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<div>'''American Government Terms'''<br />
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== '''A''' ==<br />
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*[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]<br />
*[[Act]]<br />
*[[Adjourn]]<br />
*[[Adjourn for More than Three Days]]<br />
*[[Adjournment Sine Die]]<br />
*[[Adjournment to a Day and Time Certain]]<br />
*[[Administrative Agencies]]<br />
*[[Advice and Consent]]<br />
*[[Affirmative Action]]<br />
*[[Agenda Setting]]<br />
*[[Amendment]]<br />
*[[Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute]]<br />
*[[Amicus curiae brief]]<br />
*[[Anti-Federalists]]<br />
*[[Appeal]]<br />
*[[Appellate jurisdiction]]<br />
*[[Appointments Clause]]<br />
*[[Appropriation]]<br />
*[[Appropriations Clause]]<br />
*[[Army Clause]]<br />
*[[Articles of Confederation]]<br />
*[[Authorization]]<br />
*[[Authorizations Act]]<br />
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== '''B''' ==<br />
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*[[Barron v. Baltimore]]<br />
*[[Bicameral Legislature]]<br />
*[[Bill]]<br />
*[[Bill of Attainder]]<br />
*[[Bill of Rights]]<br />
*[[Blanket Primary]]<br />
*[[Block grants]]<br />
*[[Borrowing Clause]]<br />
*[[Brief]]<br />
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== '''C''' ==<br />
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*[[Capital-gains Clause]]<br />
*[[Capital-gains Tax]]<br />
*[[Casework]]<br />
*[[Categorical Grant]]<br />
*[[Caucus]]<br />
*[[Centralized Federalism]]<br />
*[[Checks and Balances]]<br />
*[[Christmas Tree (Government)]]<br />
*[[Clear and Present Danger Test]]<br />
*[[Closed Convention]]<br />
*[[Closed Primary]]<br />
*[[Closed Rule]]<br />
*[[Cloture]]<br />
*[[Coattail effect]]<br />
*[[Cofederal System]]<br />
*[[Commerce Clause]]<br />
*[[Committee of the Whole]]<br />
*[[Committee Report]]<br />
*[[Compact Clause]]<br />
*[[Comparable Worth]]<br />
*[[Compromise Bill]]<br />
*[[Compulsory Process Clause]]<br />
*[[Concurrent Powers]]<br />
*[[Concurring Opinion]]<br />
*[[Conditions of Aid]]<br />
*[[Conference Committee]]<br />
*[[Confrontation Clause]]<br />
*[[Congressional Budget Office]]<br />
*[[Congressional Research Service]]<br />
*[[Congressional Review]]<br />
*[[Congressional-executive Agreement]]<br />
*[[Constitution]]<br />
*[[Constitutional Convention]]<br />
*[[Constitutional Courts]]<br />
*[[Cooperative Federalism]]<br />
*[[Copyright Clause]]<br />
*[[Cost-benefit Analysis]]<br />
*[[Creative Federalism]]<br />
*[[Cross-ownership]]<br />
*[[Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause]]<br />
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== '''D''' ==<br />
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*[[De Facto Segregation]]<br />
*[[De Jure Segregation]]<br />
*[[Delegate]]<br />
*[[Delegated Powers]]<br />
*[[Deregulation]]<br />
*[[Detente]]<br />
*[[Discount Rate]]<br />
*[[Discretionary Spending]]<br />
*[[Dissenting opinion]]<br />
*[[Divided Government]]<br />
*[[Domino Theory]]<br />
*[[Double Jeopardy]]<br />
*[[Dual federalism]]<br />
*[[Due Federalism]]<br />
*[[Due process]]<br />
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== '''E''' ==<br />
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*[[Electoral College]]<br />
*[[Electronic Vote]]<br />
*[[Eminent Domain]]<br />
*[[Emoluments Clause]]<br />
*[[Enclave Clause]]<br />
*[[Entitlements]]<br />
*[[Enumerated Powers]]<br />
*[[Equal Access Rule]]<br />
*[[Establishment Clause]]<br />
*[[Ex Post Facto Law]]<br />
*[[Exclusionary Rule]]<br />
*[[Executive Agreement]]<br />
*[[Executive Branch]]<br />
*[[Executive Order]]<br />
*[[Executive Privilege]] <br />
*[[Executive Vesting Clause]]<br />
*[[Exit Pole]]<br />
*[[Extradition]]<br />
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== '''F''' ==<br />
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*[[Fairness Doctrine]]<br />
*[[Fast Track Authority]]<br />
*[[Federal Budget Deficit]]<br />
*[[Federal Convention]]<br />
*[[Federalist Party]]<br />
*[[Federal System]]<br />
*[[Federalists]]<br />
*[[Federalism]]<br />
*[[Filibuster]]<br />
*[[Fiscal Federalism]]<br />
*[[Fiscal policy]]<br />
*[[First Constitutional Congress]]<br />
*[[Flat Tax]]<br />
*[[Formula Grant]]<br />
*[[Franking Privilege]]<br />
*[[Free Exercise Clause]]<br />
*[[Free Rider]]<br />
*[[Front-loading]]<br />
*[[Fruit of the poisonous tree]]<br />
*[[Fugitive Slave Clause]]<br />
*[[Full Faith and Credit Clause]]<br />
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== '''G''' ==<br />
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*[[Gender Gap]]<br />
*[[General Accounting Office]]<br />
*[[General Agreement on Tariff and Trade]]<br />
*[[General Revenue Sharing]]<br />
*[[Gerrymandering]]<br />
*[[Gitlow v. New York]]<br />
*[[Good-faith Exception]]<br />
*[[Government Corporation]]<br />
*[[Grassroots Lobbying]]<br />
*[[Great Compromise]]<br />
*[[Gross Domestic Product]]<br />
*[[Group of Eight]]<br />
*[[Gregg v. Georgia]]<br />
*[[Guarantee Clause]]<br />
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== '''H''' ==<br />
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*[[Hard Money]]<br />
*[[Hate Speech]]<br />
*[[Heightened Scrutiny]]<br />
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== '''I''' ==<br />
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*[[Implied Powers]]<br />
*[[Impeachment Clause]]<br />
*[[Import-Export Clause]]<br />
*[[Incorporation Doctrine]]<br />
*[[Independent Executive Agency]]<br />
*[[Independent Regulatory Agency]]<br />
*[[Interest Group]]<br />
*[[Intergovernmental Lobbying]]<br />
*[[Interstate Compact]]<br />
*[[Interstate Rendition Clause]]<br />
*[[Investigation]]<br />
*[[Issue Network]]<br />
*[[Item Veto]]<br />
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== '''J''' ==<br />
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*[[Jim Crow Laws]]<br />
*[[Joint Committee]]<br />
*[[Joint Meeting]]<br />
*[[Joint Resolution]]<br />
*[[Joint Session]]<br />
*[[Judicial Activism]]<br />
*[[Journal]] <br />
*[[Judicial Branch]]<br />
*[[Judicial Restraint]]<br />
*[[Judicial Review]]<br />
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== '''K''' ==<br />
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*[[Keynesian Economics]]<br />
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== '''L''' ==<br />
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*[[Laissez-faire Economics]]<br />
*[["Lame duck" Session]]<br />
*[[LAPS Test]]<br />
*[[Layer cake federalism]]<br />
*[[Layover]]<br />
*[[Leak]]<br />
*[[Leave to Sit]]<br />
*[[Legislative]]<br />
*[[Legislative Branch]]<br />
*[[Legislative Courts]]<br />
*[[Legislative Day]]<br />
*[[Legislative Session]]<br />
*[[Legislative Veto]]<br />
*[[Lemon Test]]<br />
*[[Line-item veto]]<br />
*[[Lobbying]]<br />
*[[Logrolling]]<br />
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== '''M''' ==<br />
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*[[Majority Leader]]<br />
*[[Majority Whip]]<br />
*[[Mandate]]<br />
*[[Mandatory Spending]]<br />
*[[Marble Cake Federalism]]<br />
*[[Margin of Error]]<br />
*[[Markup Session]]<br />
*[[Markup]]<br />
*[[Means Test]]<br />
*[[Measure]]<br />
*[[Media event]]<br />
*[[Midterm elections]]<br />
*[[Minimum-rationality standard]]<br />
*[[Minority Leader]]<br />
*[[Minority Whip]]<br />
*[[Miranda warning]]<br />
*[[Modified Closed Rule]]<br />
*[[Modified Open Rule]]<br />
*[[Monetary policy]]<br />
*[[Morning Business]]<br />
*[[Motion to Proceed to Consider]]<br />
*[[Muckrakers]]<br />
*[["Must pass" Bill]]<br />
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== '''N''' ==<br />
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*[[Navy Clause]]<br />
*[[Necessary and Proper Clause]]<br />
*[[New Jersey Plan]]<br />
*[[New Deal Coalition]]<br />
*[[New Federalism]]<br />
*[[New States Clause]]<br />
*[[Nomination]]<br />
*[[Nongermane Amendment]]<br />
*[[Nonpartisan election]]<br />
*[[North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)]]<br />
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== '''O''' ==<br />
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*[[Obligation]]<br />
*[[Off-budget Entities]]<br />
*[[Off the record]]<br />
*[[On backround]]<br />
*[[On deep backround]]<br />
*[[On the record]]<br />
*[[On backround]]<br />
*[[On deep backround]]<br />
*[[On the record]]<br />
*[[Open convention]]<br />
*[[Open Rule]]<br />
*[[Opinion Clause]]<br />
*[[Original Bill]]<br />
*[[Original jurisdiction]]<br />
*[[Outlays]]<br />
*[[Override of a Veto]]<br />
*[[Oversight]]<br />
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== '''P''' ==<br />
*[[Pardon Power]]<br />
*[[Parliamentarian]]<br />
*[[Parliamentary Inquiry]]<br />
*[[Party dealignment]]<br />
*[[Party machine]]<br />
*[[Party realignment]]<br />
*[[Permanent Appropriation]]<br />
*[[Philadelphia Convention]]<br />
*[[Platform]]<br />
*[[Plurality opinion]]<br />
*[[Pocket veto]]<br />
*[[Point of Order]]<br />
*[[Policy Committees]]<br />
*[[Policy formulation]]<br />
*[[Political agenda]]<br />
*[[Political ideology]]<br />
*[[Political socialization]]<br />
*[[Pork-barrel legislation]]<br />
*[[President]]<br />
*[[Presidential Veto]]<br />
*[[President of the Senate]]<br />
*[[President Pro Tempore]]<br />
*[[Presidential Signature]]<br />
*[[Presiding Officer]]<br />
*[[Private Law]]<br />
*[[Privileges and Immunities Clause]]<br />
*[[Pro Forma Session]]<br />
*[[Project Grant]]<br />
*[[Property Clause]]<br />
*[[Proportional representation]]<br />
*[[Proxy Voting]]<br />
*[[Public Debt]]<br />
*[[Public Law]]<br />
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=='''Q'''==<br />
*[[Question]]<br />
*[[Quorum]]<br />
*[[Quorum Call]]<br />
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== '''R''' ==<br />
*[[Random digit dialing]]<br />
*[[Random sampling]]<br />
*[[Ranking Minority Member]]<br />
*[[Reapportionment]]<br />
*[[Receipts]]<br />
*[[Recess]]<br />
*[[Recess appointment]]<br />
*[[Recess Appointments Clause]]<br />
*[[Recession]]<br />
*[[Recognize]]<br />
*[[Recommendations Clause]]<br />
*[[Reconciliation Bill]]<br />
*[[Reconciliation Instruction]]<br />
*[[Reconciliation Process]]<br />
*[[Reconsider]]<br />
*[[Recorded Vote]]<br />
*[[Redistricting]]<br />
*[[Reexamination Clause]]<br />
*[[Referral]]<br />
*[[Regressive tax]]<br />
*[[Regular Meeting Day]]<br />
*[[Relevant]]<br />
*[[Report]]<br />
*[[Rescission]]<br />
*[[Reserved powers]]<br />
*[[Revenue sharing]]<br />
*[[Reverse discrimination]]<br />
*[[Revolving door]]<br />
*[[Riddick's Senate Procedure]]<br />
*[[Rider]]<br />
*[[Right-of-rebuttal rule]]<br />
*[[Right-to-Counsel Clause]]<br />
*[[Roll Call Vote]]<br />
*[[Rule making]]<br />
*[[Rules Committee]]<br />
*[[Rule of four]]<br />
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== '''S''' ==<br />
*[[Scheduling]]<br />
*[[Scorekeeping]]<br />
*[[Second Constitutional Congress]]<br />
*[[Secretaries, party]]<br />
*[[Secretary of the Senate]]<br />
*[[Select Committee]]<br />
*[[Self-incrimination]]<br />
*[[Select committee]]<br />
*[[Senate Manual]]<br />
*[[Senatorial courtesy]]<br />
*[[Separation of powers]]<br />
*[[Shield laws]]<br />
*[[Soft money]]<br />
*[[Sound bite]]<br />
*[[Southern strategy]]<br />
*[[Speaker of the House]]<br />
*[[Special Committee]]<br />
*[[Special Revenue Sharing]]<br />
*[[Speech and Debate Clause]]<br />
*[[Spending Clause]]<br />
*[[Splinter parties]]<br />
*[[Split-ticket voting]]<br />
*[[Spoils system]]<br />
*[[Stagflation]]<br />
*[[Standard operating procedures]]<br />
*[[Standing committee]]<br />
*[[Stare decisis]]<br />
*[[Straight-ticket voting]]<br />
*[[Structured Rule]]<br />
*[[Superdelegate]]<br />
*[[Supply-side economics]]<br />
*[[Supremacy Clause]]<br />
*[[Supreme Court]]<br />
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== '''T''' ==<br />
*[[Table (Government)]]<br />
*[[Take Care Clause]]<br />
*[[Teller Vote]]<br />
*[[Term Limit]]<br />
*[[Three-Fifths Compromise]]<br />
*[[Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School Dist.]]<br />
*[[Treaty Clause]]<br />
*[[Trial balloon]]<br />
*[[Trustee]]<br />
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== '''U''' ==<br />
*[[Unanimous Consent]]<br />
*[[Unanimous Consent Agreement]]<br />
*[[Unemployment Rate]]<br />
*[[Unicameral Legislature]]<br />
*[[Unitary System]]<br />
*[[User Fees]]<br />
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== '''V''' ==<br />
*[[Value-added tax]]<br />
*[[Veto]]<br />
*[[Vice President]]<br />
*[[Virginia Plan]]<br />
*[[Voice Vote]]<br />
*[[Vote]]<br />
*[[Voter turnout]]<br />
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== '''W''' ==<br />
*[[War Powers Act]]<br />
*[[Warantless searches]]<br />
*[[Whips]]<br />
*[[White primary]]<br />
*[[Winner-take-all primary]]<br />
*[[Workfare]]<br />
*[[Writ of certiorari]]<br />
*[[Writ of habeas corpus]]<br />
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== '''Y''' ==<br />
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*[[Yeas and Nays]]<br />
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*[[Yield]]<br />
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*[[Yield the floor]]<br />
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*[[Yield time]]<br />
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The following ''advanced'' decisions relate to the [[Seventh Amendment]] protection in [[civil]] cases that "no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any [[Court]] of the [[United States]], than according to the rules of the [[common law]]":<br />
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*[[Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Ward]]<br />
*[[Barry v. Edmunds]]<br />
*[[Blunt v. Little]]<br />
*[[Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.]]<br />
*[[Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc.]]<br />
*[[Metropolitan Railway Co. v. Moore]]<br />
*[[Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore]]<br />
*[[Parsons v. Bedford]]<br />
*[[Pullman-Standard v. Swint]]<br />
*[[St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Co. v. Craft]]<br />
*[[United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co.]]<br />
*[[United States v. Wonson]]<br />
*[[Weisgram v. Marley Co.]]<br />
*[[Yellow journalism]]<br />
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Legislative
2007-10-03T00:17:33Z
<p>LenarH: New page: Having the power or performing the function of legislating, belonging to the branch of government that is charged with such powers as making laws, levying and collecting taxes, and making ...</p>
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<div>Having the power or performing the function of legislating, belonging to the branch of government that is charged with such powers as making laws, levying and collecting taxes, and making financial appropriations. Compare [[executive]], [[judicial]].<ref>Merriam Webster Online, [http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legislative "Legislative"].</ref><br />
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