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1. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Project grants
Impoundment
Prior restraint
Direct orders
2. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Political socialization
Public policy
Antitrust legislation
Trustee
3. 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.
Plea bargain
Senatorial courtesy
Entitlements
Green party
4. 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.
Police powers
Hatch Act
Judicial activism
Inherent powers
5. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Party identification
Direct democracy
Caucus
Impeachment
6. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Cooperative federalism
Medical savings account
Manifest destiny
Proportional representation
7. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Referendum
National party convention
Pocket veto
Reform party
8. 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.
Bipartisanship
Interest group
National party convention
Cabinet
9. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Centralists
Majority rule
Procedural due process
Progressive tax
10. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Monopoly
Exclusionary rule
Referendum
Political predisposition
11. A PAC formed by an officeholder that collects contributions from individuals and other PACs and then makes contributions to other candidates and political parties.
Cooperative federalism
Leadership PAC
Obscenity
Free rider
12. A provision attached to a bill
Rider
Gerrymandering
Seniority rule
Natural rights
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.
Referendum
Restrictive covenant
Implementation
Democracy
14. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Judicial review
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Exclusionary rule
Dissenting opinion
15. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
American dream
Original jurisdiction
Collective bargaining
Monetary policy
16. Contributions to a state or local party for party-building purposes.
Cooperative federalism
De jure segregation
Soft money
Social insurance
17. 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).
Representative democracy
White primary
Express powers
Proportional representation
18. 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.
Policy agenda
Cooperative federalism
Virginia Plan
Preferred position doctrine
19. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Judicial activism
Impoundment
Monetary policy
Monopoly
20. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Bush Doctrine
Joint committee
Senatorial courtesy
Executive privilege
21. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Keynesian economics
Bush Doctrine
Executive privilege
Take care clause
22. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Issue network
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Nonpartisan election
Hard money
23. Aid to the poor; 'welfare.'
Unitary system
National supremacy
Multilateralism
Public assistance
24. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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25. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Justiciable dispute
Soft power
Proportional representation
Natural law
26. 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.
Senatorial courtesy
Cross-cutting requirements
Confederation
Faction
27. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Right of expatriation
Logrolling
Joint committee
Necessary and proper clause
28. 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.
Eminent domain
Protectionism
Pluralism
Independent expenditures
29. 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.
Implementation
Deficit
Senior Executive Service
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
30. An economic system characterized by private property - competitive markets - economic incentives - and limited government involvement in the production - distribution - and pricing of goods and services.
Capitalism
Issue network
National party convention
Independent agency
31. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments - called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
Community policing
Divided government
Federalism
Eminent domain
32. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Quid pro quo
Proportional representation
Party convention
Government corporation
33. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Jim Crow laws
Entitlement programs
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Rider
34. 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.
Political party
Opinion of the Court
Amicus curiae brief
Senior Executive Service
35. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Property rights
Popular sovereignty
Attentive public
36. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Liberalism
Confederation
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Libel
37. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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38. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Cross-cutting requirements
Bush Doctrine
Single-member district
39. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Horse race
General election
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Primary election
40. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
Criminal law
Coattail effect
Fiscal policy
Precedent
41. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
De facto segregation
Attentive public
Necessary and proper clause
Winner-take-all system
42. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Commercial speech
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Justiciable dispute
Collective action
43. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Redistributive policy
Bicameralism
Presidential ticket
Impoundment
44. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils system
Issue advocacy
Connecticut Compromise
Green party
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.
Cross-cutting requirements
Monopoly
Contract clause
Electoral college
46. 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
Constitutionalism
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Rally point
47. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Closed primary
Double jeopardy
Articles of Confederation
Voter registration
48. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Class action suit
Immunity
Affirmative action
Open rule
49. 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
Contract clause
Immunity
Jim Crow laws
50. An action taken by Congress to reverse the presidential veto - requiring a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
Executive order
Speaker
Override
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
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