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1. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Concurring opinion
Special or select committee
Liberalism
Substantive due process
2. 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.
Monetary policy
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Normal trade relations
Closed shop
3. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Eminent domain
Implementation
Independent regulatory commission
Sound bites
4. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Substantive due process
Candidate appeal
Issue advocacy
Initiative
5. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Australian ballot
Social capital
Federal Reserve System
Independent regulatory commission
6. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Minor party
Senatorial courtesy
Political predisposition
Stare decisis
7. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Popular sovereignty
Plea bargain
Weapons of mass destruction
Rule
8. A decision by the president not to spend money appropriated by Congress - now prohibited under Federal law.
Impoundment
Establishment clause
Joint committee
Equal protection clause
9. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Multilateralism
Selective exposure
Isolationism
Popular consent
10. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Initiative
Concurrent powers
Executive privilege
Central clearance
11. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
Manifest destiny
Cloture
Social Security
Centralists
12. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Entitlements
Demographics
Line item veto
Override
13. 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
Due process
527 organizations
Judicial activism
Stare decisis
14. The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines following the census - to accommodate population shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.
Democratic consensus
Social Security
Judicial restraint
Redistricting
15. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Natural law
Interstate compact
Unemployment
Establishment clause
16. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Majority rule
Offshoring
Suffrage
Movement
17. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Socialism
Justiciable dispute
Civil law
527 organizations
18. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Uncontrollable spending
Winner-take-all system
Inflation
Judicial restraint
19. 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.
Rule-making process
State's rights
New Jersey Plan
Stare decisis
20. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Natural law
Laissez-faire economics
Take care clause
Referendum
21. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Progressive tax
Hard power
Free exercise clause
22. Implies that although federalism provides 'a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments - the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government.'
News media
Permissive federalism
Economic sanctions
Bipartisanship
23. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Free rider
Concurring opinion
Green party
Entitlement programs
24. 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
Closed shop
Concurring opinion
Political ideology
Grand jury
25. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Safe seat
Bureaucracy
Regulations
Interest group
26. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Unemployment
Libertarianism
Party identification
Standing committee
27. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Public defender system
Majority
Docket
Discharge petition
28. Media that emphasize the news.
Seniority rule
Capitalism
News media
Monetarism
29. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Party caucus
Weapons of mass destruction
Senior Executive Service
Policy agenda
30. 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.
Manifest destiny
Green party
Impoundment
Stare decisis
31. 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.
Delegate
Exclusionary rule
Statism
Opinion of the Court
32. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Police powers
Rule
Impeachment
White primary
33. The head of the White House staff.
Medical savings account
Libertarianism
Political predisposition
Chief of staff
34. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Issue advocacy
Cooperative federalism
Proportional representation
Seniority rule
35. 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
Collective action
Search warrant
Contract clause
Party convention
36. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
Isolationism
Three-fifths compromise
Soft money
Equal protection clause
37. 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.
Theory of deterrence
Cross-cutting requirements
Impeachment
Safe seat
38. 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
Retrospective issue of voting
Constitutionalism
Policy agenda
Democratic consensus
39. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Indictment
Devolution revolution
National debt
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
40. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Senatorial courtesy
Exclusionary rule
Whip
Free rider
41. 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.
Sound bites
Medical savings account
Hold
Bush Doctrine
42. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Property rights
Devolution revolution
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Initiative
43. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Civil disobedience
Community policing
Direct primary
Affirmative action
44. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Ethnocentrism
Environmental impact statement
Appellate jurisdiction
Lobbyist
45. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Rider
Clear and present danger test
Indictment
Means-tested entitlements
46. The convention in Philadelphia - May 25 to September 17 - 1787 - that debated and agreed upon the Constitution of the United States.
Plurality
Free rider
'Necessary and proper' clause
Constitutional Convention
47. 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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48. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
amicus curiae brief
Independent regulatory commission
Annapolis Convention
Soft money
49. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Racial profiling
Commercial speech
Presidential ticket
Natural rights
50. The legislative leader selected by the majority party who helps plan party strategy - confers with other party leaders - and tries to keep members of the party in line.
Public policy
Federal Reserve System
Majority leader
Liberalism