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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
Appealed
Albany Plan
Creative Federalism
Nationalism
2. An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words - one means by which a political party nominate candidates for the following general election.s
Valence issue
State Auditor
Primary
Rules Committee
3. The Constitution requires that state governments - like the federal government - must be _____________ in form - with final authority resting with the people.
It Failed to be Ratified
English Bill of Rights
Democratic
Marshall Plan
4. Also known as the Massachusetts ballot - groups candidates according to the office for which they are running
Office Column Ballot
Valence issue
Random Sample
Amicus Curiae Brief
5. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
School Desegregation
Agriculture
Class Action Suit
Council-Manager Plan
6. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
Lemon Test
Institutional
Roe v. Wade
Conglomerates
7. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Change of Venue
Self-Incrimination
Cloture
Committee of the Whole
8. Defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing - pictures
Slander
Double Jeopardy
Majority Opinion
Inverse
9. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Governmental Corporations
Articles of Confederation
Major Political Party
presidential line-item veto
10. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution - for example - the authority to print money.
Hyperpluralism
Delegated Powers
Project Grant
Joint Chiefs of Staff
11. The case of Gregg v. Georgia set the precedent for a ________________ system in which guilt and sentencing and tried separately.
Members of Congress
Two Trial
Speech Plus
Residual
12. 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. ...'
Rules Committee
Jim Crow Laws
Preamble
Quid Pro Quo
13. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
Maintaining Elections
Wallace's Progressives
Scandal Mongering
John F. Kennedy
14. In 1943 - The Supreme Court upheld the Jehovah's Witnesses right to refrain from saluting the American flag based on their right to _____________.
Flexible Construction
Policy Making Cycle
Free Exercise of Religion
Probable Cause
15. It the job of _________ committees of a political party to hold voter registration drives - recruit new party members and final candidates for city and county positions.
Coast Guard
New Federalism
Open rule
Local
16. In Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972) - the Supreme Court extended the right to counsel to those accused of misdemeanors if the defendant is _____________.
Export Taxes
Periodic Registration
Equal Protection Clause
imprisoned
17. State legislation designed to outlaw the union shop - passed by 21 states acting under Section 14B of the federal Taft-Hartley Act.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Fixed
Right to Work Laws
Secretary of State
18. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Outputs
Executive Privilege
Elite
Raise Public Awareness
19. 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.
2
14th Amendment
National Security
Judicial Selection
20. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - founded in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover to help combat the Great Depression - was the predecessor of which federal agencies?
Committees
Non-protected Speech
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Decreased
21. Responsible for further investigation - hearings - and amendment to a bill
Sub-committee
Due Process of Law
Right of Expatriation
Pendleton Civil Service Act
22. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Federal
Republicans
Offensive Language
Office of Management and Budget
23. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Voting
Independent Expenditures
Distribution
24. The Supreme Court holds _____________ jurisdiction in cases against the US - ambassadors - public ministers - and consuls.
Soft money
Creative Federalism
Vietnam War
Original
25. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
Blacks
State Legislatures
14
Coordinated Spending
26. An ideology that advocates limits on government power to address economic and social problems - relying instead on economic markets and individual initiative to address problems like health care and education - while promoting government involvement
Conservatism
District of Columbia
Permanent Registration
Elastic Clause
27. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Dred Scott
General Purpose Grants
Distribution
16th Amendment
28. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Campaign Contributions
Separate but Equal
Balancing Test
Roth v. US
29. Baby boomers - women - and voters with higher levels of education tend to have a ____________ voter turnout.
2/3
Roth v. US
Party Identification
High
30. These courts only hear appeals on cases from lower courts.
Nationalism
Cold War
Federal Appellate
Majority Rule
31. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Gitlow v. New York
Creative Federalism
Medicare
Right of Expatriation
32. A legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes.
Pork-Barrel Legislation
John Locke
Whip
Enumerated Powers
33. 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
31
Exit Polls
Party Identification
Oligopoly
34. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Civil Liberties
Right of Expatriation
27th Amendment
Suburbia
35. The right to privacy is ___________ in the Constitution.
Incorporation Doctrine
Writ of Mandamus
5
Implied
36. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
Majority Opinion
Monroe Doctrine
Baron de Montesquieu
Petit Jury
37. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.
Article VI
Free Speech
Article IV
Quota Sampling
38. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
Republicans
Independent Expenditures
Equal Time
Popular Sovereignty
39. Special courts assigned to deal with specific legislative issues such as taxes - military appeals - and international trade.
Detente
Legislative Courts
Dred Scott
Earl Warren
40. A writ designed to protect against illegal imprisonment by requiring that a person who is detained be brought before a judge for investigation.
Writ of Certiorari
Unicameral
Members of Congress
Hyperpluralism
41. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
War Powers Resolution
8 Million
14
Offensive Language
42. Elects the President if no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes.
Civilian Supremacy
Public Opinion
House of Representatives
Maintaining Elections
43. A political group organized under section 527 of the IRS code that may accept and spend unlimited amounts of money on election activities so long as they are not spent on broadcast ads run in the last 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a gene
Non-protected Speech
Affirmative Action
External Efficacy
527 Organization
44. In 1978 - the Supreme Court - in the 'seven dirty words' case - ruled that the government has the right to prohibit the broadcasting of _______________.
Offensive Language
Supreme Court
Independent Expenditures
Social Security
45. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
Charismatic authority
Third Party
Outputs
Family
46. The separation of people by race.
State Legislatures
Segregation
Union Shop
Town Meeting
47. This contraversial 2001 law allows anti-terrorism authorities to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The government argues that cyberspace is public domain and that no warrants should be needed to access informa
Veto
Patriot Act
Recorded Vote
Transportation
48. The way things should be by law
de jure
Bicameral
Offensive Language
Party Dealignment
49. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.
Isolationism
Open
Pork Barrel Spending
Republicans
50. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Committees
Original Jurisdiction
6
Political System