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🗳️Honors US Government
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195 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Honors US Government exam

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A

ACLU v. Clapper
Administrative agencies
Administrative state
Affordable Care Act
Agent of socialization
Amendment process
American Civil Liberties Union
Antonin Scalia
Appointments Clause
Appropriations Committees
Arizona SB 1070

B

Balance of ticket
Balanced Budget Requirements
Ballot Initiatives
Biometric data
Bipartisan cooperation
Bostock v. Clayton County
Brandenburg v. Ohio
Budget allocation
Budget and Accounting Act
Budget preparation
Budget proposal
Budget reconciliation
Bureaucrats

C

Campaign surrogates
Cap-and-Trade
Carbon Tax
Chief justice
Citizen journalism
Citizen-initiated processes
City Council
Civic engagement
Collective action
Command-and-Control Regulations
Committee chair
Committee report
Communications Decency Act
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
Council of Economic Advisers
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board
Cybersecurity threats

D

Deliberative Democracy
Democratic elections
Democratic norms
Department of Defense
Department of Justice
Department of State
Department of the Treasury
Direct Democracy
Divine right theory

E

Electoral strategy
Electoral vote/popular vote mismatch
End-to-end verifiable voting systems
Endangered Species Act

F

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FCC Regulations
Federal Election Commission Act
Federal Open Market Committee
Federal Preemption
Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act
Felony disenfranchisement
Filibuster
Fisher v. University of Texas
Floor debate
Force theory
Fourth party system
Freedom of Information Act

G

Garbage can model
General election
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Great Lakes Compact
Gubernatorial Powers

H

Hard Power
Hashtag activism
Hate speech