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CLEP American Government
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1. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
Blacks
Selective Incorporation
Poll Tax
Republican
2. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
Closed Shop
Independent Expenditures
Defense
Transportation
3. Voters in a political district - or supporters of an elected official; or interest groups or client groups that are either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions.
Issue network
Public Policy
Quid Pro Quo
Constituencies
4. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Periodic Registration
New Jersey Plan
Foreign Policy
Deviating Elections
5. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Bundling
Confirmed
Permanent Registration
20th
6. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over budget and appointments of leadership.
Executive
Rules Committee
Majority Rule
Plain View
7. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on a sharply limited government - promoting a free market economy - a non-interventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in the moral and social spheres.
Roe v. Wade
Public Policy
Miranda Rights
Libertarianism
8. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Trustee
Exclusionary Rule
High
Commonwealth
9. Cabinet department that includes the Coast Guard - Border Patrol - FEMA - Transportation Security Administration - INS and the Secret Service. Established in 2001 in response to 9/11.
Council of Economic Advisors
Homeland Security
Muckrakers
Elite and Class Theory
10. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Patriot Act
Offensive Language
Recorded Vote
Tariff
11. Requests from people or groups for health care for the aged - loans for college students - equal opportunity for minorities - and higher subsidies for farmers are examples of:
Legislative Courts
Demands
State of the Union
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
12. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
Flexible Construction
Logrolling
Writ of Assistance
General Purpose Grants
13. A method of amending state constitutions under which proposed constitutional amendments can be placed on the ballot if enough signatures are obtained on a petition. Almost half the states also employ the initiative on the ballot to allow voters to en
Arraignment
Regulatory Agencies
Initiative
Gender Gap
14. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
Party Activists
House of Representatives
Pass the fundraising threshold
Republicans
15. In Schenck v. US (1919) - The Supreme Court ruled that government may prohibit speech that creates an immediate threat of criminal action. Essentially established different standards for speech during wartime than in peacetime. Thus - establishing th
Clear and Present Danger
Campaign Contributions
Royal Colonies
14
16. To an extent - the press and the government have a relationship that is _______________ and mutually dependent.
Clear and Present Danger
Adversarial
Republicans
Majority Rule
17. The way things should be by law
Reverse Discrimination
Open
de jure
Judicial Restraint
18. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Literacy Tests
Office of Management and Budget
Concurrent
Populous
19. If 10 days do not remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the bill __________.
Reference Group
Social Contract
Energy
Dies
20. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Caucus
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
14th Amendment
35
21. This author was highly influential on Thomas Jefferson - rejecting divine right - proposing that government is a social contract requiring the consent of the govern and establishing the concept of self-evident rights of life - liberty - and property.
John Locke
Trustee
Laissez-Faire
Issue Networks
22. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Criminal Information
Issue network
Elastic Clause
Raiding
23. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Supreme Court
Enacted
Senior Executive Service
24. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
New Jersey Plan
Realigning Elections
Article III
Unicameral
25. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?
Proposition 187
W.E.B. DuBoise
Affirmative Action
Probable Cause
26. Executive check on Legislative Branch.
Marshall Plan
Increased
Right to Counsel
Veto
27. The belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics
Outputs
Internal Efficacy
Pork Barrel Spending
New Federalism
28. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
Ways and Mean Committee
12th Amendment
Government
Probable Cause
29. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has less discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Formula Grant
Jus Soli
Incumbents
state legislatures
30. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
Confederation
Blacks
Proprietary Colonies
14
31. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Referendum
Entitlement Programs
Redistributive Policy
Royal Colonies
32. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: diversity/diffusion of power - more access points for political participation - fostering of experimentation and innovation - and allowing local governments to manage local problems effectively
Interest groups
7th Amendment
Positive
binding
33. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
Checks and Balances
Free Exercise
de facto
National
34. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Majority Opinion
Woodrow Wilson
Political ideology
National Political Parties
35. Agencies that were at one time semi-autonomous but that through legislation have been placed under presidential control since 1945.
Article II
Committees of Correspondence
Government Corporations
Universe
36. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
may not
Katz. v US
Party Realignment
Universe
37. After a bill has passed both the House and Senate - it goes to _________________ where any differences between the house bill and the senate bill are resolved before sending to the President for signature
national quotas
Conference Committee
Open rule
Misdemeanors
38. A series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison under the pseudonym Publius advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Rhode Island
Judicial Selection
W.E.B. DuBoise
Federalist Papers
39. Also known as the Massachusetts ballot - groups candidates according to the office for which they are running
7
Spoiler Candidate
Office Column Ballot
Writ of Certiorari
40. Requires the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President separately.
Monetary Policy
12th Amendment
Non-protected Speech
Feedback
41. Presidential management model requiring the President to have strong leadership skills and a keen eye for detail. FDR and JFK were well known for this style of leadership.
Probable Cause
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Prior Restraint
Hub and Spoke Model
42. A group of people who try to influence policy agendas and whose ultimate goal is to run the government by getting their favorite candidates elected.
National Security Council
Monetary Policy
Political Party
Maintaining Elections
43. The president - the vice president - the heads of the major executive departments of the government - and certain other senior officials who may hold 'cabinet rank.'
Cabinet
Logrolling
Cold War
High
44. 1940 Act Prohibiting any person from advocating overthrowing the government through violence or force.
Convention Bounce
Eminent Domain
Regulatory Federalism
Smith Act
45. Form of obstruction in the Senate where an attempt is made to infinitely extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay the progress or completely prevent a vote on the proposal taking place.
Filibuster
Union Shop
Monroe Doctrine
Criminal Information
46. Formerly known as the Anti-Federalist - this party lead by Thomas Jefferson advocated states rights pressing the causes of the common people and agrarian interest. Dominated the political arena until the Civil War.
Political Action Committees
Globalization
Reynolds v. Sims
Democratic-Republicans
47. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Nuclear Proliferation
Ratification
Reynolds v. Sims
Select Committee
48. A 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union limiting the number of defensive missiles each country could build. In 2001 President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the treaty.
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Cluster Sampling
Labor
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
49. Urban or rural areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate because of tax breaks and other incentives.
Enterprise Zones
Offensive Language
Article VI
Isolationism
50. A public policy that takes something away from one person or group and gives it to another person or group.
Inherent Powers
Pork Barrel Spending
Entitlement Spending
Redistributive Policy