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1. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Natural law
News media
Bicameralism
Administrative discretion
2. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership is a condition of employment.
Establishment clause
Filibuster
Closed shop
Three-fifths compromise
3. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Preemption
Keynesian economics
Attentive public
Party convention
4. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
amicus curiae brief
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Hold
Concurrent powers
5. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Political action committee (PAC)
Preemption
Justiciable dispute
Senatorial courtesy
6. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Logrolling
Coattail effect
Dealignment
Commerce clause
7. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Entitlements
Libel
Trustee
White primary
8. 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.
Take care clause
Opinion of the Court
Seniority rule
Confederation
9. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Regulation
Confederation
Selective exposure
Women's suffrage
10. Compromise agreement by states at the Constitutional Convention for a bicameral legislature with a lower house in which representation would be based on population and an upper house in which each state would have two senators.
Dealignment
Connecticut Compromise
Value-added tax (VAT)
Majority rule
11. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Political socialization
Idealism
Spoils system
Rider
12. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Hatch Act
Defendant
Natural rights
13. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Federalism
Value-added tax (VAT)
Liberalism
Docket
14. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Hard power
Attentive public
Horse race
Federal mandate
15. A court with appellate jurisdiction that hears appeals from the decisions of lower courts.
Articles of Confederation
Civil disobedience
Take care clause
Court of appeals
16. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Collective bargaining
Issue advocacy
Retrospective issue of voting
Search warrant
17. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Community policing
Recall
Isolationism
Entitlements
18. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.
Take care clause
Search warrant
Faction
Collective bargaining
19. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Party identification
Initiative
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Cross-cutting cleavages
20. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Political ideology
Treaty
Minority leader
Safe seat
21. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Creative federalism
Political party
Devolution revolution
Political action committee (PAC)
22. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Amicus curiae brief
Preferred position doctrine
Seniority rule
Australian ballot
23. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Public choice
Writ of certiorari
Social Security
Bundling
24. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Plurality
Regulation
National party convention
Closed rule
25. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Concurrent powers
Whip
Clear and present danger test
Reform party
26. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Jim Crow laws
Dual citizenship
Reapportionment
Majority leader
27. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Open primary
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Green party
National party convention
28. A rise in the general price level (and decrease in dollar value) owing to an increase in the volume of money and credit in relation to available goods.
Theocracy
Sedition
Inflation
Criminal law
29. 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.
Primary election
Writ of habeas corpus
Libertarianism
Issue network
30. Legislative or executive review of a particular government program or organization. Can be in response to a crisis of some kind or part of routine review.
Concurring opinion
Federal Register
Decentralists
Oversight
31. Media that emphasize the news.
Honeymoon
Linkage institutions
Logrolling
News media
32. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Petit jury
Preemption
Interested money
Trust
33. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Equal protection clause
Natural rights
Proportional representation
Political socialization
34. A national meeting of delegates elected at primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.
State's rights
Plurality
National party convention
Political predisposition
35. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Community policing
Revolving door
Search warrant
36. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Opinion of the Court
Original jurisdiction
Equal protection clause
Libertarianism
37. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Federal Register
Retrospective issue of voting
Checks and balances
Cloture
38. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Special or select committee
Administrative discretion
White primary
Entitlements
39. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Incumbent
Crossover sanctions
Hard money
National tide
40. The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.
Rally point
Devolution revolution
Public choice
Theocracy
41. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.
Inherent powers
Crossover sanctions
Centralists
Defendant
42. The reliance on economic and military strength to solve international problems.
Class action suit
Monopoly
Theocracy
Hard power
43. Constitutional division of powers among the legislative - executive - and judicial branches - with the legislative branch making law - the executive applying and enforcing the law - and the judiciary interpreting the law.
Separation of powers
Executive orders
Social capital
Theocracy
44. The right to vote.
Direct orders
Suffrage
Bill of attainder
Environmental impact statement
45. Congress appropriates a certain sum - which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies - based on applications from those who wish to participate. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universi
Issue advocacy
Inflation
Project grants
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
46. A tax on increased value of the product at each stage of production and distribution rather than just at the point of sale.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Trade deficit
Proportional representation
National debt
47. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Closed rule
Earmarks
Soft power
Ethnocentrism
48. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguments in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case.
Winner-take-all system
Civil disobedience
amicus curiae brief
Party identification
49. The practice of exporting U.S. jobs to lower paid employees in other nations.
Distributive policy
Isolationism
Offshoring
Due process
50. A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by Congress.
Social insurance
Competitive federalism
Party registration
Independent regulatory commission