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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The principle of a two-house legislature.
Restrictive covenant
Closed rule
Bicameralism
Executive privilege
2. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may - by petition - propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
Deficit
Proportional representation
Internationalism
Initiative
3. Elections in which voters determine party nominees.
Due process clause
Primary election
Restrictive covenant
Three-fifths compromise
4. 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)
Indexing
Original jurisdiction
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
5. 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.
Judicial review
Oversight
Confederation
Electoral college
6. The act of declaring party affiliation; required by some states when one registers to vote.
Popular sovereignty
Cross-cutting requirements
Government corporation
Party registration
7. A company with a labor agreement under which union membership cannot be required as a condition of employment.
Majority rule
Preemption
Conservatism
Open shop
8. 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.
Fundamentalists
Capitalism
Manifest destiny
Open shop
9. Remedial action designed to overcome the effects of discrimination against minorities and women.
New Jersey Plan
Soft money
Judicial restraint
Affirmative action
10. Holding incumbents - usually the president's party - responsible for their records on issues - such as the economy or foreign policy.
Issue advocacy
Manifest destiny
Retrospective issue of voting
Issue network
11. 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.
527 organizations
Due process clause
Reapportionment
Weapons of mass destruction
12. A theory of international relations that focuses on the hope the nations will act together to solve international problems and promote peace.
Eminent domain
Trustee
Idealism
Spoils system
13. 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.
Multilateralism
Oversight
Presidential ticket
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
14. The right to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to National Security.
Marble cake federalism
Parliamentary system
Race
Executive privilege
15. Elections in which voters elect officeholders.
General election
Annapolis Convention
Cabinet
Ethnocentrism
16. Interpretation of the First Amendment that holds that freedom of expression is so essential to democracy that governments should not punish persons for what they say - only for what they do.
Proportional representation
Preferred position doctrine
Fundamentalists
Crossover voting
17. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Closed primary
Cloture
Unemployment
Tax expenditure
18. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Entitlement programs
Lobbying
Divided government
World Trade Organization (WTO)
19. The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.
Police powers
Natural rights
Congressional-executive agreement
Majority rule
20. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
General election
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Judicial review
Ex post facto law
21. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Direct orders
Lobbying
Political party
Racial gerrymandering
22. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Minority leader
Adversary system
Constituents
Hard money
23. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Realigning election
Pluralism
Coattail effect
Express powers
24. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Deficit
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Implementation
Socialism
25. A secret ballot printed by the state.
Uncontrollable spending
National supremacy
Australian ballot
Initiative
26. An individual who does not to join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Centralists
Speaker
National tide
Free rider
27. An election during periods of expanded suffrage and change in the economy and society that proves to be a turning point - redefining the agenda of politics and the alignment of voters within parties.
Civil law
Regressive tax
Political predisposition
Realigning election
28. A provision attached to a bill
Federal Reserve System
Soft money
amicus curiae brief
Rider
29. Providing automatic increases to compensate for inflation.
Indexing
Inherent powers
Natural rights
Inherent powers
30. A small political party that rises and falls with a charismatic candidate or - if composed of ideologies on the right or left - usually persists over time; also called a third party.
General election
Minor party
Monetary policy
Opinion of the Court
31. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government - promoting a free market economy - a noninterventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in moral - economic - and social life.
Opinion of the Court
Writ of mandamus
Libertarianism
Majority rule
32. 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
Prior restraint
Independent expenditures
Executive Office of the President
Unemployment
33. The powers expressly given to Congress in the Constitution.
Unilateralism
Dissenting opinion
Enumerated powers
Fundamentalists
34. Proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by William Paterson of New Jersey for a central government with a single-house legislature in which each state would be represented equally.
Candidate appeal
Full faith and credit clause
New Jersey Plan
Federalism
35. The belief that nations must engage in international problem solving.
Issue network
Monopoly
Delegate
Internationalism
36. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Implementation
Racial profiling
Writ of certiorari
Articles of Confederation
37. 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.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Closed rule
Candidate appeal
Social Security
38. A grouping of human beings with distinctive characteristics determined by genetic inheritance.
Free rider
Race
Liberalism
Rule-making process
39. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Constituents
Offshoring
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Closed shop
40. The dispensing of government jobs to persons who belong to the winning political party.
Fighting words
Random sample
Patronage
Liberalism
41. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Social Security
Fiscal federalism
Demographics
Social capital
42. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Veto
Open shop
Isolationism
Line item veto
43. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
Tax expenditure
Federalists
Interstate compact
Minority leader
44. A meeting of party delegates to vote on matters of policy and in some cases to select party candidates for public office.
Independent regulatory commission
Direct orders
Party convention
National Intelligence Director
45. Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government - the actions of the federal government will prevail.
Special or select committee
Enumerated powers
President pro tempore
National supremacy
46. Those citizens who follow public affairs closely.
Soft money
Indictment
Inherent powers
Attentive public
47. The constitutional requirement (in Article II - Section 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws.
Take care clause
Judicial review
Sedition
Redistricting
48. 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.
State of the Union Address
Soft money
Patronage
Executive privilege
49. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Petit jury
Theory of deterrence
Racial profiling
Primary election
50. 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.
Environmental impact statement
Independent regulatory commission
Hard money
Stare decisis