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CLEP American Government
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1. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Balance of Payments
Civil War Amendments
Truman
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
2. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned contributions of soft money to______________.
Trial Balloon
National Political Parties
Feedback
Contract Clause
3. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
President Pro Tempore
Authorizations
Dynamic Conservatism
School Desegregation
4. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Legislative Veto
Royal Colonies
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Third Parties
5. Urban or rural areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate because of tax breaks and other incentives.
Probable Cause
Campaign Finance Reform
Royalists
Enterprise Zones
6. In 2002 - a federal appeals court struck down the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that it violated ________________.
Freedom of Religion
State of the Union
Articles of Confederation
14th
7. American politics is dominated by a small ___________ who is responsible for most of the important policy decisions
Elite
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Senatorial Courtesy
8. To an extent - the press and the government have a relationship that is _______________ and mutually dependent.
Adversarial
Third Party
Proposition 187
Articles of Confederation
9. 19th century case establishing that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government - upheld until the 20th century. Ruling allowed stated to engage in activities such as establishing state churches and denying public office to people of ce
Baron v. Baltimore
Implementation
Unitary System
270
10. Raise Public Awareness - Create Policy Agenda - Prioritize Agenda - Enact Policy - Public Evaluation
Change of Venue
5 -000
Policy Making Cycle
Enacted
11. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Department of State
Spoils System
Executive
12. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
Chief Justice
Universe
Unitary System
Exit Polls
13. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 required states in the covered jurisdiction to attain _________________ from the Attorney General before making changes to voting standards - practice - or procedure
Earl Warren
Pluralist
Pre-clearance
Senatorial Courtesy
14. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Incumbents
Globalization
Libertarianism
Distribution
15. Several Presidents have been elected without winning the popular vote. As a result - In 1970 and 1979 - Amendments were proposed to disband the ______________ - neither passed.
Elastic Clause
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Press Secretary
Electoral College
16. A system in which the national government sets requirements that are then implemented by state and local governments.
Budget Surplus
Regulatory Federalism
Delegate
Vice President
17. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
Interest Groups
Custom
Raise Public Awareness
Magna Carta
18. Agencies that were at one time semi-autonomous but that through legislation have been placed under presidential control since 1945.
Enact a Bill of Rights
Government Corporations
Impartial
Major Political Party
19. The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in 1982 because ____________________________.
Fiscal Policy
It Failed to be Ratified
Budget Resolution
unlimited
20. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
7th Amendment
Voting
Impartial
Gideon v. Wainwright
21. The ______________________ were formed to unite the colonists against Britain.
1st Amendment
Entitlement Programs
30
Committees of Correspondence
22. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Federal Courts
Campaign Contributions
Separate but Equal
Furman v. Georgia
23. Broadly worded warrants used by British soldiers during colonial America to search for contraband and prevent smuggling.
16th Amendment
4
State Government
Writ of Assistance
24. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Republicans
Internationalism
Flexible Construction
Presidential Veto
25. A group of writers - journalists - and critics who exposed corporate malfeasance and political corruption in the first decade of the 20th century.
Muckrakers
Republican
Blanket Primary
Cruel and Unusual
26. A system - until modified and reformed in the 1970s - that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.
Warrant
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Coordinated Spending
Seniority System
27. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.
Pork Barrel Spending
Party Column Ballot
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
National Security Council
28. A term popularized by sociologist Floyd Hunter to describe the community leaders who he said determined policy in Atlanta - Georgia. More broadly - the term is used to describe 'power elites' generally.
2/3
National
Elite and Class Theory
Power Structure
29. A test established by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr. - in 1919 to define the point at which speech loses the protection of the First Amendment.
2nd Amendment
Civilian Supremacy
Clear and Present Danger
Poll Tax
30. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Rules Committee
Fixed
7
Ratification
31. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
Negative
Senatorial Courtesy
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
House of Representatives
32. A system in which the national government provides grants-in-aid to states using conditions to elicit control.
Bull Moose Progressives
Fiscal Federalism
Hatch Act
Third Parties
33. Number of original cabinet positions under George Washington.
3
Impoundment
Public Policy
Senate
34. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Ways and Mean Committee
Separate but Equal
de jure
35. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
Enumerated Powers
Outputs
Misdemeanors
35
36. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Speaker of the House
New Deal Era
Oligopoly
Pork-Barrel Legislation
37. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
Standing Committees
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Ways and Means Committee
Political Patronage
38. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Budget Surplus
Criminal Cases
US Trade Representatives
Smith Act
39. The federal fiscal year begins ___________.
Federal Courts
October 1st
30
General Accounting Office
40. Constitutionally required address by the President typically given in a joint session of Congress.
National Chair
Creative Federalism
State of the Union
Jury of Peers
41. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.
Liberalism
Ex Post Facto
Office of Management and Budget
Senate
42. Largest interest group in the US.
1964 Civil Rights Act
Appropriations
Interest Groups
AARP
43. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
Civil Liberties
Logrolling
Whistle-blowers
Republic
44. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Ways and Means Committee
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Office of Management and Budget
Katz. v US
45. Spending determined by the number of qualified recipients and their legally determined need is called
Entitlement Spending
Institutional
Majority Opinion
Establishment Clause
46. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Executive Agencies
Amicus Curiae Brief
Free Exercise of Religion
Administrative Law
47. Passed in 1883 - it created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
Civilian Supremacy
Housing and Urban Development
Pendleton Civil Service Act
House of Representatives
48. Number of current cabinet positions under GW Bush.
Freedom of Speech
Valence issue
15
Free Exercise
49. Which two British Acts - passed in 1764 - caused American colonists for the first time to organize protests against the injustices of British rule - and sparked the rallying cry 'no taxation without representation'?
Police Powers
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Equal Protection Clause
Clear and Present Danger
50. Protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
Segregation
4th Amendment
Gerrymandering
Republicans
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