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1. During the Great Society - the marble cake approach of intergovernmental relations.
Government corporation
Double jeopardy
Creative federalism
Lobbyist
2. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Hard power
Political socialization
Criminal law
Protectionism
3. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Federal Register
Government corporation
Opinion of the Court
Prior restraint
4. Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Substantive due process
Virginia Plan
Unitary system
Normal trade relations
5. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect what the framers intended and what its words literally say.
Judicial restraint
Justiciable dispute
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Political action committee (PAC)
6. 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.
Extradition
Sedition
Marble cake federalism
Commerce clause
7. 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.
Amicus curiae brief
Marbury v. Madison
Executive order
Federal Register
8. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Rule-making process
Senatorial courtesy
Bipartisanship
Whip
9. 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.
Bush Doctrine
Political action committee (PAC)
Socioeconomic status (SES)
Impoundment
10. Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the state governments from depriving any person of life - liberty - or property without due process of law.
Party convention
Due process clause
Issue network
Total and Partial Preemption
11. Review of all executive branch testimony - reports - and draft legislation by the Office of Management and Budget to ensure that each communication to Congress is in accordance with the president's program.
Annapolis Convention
Central clearance
Jim Crow laws
Unilateralism
12. Citizenship in more than one nation.
Necessary and proper clause
Keynesian economics
Dual citizenship
News media
13. The right of women to vote.
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14. 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.
Progressive tax
Marbury v. Madison
Full faith and credit clause
De facto segregation
15. Conservative Christians who (as a group) have become more active in politics in the last two decades and were especially influential in the 2000 presidential election.
Reinforcing cleavages
Earmarks
Protectionism
Fundamentalists
16. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Ex post facto law
Incumbent
Antifederalists
Labor injunction
17. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
Decentralists
Multilateralism
Social Security
Proportional representation
18. Efforts by government to alter the free operation of the market to achieve social goals such as protecting workers and the environment.
Laissez-faire economics
Writ of mandamus
Exclusionary rule
Regulation
19. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Turnout
Central clearance
Mandate
20. A theory of government that holds that open - multiple - and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Primary election
Bicameralism
Pluralism
Proportional representation
21. A policy that emphasizes a united front and cooperation between the major political parties - especially on sensitive foreign policy issues.
Department
Constitutionalism
Constitutional Convention
Bipartisanship
22. The rights of an individual to own - use - rent - invest in - buy - and sell property.
President pro tempore
Political socialization
Property rights
Contract clause
23. Attempting to overthrow the government by force or use violence to interrupt its activities.
Nonprotected speech
Revolving door
Oversight
Sedition
24. Political contributions given to a party - candidate - or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds - hence the term 'hard money.'
Criminal law
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Hard money
Joint committee
25. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Poll tax
Retrospective issue of voting
Antitrust legislation
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
26. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Natural law
Merit system
Chief of staff
27. 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).
Popular sovereignty
Poll tax
Hard money
Ethnicity
28. The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960).
Racial gerrymandering
Redistricting
Delegate
Linkage institutions
29. A committee composed of members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate; such committees oversee the Library of Congress and conduct investigations.
Bureaucracy
Plea bargain
The Federalist
Joint committee
30. The formal instructions that government issues for implementing laws.
Economic sanctions
Policy agenda
Regulations
Laissez-faire economics
31. A jury of 12 to 23 persons who - in private - hear evidence presented by the government to determine whether persons shall be required to stand trial. If the jury believes there is sufficient evidence that a crime was committed - it issues an indictm
Class action suit
Implementation
Grand jury
President pro tempore
32. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Competitive federalism
National Intelligence Director
Realism
Procedural due process
33. 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.
Stare decisis
Commerce clause
Impeachment
Theocracy
34. 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.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Direct democracy
Theocracy
Suffrage
35. Alternative means of health care in which people or their employers are charged a set amount and the HMO provides health care and covers hospital costs.
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
Grand jury
Collective action
Issue advocacy
36. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
Impoundment
Social capital
Proportional representation
Direct primary
37. 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.
Trustee
Lobbyist
De jure segregation
Bundling
38. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Hard power
Rider
amicus curiae brief
Excise tax
39. 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.
Restrictive covenant
Judicial review
Selective incorporation
Lobbying
40. Election in which voters choose party nominees.
News media
Laissez-faire economics
Extradition
Direct primary
41. The difference between the political opinions or political behavior of men and of women.
Faction
Retrospective issue of voting
Civil disobedience
Gender gap
42. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Political ideology
Central clearance
Writ of habeas corpus
Indictment
43. Money raised in unlimited amounts by political parties for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state or local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Internationalism
Jim Crow laws
Marble cake federalism
44. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
De jure segregation
Executive order
Substantive due process
Literacy test
45. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Special or select committee
Public policy
Establishment clause
Honeymoon
46. 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.
Quid pro quo
Affirmative action
Stare decisis
Petit jury
47. The boost that candidates may get in an election because of the popularity of candidates above them on the ballot - especially the president.
Coattail effect
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Independent expenditures
Poll tax
48. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Party convention
Plea bargain
Party identification
49. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Bill of attainder
Inflation
Contract clause
Senatorial courtesy
50. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Incumbent
Executive agreement
Plurality
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