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1. A writ issued by a magistrate that authorizes the police to search a particular place or person - specifying the place to be searched and the objects to be seized.
Natural law
Earmarks
Search warrant
Dual citizenship
2. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Issue advocacy
Appellate jurisdiction
Unemployment
Laissez-faire economics
3. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Representative democracy
Prior restraint
Spoils system
Reapportionment
4. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Federalism
Bipartisanship
Speaker
Ex post facto law
5. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be complied with under threat of criminal or civil sanction. An example is the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 - barring job discrimination by state and local gover
Open shop
Policy agenda
Direct orders
Attentive public
6. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Collective action
Caucus
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)
Candidate appeal
7. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Antitrust legislation
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Soft power
Political party
8. Statement required by Federal law from all agencies for any project using Federal funds to assess the potential affect of the new construction or development on the environment.
Environmental impact statement
Double jeopardy
Majority rule
Exclusionary rule
9. 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.
Community policing
Regulatory taking
'Necessary and proper' clause
Pocket veto
10. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Fiscal policy
Laissez-faire economics
'Our federalism'
11. 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.
National supremacy
Retrospective issue of voting
Executive orders
Green party
12. Promoting a particular position or an issue paid for by interest groups or individuals but not candidates. Much issue advocacy is often electioneering for or against a candidate - and until 2004 had not been subject to any regulation.
Socialism
Issue advocacy
Commerce clause
Safe seat
13. A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage.
Merit system
Hatch Act
Soft money
Project grants
14. Deliberate refusal to obey law or comply with orders of public officials as a means of expressing opposition.
Fundamentalists
Civil disobedience
Senior Executive Service
Fiscal policy
15. A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.
Patronage
Petit jury
Concurrent powers
Collective action
16. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement of such deeds is unconstitutional.
Party convention
Party registration
Restrictive covenant
Dissenting opinion
17. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disaster relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Entitlements
Manifest opinion
Decentralists
527 organizations
18. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Executive privilege
National party convention
Ethnicity
President pro tempore
19. Segregation imposed by law.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Property rights
Independent expenditures
De jure segregation
20. Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
Writ of habeas corpus
Midterm election
Linkage institutions
Fiscal policy
21. 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
Concurrent powers
Iron triangle
Independent expenditure
Minority leader
22. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Political socialization
Soft money
Contract clause
Union shop
23. 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
Libel
Collective action
Manifest destiny
Party identification
24. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that the government cannot interfere with speech unless the speech presents a clear and present danger that it will lead to evil or illegal acts.
Clear and present danger test
Pocket veto
Public choice
Gerrymandering
25. Formal accusation against a president or other public official - the first step in removal from office.
Sedition
Executive agreement
Mass media
Impeachment
26. Theory based on the principles of John Maynard Keynes - stating that government spending should increase during business slumps and the curve during booms.
Demographics
Internationalism
Writ of habeas corpus
Keynesian economics
27. Relationships among interest groups - congressional committees and subcommittees - and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Issue network
Collective bargaining
Judicial restraint
Search warrant
28. A formal agreement between the U.S. president and the leaders of other nations that does not require Senate approval.
Federalism
Executive agreement
Annapolis Convention
Public policy
29. Tax levied on imports to help protect the nation's industries - labor - or farmers from foreign competition. It can also be used to raise additional revenue.
Tariff
Collective action
Medicaid
Majority leader
30. Exemption from prosecution for a particular crime in return for testimony pertaining to the case.
Offshoring
Immunity
Racial profiling
Pocket veto
31. A national meeting of delegates elected at primaries - caucuses - or state conventions who assemble once every four years to nominate candidates for president and vice president - ratify the party platform - elect officers - and adopt rules.
Implementation
National party convention
Necessary and proper clause
New Jersey Plan
32. The legislative leader selected by the minority party as spokesperson for the opposition.
Trust
Minority leader
Categorical-formula grants
Chief of staff
33. 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
Sales tax
Writ of mandamus
Monetarism
34. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Federal mandate
Regressive tax
Economic sanctions
Bicameralism
35. The power of a court to refuse to enforce a law or government regulation that in the opinion of the judges conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or - in a state court - the state constitution.
Judicial review
Photo ops
Independent expenditures
Revolving door
36. A combination of entitlement programs - paid for by employer and employee taxes - that includes retirement benefits - health insurance - and support for disabled workers and the children of deceased or disabled workers.
Political party
Total and Partial Preemption
Cross-cutting cleavages
Social Security
37. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Take care clause
Name recognition
Political culture
Socioeconomic status (SES)
38. Loss of tax revenue due to Federal laws that provide special tax incentives or benefits to individuals or businesses.
Marble cake federalism
Tax expenditure
Inherent powers
Single-member district
39. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Nonprotected speech
Soft money
Line item veto
Conservatism
40. 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.
Central clearance
Crossover voting
Executive privilege
Soft money
41. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Independent expenditures
Hard money
Winner-take-all system
Express powers
42. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Pocket veto
'Necessary and proper' clause
Independent expenditures
Indexing
43. Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or insight them to acts of violence.
Class action suit
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Australian ballot
Fighting words
44. 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.
Unfunded mandates
Selective incorporation
Three-fifths compromise
Plurality
45. The right to vote.
Suffrage
Libertarian party
Nonpartisan election
Hard power
46. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Independent agency
Midterm election
Political party
Rider
47. Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
De facto segregation
Unfunded mandates
Direct primary
Constitutionalism
48. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Libertarianism
Confederation
Mass media
Hold
49. An election system in which the candidate with the most votes wins.
Keynesian economics
'Our federalism'
Selective incorporation
Winner-take-all system
50. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Lobbying
Judicial restraint
Caucus
Environmental impact statement
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