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1. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.






2. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.






3. Clause in the Constitution (Article 4 - Section 1) requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.






4. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.






5. 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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.






9. A philosophy that encourages individual nations to act on their own when facing threats from other nations.






10. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.






11. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.






12. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.






13. 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.






14. Electoral system used in electing the president and vice president - in which voters vote for electors pledged to cast their ballots for particular party's candidates.






15. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.






16. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.






17. An official who is expected to vote independently based on his or her judgment of the circumstances; one interpretation of the role of the legislator.






18. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.






19. Programs that the Federal government requires States to implement without Federal funding.






20. A theory of international relations that focuses on the tendency of nations to operate from self-interest.






21. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.






22. 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).






23. 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.






24. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.






25. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.






26. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.






27. Media that emphasize the news.






28. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.






29. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.






30. The reliance on diplomacy and negotiation to solve international problems.






31. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.






32. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.






33. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.






34. These are broad state grants to states for prescribed activities—welfare - child care - education - social services - preventive health care - and health services—with only a few strings attached. States have greater flexibility in deciding how to sp






35. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.






36. 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.






37. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.






38. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.






39. An imbalance in international trade in which the value of imports exceeds the value of exports.






40. 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.






41. A belief that government can and should achieve justice and equality of opportunity.






42. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.






43. The residents of a congressional district or state.






44. Period at the beginning of the new president's term during which the president enjoys generally positive relations with the press and Congress - usually lasting about six months.






45. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.






46. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.






47. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.






48. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another. For example - a 1984 act reduced federal highway aid by up to 15 percent for any






49. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.






50. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.







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