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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Voter turnout is usually ____________ when there is a binding referendum on the ballot.
Freedom of Information Act
Jurisdiction
binding
New Federalism
2. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
Coordinated Spending
Implied Powers
Internal Efficacy
Antitrust Legislation
3. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
Presidential Veto
Grand Jury Indictment
2/3
Monopoly
4. Prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment.
Free Exercise Clause
Interior
8th Amendment
National Security Council
5. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Warrant
Labor
Blanket Primary
Death penalty
6. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
527 Organization
7th Amendment
Change of Venue
Distribution
7. Urban or rural areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate because of tax breaks and other incentives.
Judicial Restraint
Judicial
Civilian Supremacy
Enterprise Zones
8. A public policy that takes something away from one person or group and gives it to another person or group.
Lafolette's Progressive s
Closed rule
Federal
Redistributive Policy
9. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
External Efficacy
Caucus
Electoral College
527 Organization
10. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Implementation
Non-protected Speech
Poll Tax
Literacy Tests
11. 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.
Constituencies
October 1st
Voting Rights Act of 1965
6
12. The response of the rest of society to actions by the authorities.
US Trade Representatives
4
Feedback
Committee of the Whole
13. Voters tendency to identify with a party that shares their views on important issues ignoring the party's stance on issues they deem less important. to be life-long unless there is a major change in the party's platform. 2. Influenced by ra
Party Identification
New Jersey Plan
National Debt
Federal Register
14. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hold
Balancing Test
Outputs
15. In the year 2000 - the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to ban _____________ members.
may not
State Auditor
Enterprise Zones
Gay
16. A pluralist theory by C. Wright Mills where a small number of wealthy elite wield most of the power. Fundamental to all governments around the world - the elite rule while they make the lower classes feel like they are involved in democracy. The elit
Politics
Establishment Clause
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Elite and Class Theory
17. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Ways and Means Committee
Exit Polls
Medicare
18. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Liberalism
Spoils System
Freedom of Speech
Criminal Information
19. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
5
Stare Decisis
Confirmed
Chief Justice
20. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Suburbia
Ratification
Separate but Equal
Federal
21. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
States
Class Action Suit
Council of Economic Advisors
Government
22. Impact elections by siphoning off votes from major parties spoiling a party's chance in a close race.
Television
Patriot Act
House of Representatives
Third Parties
23. Presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. Position awarded to the longest serving Senator from the majority party. 3rd in line of succession for the Presidency.
President Pro Tempore
Pure Speech
External Efficacy
Safe seat
24. This 1972 Supreme Court case struck down all state laws allowing the death penalty stating that they allowed for too much discretion on the part of the judge and jury resulting in lack of consistent administration of the penalty.
Bundling
Furman v. Georgia
Supreme Court
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
25. This powerful House committee is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor.
Fast Track Authority
Rules Committee
Horse race
Mark Up Session
26. 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.
Supply Side Economics
Monroe Doctrine
Constitutional Initiative
Majority Opinion
27. Most Americans support ______________ primarily as part of their criticism of PACs
Ways and Means Committee
Campaign Finance Reform
Impeachment
Closed
28. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
Republicans
12
Referendum
Valence issue
29. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: conflicts between state and national government - economic and racial discrimination - uneven enforcement of law - and dominance of local governments by special interest groups
Article III
Probable Cause
Class Action Suit
Negative
30. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
5
Federalist
Straight Ticket Voting
Redistributive Policy
31. 1798 Act that criminalized speech that was derisive to the government. Later ruled unconstitutional - Andrew Jackson issued blanket pardon in 1801
Export Taxes
Television and Radio
Legislative Courts
Alien and Sedition Acts
32. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Executive Privilege
House Standing Committees
Third Parties
Government Corporations
33. A controversial law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001 - after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspe
Bipartisanship
Reserved Powers
Office of Management and Budget
Patriot Act
34. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Double Jeopardy
Cruel and Unusual
Vice President
Due Process of Law
35. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
Propose an Amendment
Majority and Minority Leader
Federal Courts
Joseph McCarthy
36. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Libel
Deviating Elections
Standing Committees
Elastic Clause
37. A broad concept that may be defined in many ways - but the term is generally used to refer to the basic protection and defense of the nation.
Common Sense
Resolutions
National Security
Secondary Group
38. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Permanent Registration
Enumerated Powers
Unitary System
Pork Barrel Spending
39. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
Conglomerates
Recorded Vote
435
Voting
40. 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.
Third Parties
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Politics
Federalist Papers
41. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Writ of Mandamus
Transportation
Hold
Collective Action
42. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
8th Amendment
Unitary System
Unicameral
43. The introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution - setting forth the general principles of American government and beginning with the words - 'We the people of the United States - in order to form a more perfect union. ...'
National Debt
Preamble
Ways and Means Committee
Administrative Procedure Act
44. The right to privacy is ___________ in the Constitution.
Zenger
Implied
Diminish
unlimited
45. Compromise between the large states and small states that established the bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Also included 3/5 compromise on the status of slaves in representation.
2/3
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Lobbying
US v. Ballard
46. This Supreme Court case infamously decided that a slave was not a citizen but property to be 'used in subservience to the interests - the convenience - or the will of his owner'
Dred Scott
Clear and Present Danger
Common Sense
Warrant
47. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
Appropriation Bills
Electoral College
Increased
School Desegregation
48. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
Federalism
Critical Election
Grant Clemency
District of Columbia
49. A written opinion by some of the judges of a court which agrees with the majority of the court but might arrive there in a different manner.
Cruel and Unusual
Concurring Opinion
Creative Federalism
Non-protected Speech
50. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned contributions of soft money to______________.
Family
Free Exercise of Religion
Original
National Political Parties