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1. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Articles of Confederation
Redistricting
Popular sovereignty
2. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Closed shop
Procedural due process
Sales tax
Selected perception
3. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Federal mandate
Senatorial courtesy
Party registration
Rule
4. Federal statute barring Federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds.
Uncontrollable spending
Necessary and proper clause
News media
Hatch Act
5. The residents of a congressional district or state.
Isolationism
Poll tax
Constituents
Bad tendency test
6. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Issue network
Open rule
Issue advocacy
Antitrust legislation
7. 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.
Department
Theocracy
Libertarian party
Minor party
8. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government - generally.
Antifederalists
Inherent powers
National tide
Impoundment
9. 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
Political culture
Protectionism
Collective action
Attentive public
10. The distribution of individual preferences or evaluations of a given issue - candidate - or institution within a specific population.
Public opinion
Writ of certiorari
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Indictment
11. The tendency of presidents to learn more about doing their jobs over time.
Restrictive covenant
President pro tempore
Cycle of increasing effectiveness
Obscenity
12. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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13. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Preemption
527 organizations
Judicial review
Selective exposure
14. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Party identification
Executive agreement
Divided government
Selective exposure
15. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Whip
Closed shop
Judicial review
16. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Popular sovereignty
Civil disobedience
National Intelligence Director
17. 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.
Multilateralism
Ethnocentrism
Trade deficit
Full faith and credit clause
18. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Soft money
Rule
Trust
Realism
19. The right to vote.
Suffrage
Keynesian economics
Fiscal federalism
Incumbent
20. A provision attached to a bill
Class action suit
Rider
Public assistance
Rule
21. Policy of erecting trade barriers to protect domestic industry.
Mandate
Bicameralism
Protectionism
Writ of habeas corpus
22. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Administrative discretion
Congressional-executive agreement
Fundamentalists
Crossover voting
23. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Constitutionalism
General election
Divided government
Race
24. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership can be a condition of employment.
Impeachment
Docket
Closed shop
Party caucus
25. Denial of export - import - or financial relations with the target country in an effort to change that nation's policies.
Majority-minority district
Economic sanctions
Senatorial courtesy
Selected perception
26. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Patronage
Federal Register
Rider
Checks and balances
27. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Deregulation
Writ of mandamus
Plea bargain
Entitlements
28. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Mass media
Civil disobedience
Libel
Public policy
29. Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
Plea bargain
Medicaid
Multilateralism
Political socialization
30. Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials - especially legislators - and the policies they enact.
Crossover sanctions
Soft money
Concurring opinion
Lobbying
31. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Quid pro quo
Majority leader
Internationalism
Bill of attainder
32. A permanent committee established in a legislature - usually focusing on a policy area.
Random sample
Civil law
Standing committee
Judicial review
33. 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.
Protectionism
Electoral college
Political culture
Political party
34. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Medical savings account
Labor injunction
Political culture
Initiative
35. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Race
Direct primary
Class action suit
Bundling
36. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Trust
Unitary system
Bicameralism
Marbury v. Madison
37. Primary election in which any voter - regardless of party - may vote.
Open primary
Discharge petition
Distributive policy
Fiscal federalism
38. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
Electoral college
Parliamentary system
Free exercise clause
Women's suffrage
39. Government regulation of property so extensive that government is deemed to have taken the property by the power of eminent domain - for which it must compensate the property owners.
Checks and balances
Nonpartisan election
Regulatory taking
Sound bites
40. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Treaty
Free exercise clause
Affirmative action
Capitalism
41. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Issue advocacy
Sedition
Rule-making process
Entitlement programs
42. Constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what the government may do.
Substantive due process
Dual citizenship
Total and Partial Preemption
Federalists
43. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party - group - or incumbent.
Retrospective issue of voting
Ex post facto law
Attentive public
Gerrymandering
44. 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.
Government corporation
Marble cake federalism
Implied powers
Keynesian economics
45. 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.
White primary
Inflation
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Green party
46. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or a government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Judicial review
Lobbying
Devolution revolution
47. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Hard power
Popular sovereignty
Writ of mandamus
48. 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.
Decentralists
Soft power
Reform party
Discharge petition
49. Government in which the people elect those who govern and pass laws; also called a republic.
Horse race
Representative democracy
Original jurisdiction
Clear and present danger test
50. A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation - attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention.
Central clearance
Horse race
Annapolis Convention
Prior restraint