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'''American Government Terms'''
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{{Terms index|American Government|cat= United States Government Word Definitions}}
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== '''A''' ==
 
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*[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]
 
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*[[Administrative Agencies]]
 
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*[[Affirmative Action]]
 
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*[[Agenda Setting]]
 
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*[[Amendment]]
 
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*[[Amicus curiae brief]]
 
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*[[Anti-Federalists]]
 
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*[[Appellate jurisdiction]]
 
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*[[Appointments Clause]]
 
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*[[Appropriations Clause]]
 
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*[[Army Clause]]
 
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*[[Articles of Confederation]]
 
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== '''B''' ==
 
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*[[Barron v. Baltimore]]
 
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*[[Bicameral Legislature]]
 
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*[[Bill]]
 
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*[[Bill of Attainder]]
 
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*[[Blanket Primary]]
 
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*[[Block grants]]
 
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*[[Borrowing Clause]]
 
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*[[Brief]]
 
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== '''C''' ==
 
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*[[Capital-gains Clause]]
 
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*[[Capital-gains Tax]]
 
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*[[Casework]]
 
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*[[Categorical Grant]]
 
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*[[Caucus]]
 
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*[[Checks and Balances]]
 
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*[[Clear and Present Danger Test]]
 
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*[[Closed Convention]]
 
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*[[Closed Primary]]
 
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*[[Closed Rule]]
 
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*[[Cloture]]
 
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*[[Coattail effect]]
 
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*[[Cofederal System]]
 
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*[[Commerce Clause]]
 
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*[[Committee Report]]
 
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*[[Compact Clause]]
 
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*[[Comparable Worth]]
 
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*[[Concurrent Powers]]
 
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*[[Concurring Opinion]]
 
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*[[Compulsory Process Clause]]
 
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*[[Conference Committee]]
 
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*[[Confrontation Clause]]
 
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*[[Congressional Review]]
 
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*[[Congressional-executive Agreement]]
 
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*[[Constitutional Convention]]
 
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*[[Constitutional Courts]]
 
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*[[Cooperative Federalism]]
 
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*[[Copyright Clause]]
 
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*[[Cost-benefit Analysis]]
 
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*[[Creative Federalism]]
 
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*[[Cross-ownership]]
 
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*[[Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause]]
 
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== '''D''' ==
 
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*[[De Facto Segregation]]
 
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*[[De Jure Segregation]]
 
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*[[Delegate]]
 
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*[[Delegated Powers]]
 
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*[[Deregulation]]
 
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*[[Detente]]
 
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*[[Discount Rate]]
 
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*[[Discretionary Spending]]
 
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*[[Dissenting opinion]]
 
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*[[Domino Theory]]
 
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*[[Double Jeopardy]]
 
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*[[Due Federalism]]
 
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*[[Due process]]
 
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== '''E''' ==
 
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*[[Electoral College]]
 
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*[[Eminent Domain]]
 
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*[[Emoluments Clause]]
 
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*[[Enclave Clause]]
 
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*[[Entitlements]]
 
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*[[Enumerated Powers]]
 
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*[[Equal Access Rule]]
 
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*[[Establishment Clause]]
 
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*[[Ex Post Facto Law]]
 
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*[[Exclusionary Rule]]
 
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*[[Executive Agreement]]
 
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*[[Executive Branch]]
 
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*[[Executive Order]]
 
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*[[Executive Vesting Clause]]
 
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*[[Exit Pole]]
 
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== '''F''' ==
 
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*[[Fairness Doctrine]]
 
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*[[Fast Track Authority]]
 
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*[[Federal Budget Deficit]]
 
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*[[Federal Convention]]
 
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*[[Federalist Party]]
 
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*[[Federal System]]
 
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*[[Federalists]]
 
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*[[Federalism]]
 
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*[[Filibuster]]
 
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*[[Fiscal policy]]
 
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*[[First Constitutional Congress]]
 
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*[[Flat Tax]]
 
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*[[Franking Privilege]]
 
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*[[Free Exercise Clause]]
 
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*[[Free Rider]]
 
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*[[Front-loading]]
 
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*[[Fruit of the poisonous tree]]
 
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*[[Fugitive Slave Clause]]
 
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*[[Full Faith and Credit Clause]]
 
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== '''G''' ==
 
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*[[Gender Gap]]
 
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*[[General Agreement on Tariff and Trade]]
 
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*[[Gerrymandering]]
 
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*[[Gitlow v. New York]]
 
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*[[Good-faith Exception]]
 
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*[[Government Corporation]]
 
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*[[Grassroots Lobbying]]
 
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*[[Great Compromise]]
 
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*[[Gross Domestic Product]]
 
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*[[Group of Eight]]
 
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*[[Gregg v. Georgia]]
 
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*[[Guarantee Clause]]
 
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== '''H''' ==
 
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*[[Hard Money]]
 
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*[[Hate Speech]]
 
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*[[Heightened Scrutiny]]
 
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== '''I''' ==
 
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*[[Implied Powers]]
 
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*[[Impeachment Clause]]
 
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*[[Import-Export Clause]]
 
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*[[Incorporation Doctrine]]
 
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*[[Independent Executive Agency]]
 
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*[[Independent Regulatory Agency]]
 
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*[[Interest Group]]
 
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*[[Interstate Rendition Clause]]
 
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*[[Issue Network]]
 
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== '''J''' ==
 
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*[[Jim Crow Laws]]
 
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*[[Joint Committee]]
 
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*[[Judicial Activism]]
 
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*[[Judicial Branch]]
 
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*[[Judicial Restraint]]
 
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*[[Judicial Review]]
 
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== '''K''' ==
 
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*[[Keynesian Economics]]
 
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== '''L''' ==
 
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*[[Laissez-faire Economics]]
 
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*[[LAPS Test]]
 
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*[[Layer cake federalism]]
 
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*[[Leak]]
 
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*[[Legislative Branch]]
 
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*[[Legislative Courts]]
 
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*[[Legislative Veto]]
 
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*[[Lemon Test]]
 
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*[[Line-item veto]]
 
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*[[Lobbying]]
 
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*[[Logrolling]]
 
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== '''M''' ==
 
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*[[Mandate]]
 
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*[[Mandatory Spending]]
 
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*[[Margin of Error]]
 
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*[[Means Test]]
 
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*[[Media event]]
 
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*[[Midterm elections]]
 
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*[[Minimum-rationality standard]]
 
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*[[Miranda warning]]
 
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*[[Monetary policy]]
 
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*[[Muckrakers]]
 
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== '''N''' ==
 
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*[[Navy Clause]]
 
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*[[Necessary and Proper Clause]]
 
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*[[New Jersey Plan]]
 
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*[[New Deal Coalition]]
 
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*[[New Federalism]]
 
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*[[New States Clause]]
 
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*[[Nonpartisan election]]
 
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*[[North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)]]
 
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== '''O''' ==
 
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*[[Off the record]]
 
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*[[On backround]]
 
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*[[On deep backround]]
 
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*[[On the record]]
 
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*[[On backround]]
 
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*[[On deep backround]]
 
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*[[On the record]]
 
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*[[Open convention]]
 
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*[[Opinion Clause]]
 
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*[[Original jurisdiction]]
 
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== '''P''' ==
 
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*[[Pardon Power]]
 
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*[[Party dealignment]]
 
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*[[Party machine]]
 
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*[[Party realignment]]
 
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*[[Platform]]
 
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*[[Plurality opinion]]
 
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*[[Pocket veto]]
 
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*[[Policy formulation]]
 
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*[[Political agenda]]
 
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*[[Political ideology]]
 
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*[[Political socialization]]
 
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*[[Pork-barrel legislation]]
 
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*[[Presidential Veto]]
 
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*[[Privileges and Immunities Clause]]
 
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*[[Property Clause]]
 
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*[[Proportional representation]]
 
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== '''R''' ==
 
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*[[Random digit dialing]]
 
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*[[Random sampling]]
 
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*[[Reapportionment]]
 
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*[[Recess appointment]]
 
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*[[Recess Appointments Clause]]
 
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*[[Recession]]
 
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*[[Recommendations Clause]]
 
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*[[Reexamination Clause]]
 
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*[[Regressive tax]]
 
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*[[Reserved powers]]
 
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*[[Revenue sharing]]
 
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*[[Reverse discrimination]]
 
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*[[Revolving door]]
 
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*[[Rider]]
 
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*[[Right-of-rebuttal rule]]
 
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*[[Right-to-Counsel Clause]]
 
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*[[Rule making]]
 
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*[[Rule of four]]
 
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== '''S''' ==
 
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*[[Second Constitutional Congress]]
 
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*[[Self-incrimination]]
 
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*[[Select committee]]
 
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*[[Senatorial courtesy]]
 
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*[[Separation of powers]]
 
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*[[Shield laws]]
 
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*[[Soft money]]
 
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*[[Sound bite]]
 
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*[[Southern strategy]]
 
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*[[Speech and Debate Clause]]
 
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*[[Spending Clause]]
 
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*[[Splinter parties]]
 
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*[[Split-ticket voting]]
 
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*[[Spoils system]]
 
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*[[Stagflation]]
 
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*[[Standard operating procedures]]
 
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*[[Standing committee]]
 
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*[[Stare decisis]]
 
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*[[Straight-ticket voting]]
 
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*[[Superdelegate]]
 
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*[[Supply-side economics]]
 
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*[[Supremacy Clause]]
 
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*[[Supreme Court]]
 
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== '''T''' ==
 
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*[[Take Care Clause]]
 
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*[[Three-Fifths Compromise]]
 
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*[[Treaty Clause]]
 
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*[[Trial balloon]]
 
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*[[Trustee]]
 
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== '''U''' ==
 
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*[[Unemployment rate]]
 
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*[[Unicameral legislature]]
 
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*[[Unitary system]]
 
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== '''V''' ==
 
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*[[Value-added tax]]
 
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*[[Virginia Plan]]
 
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*[[Voter turnout]]
 
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== '''W''' ==
 
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*[[War Powers Act]]
 
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*[[Warantless searches]]
 
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*[[Whips]]
 
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*[[White primary]]
 
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*[[Winner-take-all primary]]
 
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*[[Workfare]]
 
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*[[Writ of certiorari]]
 
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*[[Writ of habeas corpus]]
 
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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]]":
 
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*[[Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Ward]]
 
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*[[Barry v. Edmunds]]
 
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*[[Blunt v. Little]]
 
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*[[Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.]]
 
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*[[Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc.]]
 
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*[[Metropolitan Railway Co. v. Moore]]
 
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*[[Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore]]
 
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*[[Parsons v. Bedford]]
 
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*[[Pullman-Standard v. Swint]]
 
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*[[St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway Co. v. Craft]]
 
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*[[United States v. Jefferson Electric Manufacturing Co.]]
 
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*[[United States v. Wonson]]
 
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*[[Weisgram v. Marley Co.]]
 
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*[[Yellow journalism]]
 
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