Citizenship

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The apportionment of duties are given to the government.

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the action or result of apportioning something

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The deficit of the country is getting low.

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the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small.

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The court gave him a writ of habeas corpus telling him that it is court ordered.

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a court order to a person or agency holding someone in custody to deliver the imprisoned individual to the court issuing the order.

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They gerrymandered them by manipulating the boundaries.

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manipulating the boundaries of an electoral constituency

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Jim Justice gave a filibuster.

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an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures.

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They had to cloture because they couldn't come together to come to an agreement.

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a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote

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They took the quorum in because they didn't need everyone.

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the minimum number of members of an assembly or society that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid.

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They had to do a pocket veto so that it would process faster.

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an indirect veto of a legislative bill by the president or a governor by retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session.

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They had to sign the executive order.

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a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.

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They had to pardon him for his awful mistakes.

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the action or forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offence.

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They decided to commute his sentence to 30 years instead of death.

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to reduce a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death, to a less severe one.

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They have to call in the bureaucracy for the most important decisions.

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a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives

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The civil service is permanent.

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the permanent professional branches of a governments administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians.

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They brought in a bipartisan in order to see two points of view.

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of or involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually oppose others policies.

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Most people hate income taxes.

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tax levied by a government directly on income, especially an annul tax on personal income.

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Progressive tax takes more money.

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is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases.

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The regression tax gives you more money.

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is a tax imposed in such a manner that the tax rate decreases as the amount subject to taxation increases.

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Payroll taxes let you know how much money they take out.

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are taxes imposed on employers or employees, and are usually calculated as a percentage of the salaries that employers pay their staff.

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The government has to keep up with the federal debt.

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is simply the net accumulation of the federal government's annual budget deficits

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The government has to use mandatory spending for some things.

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is spending on certain programs that are required by existing law

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The government uses discretionary spending to pay for some bills.

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is government spending implemented through an appropriations bill.

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People use a propaganda to advertise what they believe in.

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information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

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It is very hard not to be biased.

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prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair

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Judges in the court rooms have objectivity when dealing with cases.

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judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices

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They took an exit poll to see how people voted.

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a poll of people leaving a polling place, asking how they voted.

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They all got special treatment because the were all apart of the special interest group.

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a group of people or an organization seeking or receiving special advantages, typically through political lobbying.

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They used a political action committee in order to get more people to vote.

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an organization that raises money privately to influence elections or legislation, especially at the federal level

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Every form of government has their grassroots.

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the most basic level of an activity or organization

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They lobbied in order to influence people on the issue.

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seek to influence on an issue.

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They are all apart of the political spectrum.

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a system of classifying different political positions upon one or more geometric axes that symbolize independent political dimensions

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They became a two-party system to dominate the government.

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is a party system where two major political parties dominate the government

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She became a third party when she joined the group.

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a person or group besides the two primarily involved in a situation, especially a dispute.

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She used hard money to get her house paid for.

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is a specific type of asset-based loan financing through which a borrower receives funds secured by real property.

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She used soft money so that she wouldn't have to take out a loan.

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a contribution to a political party that is not accounted as going to a particular candidate, thus avoiding various legal limitations

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They all had to attend caucus for the day.

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a meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention

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They used direct primary to vote for the people for the public office.

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A preliminary election in which a party's candidates for public office are nominated by direct vote of the people.

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They used a closed primary to choose to run the general election.

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a type of primary election used to choose candidates who will run in the general election.

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They didn't have to declare party affiliation in an open primary.

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a primary election in which voters are not required to declare party affiliation.

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He go the plurality in order to win the votes.

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the number of votes cast for a candidate who receives more than any other but does not receive an absolute majority.