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1. A veto exercised by the president after Congress has adjourned; if the president takes no action for 10 days - the bill does not become law and does not return to Congress for possible override.
Candidate appeal
Pocket veto
Writ of habeas corpus
Cross-cutting requirements
2. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Indexing
Attentive public
Green party
Majority
3. 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
Retrospective issue of voting
Conservatism
Independent expenditures
Interstate compact
4. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Faction
Merit system
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Executive agreement
5. 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.
Interest group
Antitrust legislation
Commerce clause
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
6. Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers—primarily foreign policy and national defense—to the national government - leaving the rest to the sovereign states. Each level of government is dominant within its own sphere. The Supreme Cou
Public defender system
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Civil disobedience
Weapons of mass destruction
7. The process by which provisions of the bill of rights are brought within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment and so applied to state and local governments.
Political socialization
Selective incorporation
Theory of deterrence
Plea bargain
8. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Executive Office of the President
Soft money
Total and Partial Preemption
Federal Reserve System
9. A legislative practice that assigns the chair of the committee or subcommittee to the member of the majority party with the longest continuous service on the committee.
Original jurisdiction
Regressive tax
Sound bites
Seniority rule
10. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Policy agenda
Libel
Mass media
11. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Suffrage
Adversary system
Parliamentary system
Progressive tax
12. The total output of all economic activity in the nation - including goods and services.
Bad tendency test
Weapons of mass destruction
Plea bargain
Gross domestic product (GDP)
13. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Delegate
Quid pro quo
Commerce clause
527 organizations
14. The rule of precedent - whereby a rule or law contained in a judicial decision is commonly viewed as binding on judges whenever the same question is presented.
Bicameralism
Stare decisis
Public assistance
Political action committee (PAC)
15. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Honeymoon
Veto
Closed rule
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
16. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Democratic consensus
Medicaid
Bicameralism
Fiscal policy
17. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Civil law
Clear and present danger test
Internationalism
Annapolis Convention
18. Financial contributions by individuals or groups in the hope of influencing the outcome of the election and subsequently influencing policy.
Interested money
Majority-minority district
Issue network
Speaker
19. A policy promoting cutbacks in the amount of Federal regulation in specific areas of economic activity.
Popular consent
Photo ops
Deregulation
Establishment clause
20. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Excise tax
Name recognition
Regulations
Racial gerrymandering
21. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Bicameralism
Political culture
Popular sovereignty
Coattail effect
22. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for more serious offense.
Value-added tax (VAT)
Grand jury
Plea bargain
Clear and present danger test
23. 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
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24. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Enumerated powers
Cabinet
Logrolling
Redistricting
25. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Selective exposure
Sound bites
State's rights
Unilateralism
26. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Candidate appeal
Linkage institutions
Libertarianism
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
27. Media that emphasize the news.
Popular sovereignty
Issue advocacy
Soft money
News media
28. A dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy and that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
Theocracy
Lobbying
Justiciable dispute
Independent expenditures
29. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Federal Register
Central clearance
Ethnicity
Natural law
30. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
White primary
Retrospective issue of voting
Delegate
Indictment
31. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Senatorial courtesy
Open shop
Proportional representation
Safe seat
32. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling the money supply and thus interest rates.
Progressive tax
Monetary policy
Labor injunction
Political action committee (PAC)
33. A consistent pattern of beliefs about political values and the role of government.
Double jeopardy
Political ideology
Unilateralism
Clear and present danger test
34. Committee appointed by the presiding officers of each chamber to adjust differences on a particular bill passed by each in different form.
Conference committee
Shays's Rebellion
Extradition
Impoundment
35. The clause in the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
Winner-take-all system
Rider
Offshoring
Commerce clause
36. 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
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Primary election
Theocracy
Rider
37. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Writ of mandamus
Express powers
Prospective issue voting
Bad tendency test
38. Largely banned party soft money - restored a long-standing prohibition on corporations and labor unions for using general treasury funds for electoral purposes - and narrowed the definition of issue advocacy.
Whip
'Our federalism'
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Regulatory taking
39. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Party convention
Environmental impact statement
Open primary
Value-added tax (VAT)
40. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Cloture
Three-fifths compromise
Department
Direct primary
41. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
Public opinion
Libertarian party
Independent expenditures
Isolationism
42. 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
National tide
Libertarian party
Right of expatriation
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
43. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Implied powers
Initiative
Tariff
Closed shop
44. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Sedition
Parliamentary system
Original jurisdiction
Central clearance
45. Compromise between northern and southern states at the Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
Party identification
Three-fifths compromise
Police powers
Veto
46. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Reapportionment
Hard money
Primary election
Literacy test
47. Primary election in which only persons registered in the party holding the primary may vote.
Safe seat
Closed primary
Federal mandate
Trade deficit
48. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Constitutionalism
Natural rights
Democratic consensus
Selective incorporation
49. 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.
Virginia Plan
Regressive tax
Libertarian party
National debt
50. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Political action committee (PAC)
Direct primary
Gender gap
Department