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GOVT2305 Spiker Rainey Fall 2014 Chapter 12-17
Ashley Dotson
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
12/26/2014

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Doctrine of judicial activism states:
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judges should use the law to protect basic rights such as liberty and equality.
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Plaintiff
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the person who initiates a case.
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Defendant
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the person against who the whom a case is filed.
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The American common law evolved from which legal system?
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The British system
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The Supreme Court receives most of its cases through its _____ jurisdiction.
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appellate
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Cloture
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Procedure that may be used to limit or end floor debate in a legislative body.
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Filibuster
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An attempt to defeat a bill in the Senate by talking indefinitely, thus preventing the Senate from taking action to the bill.
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Standing Committees
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Permanently established legislative committees that consider and are responsible for legislation withing certain subject area.
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Open Rule
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An order from the House Rules Committee that permits a bill to be amended on the floor.
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Roll-call Vote
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A congressional voting procedure that consists of members answering "yea" or "nay" to their names.
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Franking privilege
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The ability of members to mail letters to their constituents free of charge by substituting their facsimile signature for postage.
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true or false
Civil Service is a system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service.
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True
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According to Max Weber, a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality.
A. deregulation
B. Hatch Act
C. bureaucracy
D. regulation
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Bureaucracy
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True or False
Hatch Act is a federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics.
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True
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Pendleton Civil Service Act
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Passed in 1883, an Act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
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Payroll tax
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a tax imposed on nearly all employers and their employees, and on self-employed persons-the amounts owed by employees withheld from their paychecks.
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Regressive tax
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A tax that is set at a flat rate, without regard for income or the ability to pay.
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Continuing resolution
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A measure which allows agencies to continue working based on the previous year's appropriations.
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The United States does not have a major strategic military alliance in the Middle East mainly because
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The United States wants to maintain friendly relations with both Arabs and Israelis.
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True or Flase
A major feature of American foreign policy since World War II has been deterrence
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True
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American isolationism really extended
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only to outside the Western Hemisphere
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