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1. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Double jeopardy
Executive agreement
Political culture
Independent expenditures
2. 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.
Policy agenda
Monetary policy
Decentralists
Interest group
3. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Centralists
Public assistance
Concurring opinion
Impoundment
4. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Keynesian economics
General election
Racial gerrymandering
Virginia Plan
5. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Adversary system
Issue network
Indexing
Dissenting opinion
6. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Eminent domain
Medicare
Closed shop
Plurality
7. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Chief of staff
Recall
Federalists
Racial gerrymandering
8. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Sales tax
Bad tendency test
Suffrage
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
9. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Fighting words
Closed shop
Honeymoon
Public opinion
10. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
Permissive federalism
Crossover voting
Constitutionalism
Libertarian party
11. 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.
Necessary and proper clause
Pocket veto
Plea bargain
Concurring opinion
12. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Libertarianism
Implementation
Candidate appeal
Photo ops
13. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Unilateralism
Winner-take-all system
Necessary and proper clause
Ethnicity
14. 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.
Bicameralism
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
National debt
Block grants
15. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.
Capitalism
Closed rule
Mass media
Selective incorporation
16. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Property rights
Cooperative federalism
Writ of habeas corpus
Constitutional democracy
17. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Internationalism
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Public defender system
Free exercise clause
18. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Fundamentalists
General election
Joint committee
Parliamentary system
19. The formal process for making regulations.
Override
Rule-making process
Party identification
'Our federalism'
20. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Uncontrollable spending
Chief of staff
Reapportionment
Substantive due process
21. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Closed primary
Federalists
Articles of Confederation
Express powers
22. 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.
Congressional-executive agreement
Amicus curiae brief
Bad tendency test
Democratic consensus
23. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Party convention
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Theory of deterrence
Override
24. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
The Federalist
Senatorial courtesy
Quid pro quo
25. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Fiscal federalism
Natural rights
Plea bargain
Trustee
26. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
National party convention
Women's suffrage
Primary election
Constitutionalism
27. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Closed primary
Issue network
Social capital
Redistricting
28. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Policy agenda
Keynesian economics
Federal Reserve System
Turnout
29. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Race
Lobbyist
Plea bargain
Judicial review
30. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Ethnocentrism
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Quid pro quo
White primary
31. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Monetarism
Enumerated powers
Petit jury
Due process clause
32. A legal action conferring citizenship on an alien.
Naturalization
Keynesian economics
Cross-cutting requirements
Cabinet
33. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
State of the Union Address
National tide
Antitrust legislation
Unfunded mandates
34. A president's claim of broad public support.
Eminent domain
Mandate
Initiative
Dual citizenship
35. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Joint committee
Senatorial courtesy
Defendant
Executive privilege
36. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Marbury v. Madison
Internationalism
Faction
Deregulation
37. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Social capital
Conservatism
Photo ops
Reapportionment
38. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Open primary
Congressional-executive agreement
Criminal law
Executive Office of the President
39. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Iron triangle
Socialism
Entitlement programs
Preemption
40. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Manifest destiny
Articles of Confederation
Racial gerrymandering
Substantive due process
41. 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.
Delegate
Standing committee
Proportional representation
Deregulation
42. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Eminent domain
Medicare
National Intelligence Director
Trustee
43. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.
Redistricting
Oversight
Random sample
World Trade Organization (WTO)
44. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Decentralists
Lobbyist
Economic sanctions
Social capital
45. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Extradition
Police powers
Medicare
Constituents
46. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Soft money
Federal Reserve System
National party convention
Categorical-formula grants
47. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Concurring opinion
Cloture
Monetarism
Pluralism
48. 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
Indictment
Writ of habeas corpus
Central clearance
49. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Free rider
Executive privilege
Faction
Equal protection clause
50. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Cloture
Value-added tax (VAT)
Distributive policy
Unfunded mandates