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1. Money spent by individuals or groups not associated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Keynesian economics
Independent expenditures
Connecticut Compromise
2. 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
Competitive federalism
Hard money
Policy agenda
Lobbyist
3. 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.
Primary election
Selective incorporation
Police powers
Defendant
4. A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.
White primary
Hard money
Fundamentalists
Writ of certiorari
5. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases.
Connecticut Compromise
Sound bites
White primary
Selective exposure
6. A theory that is based on creating enough military strength to convince other nations not to attack first.
Deregulation
Monopoly
Theory of deterrence
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
7. Advisory council for the president consisting of the heads of the executive departments - the vice president - and a few other officials selected by the president.
Australian ballot
Cabinet
Mandate
Idealism
8. Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution.
Double jeopardy
New Jersey Plan
Plea bargain
Initiative
9. Presidential power to strike - or remove - specific items from a spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Presidential ticket
Independent expenditure
Hard money
Line item veto
10. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Soft money
Cooperative federalism
Indictment
Reform party
11. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Hard power
Adversary system
Double jeopardy
Vouchers
12. Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
Democratic consensus
Trustee
Ethnocentrism
Seniority rule
13. A philosophy that encourages individual nations tacked together to solve international problems.
State of the Union Address
Multilateralism
Rule-making process
Competitive federalism
14. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Commercial speech
Hard money
Chief of staff
Confederation
15. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Safe seat
Political socialization
Representative democracy
Regulations
16. The widely shared beliefs - values - and norms about how citizens relate to governments and to one another.
Nonpartisan election
Political culture
National Intelligence Director
Tariff
17. Programs such as Medicaid and welfare under which applicants must meet eligibility requirements based on need.
Means-tested entitlements
Override
Closed shop
State's rights
18. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Veto
Implied powers
Manifest opinion
Open rule
19. Governance according to the expressed preferences of the majority.
Cooperative federalism
Judicial activism
Majority rule
Writ of certiorari
20. A policy-making alliance that involves a very strong ties among a congressional committee - an interest group - and a Federal Department or agency.
Preferred position doctrine
Implied powers
Iron triangle
Rule
21. Written defamation of another person. For public officials and public figures - the constitutional tests designed to restrict libel actions are especially rigid.
Whip
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
Regulation
Libel
22. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 8 - Clause 3) setting forth the implied powers of Congress. It states that Congress - in addition to its express powers has the right to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out all powers the Co
Plea bargain
Midterm election
Necessary and proper clause
Manifest destiny
23. A procedure for terminating debate - especially filibusters - in the Senate.
Issue network
Concurrent powers
Pluralism
Cloture
24. Photo opportunities set up by the candidates. The media have been accused of simplifying complicated political issues by relying on photo ops to explain them to the public.
Photo ops
Jim Crow laws
Normal trade relations
National supremacy
25. The desire to avoid international entanglement altogether.
Political ideology
Capitalism
Isolationism
Total and Partial Preemption
26. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Federal Register
Rule
Constituents
Revolving door
27. The system created by Congress in 1913 to establish banking practices and regulate currency in circulation and the amount of credit available. It consists of 12 regional banks supervised by the Board of Governors. Often called simply the Fed.
Federal Reserve System
Monopoly
Means-tested entitlements
Environmental impact statement
28. 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.
Cycle of decreasing influence
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Community policing
Issue network
29. The tendency in elections to focus on the personal attributes of a candidate - such as his/her strengths - weaknesses - background - experience - and visibility.
Decentralists
Conservatism
Candidate appeal
Monetary policy
30. 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.
Prior restraint
Monetary policy
Take care clause
Creative federalism
31. The first governing document of the confederated states drafted in 1777 - ratified in 1781 - and replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.
Marble cake federalism
Cloture
Indexing
Articles of Confederation
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
President pro tempore
Property rights
Independent expenditure
Ex post facto law
33. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Federal mandate
Spoils system
Winner-take-all system
34. 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
Mass media
Hard money
Oversight
Grand jury
35. Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense.
Safe seat
Plea bargain
Proportional representation
Democracy
36. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Clear and present danger test
Conservatism
Federalism
Unemployment
37. The total amount of money the Federal government has borrowed to finance deficit spending over the years.
National Intelligence Director
Logrolling
Collective action
National debt
38. The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Court of appeals
Minor party
Implementation
Express powers
39. Petition that - if signed by majority of the House of Representatives' members - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration.
Restrictive covenant
Judicial restraint
Discharge petition
Whip
40. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Women's suffrage
Pocket veto
Distributive policy
Fundamentalists
41. Domination of an industry by a single company; also the company that dominates the industry.
Decentralists
Monopoly
Referendum
Logrolling
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.
Green party
Prior restraint
Issue network
Inflation
43. 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.
Theory of deterrence
Crossover voting
Soft power
Obscenity
44. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Act of 1890) that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Categorical-formula grants
Bundling
Antitrust legislation
Cooperative federalism
45. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Mass media
Socialism
Open shop
Inherent powers
46. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Independent expenditures
Bill of attainder
Voter registration
Direct primary
47. The president's annual statement to Congress and the nation.
State of the Union Address
Nongovernmental organization (NGO)
Separation of powers
Name recognition
48. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Defendant
Devolution revolution
Quid pro quo
Rally point
49. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Attentive public
Docket
Rider
50. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Override
Majority leader
Political culture
Concurrent powers