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1. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Public policy
Voter registration
Quid pro quo
Electoral college
2. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Demographics
Project grants
Sales tax
Plea bargain
3. Trade status granted as part of an international trade policy that gives a nation the same favorable trade concessions and tariffs that the best trading partners receive.
Social insurance
Lobbyist
'Our federalism'
Normal trade relations
4. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Safe seat
Monopoly
Presidential ticket
State's rights
5. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Selected perception
Independent expenditure
Devolution revolution
Impeachment
6. 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.
Closed primary
Judicial review
National supremacy
Faction
7. 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
Chief of staff
Hard money
Monopoly
8. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Leadership PAC
Selective exposure
Spoils system
Majority leader
9. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Laissez-faire economics
Bicameralism
Total and Partial Preemption
Police powers
10. 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.
De jure segregation
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Inherent powers
Keynesian economics
11. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Merit system
Implementation
Cycle of decreasing influence
Oversight
12. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Keynesian economics
Contract clause
Impeachment
Midterm election
13. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Writ of certiorari
Entitlements
Constitutionalism
Political socialization
14. Congress appropriates a certain sum - which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies - based on applications from those who wish to participate. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universi
Attentive public
Due process clause
American dream
Project grants
15. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Plea bargain
Regulation
Connecticut Compromise
Antifederalists
16. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Social capital
Reinforcing cleavages
Mandate
Redistricting
17. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Linkage institutions
Socialism
Sedition
Constitutional Convention
18. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Reapportionment
Executive Office of the President
Environmental impact statement
Keynesian economics
19. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Mass media
Popular consent
Turnout
Social insurance
20. A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.
De jure segregation
Annapolis Convention
Implementation
Lobbyist
21. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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22. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
De facto segregation
Policy agenda
Movement
Executive order
23. 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.
De facto segregation
Reform party
Selected perception
Unfunded mandates
24. Clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 10) originally intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; for a while interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affec
Pocket veto
Contract clause
Delegate
Indexing
25. A provision attached to a bill
Joint committee
Rider
Interest group
Department
26. Elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of the party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
Random sample
Independent expenditures
Articles of Confederation
Safe seat
27. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Presidential ticket
Regulatory taking
Progressive tax
Exclusionary rule
28. Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible - mobile corps of senior career executives who worked closely with presidential appointees to manage government.
Regulatory taking
Naturalization
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Senior Executive Service
29. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Laissez-faire economics
Social Security
Oversight
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
30. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Constitutionalism
Presidential election
Grand jury
31. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Clear and present danger test
Central clearance
Deregulation
Public defender system
32. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Plurality
Quid pro quo
Independent agency
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
33. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.
Unilateralism
Realism
Interest group
Socioeconomic status (SES)
34. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Plea bargain
Recall
Representative democracy
Distributive policy
35. 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.
Party caucus
Writ of mandamus
Caucus
Poll tax
36. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Justiciable dispute
Political ideology
Independent regulatory commission
Filibuster
37. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Linkage institutions
Logrolling
Implied powers
Retrospective issue of voting
38. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Multilateralism
Women's suffrage
Honeymoon
Government corporation
39. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Political action committee (PAC)
Delegate
Recall
Unitary system
40. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm
Line item veto
Procedural due process
Soft money
Grand jury
41. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Conference committee
Lobbying
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Equal protection clause
42. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Free exercise clause
Means-tested entitlements
Senior Executive Service
Redistricting
43. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Marbury v. Madison
Stare decisis
Realism
Party registration
44. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Total and Partial Preemption
Writ of habeas corpus
Standing committee
Marble cake federalism
45. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.
Permissive federalism
Liberalism
Racial gerrymandering
Political ideology
46. 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
Pocket veto
Monetarism
Vouchers
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
47. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Earmarks
Bipartisanship
Separation of powers
Minority leader
48. 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.
Sedition
Laissez-faire economics
Equal protection clause
Libertarian party
49. 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
Executive Office of the President
Union shop
Public assistance
50. 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.
Civil law
News media
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
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