spending
Judicial review
43. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Retrospective issue of voting
Social capital
Uncontrollable spending
Oversight
44. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
The Federalist
Entitlement programs
Keynesian economics
National supremacy
45. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Movement
Impoundment
Selective exposure
Majority leader
46. The right to vote.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Suffrage
Naturalization
Antitrust legislation
47. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Majority
Preemption
Adversary system
Executive orders
48. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Regressive tax
Voter registration
Soft money
Tariff
49. An official who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of legislator.
Open shop
Delegate
Eminent domain
Weapons of mass destruction
50. 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
Suffrage
Categorical-formula grants
Realism
Deregulation