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AP GOVERMENT
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AP GOVERMENT
Administrative Adjudication - correct answer A quasi-judicial process in which a bureaucratic agency settles disputes between two parties in a manner similar to the way courts resolve disputes
Administrative Discretion - correct answer The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concern...
Administrative Adjudication - correct answer A quasi-judicial process in which a bureaucratic agency
settles disputes between two parties in a manner similar to the way courts resolve disputes
Administrative Discretion - correct answer The ability of bureaucrats to make choices concerning the
best way to implement congressional or executive intentions
Amicus Curiae - correct answer "Friend of the court"; amici may file briefs or even appear to argue
their interests orally before the court
Anti-Federalists - correct answer Those who favored strong state governments and a weak national
government; opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution
Appellate Court - correct answer Court that generally reviews only findings of law made by lower
courts
Appellate Jurisdiction - correct answer The power vested in particular courts to review and/or revise
the decision of a lower court
Apportionment - correct answer The process of allotting congressional seats to each state following
the decennial census according to their proportion of the population
Barron v. Baltimore (1833) - correct answer The Supreme Court ruled that the due process clause of
the Fifth Amendment did not apply to the actions of states. This decision limited the Bill of Rights to the
actions of Congress alone
Bill of Attainder - correct answer A law declaring an act illegal without a judicial trial
Black Codes - correct answer Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by
southern states following the Civil War
,Block Grant - correct answer A large grant given to a state by the federal government with only
general spending guidelines
Board of Governors - correct answer In the Federal Reserve System, a seven-member board that
makes most economic decisions regarding interest rates and the supply of money
Bretton Woods System - correct answer International financial system devised shortly before the end
of World War II that created the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
Brief - correct answer A document containing the legal written arguments in a case filed with a court
by a party prior to a hearing or trial
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - correct answer U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that school
segregation is inherently unconstitutional because it violates the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of
equal protection
Business Cycles - correct answer Fluctuations between periods of economic growth and recession., or
periods of boom and bust
Campaign Consultant - correct answer A private-sector professional who sells to a candidate the
technologies, services , and strategies required to get the candidate elected
Candidate-Centered Politics - correct answer Politics that focuses on the candidate and coordinates
the campaign
Categorical Grant - correct answer Grant that allocated federal funds to states for a specific purpose
Charter - correct answer A document that, like a constitution, specifies the basic policies, procedures,
and institutions of a municipality
Citizen Journalists - correct answer Ordinary individuals who collect, report, and analyze news
content
, Civic Virtue - correct answer The tendency to form small-scale associations for the public good
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - correct answer Wide-ranging legislation passed by Congress to outlaw
segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment, education, and voting; created the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Civil Service System - correct answer The merit system by which many federal bureaucrats are
selected
Clean Air Act of 1970 - correct answer The law that established national primary and secondary
standards for air quality in the United States. A revised version was passed in 1990.
Clear and Present Danger Test - correct answer Test articulated by the Supreme Court in Schenck v.
U.S. (1919) to draw the line between protected and unprotected speech; the Court looks to see
"whether the words used" could "create clear and present danger that they will bring about substantive
evils" that Congress seeks "to prevent"
Cloture - correct answer Mechanism requiring sixty senators to vote to cut off debate
Collective Good - correct answer Something of value that cannot be withheld from a nonmember of a
group, for example, a tax write-off or a better environment
Collective Security - correct answer The idea that an attack on one country is an attack on all
countries
Commission - correct answer Form of local government in which several officials are elected to top
positions that have both legislative and executive responsibilities
Committees of Correspondence - correct answer Organizations in each of the American colonies
created to keep colonists abreast of developments with the British; served as powerful molders of public
opinion against the British
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