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- BCGovernment Index: BBIAmerican Concise EncyclopediaBI
- LAbolitionist~TEXT8060
- Abrogation~TEXT8060
- Absentee voting~TEXT8060
- Absolute monarchy~TEXT8060
- Acquittal~TEXT8060
- Act~TEXT8060
- Action~TEXT8060
- Adjourn~TEXT8060
- Adjournment sine die~TEXT8060
- Adjudication~TEXT8060
- Administration~TEXT8060
- Administration bill~TEXT8060
- Adversary system~TEXT8060
- Advice and consent~TEXT8060
- Affidavit~TEXT8060
- Affirm~TEXT8060
- Affirmative action~TEXT8060
- Aggression~TEXT8060
- Agrarian parties~TEXT8060
- Alien~TEXT8060
- Allegiance~TEXT8060
- Alliance~TEXT8060
- Ambassador~TEXT8060
- Amendment~TEXT8060
- American Revolution~TEXT8060
- Amnesty~TEXT8060
- Anarchy~TEXT8060
- Anti-Federalists~TEXT8060
- Appeal~TEXT8060
- Appeasement~TEXT8060
- Appellate jurisdiction~TEXT8060
- Apportionment~TEXT8060
- Appropriation act~TEXT8060
- Appropriations~TEXT8060
- Arbitration~TEXT8060
- Aristocracy~TEXT8060
- Armistice~TEXT8060
- Arraignment~TEXT8060
- Articles of Confederation~TEXT8060
- Assembly~TEXT8060
- Assembly, right of~TEXT8060
- Assessed value~TEXT8060
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)~TEXT8060
- Attorney General~TEXT8060
- Authorization bill~TEXT8060
- Autocracy~TEXT8060
- Autonomy~TEXT8060
- Baby boomer~TEXT8060
- Bail~TEXT8060
- Balance of power~TEXT8060
- Balance of trade~TEXT8060
- Ballot~TEXT8060
- Barrio~TEXT8060
- Belligerent~TEXT8060
- Bi-metallism~TEXT8060
- Bicameral~TEXT8060
- Bilateral~TEXT8060
- Bill~TEXT8060
- Bill of attainder~TEXT8060
- Bill of Rights~TEXT8060
- Black Code~TEXT8060
- Black power~TEXT8060
- Bloc~TEXT8060
- Blue laws~TEXT8060
- Blue-collar worker~TEXT8060
- Board of Estimate~TEXT8060
- Body politic~TEXT8060
- Boondoggle~TEXT8060
- Bourgeoisie~TEXT8060
- Boycott~TEXT8060
- Brinkmanship~TEXT8060
- Budget~TEXT8060
- Budget, Capital~TEXT8060
- Bundestag~TEXT8060
- Burden of proof~TEXT8060
- Bureaucracy~TEXT8060
- Cabinet~TEXT8060
- Canon Law~TEXT8060
- Capital~TEXT8060
- Capital offense~TEXT8060
- Capitalism~TEXT8060
- Capitation tax~TEXT8060
- Capitol Hill~TEXT8060
- Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom)~TEXT8060
- Cartel~TEXT8060
- Caucus~TEXT8060
- Caveat~TEXT8060
- Cede~TEXT8060
- Censorship~TEXT8060
- Censure~TEXT8060
- Census~TEXT8060
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)~TEXT8060
- Certiorari~TEXT8060
- Charge d'affaires~TEXT8060
- Charter~TEXT8060
- Checks and balances~TEXT8060
- Chief Justice~TEXT8060
- Chilling effect~TEXT8060
- Citizen~TEXT8060
- City charter~TEXT8060
- City government~TEXT8060
- Civil disobedience~TEXT8060
- Civil law~TEXT8060
- Civil rights~TEXT8060
- Civil service~TEXT8060
- Civil Service Commission~TEXT8060
- Clear and present danger~TEXT8060
- Clericalism~TEXT8060
- Cloture~TEXT8060
- Coalition~TEXT8060
- Code~TEXT8060
- Cold War~TEXT8060
- Collective action~TEXT8060
- Collective bargaining~TEXT8060
- Collective security~TEXT8060
- Colonial government, types of~TEXT8060
- Comity~TEXT8060
- Command economy~TEXT8060
- Committee of the whole~TEXT8060
- Committee system~TEXT8060
- Common law~TEXT8060
- Commonwealth of Independent Nations (CIS)~TEXT8060
- Commonwealth of Nations~TEXT8060
- Communism~TEXT8060
- Compact~TEXT8060
- Compelling state interest~TEXT8060
- Compromise~TEXT8060
- Compulsory voting~TEXT8060
- Concurrent~TEXT8060
- Concurrent powers~TEXT8060
- Confederation~TEXT8060
- Conference committee~TEXT8060
- Congressional Record~TEXT8060
- Congressional Representative~TEXT8060
- Conscientious objector~TEXT8060
- Conscription~TEXT8060
- Consensus~TEXT8060
- Conservative~TEXT8060
- Conservative Party~TEXT8060
- Conspiracy~TEXT8060
- Constituency~TEXT8060
- Constitution~TEXT8060
- Constitutional convention~TEXT8060
- Constitutional law~TEXT8060
- Containment policy~TEXT8060
- Contempt~TEXT8060
- Continental Congress~TEXT8060
- Contract~TEXT8060
- Conventions, national party~TEXT8060
- Copyright~TEXT8060
- Coroner~TEXT8060
- Corporation~TEXT8060
- Corpus delecti~TEXT8060
- Council-manager plan~TEXT8060
- Counsel~TEXT8060
- County~TEXT8060
- Coup d'etat~TEXT8060
- Court~TEXT8060
- Court-martial~TEXT8060
- Crime~TEXT8060
- Crown~TEXT8060
- Cruel and unusual punishment~TEXT8060
- Dark horse~TEXT8060
- De facto/De jure~TEXT8060
- Declaration of Independence~TEXT8060
- Deficit~TEXT8060
- Delegate~TEXT8060
- Delegation of power~TEXT8060
- Democracy~TEXT8060
- Democratic Party~TEXT8060
- Depression~TEXT8060
- Desegregate~TEXT8060
- Despotism~TEXT8060
- Detente~TEXT8060
- Dictator~TEXT8060
- Diet~TEXT8060
- Diplomacy~TEXT8060
- Diplomatic recognition~TEXT8060
- Direct democracy~TEXT8060
- Discrimination~TEXT8060
- Disfranchisement~TEXT8060
- Displaced person~TEXT8060
- Dissent~TEXT8060
- District of Columbia~TEXT8060
- Divine law~TEXT8060
- Divine right~TEXT8060
- Dollar diplomacy~TEXT8060
- Domicile~TEXT8060
- Double jeopardy~TEXT8060
- Due process~TEXT8060
- Duty~TEXT8060
- E pluribus unum~TEXT8060
- Edict~TEXT8060
- Elastic Clause~TEXT8060
- Election~TEXT8060
- Election campaign~TEXT8060
- Electoral college~TEXT8060
- Electorate~TEXT8060
- Emancipation~TEXT8060
- Emergency powers~TEXT8060
- Emigration~TEXT8060
- Eminent domain~TEXT8060
- Empire~TEXT8060
- Entente~TEXT8060
- Enterprise zone~TEXT8060
- Entitlement~TEXT8060
- Entrapment~TEXT8060
- Enumerated powers~TEXT8060
- Equal protection of the laws~TEXT8060
- Espionage~TEXT8060
- Ethnic group~TEXT8060
- European Community (EC)~TEXT8060
- Evidence~TEXT8060
- Ex officio~TEXT8060
- Ex post facto law~TEXT8060
- Exclusionary rule~TEXT8060
- Executive~TEXT8060
- Executive agreement~TEXT8060
- Executive pardon~TEXT8060
- Executive privilege~TEXT8060
- Executive session~TEXT8060
- Exit polling~TEXT8060
- Expatriation~TEXT8060
- Express powers~TEXT8060
- Extradition~TEXT8060
- Extraterritoriality~TEXT8060
- Fairness Doctrine~TEXT8060
- Fascism~TEXT8060
- Favorite son~TEXT8060
- Federal~TEXT8060
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)~TEXT8060
- Federal Reserve System~TEXT8060
- Federalism~TEXT8060
- Federalist Papers~TEXT8060
- Federation~TEXT8060
- Felony~TEXT8060
- Feminism~TEXT8060
- Feudalism~TEXT8060
- Filibuster~TEXT8060
- Fireside chats~TEXT8060
- First Amendment freedoms~TEXT8060
- Fiscal policy~TEXT8060
- Forensic~TEXT8060
- Fourteen Points~TEXT8060
- Franchise~TEXT8060
- Franking privilege~TEXT8060
- Freedom of Information Act~TEXT8060
- Full faith and credit~TEXT8060
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut~TEXT8060
- Fundamental rights~TEXT8060
- Gay rights~TEXT8060
- Gender~TEXT8060
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)~TEXT8060
- General election~TEXT8060
- General strike~TEXT8060
- General Welfare Clause~TEXT8060
- Genocide~TEXT8060
- Gentrification~TEXT8060
- Gerrymander~TEXT8060
- Ghetto~TEXT8060
- Glasnost~TEXT8060
- Good Neighbor Policy~TEXT8060
- GOP~TEXT8060
- Governor~TEXT8060
- Grand jury~TEXT8060
- Grandfather Clause~TEXT8060
- Great Society~TEXT8060
- Grievance~TEXT8060
- Gross National Product (GNP)~TEXT8060
- Group of Seven (G-7)~TEXT8060
- Guarantee Clause~TEXT8060
- Guerilla~TEXT8060
- Guild~TEXT8060
- Habeas corpus, writ of~TEXT8060
- Head of state~TEXT8060
- Hearsay~TEXT8060
- Hegemony~TEXT8060
- Heresy~TEXT8060
- Home rule~TEXT8060
- Homicide~TEXT8060
- Hopper~TEXT8060
- Hostage~TEXT8060
- House of Burgesses~TEXT8060
- House of Commons~TEXT8060
- House of Lords~TEXT8060
- House of Representatives~TEXT8060
- Human rights~TEXT8060
- Hyphenated Americans~TEXT8060
- Ideology~TEXT8060
- Illegal~TEXT8060
- Immigration~TEXT8060
- Immunity~TEXT8060
- Impeachment~TEXT8060
- Imperialism~TEXT8060
- Implementation~TEXT8060
- Implied powers~TEXT8060
- Impoundment~TEXT8060
- Inalienable rights~TEXT8060
- Inauguration~TEXT8060
- Income~TEXT8060
- Incumbent~TEXT8060
- Indictment~TEXT8060
- Indirect election~TEXT8060
- Industrial Revolution~TEXT8060
- Inflation~TEXT8060
- Infrastructure~TEXT8060
- Inherent powers~TEXT8060
- Initiative~TEXT8060
- Injunction~TEXT8060
- Insurgent~TEXT8060
- Insurrection~TEXT8060
- Integration~TEXT8060
- Interest group~TEXT8060
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)~TEXT8060
- Internal security~TEXT8060
- International Court of Justice~TEXT8060
- International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)~TEXT8060
- Internationalism~TEXT8060
- Interposition~TEXT8060
- Interrogation~TEXT8060
- Interstate commerce~TEXT8060
- Interstate Commerce Commission~TEXT8060
- Intrastate commerce~TEXT8060
- Isolationism~TEXT8060
- Item veto~TEXT8060
- Jacksonian democracy~TEXT8060
- Jeffersonian democracy~TEXT8060
- Jim Crow law~TEXT8060
- Jingoism~TEXT8060
- Joint committee~TEXT8060
- Judge~TEXT8060
- Judgment~TEXT8060
- Judicial~TEXT8060
- Judicial activism~TEXT8060
- Judicial review~TEXT8060
- Judicial self-restraint~TEXT8060
- Judiciary~TEXT8060
- Junta~TEXT8060
- Jurisdiction~TEXT8060
- Jurisprudence~TEXT8060
- Jury~TEXT8060
- Justice, Department of~TEXT8060
- Keynesian economics~TEXT8060
- Keynote speech~TEXT8060
- KGB~TEXT8060
- Knesset~TEXT8060
- Labor Party~TEXT8060
- Labor union~TEXT8060
- Laissez-faire~TEXT8060
- Lame duck~TEXT8060
- Law~TEXT8060
- Lawyer~TEXT8060
- League of Arab States (The Arab League)~TEXT8060
- League of Nations~TEXT8060
- Left-wing~TEXT8060
- Legal tender~TEXT8060
- Legislative committees~TEXT8060
- Legislature~TEXT8060
- Leninism~TEXT8060
- Letters of Marque and Reprisal~TEXT8060
- Libel~TEXT8060
- Liberal~TEXT8060
- Libertarian~TEXT8060
- Liberty~TEXT8060
- Litigation~TEXT8060
- Lobbyist~TEXT8060
- Locke, John~TEXT8060
- Log-rolling~TEXT8060
- Loyalty oath~TEXT8060
- Machiavelli~TEXT8060
- Machine~TEXT8060
- Madison, James~TEXT8060
- Magistrate~TEXT8060
- Magna Carta~TEXT8060
- Majority leader~TEXT8060
- Malice~TEXT8060
- Mandamus~TEXT8060
- Mandate~TEXT8060
- Marbury v. Madison~TEXT8060
- Marking up a bill~TEXT8060
- Marshall Plan~TEXT8060
- Martial law~TEXT8060
- Marxism~TEXT8060
- Mayflower Compact~TEXT8060
- Mayor-council plan~TEXT8060
- McCarthyism~TEXT8060
- Mediation~TEXT8060
- Medicaid~TEXT8060
- Medicare~TEXT8060
- Megalopolis~TEXT8060
- Mercantilism~TEXT8060
- Merit system~TEXT8060
- Metropolitan area~TEXT8060
- Military regime~TEXT8060
- Miranda Rule~TEXT8060
- Misdemeanor~TEXT8060
- Mistrial~TEXT8060
- Monarchy~TEXT8060
- Monetary policy~TEXT8060
- Monopoly~TEXT8060
- Montesquieu~TEXT8060
- Moratorium~TEXT8060
- Most Favored Nation Clause~TEXT8060
- Municipality~TEXT8060
- National debt~TEXT8060
- National interest~TEXT8060
- National Register of Historic Places~TEXT8060
- National Security Council~TEXT8060
- Nationalism~TEXT8060
- Nationalize~TEXT8060
- Natural law~TEXT8060
- Natural rights~TEXT8060
- Naturalize~TEXT8060
- Nazism~TEXT8060
- Necessary and Proper Clause~TEXT8060
- Negligence~TEXT8060
- Negotiation~TEXT8060
- Neutral~TEXT8060
- New Deal~TEXT8060
- New Federalism~TEXT8060
- New Freedom~TEXT8060
- New Frontier~TEXT8060
- New Nationalism~TEXT8060
- Nolo contendere~TEXT8060
- Nomination~TEXT8060
- Nonviolent~TEXT8060
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)~TEXT8060
- Notice~TEXT8060
- Nuclear proliferation~TEXT8060
- Nullification~TEXT8060
- Oath~TEXT8060
- Obiter dicta~TEXT8060
- Obscenity~TEXT8060
- Oligarchy~TEXT8060
- Ombudsman~TEXT8060
- Open Door~TEXT8060
- Opinion polls~TEXT8060
- Ordinance~TEXT8060
- Organization of African Unity (OAU)~TEXT8060
- Organization of American States (OAS)~TEXT8060
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)~TEXT8060
- Original jurisdiction~TEXT8060
- Override~TEXT8060
- PAC~TEXT8060
- Pacifism~TEXT8060
- Pardon~TEXT8060
- Parliament~TEXT8060
- Parliamentary government~TEXT8060
- Parole~TEXT8060
- Patent~TEXT8060
- Patronage~TEXT8060
- Penal~TEXT8060
- Perestroika~TEXT8060
- Perjury~TEXT8060
- Petit jury~TEXT8060
- Petition~TEXT8060
- Pigeonhole~TEXT8060
- Plaintiff~TEXT8060
- Platform~TEXT8060
- Pleading~TEXT8060
- Plebiscite~TEXT8060
- Plurality~TEXT8060
- Plutocracy~TEXT8060
- Pocket veto~TEXT8060
- Police power~TEXT8060
- Police state~TEXT8060
- Policy~TEXT8060
- Politburo~TEXT8060
- Political Action Committees~TEXT8060
- Political party~TEXT8060
- Political science~TEXT8060
- Polity~TEXT8060
- Poll tax~TEXT8060
- Populist~TEXT8060
- Pork barrel~TEXT8060
- Positive law~TEXT8060
- Power of attorney~TEXT8060
- Preamble~TEXT8060
- Precedent~TEXT8060
- Precinct~TEXT8060
- President~TEXT8060
- President of the Senate~TEXT8060
- President pro tempore~TEXT8060
- Pressure group~TEXT8060
- Presumption of innocence~TEXT8060
- Primary~TEXT8060
- Prime Minister~TEXT8060
- Prior restraint~TEXT8060
- Privy Council~TEXT8060
- Probable cause~TEXT8060
- Probation~TEXT8060
- Procedural due process~TEXT8060
- Proclamation~TEXT8060
- Progressive Movement~TEXT8060
- Progressive tax~TEXT8060
- Proletariat~TEXT8060
- Propaganda~TEXT8060
- Prosecutor~TEXT8060
- Protective tariff~TEXT8060
- Protectorate~TEXT8060
- Purge~TEXT8060
- Pursuit of happiness~TEXT8060
- Quarter~TEXT8060
- Quash~TEXT8060
- Question time~TEXT8060
- Quorum~TEXT8060
- Quota~TEXT8060
- Racism~TEXT8060
- Radical~TEXT8060
- Random sampling~TEXT8060
- Ratification~TEXT8060
- Reactionary~TEXT8060
- Reaganomics~TEXT8060
- Reapportionment~TEXT8060
- Rebellion~TEXT8060
- Recall~TEXT8060
- Recess~TEXT8060
- Recession~TEXT8060
- Redress of grievances~TEXT8060
- Referendum~TEXT8060
- Religious right~TEXT8060
- Remedy~TEXT8060
- Reparations~TEXT8060
- Representative~TEXT8060
- Republic~TEXT8060
- Republican Party~TEXT8060
- Reserve Clause~TEXT8060
- Resolution~TEXT8060
- Revenue~TEXT8060
- Reverse discrimination~TEXT8060
- Revolution~TEXT8060
- Rider~TEXT8060
- Right-wing~TEXT8060
- Rule of Law~TEXT8060
- Run-off election~TEXT8060
- Search warrant~TEXT8060
- Secretariat~TEXT8060
- Sectionalism~TEXT8060
- Sedition~TEXT8060
- Segregation~TEXT8060
- Select committee~TEXT8060
- Selectmen~TEXT8060
- Self-determination~TEXT8060
- Self-incrimination~TEXT8060
- Senate~TEXT8060
- Senator~TEXT8060
- Senatorial courtesy~TEXT8060
- Seniority rule~TEXT8060
- Separate but equal doctrine~TEXT8060
- Separation of church and state~TEXT8060
- Separation of powers~TEXT8060
- Session~TEXT8060
- Shield law~TEXT8060
- Slander~TEXT8060
- Social contract~TEXT8060
- Social mobility~TEXT8060
- Social Security~TEXT8060
- Social stratification~TEXT8060
- Socialism~TEXT8060
- Solidarity~TEXT8060
- Sound bite~TEXT8060
- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)~TEXT8060
- Sovereignty~TEXT8060
- Soviet~TEXT8060
- Speaker~TEXT8060
- Speedy trial~TEXT8060
- Sphere of influence~TEXT8060
- Split ticket~TEXT8060
- Spoils system~TEXT8060
- Square Deal~TEXT8060
- Stalinism~TEXT8060
- Standing~TEXT8060
- Standing committee~TEXT8060
- Star Chamber~TEXT8060
- Stare decisis~TEXT8060
- State of the Union Address~TEXT8060
- State, Department of~TEXT8060
- States rights~TEXT8060
- Statute~TEXT8060
- Statute of Limitations~TEXT8060
- Strict construction~TEXT8060
- Strike~TEXT8060
- Subpoena~TEXT8060
- Substantive due process~TEXT8060
- Suffrage~TEXT8060
- Summit meeting~TEXT8060
- Summons~TEXT8060
- Sunset clause~TEXT8060
- Sunshine law~TEXT8060
- Superpower~TEXT8060
- Supremacy Clause~TEXT8060
- Supreme Court~TEXT8060
- Tariff~TEXT8060
- Tax~TEXT8060
- Taxing power~TEXT8060
- Territory~TEXT8060
- Terrorism~TEXT8060
- Testimony~TEXT8060
- Theocracy~TEXT8060
- Think tank~TEXT8060
- Titular~TEXT8060
- Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805-1859)~TEXT8060
- Tort~TEXT8060
- Totalitarian~TEXT8060
- Town meeting~TEXT8060
- Traditional society~TEXT8060
- Treason~TEXT8060
- Treasury, Department of~TEXT8060
- Treaty~TEXT8060
- Trespass~TEXT8060
- Trial~TEXT8060
- Trustee system~TEXT8060
- Tyranny~TEXT8060
- Unanimous~TEXT8060
- Underground~TEXT8060
- Unicameral~TEXT8060
- Unitary system of government~TEXT8060
- United Nations~TEXT8060
- United States Attorney~TEXT8060
- Unwritten constitution~TEXT8060
- Urbanization~TEXT8060
- Vagueness doctrine~TEXT8060
- Venue~TEXT8060
- Verdict~TEXT8060
- Veto power~TEXT8060
- Vice President~TEXT8060
- Virtual representation~TEXT8060
- Vote~TEXT8060
- War on Poverty~TEXT8060
- War powers~TEXT8060
- Ward~TEXT8060
- Warrant~TEXT8060
- Watergate~TEXT8060
- Welfare state~TEXT8060
- Whip~TEXT8060
- Whistle blowers~TEXT8060
- White paper~TEXT8060
- White-collar worker~TEXT8060
- Winner take all~TEXT8060
- Witness~TEXT8060
- World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)~TEXT8060
- Writ~TEXT8060
- Writ of habeas corpus~TEXT8060
- Writ of mandamus~TEXT8060
- Write-in~TEXT8060
- Xenophobia~TEXT8060
- Zoning~TEXT8060
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