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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The principle of a two-house legislature.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Manifest opinion
Bicameralism
2. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Trustee
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Property rights
Reapportionment
3. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
National supremacy
Open rule
Speaker
Whip
4. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Speaker
Selective exposure
Executive orders
Racial gerrymandering
5. The head of the White House staff.
Initiative
Affirmative action
Union shop
Chief of staff
6. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Free exercise clause
Fighting words
Open shop
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
7. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
President pro tempore
Competitive federalism
Representative democracy
Bicameralism
8. A division of population based on occupation - income - and education.
Eminent domain
Senior Executive Service
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Redistributive policy
9. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Unfunded mandates
Capitalism
Writ of mandamus
Trust
10. 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
National tide
Double jeopardy
Union shop
Preferred position doctrine
11. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Commerce clause
Idealism
Search warrant
Procedural due process
12. 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.
Party caucus
National supremacy
Bureaucracy
Tariff
13. 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.
Original jurisdiction
Government corporation
Unitary system
Closed rule
14. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Bundling
Pocket veto
Judicial review
Executive privilege
15. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Exclusionary rule
National Intelligence Director
Stare decisis
Party convention
16. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Articles of Confederation
Race
Plea bargain
Lobbyist
17. Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966).
Majority rule
Commerce clause
Poll tax
Implementation
18. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Cooperative federalism
Caucus
Tax expenditure
Naturalization
19. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
'Our federalism'
Party identification
Faction
Indexing
20. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Public opinion
Concurring opinion
Independent regulatory commission
Bureaucracy
21. 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.
Medical savings account
Regulatory taking
Trade deficit
Soft money
22. The presiding officer in the House of Representatives - formally elected by the House but actually selected by the majority party.
Civil law
Affirmative action
Speaker
Manifest opinion
23. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Eminent domain
Union shop
Speaker
Whip
24. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Multilateralism
Coattail effect
Tariff
Due process clause
25. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
'Necessary and proper' clause
Independent expenditures
Movement
Party identification
26. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Department
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Trust
Closed shop
27. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Impoundment
Majority rule
National party convention
Dissenting opinion
28. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Commercial speech
State of the Union Address
Checks and balances
Docket
29. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Monopoly
Hard power
Impoundment
Iron triangle
30. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Keynesian economics
Labor injunction
Constitutional democracy
Proportional representation
31. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Ex post facto law
Chief of staff
Writ of habeas corpus
Issue network
32. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Vouchers
Equal protection clause
Bipartisanship
Competitive federalism
33. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Stare decisis
American dream
Impeachment
34. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Conference committee
Retrospective issue of voting
Capitalism
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
35. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Substantive due process
Double jeopardy
Open primary
Offshoring
36. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Impeachment
Linkage institutions
Realigning election
Conservatism
37. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Internationalism
Joint committee
Equal protection clause
Full faith and credit clause
38. A policy adopted by the Bush administration in 2001 that asserts America's right to attack any nation that has weapons of mass destruction that might be used against U.S. interests at home or abroad.
Bush Doctrine
Direct primary
Majority rule
Joint committee
39. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Dissenting opinion
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Open rule
Collective bargaining
40. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Sound bites
Eminent domain
Treaty
Justiciable dispute
41. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Enumerated powers
Cloture
Electoral college
Parliamentary system
42. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Federal mandate
Distributive policy
Affirmative action
43. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Central clearance
Winner-take-all system
Treaty
Bicameralism
44. 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.
Restrictive covenant
Faction
Speaker
Soft money
45. The joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the Twelfth Amendment.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Congressional-executive agreement
Presidential ticket
Majority leader
46. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Redistricting
Turnout
Fundamentalists
Property rights
47. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
Caucus
Prospective issue voting
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Constituents
48. 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.
Senatorial courtesy
Commerce clause
Take care clause
Popular sovereignty
49. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Selective incorporation
Veto
Police powers
Line item veto
50. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Inflation
Competitive federalism
Selected perception
Executive agreement