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1. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Public choice
Class action suit
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Dissenting opinion
2. A tax graduated so that people with higher incomes pay larger fraction of their income than people with lower incomes.
Progressive tax
Revolving door
Dealignment
Race
3. 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
Hold
Monetary policy
Single-member district
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
4. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Plea bargain
Antitrust legislation
Trade deficit
Criminal law
5. Formal orders issued by the president to direct action by the Federal bureaucracy.
Direct orders
Take care clause
Executive orders
Interest group
6. Alternative means of health care in which individuals make tax-deductible contributions to a special account that can be used to pay medical expenses.
Representative democracy
Medical savings account
Regulation
Oversight
7. A policy-making alliance among loosely connected participants that comes together on a particular issue - then disbands.
Issue network
Cross-cutting cleavages
Deficit
Virginia Plan
8. A congressional district created to include a majority of minority voters; ruled constitutional so long as race is not the main factor in redistricting.
Majority-minority district
Judicial restraint
Police powers
Internationalism
9. System designed to reduce voter fraud by limiting voting to those who have established eligibility to vote by submitting the proper documents.
Line item veto
New Jersey Plan
Voter registration
Unitary system
10. Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787 - protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out.
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11. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and by how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Horse race
Centralists
Regressive tax
Single-member district
12. Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.
Establishment clause
Issue network
Petit jury
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
13. A tax whereby people with lower incomes pay a higher fraction of their income than people with higher incomes.
Bureaucracy
Divided government
Regressive tax
Issue advocacy
14. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Grand jury
Racial gerrymandering
Single-member district
Commercial speech
15. Divisions within society that reinforce one another - making groups more homogenous or similar.
Monopoly
amicus curiae brief
Reinforcing cleavages
Jim Crow laws
16. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Monetarism
Natural rights
Suffrage
Horse race
17. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Nonprotected speech
Commerce clause
Monetarism
Public choice
18. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
527 organizations
Impeachment
Police powers
Socialism
19. Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions.
The Federalist
Implied powers
Candidate appeal
Photo ops
20. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Demographics
Hold
Grand jury
Bundling
21. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
State's rights
President pro tempore
Obscenity
Cabinet
22. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Inherent powers
Women's suffrage
Presidential election
Attentive public
23. Philosophy proposing that judges should interpret the Constitution to reflect current conditions and values.
Checks and balances
Public defender system
Judicial activism
Justiciable dispute
24. A widely shared and consciously held view - like support for homeland security.
Democracy
Interest group
Stare decisis
Manifest opinion
25. A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
Selected perception
Redistributive policy
Unemployment
Popular sovereignty
26. A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national governments power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity. Building on this constitutional authority - f
Public opinion
Total and Partial Preemption
Proportional representation
Primary election
27. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Voter registration
Popular sovereignty
Iron triangle
Progressive tax
28. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Pluralism
Safe seat
Trust
Government corporation
29. 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
Theocracy
Keynesian economics
Nonpartisan election
30. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Hard money
Minor party
'Necessary and proper' clause
Criminal law
31. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Fiscal federalism
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Capitalism
Federal Register
32. A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences.
Popular consent
Double jeopardy
Social insurance
Adversary system
33. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
Hard money
Trade deficit
Monopoly
34. General tax on sales transactions - sometimes exempting food and drugs.
Lobbyist
Sales tax
Commerce clause
Right of expatriation
35. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states - by compact - create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.
Racial gerrymandering
Confederation
Opinion of the Court
Independent expenditures
36. A formal decision to reject a bill passed by Congress after it adjourns
Pocket veto
Treaty
Original jurisdiction
Public assistance
37. 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
Free rider
Creative federalism
Nonpartisan election
38. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Photo ops
De jure segregation
Natural rights
39. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Indexing
Excise tax
Revolving door
Party convention
40. Media that emphasize the news.
Joint committee
Normal trade relations
Naturalization
News media
41. Something given with the expectation of receiving something in return.
Stare decisis
Judicial review
Quid pro quo
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
42. A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.
Recall
Demographics
Federal mandate
Keynesian economics
43. A government entity that is independent of the legislative - executive - and judicial branches.
Interstate compact
Independent agency
Normal trade relations
World Trade Organization (WTO)
44. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Hard power
Isolationism
Unfunded mandates
Nonpartisan election
45. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
News media
Bicameralism
Senior Executive Service
Majority rule
46. Promoting a particular position or an issue 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 regulation.
Minority leader
Party caucus
Majority leader
Issue advocacy
47. 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.
Community policing
Government corporation
Administrative discretion
Racial gerrymandering
48. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor and thereby delays proceedings and prevents a vote on a controversial issue.
Mandate
Filibuster
Public assistance
Closed shop
49. Views the national government - 50 states - and thousands of local governments as competing with each other over ways to put together packages of services and taxes. Applies the analogy of the marketplace: we have some choice about which state and ci
Original jurisdiction
Executive privilege
Bureaucracy
Competitive federalism
50. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendments to bills or provides that only members of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments.
Policy agenda
Hold
Closed rule
Gender gap