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| Lame Duck | show 🗑
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| Impeachment | show 🗑
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| show | the official head of government.
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| show | an international understanding between the president and foreign nations that does not require Senate ratification.
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| civilian supremacy of the armed forces | show 🗑
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| War Powers Act | show 🗑
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| show | powers vested in the national government, particularly in the area of foreign and defense policy, which do not depend on any specific grant of authority by the Constitution, but rather exist because the United States is a sovereign nation.
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| show | an executive action that frees an accused or convicted person from all penalties for an offense.
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| show | An executive action that delays punishment for a crime.
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| Chief Executive | show 🗑
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| Executive Order | show 🗑
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| show | A pronouncement issued by the president at the time a bill passed by Congress is signed into law.
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| show | The group of White House offices and agencies that develop and implement the policies and programs of the president.
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| National Security Council (NSC) | show 🗑
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| Office of Management and Budget (OMB) | show 🗑
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| Honeymoon Effect | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency of the general public to express support for the incumbent president during a time of international threat.
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| show | The power of courts to declare unconstitutional the actions of the other branches and units of government.
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| show | A doctrine of constitutional interpretation holding that the document should be interpreted narrowly.
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| Loose Construction | show 🗑
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| show | The charge that judges are going beyond their authority by making the law and not just interpreting it.
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| show | The concept that judges should defer to the policymaking judgement of the legislative and executive branches of government unless their actions clearly violate the law of the Constitution.
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| show | The authority of a court to hear a case.
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| show | A legal dispute concerning a private conflict between two parties - individuals, corporations, or government agencies.
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| Criminal Case | show 🗑
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| show | A court order requiring that government authorities either release a person held in custody or demonstrate that the person is detained in accordance with law.
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| Legal brief | show 🗑
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| Affirm | show 🗑
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| Remand | show 🗑
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| show | The set of cases a court may hear as a trial court.
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| Test Cases | show 🗑
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| In Forma Pauperis | show 🗑
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| Conference | show 🗑
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| show | A decision process used by the Supreme Court to determine which cases to consider on appeal, holding that the Court will hear a case if four of the nine judges agree to the review.
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| show | the technical term for the Supreme Court's decision to hear arguments and make a ruling in a case.
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| show | an unsigned written opinion of a court.
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| show | A judicial statement that disagrees with the decision of the Court's majority.
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| show | A judicial statement that agrees with the Court's ruling but disagrees with the reasoning of the majority opinion.
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| Majority Opinion | show 🗑
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| amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief | show 🗑
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| Statutory Law | show 🗑
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| Constitutional Law | show 🗑
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| show | A financial incentive given by government to an individual or a business interest to accomplish a public objective.
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| show | Government taking items of value,especially money, from some groups of people and then giving items of value, either in cash or services, to other groups of people.
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| show | A severe and prolonged economic slump characterized by decreased business activity and high unemployment
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| show | An economic slowdown characterized by decking economic output and rising unemployment.
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| Inflation | show 🗑
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| show | money paid for the use of money
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| Estate Tax | show 🗑
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| show | A tax deduction or exclusion that allows individuals to pay less tax than they would otherwise.
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| show | The exclusion of some types of income from taxation
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| show | An expenditure that can be subtracted from a taxpayer's gross income before figuring the tax owed.
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| Tax Credit | show 🗑
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| Excise Taxes | show 🗑
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| Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | show 🗑
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| Sales Tax | show 🗑
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| Flat Tax | show 🗑
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| show | A levy that taxes people earning higher incomes at a higher rate than it does individuals making less money.
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| Proportional Tax | show 🗑
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| show | A levy whose burden falls more heavily on lower-income groups than on wealthy taxpayers.
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| show | The approach to government finance that holds that taxes should be based on an individuals ability to pay.
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| show | The accumulated indebtedness of the federal government.
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| Balanced Budget | show 🗑
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| Budget Surplus | show 🗑
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| Value Added Tax (VAT) | show 🗑
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| show | A mechanism designed to regularly increase the size of a payment to compensate for the effects of inflation
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| Welfare Programs | show 🗑
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| Privatization | show 🗑
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| show | A government program that provides benefits to recipients based on their financial need.
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| show | The use of government spending and taxation for the purpose of achieving economic goals
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| Mandatory Spending | show 🗑
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| show | A government program providing benefits to all persons qualified to receive them under law
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| Discretionary Spending | show 🗑
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| PAYGO | show 🗑
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| show | the procedure through which Congress legislatively allocates money for a particular purpose.
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| Authorization process | show 🗑
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| Monetary Policy | show 🗑
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| Federal Reserve System (Fed) | show 🗑
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| earmarks | show 🗑
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