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1. 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.
Amicus curiae brief
Connecticut Compromise
Constitutional democracy
Caucus
2. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
National party convention
Natural law
Independent expenditure
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
3. 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.
Medicaid
Criminal law
Electoral college
Judicial review
4. A large body of people interested in a common issue - idea - or concern that is of continuing significance and who are willing to take action. Movements seek to change attitudes or institutions - not just policies.
Movement
Issue network
Primary election
Filibuster
5. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
De jure segregation
Annapolis Convention
Patronage
The Federalist
6. A system of government in which the legislature selects the prime minister or president.
Patronage
Parliamentary system
Due process clause
Fundamentalists
7. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Leadership PAC
Regulatory taking
Environmental impact statement
Hatch Act
8. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Ex post facto law
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Retrospective issue of voting
Constituents
9. 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.
Trust
Soft money
Federalism
Patronage
10. A formal agreement between a U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that acquires approval by both houses of Congress.
Congressional-executive agreement
Deregulation
Writ of habeas corpus
Closed shop
11. 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.
Due process
Unemployment
Winner-take-all system
Express powers
12. A president's claim of broad public support.
Federal mandate
Constitutional Convention
Mandate
Special or select committee
13. 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.
Unilateralism
Logrolling
Restrictive covenant
Rider
14. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Whip
Right of expatriation
Australian ballot
Prospective issue voting
15. 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
Public assistance
Prior restraint
Direct orders
16. These are broad state grants to states for prescribed activities—welfare - child care - education - social services - preventive health care - and health services—with only a few strings attached. States have greater flexibility in deciding how to sp
Single-member district
Majority-minority district
Environmental impact statement
Block grants
17. 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.
Chief of staff
Labor injunction
Delegate
Revolving door
18. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any
Issue advocacy
Attentive public
Reapportionment
Crossover sanctions
19. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Obscenity
Gender gap
Majority rule
Medicaid
20. Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.
Virginia Plan
Executive order
Dissenting opinion
Libertarianism
21. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Initiative
Pocket veto
Idealism
Civil disobedience
22. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Commercial speech
Electoral college
Judicial review
Laissez-faire economics
23. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Police powers
Political socialization
Permissive federalism
Civil disobedience
24. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Administrative discretion
Fighting words
Winner-take-all system
Movement
25. 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.
Due process clause
Chief of staff
Competitive federalism
Horse race
26. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Cooperative federalism
Dual citizenship
Manifest opinion
Regulations
27. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Executive privilege
Medicare
Rider
Libertarianism
28. The political arm of an interest group that is legally entitled to raise funds on a voluntary basis from members - stockholders - or employees to contribute funds to candidates or political parties.
Soft power
Filibuster
Political action committee (PAC)
Honeymoon
29. Views the national government - 50 states - and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes. Applies the analogy of the marketplace: we have some choice about which state and ci
Competitive federalism
Ethnicity
Spoils system
Interstate compact
30. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Democratic consensus
Closed primary
Attentive public
Caucus
31. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Community policing
Monetarism
Merit system
Block grants
32. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Iron triangle
Spoils system
Random sample
Independent regulatory commission
33. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Project grants
Senatorial courtesy
Majority rule
Ex post facto law
34. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Court of appeals
Midterm election
Party identification
Labor injunction
35. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Racial profiling
Socialism
Marbury v. Madison
Pocket veto
36. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Party identification
News media
Mass media
Honeymoon
37. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Executive privilege
Open rule
Monetary policy
Public policy
38. A provision attached to a bill
Standing committee
Plea bargain
Rider
Centralists
39. 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.
Shays's Rebellion
Green party
Free exercise clause
Social capital
40. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Faction
Hold
Implied powers
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
41. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Writ of certiorari
Free rider
Speaker
Selected perception
42. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Representative democracy
Labor injunction
Federal Register
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
43. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Selective exposure
Photo ops
National debt
Clear and present danger test
44. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Revolving door
Unitary system
Theory of deterrence
Fighting words
45. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Filibuster
Writ of habeas corpus
Community policing
46. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Federalism
Single-member district
Creative federalism
Nonprotected speech
47. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Antifederalists
Block grants
Political predisposition
Impeachment
48. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Closed shop
Court of appeals
Cloture
Proportional representation
49. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Party convention
Capitalism
Impeachment
50. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Executive agreement
National debt
Opinion of the Court
Dissenting opinion