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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Issue network
Offshoring
Congressional-executive agreement
Obscenity
2. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Public assistance
Jim Crow laws
Poll tax
Laissez-faire economics
3. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Social Security
Issue network
'Our federalism'
Race
4. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Issue network
Ethnicity
Merit system
Soft money
5. 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.
Establishment clause
Majority leader
Plurality
Writ of habeas corpus
6. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
Judicial review
Exclusionary rule
National debt
Centralists
7. A veto exercised by the president after Congress has adjourned; if the president takes no action for 10 days - the bill does not become law and does not return to Congress for possible override.
Fundamentalists
Pocket veto
Constitutional Convention
Medical savings account
8. A president's claim of broad public support.
Treaty
Judicial review
Dissenting opinion
Mandate
9. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Monopoly
Due process clause
Natural rights
Selected perception
10. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Hard power
Nonpartisan election
Override
Treaty
11. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.
Conservatism
Competitive federalism
Trade deficit
Statism
12. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
National supremacy
Procedural due process
Gender gap
Racial gerrymandering
13. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Community policing
Iron triangle
Constituents
Independent expenditure
14. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Name recognition
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Monopoly
Cycle of decreasing influence
15. 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.
Concurring opinion
Restrictive covenant
Discharge petition
Collective bargaining
16. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Regulations
Amicus curiae brief
Keynesian economics
Fiscal federalism
17. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Community policing
Interest group
Sound bites
Implied powers
18. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Dealignment
Reform party
Representative democracy
Contract clause
19. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Turnout
Enumerated powers
Australian ballot
Natural law
20. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Caucus
Issue network
Precedent
21. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Exclusionary rule
Oversight
General election
Turnout
22. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Amicus curiae brief
Lobbyist
Writ of certiorari
Popular sovereignty
23. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Dealignment
Police powers
Constitutional democracy
Rule
24. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Divided government
State of the Union Address
Total and Partial Preemption
Search warrant
25. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Open shop
Marbury v. Madison
Inflation
Revolving door
26. 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
Collective action
Statism
Soft money
Executive privilege
27. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Bicameralism
Take care clause
Articles of Confederation
Linkage institutions
28. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Political ideology
Collective action
Gender gap
Crossover voting
29. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Gerrymandering
Progressive tax
Inherent powers
Delegate
30. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Social Security
Race
Public choice
Connecticut Compromise
31. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Devolution revolution
Trust
Political socialization
Bureaucrat
32. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Block grants
Fighting words
Indictment
Reform party
33. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Open rule
Direct primary
Override
Obscenity
34. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Primary election
Trustee
Full faith and credit clause
Majority
35. 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.
Open shop
Monetarism
Federal mandate
Inherent powers
36. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Medical savings account
Party convention
Soft money
Prospective issue voting
37. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Trustee
Impeachment
Crossover sanctions
Presidential ticket
38. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments.
Closed rule
Justiciable dispute
Natural rights
Contract clause
39. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Political party
Rider
Ethnicity
Fiscal policy
40. 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.
Separation of powers
Movement
Proportional representation
Libertarian party
41. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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42. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Sound bites
Theory of deterrence
Devolution revolution
Enumerated powers
43. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Marbury v. Madison
Override
'Our federalism'
Socioeconomic status (SES)
44. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Medical savings account
Unilateralism
Primary election
Sales tax
45. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Medicaid
Constitutional Convention
Reapportionment
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
46. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Keynesian economics
News media
Regulation
Attentive public
47. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Multilateralism
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
48. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Community policing
Majority rule
Popular sovereignty
Veto
49. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Closed shop
Political socialization
Dissenting opinion
Keynesian economics
50. 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.
Realism
Issue advocacy
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Closed primary