Articles herein address not only basic subjects covered in the study of American government -- from the Bill of Rights through voting processes--but also a wide range of contemporary issues such as abortion, capital punishment, and Social Security.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• A
• absentee and early voting
• accountability
• administrative law
• administrative presidency
• advice and consent
• affirmative action
• aging policy
• Albany Plan of Union
• American Bar Association (ABA)
• amicus curiae
• antifederalists
• appointment power
• appropriations
• arms control
• Articles of Confederation
• assassinations
• associate justice of the Supreme Court
• asylum
• Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
• attorney general
• B
• bicameral legislature
• bill
• Bill of Rights
• board of education
• board of elections
• budget process
• bully pulpit
• bureaucracy
• C
• cabinet
• campaign finance
• campaigning
• capital punishment
• capitalism
• casework
• caucus
• censorship
• census
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
• checks and balances
• chief justice of the United States
• citizenship
• city manager
• civic responsibility
• civil disobedience
• civil liberties
• civil rights
• Civil Rights movement
• civil service system
• coalition
• coattails
• code of legislative ethics
• collective bargaining
• colonial governments
• command economy
• commander in chief
• commerce clause
• committee system
• common law
• communism
• concurrent powers
• Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• congressional immunity
• congressional leadership
• congressional staffing
• congressional term
• conscientious objector
• consensus
• conservative tradition
• constituency
• constitutional amendments
• Constitutional Convention of 1787
• constitutional law
• Consumer Price Index (CPI)
• Continental Congress
• contract law
• correction systems
• corruption
• Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)
• county government
• county manager
• cozy triangles
• D
• debates
• Declaration of Independence
• defense policy
• delegation of legislative powers
• democracy
• Democratic Party
• Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Department of Commerce
• Department of Defense
• Department of Education
• Department of Energy
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Department of Justice
• Department of Labor
• Department of State
• Department of the Interior (DOI)
• Department of the Treasury
• Department of Transportation (DOT)
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• developed countries
• developing countries
• diplomatic policy
• direct democracy
• direct democracy initiative
• disability policy
• distributive justice
• district courts
• districts and apportionment
• divided government
• divine right of kings
• double jeopardy
• drug policy
• due process
• E
• education policy
• elections
• electoral college
• emergency presidential powers
• eminent domain
• energy policy
• English Bill of Rights
• entitlements
• environmental policy
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• equal protection
• equality
• European Union (EU)
• evolution of presidential power
• executive agencies
• executive agreements
• executive branch
• Executive Office of the President (EOP)
• executive orders
• executive pardon
• executive privilege
• extraordinary renditions
• F
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• federal debt and deficit
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• federal judges
• Federal Reserve System
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• federalism
• Federalist Papers
• filibuster
• first ladies
• fiscal policy
• floor debate
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court (FISA)
• foreign policy
• foreign policy power
• franking
• freedom
• freedom of association
• freedom of religion
• freedom of speech
• freedom of the press
• front loading
• G
• gay and lesbian rights
• gender discrimination
• gender gap
• gerrymandering
• globalization
• Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• governor
• grassroots politics
• Great Compromise
• Great Society
• gun control
• H
• habeas corpus
• health-care policy
• House of Representatives
• housing policy
• Hundred Days
• I
• ideology
• immigration
• impeachment
• implied powers
• impoundment
• income taxes
• incumbency
• interest groups
• intergovernmental relations
• international law
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• international trade
• Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
• Iran-contra scandal
• Iroquois Confederacy
• J
• Jim Crow laws
• Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
• judicial branch
• judicial philosophy
• judicial review
• jurisdiction
• justice
• justices of the peace
• K
• Keynesian economics
• L
• labor policy
• law clerks
• legislative branch
• legislative caucus
• legislative censure
• legislative process
• legislative term limits
• legislative veto
• liberal democracy
• liberal tradition
• liberalism
• liberty
• Library of Congress
• lobbying
• local government bonds
• Locke, John
• logrolling
• M
• Magna Carta
• mandate
• maritime law
• market economy
• Mayflower Compact
• mayor
• media
• military tribunals
• minimum wage
• Miranda warning
• monarchy
• multiparty system
• municipal and town charter
• municipal courts
• municipal government
• municipal home rule
• N
• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
• National Security Advisor (NSA)
• National Security Council (NSC)
• nationalization
• natural rights
• naturalization
• negative campaigning
• New Deal
• New Jersey Plan
• newly industrialized countries
• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
• O
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
• Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• P
• parliamentary government
• party conventions
• party platform
• party politics
• patronage
• planning boards
• plea bargaining
• Political Action Committees (PACs)
• political advertising
• political cartoons
• political culture
• political participation
• political parties
• political questions doctrine
• political socialization
• political symbols
• politics
• polling
• pork-barrel expenditures
• precedent
• presidency
• presidential corruption
• presidential disability
• presidential election
• presidential findings
• presidential inaugurations
• presidential leadership
• presidential succession
• presidential veto
• President's Daily Briefing (PDB)
• primary system
• private bills
• propaganda
• property rights
• protest
• public assistance
• public bills
• public debt
• public opinion
• public utilities
• R
• recalls
• referendums
• regulation
• removal power
• representative democracy
• representatives
• reproductive and sexual health policy
• republic
• Republican Party
• resolution
• rider
• right to privacy
• rule of law
• rules committee
• S
• search and seizure
• secrecy
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• sedition
• selective service system
• Senate
• senators
• separation of powers
• signing statements
• slavery
• social contract
• social democracy
• social security
• socialism
• special districts
• state
• state and local budgets
• state and local campaign finance
• state and local legislative process
• state and local taxation
• state constitutions
• state courts
• state courts of appeals
• state government
• state judges
• state legislatures
• state militias
• State of the Union Address
• state representative
• state senator
• states' rights
• suffrage
• suffragist movement
• sunshine laws
• superdelegates
• Super PACs
• supply-side economics
• supremacy clause
• swing state
• T
• telecommunication policy
• third parties
• totalitarianism
• town meeting
• transitions
• transportation policy
• treaty making
• trial by jury
• two-party system
• U
• U.S. Constitution
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Services
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• U.S. Courts of Appeals
• U.S. solicitor general
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Supreme Court opinions
• U.S. Tax Court
• ugly American
• unitary executive
• United Nations (UN)
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• United States Trade Representative (USTR)
• urban development
• V
• vice president
• Virginia Plan
• voter turnout
• voting
• voting regulations
• W
• war powers
• Watergate
• Ways and Means Committee
• welfare policy
• welfare state
• White House Chief of Staff
• women's rights
• World Bank
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
• writ of certiorari
• Z
• zoning