Final Exam - Terms

Question 1

What can you order so that you can vote if you are not able to go to the voting booth on voting day?

Answer 1

Absentee ballot

Question 2

What is a “love for one’s country and a loyalty to that country.”

Answer 2

Patriotism

Question 3

What are the characteristics and traditions that have been handed down by our ancestors?

Answer 3

heritage

Question 4

According to Charles Shuman, what is the price of socialism?

Answer 4

freedom

Question 5

What powers are given explicitly to Congress by the Constitution?

Answer 5

Expressed powers

Question 6

What gives Congress the authority to put into operation both the expressed and implied powers?

Answer 6

“necessary and proper” clause

Question 7

What is the propositional distribution of congressional seats among the states?

Answer 7

apportionment

Question 8

What is a proposed new law?

Answer 8

bill

Question 9

What is the term for the highest number of votes won, but less than the majority?

Answer 9

plurality

Question 10

What is the term for presidential rejection of a bill?

Answer 10

veto

Question 11

What is the term for past decisions involving similar court cases?

Answer 11

Precedents

Question 12

What is the term for armed citizenry?

Answer 12

militia

Question 13

What is the term for the power to veto part of a bill without rejecting an entire bill?

Answer 13

item veto

Question 14

What is the term for an election in which voters approve or reject a proposed amendment?

Answer 14

referendum

Question 15

What is the process by which a person changes citizenship from one country to another?

Answer 15

naturalization

Question 16

What kind of ballot is a secret ballot?

Answer 16

Australian ballot

Question 17

What term refers to a private meeting of political party members to decide on policy or to choose candidates?

Answer 17

caucus

Question 18

What term describes a large, complex organization made up of appointed officials?

Answer 18

bureaucracy

Question 19

What kind of commands by the President have the force of law?

Answer 19

executive orders

Question 20

What term means a crime so serious that it is punishable by death?

Answer 20

capital crime

Question 21

What term refers to the rules that govern the use of money granted to the states by the national government?

Answer 21

mandates

Question 22

What term refers to a system whereby able-bodied men are required to join a particular branch of the nations armed forces for a certain period of time?

Answer 22

conscription

Question 23

By what process do voters propose an amendment to a state constitution?

Answer 23

initiative

Question 24

What word describes a person’s allegiance to a country or full membership and participation in its political and social institutions?

Answer 24

citizenship

Question 25

What term refers to an instance in which the Supreme Court goes beyond the Constitution to change societal behavior by interpreting the Constitution to mean what the justices what it to mean?

Answer 25

judicial acivism

Question 26

What term describes a statement of an individual citizen’s legal privileges?

Answer 26

bill of rights

Question 27

What term refers to when the Supreme Court interprets and applies the Constitution according to the original understanding of those who wrote and ratified it?

Answer 27

Judicial Restraint

Question 28

What term refers to monies the national government gives to state or local governments for some designated purpose?

Answer 28

Federal Grants

Question 29

What term refers to the right of the Supreme Court to declare a law, or action based upon that law, unconstitutional?

Answer 29

Judicial Review

Question 30

What term refers to when federal law supersedes or overrides a similar state law?

Answer 30

Preemption