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| Local television stations that carry the programming of a national network. |
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| A set of issues to be discussed or given attention. |
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| Friend of the court;A third party to a lawsuit who files a legal brief for the purpose of raising additional points of view in an attempt to influence a court's decision. |
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| Those who favored strong state governments and a weak national government. |
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| The process of allotting congressional seats to each state following the decennial census according to the state's proportion of the population. |
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| A system of government that bases its rule on force rather than consent of the governed. |
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| A law declaring an act illegal without a judicial trial. |
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| Television, radio, cable and satellite services. |
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| Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose. |
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| Mechanism requiring sixty senators to vote to cut off debate. |
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| A primary election in which only a party's registered voters are eligible to vote. |
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| A document establishing the structure, functions, and limitations of a government. |
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| The relationship between the national and state governments that began with the new deal. |
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| Participation in the primary of a party with which the voter is not affliated. |
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| Role played by elected representatives who vote the way their constituents would want them to, regardless of their own opinions. |
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| A general decline in partisan identification and loyalty in the electorate. |
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| A system of government that gives power to the people, whether directly or through elected representatives. |
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| The selection of party candidates through the ballots of qualified voters rather than at party nomination conventions. |
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| Part of the fifth Amendment that protects individuals from being tried twice for the same offense. |
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| The belief that having seperate and equally powerful levels of government is the best arrangement. |
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| Member of the electoral college chosen by methods determined in each state. |
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| Citizens eligible to vote. |
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| Passed by congress in 1807 to prevent U.S. ships from leaving U.S. ports for foreign ports without the approval from the federal government. |
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| Law passed after the fact, thereby making previously legal activity illegal and subject to current penalty; prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. |
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| Judicially created rule that prohibits police from using illegally seized evidence at trial. |
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| Polls conducted at selected polling places on Election Day. |
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| The amount by which federal expenditure exceeds federal revenue. |
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| System of government where the national government and state governments share some powers, derive all authority from the people, and the powes of the national government are specified in a constitution. |
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| Those who favored a stronger national government and supported the proposed U.S. Constitution; later became the first U.S. political party. |
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| A formal way of halting action on a bill by means of long speeches or unlimited debate in the senate. |
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| Coverage of a canidate's campaign by the news media. |
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| The tendency of states to choose an early date on the primary calendar. |
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| Election in which voters decide which canidates will actually fill elective public offices. |
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| A push at the end of a political campaign to encourage supporters to go to the polls. |
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| The holding of an office. |
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| Power of the courts to review acts of other branches of government and the states. |
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| A command, indicated by an electorate's votes, for the elected officials to carry out their platforms. |
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| Marbury V. Madison (1803) |
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| Supreme court first asserted the power of judicial review in finding that the congressional statute extending the Court's original jurisdiction was unconstitutional. |
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| Election that take splace in the middle of a presedential term. |
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