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1. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Economic sanctions
'Necessary and proper' clause
Justiciable dispute
Fundamentalists
2. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Revolving door
Regressive tax
Social insurance
Defendant
3. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Libertarianism
Regulations
Entitlement programs
Plea bargain
4. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Progressive tax
Creative federalism
Natural rights
Court of appeals
5. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Party registration
Writ of habeas corpus
Antifederalists
Senatorial courtesy
6. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Patronage
Caucus
Bush Doctrine
Ethnocentrism
7. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Racial gerrymandering
Community policing
Articles of Confederation
Eminent domain
8. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
News media
Lobbying
Marbury v. Madison
Issue advocacy
9. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Monetary policy
Social insurance
Economic sanctions
10. An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Majority leader
Take care clause
Racial gerrymandering
Proportional representation
11. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Docket
Social insurance
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Categorical-formula grants
12. The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals - groups - and parties can spend unlimited amounts in campaigns for or against candidates as long as they operate independently from the candidates. When an individual - group - or party does so - they are
Independent expenditure
Recall
Electoral college
Checks and balances
13. Divisions within society that cut across demographic categories to produce groups that are more heterogeneous or different.
Cross-cutting cleavages
Monopoly
Property rights
Writ of certiorari
14. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Caucus
Logrolling
Nonpartisan election
Turnout
15. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Checks and balances
Federalism
Criminal law
Immunity
16. Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs - rather than a layer cake - or dual federalism - with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.
Poll tax
Marble cake federalism
Retrospective issue of voting
Public policy
17. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Public policy
Political ideology
Faction
Amicus curiae brief
18. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that freedom of expression is so essential to democracy that governments should not punish persons for what they say - only for what they do.
Preferred position doctrine
Regulatory taking
Cooperative federalism
Defendant
19. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Political predisposition
Minority leader
Inflation
Social capital
20. 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).
Redistricting
Poll tax
Closed shop
Regulation
21. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go
Laissez-faire economics
Permissive federalism
Categorical-formula grants
Adversary system
22. 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.
Three-fifths compromise
Selective exposure
Public assistance
'Our federalism'
23. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Political ideology
Cloture
Candidate appeal
Regulation
24. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Realism
Executive privilege
Concurring opinion
Random sample
25. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Three-fifths compromise
Writ of habeas corpus
Internationalism
Public defender system
26. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Judicial activism
Cross-cutting requirements
Executive order
Interest group
27. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Theocracy
Line item veto
Independent expenditures
Gross domestic product (GDP)
28. 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
Gerrymandering
Original jurisdiction
Extradition
Constitutionalism
29. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Closed shop
Concurrent powers
Sound bites
Keynesian economics
30. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
527 organizations
Majority rule
Public policy
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
31. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Bureaucrat
Antitrust legislation
Fighting words
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
32. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Connecticut Compromise
'Our federalism'
Writ of habeas corpus
Keynesian economics
33. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Executive privilege
President pro tempore
Ethnicity
Cross-cutting requirements
34. Political contributions given to a party - candidate - or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds - hence the term 'hard money.'
Senior Executive Service
Creative federalism
Iron triangle
Hard money
35. Powers that grow out of the very existence of government.
Selective incorporation
Inherent powers
Political party
Entitlements
36. A minor party founded by Ross Perot in 1995. It focuses on national government reform - fiscal responsibility - and political accountability. It has recently struggled with internal strife and criticism that it lacks an identity.
Reform party
De facto segregation
Means-tested entitlements
Regulatory taking
37. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Closed shop
Implementation
Bicameralism
Marbury v. Madison
38. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Manifest opinion
Three-fifths compromise
Special or select committee
Constituents
39. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Crossover voting
Regulations
Interstate compact
Divided government
40. 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.
Natural rights
Community policing
Marble cake federalism
Confederation
41. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Constituents
Delegate
Theocracy
Literacy test
42. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Progressive tax
Executive agreement
Checks and balances
Fiscal federalism
43. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Popular sovereignty
Caucus
Cross-cutting requirements
Clear and present danger test
44. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and to cooperate. The term has many applications in the various social sciences such as political science - sociology - and
Collective action
Caucus
Impoundment
Statism
45. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Nonpartisan election
Natural law
Women's suffrage
Fiscal policy
46. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Precedent
Monetary policy
Logrolling
Political socialization
47. 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.
Take care clause
Sound bites
Green party
Racial profiling
48. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Writ of mandamus
Joint committee
Iron triangle
Constituents
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
Selective exposure
Realism
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Equal protection clause
50. An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point - redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties.
Realigning election
Laissez-faire economics
Speaker
Treaty
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