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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Political party
Distributive policy
Competitive federalism
Implied powers
2. The presiding officer in the House of Representatives - formally elected by the House but actually selected by the majority party.
Speaker
Random sample
Issue advocacy
Nonpartisan election
3. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Independent regulatory commission
Federal Register
Open rule
Racial profiling
4. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Prior restraint
National debt
Cloture
Independent expenditures
5. Interpretation of the First Amendment that would permit legislatures to forbid speech encouraging people to engage in illegal action.
Issue network
Immunity
Democratic consensus
Bad tendency test
6. The precise legal definition of how government will implement a policy.
Competitive federalism
Rider
Rule
Earmarks
7. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Winner-take-all system
Confederation
Federal Register
Unitary system
8. A belief that limited government insures order competitive markets and personal opportunity.
Conservatism
New Jersey Plan
Community policing
National tide
9. Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.
Community policing
Ex post facto law
Senatorial courtesy
Federalism
10. 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.
Lobbyist
Plea bargain
Candidate appeal
Commercial speech
11. Interest groups organized under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code may advertise for or against candidates. If their source of funding is corporations or unions - they have some restrictions on broadcast advertising. 527 organizations were impo
527 organizations
Affirmative action
Bad tendency test
Filibuster
12. Authority given by Congress to the Federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws.
Soft money
Unemployment
Administrative discretion
Internationalism
13. Synonymous with 'collective action -' it specifically studies how government officials - politicians - and voters respond to positive and negative incentives.
Centralists
Hard money
Public choice
Senior Executive Service
14. Government by the people - both directly or indirectly - with free and frequent elections.
Take care clause
Democracy
Docket
Normal trade relations
15. Advertisements and commercials for products and services; they receive less First Amendment protection - primarily to discourage false and misleading ads.
Commercial speech
Marble cake federalism
Theory of deterrence
Entitlement programs
16. Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.
Express powers
Commercial speech
Labor injunction
Civil disobedience
17. Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Logrolling
Mass media
Spoils system
Bicameralism
18. State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.
Articles of Confederation
Jim Crow laws
President pro tempore
Labor injunction
19. Democratic and civic habits of discussion - compromise - and respect for differences - which grow out of participation in voluntary organizations.
Parliamentary system
Social capital
Federalists
Independent expenditure
20. An electoral district in which voters choose one representative or official.
Ex post facto law
Independent regulatory commission
Single-member district
Devolution revolution
21. A formal - public agreement between the United States and one or more nations that must be approved by two thirds of the Senate.
Fiscal policy
Political culture
Treaty
Bipartisanship
22. Citizenship in more than one nation.
National party convention
Labor injunction
New Jersey Plan
Dual citizenship
23. Governance divided between the parties - especially when one holds the presidency and the other controls one or both houses of Congress.
Party identification
Divided government
Party caucus
Union shop
24. The candidate or party that wins more than half the votes cast in an election.
Preferred position doctrine
Senatorial courtesy
Majority
Cloture
25. 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.
Amicus curiae brief
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Safe seat
Economic sanctions
26. Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments - such as the power to levy taxes.
Soft money
Concurrent powers
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Soft power
27. Party leader who is the liaison between the leadership and the rank-and-file in the legislature.
Unitary system
Central clearance
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Whip
28. A formal decision to reject the bill passed by Congress.
Shays's Rebellion
Collective bargaining
Entitlements
Veto
29. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Original jurisdiction
Turnout
Opinion of the Court
Executive order
30. The process - most notably in families and schools - by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Issue network
Political socialization
Executive Office of the President
Faction
31. Legislative act inflicting punishment - including deprivation of property - without a trial - on named individuals or members of a specific group.
Bill of attainder
Preferred position doctrine
Safe seat
Standing committee
32. A minor party that believes in extremely limited government. Libertarians call for a free market system - expanded individual liberties such as drug legalization - and a foreign policy of nonintervention - free trade - and open immigration.
Presidential election
Open shop
Unilateralism
Libertarian party
33. The process by which individuals perceive what they want to in media messages.
Protectionism
Safe seat
Selected perception
Contract clause
34. 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.
Due process clause
Labor injunction
Commerce clause
Fiscal federalism
35. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
Suffrage
American dream
Fundamentalists
Trade deficit
36. How voters feel about a candidate's background - personality - leadership ability - and other personal qualities.
Candidate appeal
Australian ballot
Antitrust legislation
Health maintenance organization (HMO)
37. A theory that government should control the money supply to encourage economic growth and restrain inflation.
Monetarism
Community policing
Offshoring
Manifest destiny
38. Weakening of partisan preferences that points to a rejection of both major parties and a rise in the number of independents.
Dealignment
Regulatory taking
Libertarianism
Patronage
39. Programs such as unemployment insurance - disability relief - or disability payments that provide benefits to all eligible citizens.
Cycle of decreasing influence
Entitlement programs
New Jersey Plan
Constitutional democracy
40. Power of a government to take private property for public use; the U.S. Constitution gives national and state governments this power and requires them to provide just compensation for property so taken.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
Ex post facto law
Midterm election
Eminent domain
41. Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
Soft money
Override
Judicial review
Articles of Confederation
42. The assigning by Congress of congressional seats after each census. State legislatures reapportion state legislative districts.
Political party
Writ of certiorari
Reapportionment
Executive Office of the President
43. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Linkage institutions
National debt
Liberalism
Progressive tax
44. 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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45. An informal and subjective affiliation with a political party that most people acquire in childhood.
Ex post facto law
Interstate compact
Marbury v. Madison
Party identification
46. A local or judicial election in which candidates are not selected or endorsed by political parties and party affiliation is not listed on ballots.
Capitalism
Race
Nonpartisan election
Gerrymandering
47. Agreement signed by the United States - Canada - and Mexico in 1992 to form the largest free trade zone in the world.
Reapportionment
Mandate
Marbury v. Madison
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
48. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.
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49. Constitutional grant of powers that enables each of the three branches of government to check some acts of the others and therefore ensure that no branch can dominate.
Voter registration
Entitlement programs
Checks and balances
Iron triangle
50. A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
Offshoring
Interest group
Implied powers
Voter registration