The ceremonial head of the government of the United States, the symbol of all the people of the nation.
What is Chief of State?
100
A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
What is a Treaty?
100
A large complex administration structure that handles the everyday business of organization
What is a Bureaucracy?
100
More income than spending
What is Surplus?
100
The use of violence to intimidate a govenment of society
What is Terrorism?
200
The group of people chosen from each state and the District of Columbia to formally select the President of the United States
What is the Electoral College?
200
(mercy or leniency) May be used only in cases involving federal offences
What is Clemency?
200
Those civilian employees who perform the administrative work of the government
What is Civil Service?
200
A tax on a gift by a living person
What is Gift Tax?
200
Economic and military aid to other countries
What is Foeign Aid?
300
The meetings at which the delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice-presidential candidates
What is the National Convention?
300
A legal forgiveness of a crime
What is Pardon?
300
Perform tasks for which the organization exists
What is a Line Agency?
300
A type of tax proportionate to income
What is Progressive Tax?
300
A policy based in the belief that if communism could be kept within its existing boundries it would collapse under the weight of its internal weaknesses
What is Containment?
400
Any candidate who wins at least 15 percent of the votes cast in a primary gets the number of the State’s Democratic convention delegates that corresponds to his or her share of that primary vote
What is Proportional Representation?
400
Term used to describe the President as an emperor who acts without consolting Congress
What is Imperial Presidency?
400
Having to do with powers that are to some extent judicial
What is Quasi-Judicial?
400
The yearly shortfall between revenue and spending
What is Deficit?
400
Spying
What is Espionage?
500
Law specifing of Presidental Succession following the Vise-President
What is Presidential Succession Act of 1947?
500
An unwelcome person; used to decribe recalled diplomatic officials
What is Persona Non Grata?
500
Supported by two parties
What is Bipartisan?
500
A tax levied at a flat rate, without regard to the level of a taxpayer’s income or ability to pay
What is Regressive tax?
500
When an ambassador is not subject to the laws to the state to which they are accredited