FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV UNIT 2 VOCAB

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV UNIT 2 VOCAB

EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Discretionary Spending

Answer:

The spending programs that Congress authorizes on an annual basis.

Question 2: agenda setting

Answer:

the process of forming the list of issues to be addressed by government

Question 3: Patronage

Answer:

Jobs, grants, or other special favors that are given as rewards to friends and political allies for their support

Question 4: white house staff

Answer:

Personnel who run the White House and advise the President. Includes the Chief of Staff and Press Secretary

Question 5: Executive office of the president (EOP)

Answer:

a mini-bureaucracy created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy

Question 6: Pork/ Pork Barrel Legistlation

Answer:

Legislation that allows representatives to bring money and jobs to their districts in the form of public works programs, military bases or other programs

Question 7: Logrolling or reciprocity

Answer:

Vote trading; voting to support a colleague's bill in return for a promise of future support

Question 8: Authorization Legislation

Answer:

legislative permission to begin or continue a government program or agency

Question 9: Borked

Answer:

a judicial nominee who is rejected due to being ideologically extreme

Question 10: Deficit

Answer:

An excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues.

Question 11: Unanimous consent (in senate)

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A Senate requirement, applied to most of that body's business, that all senators agree before an action can proceed.

Question 12: Precedent

Answer:

A prior judicial decision that serves as a rule for settling subsequent cases of similar nature

Question 13: Merit System

Answer:

A system of employment based on qualifications, test scores, and ability, rather than party loyalty

Question 14: Racial Gerrymandering

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The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in Shaw v Reno

Question 15: Politico

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An elected representative who acts as a trustee or as a delegate depending on the issue

Question 16: Gerrymandering

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The drawing of congressional districts to produce a particular electoral outcome without regard to the shape of the district

Question 17: Mandatory Spending

Answer:

spending required by laws from certain programs, laws, etc.

Question 18: Omnibus Legislation

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Large bills that often cover several topics and may contain extraneous, or pork-barrel, projects.

Question 19: Filibuster

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A formal way of halting senate action on a bill by means of long speeches or unlimited debate

Question 20: Entitlement

Answer:

Government benefits that all citizens meeting eligibility criteria- such as age income level, or unemployment- are legally "entitled" to receive

Question 21: Singing Statements

Answer:

Occasional written comments attached to a bill signed by the president

Question 22: Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

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The office that prepares the president's annual budget proposal, reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments, supplies economic forecasts, and conducts detailed analyses of proposed bills and agency rules

Question 23: Executive Order

Answer:

Rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. All executive orders must be published in the federal register

Question 24: writ of certiorari

Answer:

a request for the supreme court to order up the records form a lower court to review the case

Question 25: Majority-minority districts

Answer:

In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which a majority of the population is from the minority.

Question 26: Discharge Petition

Answer:

Petition that gives a majority of the house of reps the authority to bring an issue to the floor in the face of committee inaction

Question 27: Spoils system

Answer:

The firing of a public office holders of a defeated political party to replace them with loyalists of the newly elected party