AP Gov. Review

Most cases reaching appellate courts are settled on this principle.

Those already holding office?

Strategy unique to the Senate where opponents of a piece of legislation try to talk it to death

Set of values & beliefs of the purpose and scope of government held by groups and individuals?

A group of individuals with common interests who seek to influence public policy.

The political equivalent of an indictment in criminal law, prescribed by the Constitution.

Entities composed of bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional (sub)committees?

Positive acts of government designed to prevent discrimination&provide equality before the law.

Appellate courts empowered to review almost all final decisions of district courts.

Spoken - false defamatory speech

An office created in 1947 to coordinate the president's foreign and military policy advisors.

Process by which the Supreme Court has selectively applied the 14th Amendment to state law?

Rights that belong to everyone; protections against government;

Political party organization that relies heavily on material inducements, to win votes& govern?

Being tried twice for the same offense.

A group of members of Congress sharing some interest or characteristic.

Lifting of restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities that had gov't rules

A judicial philosophy in which judges play minimal policy-making roles.

A three-member body appointed by the president to advise the president on economic policy.

Process by which people gain their political attitudes and opinions?

The channels which issues & people's policy preferences get on the government's policy agenda?

An excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues.

The 91 federal courts of original jurisdiction. No trials are held in them.

Questioning government officials and research government activities to expose wrongdoing;

Counterbalancing influences by which a system or organization is regulated?

Electoral contenders other than the two major parties.

A paid agent of interest groups who speaks to members of government, and congress.

Any right that exists by virtue of natural law?

Refers to the regular pattern by which women are more likely to support Democratic candidates?

The attitudes, feelings, and beliefs of the general public about current events and issues

Voting for candidates of different parties for various offices in the same election.

The principal leader of the minority party in the House of Representatives or in the Senate?

The formal vehicle through which policies are made and affairs of state are conducted?

Head of committees. Roles in hearings, hiring staff, managing committee bills, etc.

Congress may not make laws restricting or prohibiting a person's religious beliefs.

Hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle

Amendment that extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections? (1920)

A proposed law, drafted in precise legal language.

The jurisdiction of courts that hear a case first, usually in a trial; determines facts of case

A legislature divided into two houses.

Form of government in which power is divided between the national government and the states?

Shares of individual wages and corporate revenues collected by the government.

Election "earthquake" whereby new issues emerge; majority party is often displaced by minority?

Lawsuits permitting a small number of people to sue on behalf of others similarly situated.

A request to government officials signed by citizens who agree with the demand.

Actions taken by governments to solve problems and achieve goals.

Displacement of the majority party by the minority party usually in a critical election period?

Ideology believing it's the gov'ts responsibility to improve society and better people's lives?

A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle.

Group promoting the interests of Americans as a whole rather than of any one specific group.

A group of presidential advisers not mentioned in the Constitution.

Institution unique to HR that reviews all bills coming from a House Committee?

The jurisdiction of courts that hear cases brought to them on appeal from lower courts.

Congressional committees on a few subject-matter areas with membership drawn from both houses?

You must be brought before the court and informed of charges against you.

The voter's perception of what the Republicans or Democrats stand for?

A one sided point of view that exaggerates the truth to appeal to emotions.

Principle partisan ally of the Speaker of the House or the party's wheel horse in the Senate?

Congress monitoring of the bureaucracy and its administration of policy, through hearings often

System that awards seats to the highest voted w/o ensuring fair representation for minorities