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1. A landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States - under Article Three of the United States Constitution. The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury - who had b
Marbury v. Madison
Party convention
Equal protection clause
Immunity
2. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Antitrust legislation
Caucus
Antitrust legislation
World Trade Organization (WTO)
3. The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
Line item veto
Appellate jurisdiction
Issue advocacy
Primary election
4. A social division based on national origin - religion - language - and often race.
Nonpartisan election
Electoral college
Due process
Ethnicity
5. 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.
Plea bargain
Political predisposition
Oversight
Civil law
6. 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.
Plea bargain
Hold
Defendant
Libertarian party
7. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Speaker
Public choice
Capitalism
Unilateralism
8. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Collective bargaining
Impoundment
Senatorial courtesy
Minority leader
9. The set of arrangements - including checks and balances - federalism - separation of powers - rule of law - due process - and a bill of rights - that requires our leaders to listen - think - bargain - and explain before they act or make laws. We then
Civil law
amicus curiae brief
Constitutionalism
Justiciable dispute
10. Through different grant programs - slices up the marble cake into many different pieces - making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Regulatory taking
Fiscal federalism
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
11. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Poll tax
Winner-take-all system
Selective exposure
Judicial review
12. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Social insurance
Interested money
Random sample
Deficit
13. 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.
Selective incorporation
Inherent powers
Amicus curiae brief
Hard money
14. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
Independent expenditures
Implied powers
Special or select committee
Cloture
15. A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
Women's suffrage
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Political socialization
Faction
16. A specific course of action taken by government to achieve a public goal.
Medicare
Minority leader
Public policy
Protectionism
17. Widespread agreement on fundamental principles of democratic governance and the values that undergird them.
Environmental impact statement
National Intelligence Director
Democratic consensus
Bicameralism
18. Voting based on what a candidate pledges to do in the future about an issue if elected.
Right of expatriation
Ex post facto law
Fundamentalists
Prospective issue voting
19. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Libertarian party
Grand jury
Bicameralism
Filibuster
20. Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary - artistic - political - or scientific value.
Uncontrollable spending
Cross-cutting cleavages
Obscenity
Divided government
21. Biological - chemical - or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.
Appellate jurisdiction
Retrospective issue of voting
Suffrage
Weapons of mass destruction
22. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Environmental impact statement
Initiative
Original jurisdiction
Ethnocentrism
23. A minor party dedicated to the environment - social justice - nonviolence - and the foreign policy of nonintervention. Ralph Nader ran as the Green party's nominee in 2000.
Political ideology
Green party
Entitlement programs
Realigning election
24. Presidential custom of submitting the names of perspective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Divided government
Clear and present danger test
Senatorial courtesy
Means-tested entitlements
25. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election - not necessarily more than half.
Ethnicity
Plurality
Caucus
Nonpartisan election
26. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
President pro tempore
Executive agreement
Ex post facto law
Permissive federalism
27. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Cloture
Senatorial courtesy
Soft money
Pocket veto
28. A provision attached to a bill
Laissez-faire economics
Right of expatriation
Safe seat
Rider
29. 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.
Statism
Entitlement programs
Redistricting
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
30. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Political party
Preferred position doctrine
Coattail effect
31. Voting by member of one party for a candidate of another party.
Caucus
Delegate
Theocracy
Crossover voting
32. Election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
Court of appeals
Proportional representation
Monopoly
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
33. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Delegate
Quid pro quo
Executive order
Decentralists
34. Constitutional requirement that governments proceed by proper methods; limits how government may exercise power.
Bureaucrat
Majority rule
Procedural due process
Bureaucracy
35. The portion of the Federal budget that is spent on programs - such as Social Security - that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut.
Fighting words
Policy agenda
Uncontrollable spending
Bush Doctrine
36. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Poll tax
Unitary system
Search warrant
Party convention
37. A form of organization that operates through impersonal - uniform rules and procedures.
Marbury v. Madison
State of the Union Address
Bureaucracy
Medicare
38. Government by religious leaders - who claim divine guidance.
Closed shop
General election
Cross-cutting cleavages
Theocracy
39. Assigning police to neighborhoods where they walk the beat and work with churches and other community groups to reduce crime and improve relations with minorities.
Issue advocacy
Political culture
Selective incorporation
Community policing
40. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
Keynesian economics
Candidate appeal
Veto
General election
41. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Independent expenditures
Medicare
Enumerated powers
Candidate appeal
42. 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.
Inflation
Public policy
Equal protection clause
Commerce clause
43. Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose - such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions - often on a matching basis; that is - the local go
Racial profiling
Categorical-formula grants
Closed shop
Trade deficit
44. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Majority rule
Movement
Winner-take-all system
Distributive policy
45. Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting - generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.
Cloture
Bill of attainder
Obscenity
Literacy test
46. Means of communication that are reaching the public - including newspapers and magazines - radio - television (broadcast - cable - and satellite) - films - recordings - books - and electronic communication.
Regressive tax
Mass media
Police powers
Commerce clause
47. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Social capital
Single-member district
Environmental impact statement
Popular consent
48. Championed by Ronald Reagan - presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.
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49. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Suffrage
Theocracy
Direct primary
Preemption
50. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Natural law
Commercial speech
Bundling
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