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1. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Racial profiling
Independent expenditures
Manifest opinion
2. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Implied powers
Regulatory taking
Inherent powers
Fighting words
3. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Majority-minority district
Attentive public
Bill of attainder
Bush Doctrine
4. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Procedural due process
Leadership PAC
Shays's Rebellion
Initiative
5. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Selective exposure
Political action committee (PAC)
Collective action
Cooperative federalism
6. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Spoils system
Candidate appeal
Cycle of decreasing influence
Democracy
7. Power of a government to take private property for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.
De jure segregation
Eminent domain
Political culture
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
8. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Bicameralism
Due process clause
Public defender system
President pro tempore
9. 30-second statements on the evening news shows. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on sound bites to explain them to the public.
Sound bites
Earmarks
Presidential ticket
Original jurisdiction
10. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Reapportionment
New Jersey Plan
Bicameralism
Civil disobedience
11. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Ex post facto law
Retrospective issue of voting
Natural rights
Political socialization
12. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
'Our federalism'
Isolationism
Theory of deterrence
Normal trade relations
13. Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. By interpretation - the Fifth Amendment imposes the same limitation on the national government. This clause is t
Equal protection clause
Issue advocacy
Safe seat
amicus curiae brief
14. National Health Insurance program for the elderly and disabled.
Laissez-faire economics
Medicare
Natural rights
Total and Partial Preemption
15. 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
Executive orders
Adversary system
Eminent domain
Contract clause
16. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Line item veto
Suffrage
Procedural due process
Articles of Confederation
17. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Reapportionment
Cloture
Concurring opinion
Creative federalism
18. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Direct democracy
News media
Due process
Demographics
19. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
Monopoly
Name recognition
National tide
Closed primary
20. The study of the characteristics of populations.
'Our federalism'
Affirmative action
Demographics
Horse race
21. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Executive privilege
Regulation
Administrative discretion
Regulations
22. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Redistributive policy
Judicial activism
Union shop
Executive privilege
23. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Due process
Dual citizenship
Senatorial courtesy
Contract clause
24. The cluster of presidential staff agencies that help the president carry out his responsibilities. Currently the office includes the Office of Management and Budget - the Council of Economic Advisers - and several other units.
Natural law
Impeachment
Virginia Plan
Executive Office of the President
25. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Regulation
Bicameralism
National party convention
Oversight
26. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Affirmative action
Excise tax
Executive privilege
Constituents
27. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Safe seat
Turnout
Categorical-formula grants
Executive privilege
28. Tax levied on imports to help protect the nation's industries - labor - or farmers from foreign competition. It can also be used to raise additional revenue.
Jim Crow laws
Tariff
Libel
Green party
29. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Political socialization
Means-tested entitlements
Linkage institutions
Opinion of the Court
30. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Suffrage
Minority leader
Petit jury
Selected perception
31. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Direct primary
Justiciable dispute
Oversight
Earmarks
32. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Horse race
Social insurance
Shays's Rebellion
Impoundment
33. 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.
Libertarian party
Prior restraint
Weapons of mass destruction
Direct primary
34. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Rally point
Poll tax
Trust
Minority leader
35. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
National supremacy
Unemployment
Realigning election
Value-added tax (VAT)
36. Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
Annapolis Convention
Revolving door
Central clearance
Initiative
37. 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
Nonprotected speech
Logrolling
Idealism
38. The clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 8 - Clause 3) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Idealism
Issue network
Cloture
Commerce clause
39. Essays promoting ratification of the Constitution - published anonymously by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison in 1787 and 1788.
Issue network
The Federalist
Pocket veto
Incumbent
40. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Excise tax
Racial gerrymandering
Commerce clause
News media
41. 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.
General election
Fiscal federalism
Electoral college
Federal Reserve System
42. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Police powers
Entitlement programs
Presidential ticket
Proportional representation
43. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Regressive tax
Cloture
Faction
Multilateralism
44. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Collective bargaining
Federal mandate
Direct primary
Clear and present danger test
45. Segregation imposed by law.
Safe seat
Dissenting opinion
De jure segregation
White primary
46. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Impoundment
Vouchers
Federalists
Reapportionment
47. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Hard power
Caucus
Cycle of decreasing influence
Majority rule
48. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
Plurality
Defendant
Property rights
Excise tax
49. International organization derived from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) that promotes it free trade around the world.
Appellate jurisdiction
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Impeachment
Winner-take-all system
50. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Delegate
Sound bites
Party identification
Interstate compact
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