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1. A congressional committee created for a specific purpose - sometimes to conduct an investigation.
Policy agenda
Demographics
Special or select committee
Linkage institutions
2. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Antitrust legislation
Closed shop
Nonprotected speech
Equal protection clause
3. The right of women to vote.
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4. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate - and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation.
Issue advocacy
Judicial review
Community policing
Iron triangle
5. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Judicial activism
Ethnicity
Logrolling
Political ideology
6. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Pocket veto
National supremacy
Majority
Winner-take-all system
7. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Ex post facto law
Free rider
Trustee
Executive privilege
8. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted.
New Jersey Plan
Safe seat
Popular sovereignty
Cross-cutting cleavages
9. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Random sample
Democratic consensus
Single-member district
Bicameralism
10. Those citizens who follow public affairs carefully.
Nonprotected speech
Attentive public
Capitalism
Court of appeals
11. 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.
Manifest opinion
Tariff
Monopoly
Political socialization
12. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
National supremacy
Public defender system
Trust
Direct primary
13. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Public opinion
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Executive privilege
14. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Free rider
Representative democracy
Stare decisis
Libertarian party
15. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Issue network
Sound bites
Open shop
Progressive tax
16. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Nonprotected speech
Federal mandate
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Reapportionment
17. Elections held midway between presidential elections.
Bad tendency test
Majority rule
Midterm election
Vouchers
18. A commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer election reform laws. It consists of six commissioners appointed by president and confirmed by the Senate. Its duties include overseeing disclosure of camp
Realigning election
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Party registration
National debt
19. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.
Unilateralism
Prior restraint
Judicial review
Seniority rule
20. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
Federalists
Libertarianism
Libel
Precedent
21. 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.
Regressive tax
Statism
Fighting words
Plea bargain
22. 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
Community policing
Jim Crow laws
Social insurance
23. 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.
Statism
Bicameralism
Normal trade relations
Dissenting opinion
24. An opinion disagreeing with a majority in a Supreme Court ruling.
Dissenting opinion
Plea bargain
Iron triangle
Bill of attainder
25. 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.
Interested money
Virginia Plan
Demographics
Majority leader
26. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Soft power
Presidential ticket
Direct primary
Substantive due process
27. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
National supremacy
Standing committee
Monetary policy
Petit jury
28. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
General election
Libel
Preemption
Attentive public
29. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Preferred position doctrine
American dream
Interstate compact
Reinforcing cleavages
30. 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
Bureaucrat
Standing committee
Grand jury
Hard money
31. 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.
Inherent powers
General election
Movement
Judicial review
32. 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
Contract clause
Fundamentalists
Initiative
Joint committee
33. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Economic sanctions
Special or select committee
Candidate appeal
Theory of deterrence
34. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Prior restraint
Libertarianism
Jim Crow laws
Closed shop
35. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
White primary
Concurrent powers
Monetary policy
Interstate compact
36. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Proportional representation
Laissez-faire economics
Express powers
Name recognition
37. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Reapportionment
Social insurance
Logrolling
Marble cake federalism
38. Police targeting of racial minorities as potential suspects of criminal activities.
Racial profiling
Executive Office of the President
Logrolling
Monopoly
39. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Writ of certiorari
Progressive tax
Bureaucracy
Central clearance
40. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Tax expenditure
Proportional representation
Attentive public
Popular sovereignty
41. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
National debt
Democracy
Closed rule
Issue advocacy
42. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Australian ballot
Soft power
Soft money
Entitlements
43. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds - regardless of their source. The first and most famous of these is Title VI of the 196
Name recognition
Equal protection clause
Prospective issue voting
Cross-cutting requirements
44. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Bipartisanship
Exclusionary rule
Sales tax
Congressional-executive agreement
45. A monopoly that controls goods and services - often in combinations that reduce competition.
Trust
Total and Partial Preemption
Cooperative federalism
Medical savings account
46. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Name recognition
Demographics
Theory of deterrence
Antifederalists
47. 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.
Fiscal federalism
Criminal law
Bill of attainder
Winner-take-all system
48. 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).
White primary
Connecticut Compromise
Impoundment
Libertarianism
49. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Independent agency
Commercial speech
Rally point
Judicial activism
50. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Political ideology
'Necessary and proper' clause
Procedural due process
Initiative