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Government and Politics Key Vocabulary Terms

The following resources are Bell Ringers that either explain or exemplify key vocabulary terms associated with the AP U.S. Government and Politics course. Click on each title to expand the section and view the featured resources. For a comprehensive list of the materials included on this site, check out this Key Vocabulary List (Google Doc).

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- 7th Amendment (also listed as Seventh Amendment)
- 10th Amendment (also listed as Tenth Amendment)
- 12th Amendment (also listed as Twelfth Amendment)
- 15th Amendment (also listed as Fifteenth Amendment)
- 17th Amendment (also listed as Seventeenth Amendment)
- 19th Amendment (also listed as Nineteenth Amendment)
- 22nd Amendment (also listed as Twenty-Second Amendment)
- 24th Amendment (also listed as Twenty-Fourth Amendment)
- 25th Amendment (also listed as Twenty-Fifth Amendment)
- 26th Amendment (also listed as Twenty-Sixth Amendment)

A

B

- Bicameral
- Bill of Attainder
- Bill of Rights
- Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also listed as McCain-Feingold Act)
- Block Grants
- Broadcast Decency
- Brutus No. 1
- Bully Pulpit
- Bureaucracy
- Bureaucratic Discretion

C

- Cabinet
- Campaign Consultants
- Categorical Grants
- Census
- Central Government
- Certiorari (also listed as Writ of Certiorari)
- Checks and Balances
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
- Civil Liberties
- Cloture
- Commerce Clause
- Commander in Chief
- Concurrent Powers
- Congressional Committees
- Congressional Fundraising
- Congressional Oversight
- Connecticut Compromise (also listed under Great Compromise)
- Conservatism
- Constituents
- Constitution
- Constitutional Convention
- Cooperative Federalism (also listed as Marble Cake Federalism)

D

- Dark Money
- Declaration of Independence
- Deficit
- Demographics
- Department of Homeland Security
- Department of State
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Devolution
- Discharge Petition
- Discretionary Spending
- Divided Government
- Dual Federalism (also listed as Layer Cake Federalism)

E

G

- Grandfather Clause
- Grassroots Activism
- Great Compromise (also listed under the Connecticut Compromise)

H

- Habeas Corpus (also listed as Writ of Habeas Corpus)
- Hatch Act
- Hate Speech
- Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA)
- Horse Race Journalism

I

- Ideologically Oriented Programming
- Impeachment
- Imperial Presidency
- Implied Powers
- Incentives
- Incumbency Advantage
- Independents
- Inherent Power
- Initiatives
- Interest Group (also listed as Special Interest Group)
- Iowa Caucuses
- Iron Triangle

J

L

- Layer Cake Federalism (also listed as Dual Federalism)
- Leadership PACs
- Legislative Veto
- Libel and Slander
- Liberal Ideology
- Libertarian Ideology
- Limited government
- Literacy Tests
- Lobbying
- Locke, John
- Logrolling

M

- Majority Leader (Senate)
- Mandates
- Mandatory Spending
- Marble Cake Federalism (also listed as Cooperative Federalism)
- Margin of Error
- McCain-Feingold Act (also listed as Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act)
- Media Bias
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Midterm Elections
- Minority Leader (Senate)
- Miranda Rule
- Moderates
- Motor Voter Act (also listed as the National Voter Registration Act)

N

- National Popular Vote (also listed as Popular Vote)
- National Voter Registration Act (also listed as the Motor Voter Act)
- Natural Rights
- Necessary and Proper Clause
- New Hampshire Primary
- New Jersey Plan
- News Source Credibility
- Nineteenth Amendment (also listed as 19th Amendment)

O

R

S

- Sampling Error
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Selective Incorporation
- Senate President Pro Tempore
- Senatorial courtesy
- Separation of Powers
- Seventeenth Amendment (also listed as 17th Amendment)
- Seventh Amendment (also listed as 7th Amendment)
- Shay’s Rebellion
- Slave Trade Compromise
- Social Contract
- Social Security
- Sound Bite
- Speaker of the House
- Special Interest Group (also listed as Interest Group)
- Stare Decisis
- State of the Union Address
- Super PACs
- Supremacy Clause
- Swing State
- Symbolic Speech

T

- Tenth Amendment (also listed as 10th Amendment)
- Third Party
- Time, Place and Manner Restrictions
- Treaty Ratification
- Twelfth Amendment (also listed as 27th Amendment)
- Twenty-Fifth Amendment (also listed as 25th Amendment)
- Twenty-Fourth Amendment (also listed as 24th Amendment)
- Twenty-Second Amendment (also listed as 22nd Amendment)
- Twenty-Sixth Amendment (also listed as 26th Amendment)

U

USA FREEDOM Act

V

W

War Powers Act (1973)
Whip
White House Press Secretary
Winner-Take-All Voting System
Writ of Certiorari (also listed as Certiorari)
Writ of Habeas Corpus (also listed as Habeas Corpus)

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