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A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
Caucus
Currently holding office.
Incumbent
Federal, state, and local governments share funds.
Fiscal Federalism
a type of U.S. tax-exempt organization organized under Section *** of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
527 organization
A provision attached to a bill
Rider
The principle of a two-house legislature.
Bicameralism
Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Impoundment
Federal and state governments collaborate on policy.
Marble cake federalism
Federal laws that tried to prevent a monopoly from dominating an industry and restraining trade.
Antitrust legislation
Mutual aid and vote trading among legislators.
Logrolling
Government by religious leaders, who claim divine guidance.
Theocracy
The power to keep executive communications confidential, especially if they relate to national security.
Executive privilege
Constitutional arrangement that concentrates power in a central government.
Unitary system
Petition the court for review
Writ Of Certiorari
A procedural practice in the Senate whereby a senator refuses to relinquish the floor
Filibuster
The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
Statism
Court order directing an official to perform an official duty.
Writ of mandamus
Views the Constitution as giving a limited list of powers
Dual federalism (layer cake federalism)
it is a contribution and subject to limits, prohibitions and reporting requirements of the federal campaign finance law.
Independent expenditures
The legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent.
Stare Decisis
A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation.
Annapolis Convention
Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
Referendum
The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
Preemption
Political action committee that is legally permitted to raise and spend larger amounts of money
Super PACS
Federal funds to bring more money to local projects in his or her district
Pork barrel spending