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A

  1. acquittal

  2. administration

  3. affirmative action

  4. alien

  5. alliance

  6. ambassador

  7. amend

  8. amendment

  9. amnesty

  10. Anti-Federalist

  11. apathy

  12. appellate jurisdiction

  13. apportionment

  14. apportions

  15. arbitrations

  16. arraignment

B

  1. bail

  2. balanced budget

  3. bankruptcy

  4. bench trial

  5. beneficiary

  6. bias

  7. bicameral

  8. bill of attainder

  9. bond

  10. boycott

  11. brief

  12. budget

  13. bureaucracy

  14. business cycles

C

  1. cabinet

  2. campaign

  3. candidate

  4. canvassing

  5. capital goods

  6. capitalism

  7. caucus

  8. censure

  9. census

  10. charter

  11. checks and balances

  12. circuit

  13. citizen

  14. civics

  15. civil case

  16. civil law

  17. civil rights

  18. civil servant

  19. closed shop

  20. cloture

  21. coalition

  22. cold war

  23. collective bargaining

  24. collective security

  25. colony

  26. command economy

  27. common law

  28. common stock

  29. community

  30. commute

  31. compact

  32. compromise

  33. concurrent jurisdiction

  34. concurrent powers

  35. concurring opinion

  36. confederation

  37. conference committee

  38. conglomerate

  39. congress

  40. consensus

  41. conservation

  42. constituency

  43. constituent

  44. consul

  45. consulate

  46. consumer

  47. contempt of court

  48. contract

  49. cooperative

  50. corporation

  51. coup

  52. court of appeals

  53. court-martial

  54. criminal case

  55. cross-examination

D

  1. deduction

  2. defendant

  3. deficit

  4. delegate

  5. demand

  6. democracy

  7. deport

  8. depression

  9. deregulation

  10. devaluation

  11. developed nation

  12. developing nation

  13. dictatorship

  14. diplomacy

  15. disarmament

  16. discrimination

  17. dissenting opinion

  18. district court

  19. dividend

  20. division of labor

  21. docket

  22. domestic

  23. double jeopardy

  24. draft

  25. due process of law

  26. duties

E

  1. Electoral College

  2. electoral vote

  3. electorate

  4. embargo

  5. embassy

  6. eminent domain

  7. entrepreneur

  8. enumerated powers

  9. environment

  10. ex post facto law

  11. excise tax

  12. exclusive jurisdiction

  13. executive

  14. executive agency

  15. executive agreement

  16. executive order

  17. exemption

  18. exit poll

  19. expenditures

  20. export

  21. expressed powers

  22. expulsion

  23. extradition

F

  1. faction

  2. federalism

  3. Federalist

  4. federal system

  5. felony

  6. filibuster

  7. fiscal policy

  8. fixed expenditure

  9. flexible expenses

  10. foreign aid

  11. foreign policy

  12. franking privilege

  13. fraud

  14. fraudulent

  15. free enterprise

  16. free trade

G

  1. genocide

  2. gerrymandering

  3. glasnost

  4. government

  5. government corporation

  6. grand jury

  7. grant-in-aid

  8. grassroots

  9. greenhouse effect

  10. gross domestic product (GDP)

  11. gross income

H

  1. home rule

  2. hung jury

I

  1. immigrant

  2. immunity

  3. impartial

  4. impeach

  5. implied powers

  6. income tax

  7. incorporate

  8. independence

  9. indict

  10. inferior court

  11. inflation

  12. infrastructure

  13. initiative

  14. injunction

  15. interdependence

  16. interest

  17. interest group

  18. internationalism

  19. interpret

  20. interventionist

  21. investment

  22. isolationism

J

  1. joint committee

  2. judicial

  3. judicial review

  4. jurisdiction

  5. jurisprudence

  6. justice of the peace

  7. juvenile

  8. juvenile delinquent

L

  1. labor union

  2. laissez-faire

  3. landfill

  4. larceny

  5. lawsuit

  6. legislative

  7. legislature

  8. liability insurance

  9. libel

  10. limited liability

  11. line-item veto

  12. literacy test

  13. lobby

  14. lobbyist

M

  1. magistrate

  2. magistrate court

  3. majority

  4. majority leader

  5. majority opinion

  6. mandatory sentence

  7. market economy

  8. marketing

  9. marshal

  10. mass media

  11. master plan

  12. mayor

  13. mayoralty

  14. mediation

  15. Medicaid

  16. Medicare

  17. member-at-large

  18. mercantilism

  19. merger

  20. merit system

  21. metropolitan area

  22. migration

  23. minority leader

  24. misdemeanor

  25. mixed economy

  26. monetary policy

  27. monopoly

N

 

  1. national debt

  2. national security

  3. naturalization

  4. nominate

  5. nonpartisan

  6. nonprofit organization

  7. nonrenewable resource

  8. nuclear proliferation

O

  1. offender

  2. oligarchy

  3. open shop

  4. ordinance

  5. original jurisdiction

  6. override

P

  1. Political Action Committee (PAC)

  2. pardon

  3. Parliament

  4. parliamentary government

  5. parole

  6. partnership

  7. party whip

  8. passport

  9. patronage

  10. penal code

  11. petition

  12. petit jury

  13. pigeonhole

  14. plaintiff

  15. plank

  16. platform

  17. plea bargain

  18. plurality

  19. pocket veto

  20. political machine

  21. polling place

  22. pollster

  23. poll tax

  24. popular vote

  25. Preamble

  26. precedent

  27. precinct

  28. preferred stock

  29. premium

  30. president pro tempre

  31. primary election

  32. principal

  33. priorities

  34. privatization

  35. profit

  36. progressive tax

  37. propaganda

  38. property tax

  39. proposition

  40. prosecution

  41. protectionism

  42. public

  43. public opinion

  44. public policy

Q

  1. quota

R

  1. ratify

  2. recall

  3. recession

  4. recycling

  5. red tape

  6. referendum

  7. refugee

  8. regressive tax

  9. regulatory commission

  10. remand

  11. renewable resource

  12. repeal

  13. repossess

  14. representative democracy

  15. reprieve

  16. reserved powers

  17. resources

  18. responsibilities

  19. revenue

  20. roll-call vote

S

  1. sales tax

  2. search warrant

  3. secular

  4. segregation

  5. select committee

  6. seniority system

  7. session

  8. slander

  9. social security

  10. sole proprietorship

  11. sovereignty

  12. speaker of the house

  13. special district

  14. split ticket

  15. spoils system

  16. standard of living

  17. standing committee

  18. standing vote

  19. stare decisis

  20. stock

  21. stockholder

  22. straight ticket

  23. strike

  24. subcommittee

  25. subpoena

  26. suffrage

  27. suit

  28. suit of equity

  29. summons

  30. supply

  31. supremacy clause

T

  1. tariff

  2. tax return

  3. taxable income

  4. testimony

  5. third party

  6. toleration

  7. totalitarian

  8. town meeting

  9. township

  10. trade deficit

  11. trade sanction

  12. traditional economy

  13. treason

  14. treaty

  15. trust

U

  1. unconstitutional

  2. underemployment

  3. unicameral

  4. unit price

  5. urban renewal

  6. user fee

V

  1. vandalism

  2. veto

  3. visa

  4. voice vote

  5. voluntarism

W

  1. ward

  2. welfare

  3. wholesaler

  4. writ of certiorari

  5. writ of habeas corpus

Z

  1. zoning board

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