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1. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Marbury v. Madison
Sedition
Medical savings account
Establishment clause
2. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Divided government
Separation of powers
Categorical-formula grants
Constitutional Convention
3. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Medicare
State's rights
Entitlement programs
Proportional representation
4. 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.
Monetarism
Reform party
Primary election
Fighting words
5. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional.
Restrictive covenant
Excise tax
Political culture
Caucus
6. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Distributive policy
Isolationism
Confederation
Commerce clause
7. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Direct orders
Unemployment
American dream
Writ of mandamus
8. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Impoundment
Honeymoon
Redistributive policy
Senatorial courtesy
9. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Distributive policy
Direct orders
Crossover sanctions
10. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Hatch Act
Extradition
Issue network
Name recognition
11. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
Liberalism
Government corporation
Impoundment
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
12. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Logrolling
Unemployment
Horse race
Socioeconomic status (SES)
13. A decision made by a higher court such as a circuit court of appeals or the Supreme Court that is binding on all other federal courts.
Precedent
Gerrymandering
Racial profiling
Writ of habeas corpus
14. 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.
Winner-take-all system
Bundling
Honeymoon
Public opinion
15. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
State of the Union Address
Enumerated powers
Name recognition
Implementation
16. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Socialism
Social insurance
Attentive public
Referendum
17. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Cooperative federalism
Antitrust legislation
Democratic consensus
Preferred position doctrine
18. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Demographics
Monetarism
Federalism
Pluralism
19. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Establishment clause
State's rights
Issue advocacy
Merit system
20. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Police powers
Union shop
Soft money
Constitutional democracy
21. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Free exercise clause
Race
Weapons of mass destruction
Judicial restraint
22. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Writ of certiorari
Medicaid
National tide
Treaty
23. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
Candidate appeal
Social Security
Antitrust legislation
Plea bargain
24. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Name recognition
amicus curiae brief
Issue network
Jim Crow laws
25. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Unfunded mandates
Federal Reserve System
Independent expenditures
Linkage institutions
26. 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.'
Hard money
Internationalism
Cross-cutting cleavages
Senatorial courtesy
27. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
The Federalist
Independent regulatory commission
Seniority rule
Dissenting opinion
28. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Soft money
Faction
Poll tax
Realism
29. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Fighting words
Demographics
Adversary system
Collective bargaining
30. An opinion that agrees with the majority in a Supreme Court ruling but differs on the reasoning.
Bush Doctrine
Issue advocacy
Concurring opinion
Writ of habeas corpus
31. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Uncontrollable spending
Independent agency
Midterm election
Constituents
32. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Iron triangle
Project grants
Monopoly
Cycle of decreasing influence
33. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Political socialization
Retrospective issue of voting
Procedural due process
34. A meeting of the members of a party in a legislative chamber to select party leaders and to develop party policy. Called a conference by the Republicans.
General election
Federal mandate
Party identification
Party caucus
35. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Natural law
Majority rule
Majority rule
Trust
36. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
National party convention
Iron triangle
Interest group
Socioeconomic status (SES)
37. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Community policing
Soft money
Closed rule
Libertarianism
38. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Regulatory taking
Prospective issue voting
Cooperative federalism
Proportional representation
39. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Referendum
Revolving door
Centralists
Judicial review
40. 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
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Labor injunction
Regulations
Manifest opinion
41. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Writ of habeas corpus
Excise tax
Substantive due process
Delegate
42. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Social insurance
Pluralism
Political ideology
Offshoring
43. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Crossover sanctions
Australian ballot
Gender gap
Cross-cutting requirements
44. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Necessary and proper clause
Demographics
Primary election
Representative democracy
45. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Concurring opinion
Labor injunction
Cross-cutting cleavages
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
46. A minor party dedicated to the environment - social justice - nonviolence - and the foreign policy of nonintervention. Ralph Nader ran as the Green party's nominee in 2000.
Writ of certiorari
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Green party
Indictment
47. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Treaty
Libertarian party
State's rights
Civil disobedience
48. 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.
Attentive public
Gender gap
Revolving door
Jim Crow laws
49. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Constitutional Convention
Multilateralism
Women's suffrage
Sales tax
50. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Single-member district
Class action suit
Monopoly
Confederation