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1. Arrangement whereby public officials are hired to provide legal assistance to people accused of crimes who are unable to hire their own attorneys.
Public defender system
Original jurisdiction
Turnout
Crossover sanctions
2. A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Issue advocacy
Spoils system
Vouchers
Free exercise clause
3. A law that defines crimes against the public order.
Excise tax
Judicial review
Plea bargain
Criminal law
4. The proportion of the voting age public that votes - sometimes defined as the number of registered voters that vote.
Special or select committee
Logrolling
Turnout
Party identification
5. An economic and governmental system based on public ownership of the means of production and exchange.
Gerrymandering
Socialism
Lobbyist
Establishment clause
6. Method whereby representatives of the union and employer determine wages - hours - and other conditions of employment through direct negotiation.
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Justiciable dispute
Constituents
Collective bargaining
7. Programs in which eligibility is based on prior contributions to government - usually in the form of payroll taxes.
Fiscal federalism
Economic sanctions
Social insurance
Coattail effect
8. The process by which we develop our political attitudes - values - and beliefs.
Precedent
Honeymoon
Manifest opinion
Political socialization
9. Presidential staff the agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Value-added tax (VAT)
Unitary system
Majority rule
10. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Conference committee
Literacy test
Ethnocentrism
11. Presidential custom of submitting the names of prospective appointees for approval to senators from the states in which the appointees are to work.
Monopoly
Fundamentalists
Senatorial courtesy
Due process clause
12. 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
Criminal law
Party registration
Independent expenditures
Divided government
13. Incumbents have an advantage over challengers in election campaigns because voters are more familiar with them - and incumbents are more recognizable.
Senatorial courtesy
Democratic consensus
Name recognition
Soft money
14. Unlimited and undisclosed spending by an individual or group on communications that do not use words like 'vote for' or 'vote against -' although much of this activity is actually about electing or defeating candidates.
Social Security
Monopoly
Express powers
Issue advocacy
15. In this type of sample - every individual has unknown and random chance of being selected.
New Jersey Plan
Random sample
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Ethnocentrism
16. 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
Civil disobedience
Caucus
Categorical-formula grants
17. An explanation of the decision of the Supreme Court or any other appellate court.
Opinion of the Court
National party convention
Normal trade relations
Preemption
18. The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.
American dream
Weapons of mass destruction
Party identification
Divided government
19. The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.
Quid pro quo
Linkage institutions
Executive orders
Reapportionment
20. Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.
Issue advocacy
Regressive tax
Bundling
Prior restraint
21. Theory that opposes governmental interference in economic affairs beyond what is necessary to protect life and property.
News media
Laissez-faire economics
Free exercise clause
Majority rule
22. The list of potential cases that reach the Supreme Court.
Redistributive policy
Docket
Nonpartisan election
Class action suit
23. In a criminal action - the person or party accused of an offense.
Writ of certiorari
Block grants
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Defendant
24. A characteristic of individuals that is predictive of political behavior.
Political predisposition
Majority leader
Executive privilege
Idealism
25. An agency of Congress that analyzes presidential budget recommendations and estimates the cost of proposed legislation.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Civil law
Commercial speech
Bicameralism
26. A president's claim of broad public support.
Shays's Rebellion
Mandate
Judicial review
Federal Register
27. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.
Substantive due process
'Our federalism'
Class action suit
Social capital
28. Elections held in years when the president is on the ballot.
Political socialization
Grand jury
Presidential election
Natural rights
29. Consumer tax on a specific kind of merchandise - such as tobacco.
Honeymoon
Excise tax
Unilateralism
Implied powers
30. Federal laws (starting with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890) that try to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Women's suffrage
Antitrust legislation
Green party
Due process clause
31. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Majority-minority district
Bundling
Majority rule
Senatorial courtesy
32. A type of policy that provides benefits to all Americans.
Democracy
Connecticut Compromise
Distributive policy
Racial gerrymandering
33. Money government provides to parents to pay their children's tuition in a public or private school of their choice.
Lobbyist
Petit jury
Vouchers
Ethnicity
34. Officer of the Senate selected by the majority party to act as chair in the absence of the vice president.
Party identification
Court of appeals
Precedent
President pro tempore
35. An organization that seeks political power by electing people to office so that its positions and philosophy become public policy.
Executive order
Political party
Central clearance
Bureaucracy
36. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Recall
Whip
Open rule
Cooperative federalism
37. 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
Executive agreement
Necessary and proper clause
Photo ops
Interstate compact
38. A law that governs relationships between individuals and defines their legal rights.
Marble cake federalism
Party caucus
Civil law
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
39. A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.
Majority leader
Primary election
Petit jury
Indictment
40. 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.
Due process clause
Pocket veto
Monetary policy
Closed rule
41. The inclination to focus on national issues - rather than local issues - in an election campaign. The impact of the national tide can be reduced by the nature of the candidates on the ballot who might have differentiated themselves from their party o
Photo ops
Social Security
National tide
Centralists
42. Usually the largest organization in government with the largest mission; also the highest rank in Federal hierarchy.
Immunity
Department
State's rights
Name recognition
43. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Confederation
Government corporation
Presidential election
Deregulation
44. Donations made to political candidates - party committees - or groups which - by law - are limited and must be declared.
Hard money
American dream
Electoral college
Selective incorporation
45. Initial proposal at the Constitutional Convention made by the Virginia delegation for a strong central government with a bicameral legislature dominated by the big states.
Rule-making process
Isolationism
Virginia Plan
Revolving door
46. A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator temporarily blocks the consideration of the bill or nomination.
Hold
Decentralists
Checks and balances
Enumerated powers
47. A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.
Regulations
Closed rule
Union shop
Lobbyist
48. 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.
Issue advocacy
Connecticut Compromise
Grand jury
Permissive federalism
49. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Right of expatriation
Issue advocacy
Judicial review
Reform party
50. The power to keep executive communications confidential - especially if they relate to national security.
Take care clause
Prior restraint
Cloture
Executive privilege