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Adriana M. Page 240
AP Government vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Office created in 1939 whose agencies have been created to help the president. The most important agencies are the White House, the Office of Management and Budget, the National Security Council, and the Council of Economic Advisors. | Executive Office of the President (EOP) |
| Presidential directivities or regulations that have legal standing in so far as they can be directly liked to a constitutional source. | Executive Orders |
| Refers to the inherent presidential power of withholding sensitive or secret info from Congress, the public, &/or media on the grounds of national security, the need for presidents to preserve confidentiality, or the desire for a gen. separation of powers | Executive Privilege |
| Polls that are based on questioning individuals after they have left voting booths on election day. The responses can allow TV networks to make early predictions regarding candidate winners or losers. | Exit Polls |
| An elector of the Electoral College who decides to change his or her vote, despite being previously pleged to a specific presidential candidate. | Faithless Elector |
| Agency established in 1934 to regulate performance standards, first on radio, and then eventually of TV stations and other media. | Federal Communications Committee (FCC) |
| An economic condition in which government spending exceeds collected revenues. | Federal Deficit |
| Agency created in 1974 to enforce campaign finance laws. | Federal Election Commission (FEC) |
| An economic condition in which there is a constitutional division of powers between the national government and the states, provinces or sub-regions. | Federal Union |
| Refers to the division and sharing of constitutionally assigned or implied powers between the national and state governments. | Federalism |
| The collection of articles written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay that defended the new Constitution against the anti-Federalists during the ratification period. | Federalist Papers |
| A lengthy debate, which occurs only in the Senate, intended to talk a bill to death by preventing a floor vote from happening. | Filibuster |
| Economic management techniques that rely on changes in government spending and borrowing. The altering of taxes also is included. | Fiscal Policy |
| The federal government's twelve-month period, running from October 1 through September 30, during which the budget and other financial policies are formulated and implemented. | Fiscal Year |
| The idea that the public opinion can change very quickly, sometimes overnight. | Fluidity |
| Usually a small number of individuals, typically ten to twenty, with whom a candidate's political staff discusses, in-depth, their belieds, emotions, and attitudes toward candidates and issues. | Focus Group |
| Refers to party leaders who organize and operate party structures at the federal, state, and local levels of government. | Formal Party Organization |
| The First Amendment's guarantee that every individual is entitled to pursue his or her own religious beliefs free from government interference. | Free-Excercise Clause |
| Refers to the states moving their caucuses and primaries to earlier dates. | Front-Loading |
| Found in Article IV, Section 1, the clause mandates that a state must accept th eofficial records, decuments, and civil rulings (a property sales contract, as one example) of other states in the union. | Full Faith and Credit Clause |
| The Supreme Court ruled in a 5 to 4 vote that the death penalty as imposed by existing laws is unconstitutional. The laws arbitrarily discriminated against minorities & the poor in that these groups were far more likely to be sentenced to death by judges. | Furman vs. Georgia |
| The incident in 1948 when Gallup incorrectly predicted Dewey over Truman because it stopped polling too soon. | Gallup's Poll Error |
| Major, traumatic events that can permanently shape attitudes of each political generation. | Generational Events |
| Arranging boundaries in such a way as to constitute an unfair advantage for political party, incumbents, or particular interests. | Gerrymandering |
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