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1. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Impeachment
Prospective issue voting
Federal Register
Divided government
2. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Direct primary
Establishment clause
Grand jury
Distributive policy
3. A court order forbidding specific individuals or groups from performing certain acts (such as striking) that the court considers harmful to the rights and property of an employer or community.
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Popular sovereignty
Bill of attainder
Labor injunction
4. Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.
Devolution revolution
Due process
Chief of staff
Issue advocacy
5. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Writ of habeas corpus
Inherent powers
Demographics
Civil law
6. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Political predisposition
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Pluralism
Earmarks
7. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.
Bipartisanship
Executive Office of the President
Unfunded mandates
Rule
8. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Attentive public
President pro tempore
Marbury v. Madison
State's rights
9. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Natural rights
Cross-cutting requirements
Right of expatriation
Judicial review
10. 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.
Civil disobedience
Independent regulatory commission
Idealism
Movement
11. 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.
Clear and present danger test
Presidential ticket
Political ideology
amicus curiae brief
12. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Antitrust legislation
Excise tax
Entitlements
Closed rule
13. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Senatorial courtesy
Bureaucracy
Implied powers
Multilateralism
14. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Selective incorporation
Issue network
Civil disobedience
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
15. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Virginia Plan
Treaty
Executive order
Constitutional Convention
16. 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.
Interstate compact
Conference committee
Revolving door
Defendant
17. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Constituents
Inflation
Representative democracy
Monopoly
18. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo
Independent agency
527 organizations
Contract clause
Open shop
19. 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.
Majority-minority district
Soft power
Delegate
Faction
20. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Bush Doctrine
Petit jury
Independent agency
Executive privilege
21. 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
Grand jury
'Necessary and proper' clause
Sedition
Proportional representation
22. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Selected perception
Bipartisanship
Natural rights
Antitrust legislation
23. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Monetary policy
Uncontrollable spending
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Jim Crow laws
24. 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.
Rally point
Federalism
Due process clause
Divided government
25. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Devolution revolution
Monetarism
Ethnicity
Demographics
26. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Direct primary
Commerce clause
Independent regulatory commission
Monopoly
27. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Necessary and proper clause
Lobbying
National supremacy
Judicial restraint
28. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Total and Partial Preemption
Attentive public
Exclusionary rule
Monetarism
29. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Tax expenditure
Central clearance
Liberalism
Rider
30. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Spoils system
Suffrage
Regulatory taking
Progressive tax
31. 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.
Political action committee (PAC)
Popular sovereignty
Preferred position doctrine
Honeymoon
32. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.
Keynesian economics
Plea bargain
Soft power
Faction
33. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Laissez-faire economics
Safe seat
Preemption
Three-fifths compromise
34. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Equal protection clause
Establishment clause
Delegate
Minority leader
35. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Merit system
Judicial restraint
Earmarks
Regulations
36. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Issue advocacy
Interest group
Caucus
Impoundment
37. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Implementation
Executive agreement
Inherent powers
Uncontrollable spending
38. A rise in the general price level (and decrease in dollar value) owing to an increase in the volume of money and credit in relation to available goods.
Divided government
Inflation
Writ of mandamus
Public assistance
39. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Commerce clause
Impoundment
Closed shop
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
40. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Natural rights
Federalists
Search warrant
Impoundment
41. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Bad tendency test
Court of appeals
Writ of certiorari
Independent expenditure
42. A president's claim of broad public support.
Incumbent
Mandate
Divided government
Minority leader
43. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Obscenity
Political culture
Impeachment
Unemployment
44. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Affirmative action
State of the Union Address
Offshoring
Public defender system
45. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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46. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Ex post facto law
Civil disobedience
Stare decisis
Antitrust legislation
47. 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.
Horse race
Line item veto
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Plea bargain
48. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Interested money
Patronage
Civil law
Random sample
49. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Open primary
Bad tendency test
Free exercise clause
Leadership PAC
50. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Green party
Filibuster
Honeymoon
Antitrust legislation