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1. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Ethnicity
Conservatism
Bicameralism
2. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Political culture
Executive agreement
Impeachment
Block grants
3. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
State of the Union Address
Retrospective issue of voting
Bicameralism
Commerce clause
4. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Political action committee (PAC)
Impoundment
Court of appeals
Democratic consensus
5. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Due process clause
Lobbying
Theocracy
Senatorial courtesy
6. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Independent expenditure
Political culture
Selective exposure
Court of appeals
7. Democratic party primary in the old 'one-party South' that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in Smith v. Allwright (1944).
Caucus
White primary
Conference committee
Seniority rule
8. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Leadership PAC
Categorical-formula grants
Bush Doctrine
Winner-take-all system
9. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Soft money
Social capital
Cabinet
10. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Cooperative federalism
Natural law
Stare decisis
11. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Democracy
Means-tested entitlements
Writ of habeas corpus
Judicial review
12. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Laissez-faire economics
Movement
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Federal Register
13. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Unfunded mandates
Court of appeals
Writ of habeas corpus
Antitrust legislation
14. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.
Confederation
Medicare
Plea bargain
Labor injunction
15. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Issue advocacy
National supremacy
Laissez-faire economics
Original jurisdiction
16. The right of women to vote.
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17. The study of the characteristics of populations.
Reinforcing cleavages
Divided government
Bicameralism
Demographics
18. The Federal government's primary intelligence officer - responsible for overseeing all national intelligence agencies and providing advice to the President on terrorist threats.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Concurring opinion
Writ of certiorari
National Intelligence Director
19. A national meeting of delegates elected in 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.
National party convention
Turnout
Preferred position doctrine
Keynesian economics
20. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Impeachment
Earmarks
Bureaucrat
Rider
21. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Exclusionary rule
Collective action
Take care clause
Voter registration
22. 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.
Impeachment
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Trust
Express powers
23. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Incumbent
Pocket veto
Virginia Plan
Open rule
24. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Medical savings account
Selective exposure
Political socialization
Presidential election
25. 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.
Contract clause
Demographics
'Our federalism'
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
26. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Collective bargaining
Inflation
Full faith and credit clause
National supremacy
27. The number of Americans who are out of work but actively looking for a job. The number does not usually include those who are not looking.
Unemployment
Cycle of decreasing influence
Democracy
Political socialization
28. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Constitutionalism
President pro tempore
Justiciable dispute
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
29. 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.
Natural rights
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Inherent powers
Indictment
30. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Vouchers
Rule
Standing committee
Rally point
31. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Union shop
Obscenity
Fundamentalists
Presidential ticket
32. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Australian ballot
Public policy
Annapolis Convention
Issue network
33. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Writ of habeas corpus
Inherent powers
National party convention
Minority leader
34. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Public policy
Progressive tax
Isolationism
Recall
35. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
News media
Linkage institutions
Pocket veto
Representative democracy
36. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
Regulation
Libertarianism
Multilateralism
Manifest opinion
37. 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.
Reform party
Naturalization
Ex post facto law
Hatch Act
38. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Docket
Safe seat
Closed shop
Attentive public
39. 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.
Writ of habeas corpus
Selective incorporation
Treaty
Marble cake federalism
40. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Safe seat
Crossover sanctions
Constitutional Convention
Senior Executive Service
41. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Caucus
Substantive due process
Realigning election
Ethnicity
42. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Party convention
Federal Register
General election
Natural rights
43. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
527 organizations
Writ of mandamus
Adversary system
Double jeopardy
44. 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.'
Extradition
Interested money
Regulations
Hard money
45. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.
Electoral college
Equal protection clause
Senior Executive Service
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
46. Clause in the Constitution that states that 'Congress should have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. . . .' This clause is also known as the elastic clause as is a major and significant p
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47. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Hatch Act
Natural rights
Constitutional Convention
Socioeconomic status (SES)
48. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Offshoring
Coattail effect
Unfunded mandates
Racial profiling
49. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Public assistance
Writ of habeas corpus
Progressive tax
Closed shop
50. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
Establishment clause
Filibuster
Class action suit
Bureaucracy