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1. 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.
Laissez-faire economics
Rally point
Bundling
Executive agreement
2. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Majority
Rule-making process
Whip
Indictment
3. Directive issued by a president or governor that has the force of law.
Fighting words
Executive order
Court of appeals
Special or select committee
4. The clause of the Constitution (Article I - Section 8 - Clause 3) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Political predisposition
Commerce clause
Plea bargain
Open shop
5. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
Soft money
Federalists
New Jersey Plan
Nonprotected speech
6. 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
Reapportionment
Implied powers
Centralists
7. A nonprofit association or group operating outside of government that advocates and pursues policy objectives.
Race
Federal mandate
Monetary policy
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
8. An international trade organization with more than 130 members - including the United States and the People's Republic of China - that seeks to encourage free trade by lowering tariffs and other trade restrictions.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Block grants
Medicaid
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
9. The informal list of issues that Congress and the president consider most important for action.
Party identification
Mass media
Policy agenda
Implementation
10. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Central clearance
Implied powers
Executive Office of the President
De jure segregation
11. God's or nature's law that defines right from wrong and is higher than human law.
Checks and balances
Federal Reserve System
Natural law
Electoral college
12. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Administrative discretion
Caucus
Primary election
Collective action
13. Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Voter registration
Marbury v. Madison
Closed rule
Writ of mandamus
14. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Bicameralism
Bad tendency test
Independent expenditures
Natural rights
15. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Honeymoon
Political socialization
Socialism
News media
16. A provision attached to a bill
Direct orders
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Prospective issue voting
Rider
17. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Direct orders
Decentralists
Project grants
Laissez-faire economics
18. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
Independent regulatory commission
Centralists
Isolationism
Contract clause
19. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Due process clause
Monetarism
Rule-making process
Theory of deterrence
20. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Inherent powers
Search warrant
Checks and balances
Social capital
21. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Executive order
Cross-cutting cleavages
Hard money
Bureaucracy
22. 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
Federal Register
Distributive policy
Laissez-faire economics
Collective action
23. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect the public health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Photo ops
Police powers
News media
Constitutionalism
24. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Justiciable dispute
Property rights
Conference committee
Literacy test
25. A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.
Equal protection clause
State of the Union Address
Writ of habeas corpus
Double jeopardy
26. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Manifest opinion
Public opinion
Poll tax
Medicare
27. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
Interest group
Express powers
Writ of certiorari
Fiscal federalism
28. 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.
Preemption
Interest group
Direct primary
Iron triangle
29. Clause in the Constitution that states that 'Congress should have the power to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. . . .' This clause is also known as the elastic clause as is a major and significant p
30. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Caucus
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Incumbent
Appellate jurisdiction
31. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
General election
Writ of habeas corpus
National supremacy
Monopoly
32. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Open shop
Conservatism
Independent regulatory commission
Filibuster
33. 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.
Grand jury
Normal trade relations
Majority-minority district
Writ of habeas corpus
34. Economic theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and be curbed during booms.
Virginia Plan
Rally point
Collective action
Keynesian economics
35. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Bush Doctrine
Antitrust legislation
Means-tested entitlements
Regressive tax
36. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
37. A company in which new employees must join a union within a stated time period.
Senatorial courtesy
Direct democracy
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Union shop
38. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Criminal law
Minor party
Entitlement programs
39. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Popular consent
Racial gerrymandering
Political culture
Reapportionment
40. Governance divided between the parties - as when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Divided government
New Jersey Plan
Women's suffrage
Majority
41. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Permissive federalism
National supremacy
Deregulation
Substantive due process
42. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Prior restraint
Closed shop
Turnout
Distributive policy
43. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent - from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Necessary and proper clause
Pocket veto
Manifest destiny
Retrospective issue of voting
44. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Hatch Act
Idealism
Bad tendency test
Senatorial courtesy
45. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Retrospective issue of voting
Reapportionment
Attentive public
Patronage
46. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Reform party
Commercial speech
Divided government
Voter registration
47. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Unemployment
Creative federalism
Express powers
Bundling
48. 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.
Divided government
Libertarianism
Plurality
Keynesian economics
49. Domination of an industry by a single company that fixes prices and discourages competition; also - the company that dominates the industry by these means.
Race
Monopoly
Green party
American dream
50. Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.
Fiscal policy
Commerce clause
Exclusionary rule
Entitlements