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CLEP American Government
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1. Powers of government that the national government may exercise simply because it exists as a government - such as the right to conduct foreign relations.
Blacks
Roe v. Wade
Inherent Powers
Electoral Votes
2. A law passed in 1966 that requires federal executive branch and regulatory agencies to make information available to journalists - scholars - and the public unless it falls into one of several confidential categories.
Home Rule
Freedom of Information Act
Federal Register
Writ of Mandamus
3. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.
House of Representatives
Pork Barrel Spending
Spoiler Candidate
Political Efficacy
4. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
External Efficacy
Recall
General Accounting
Negative Advertising
5. The responsibility of the President to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur on the bench is referred to as
Dark Horse
Judicial Selection
Pentagon Papers
The Federalist #10
6. This 1st amendment clause prohibits the government from making any law prohibiting the exercise of any religion
New Federalism
The Federal Reserve Board
Free Exercise Clause
Joint Committee
7. 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.
Federalist Papers
Senatorial Courtesy
Administrative Procedure Act
Freedom of Speech
8. The only court specifically outlined in the Constitution.
Collective Action
7th Amendment
Exclusionary Rule
Supreme Court
9. A philosophy that Supreme Court justices and other judges should boldly apply the Constitution to social and political questions.
Project Grant
Proposition 187
Judicial Activism
Charter Colonies
10. Courts of original jurisdiction in federal crimes - civil suits under federal law - civil suits between citizens of different states where the amount in question exceeds $50 -000 - bankruptcy proceedings - cases involving some federal administrative
Categorical Grants
Federal District
Earmarks
Legislative
11. Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors - subject to the king's approval.
Class Action Suit
Closed
Civilian Supremacy
Proprietary Colonies
12. 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.
Criminal Cases
Rousseau
Pork-Barrel Legislation
President Pro Tempore
13. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
House Standing Committees
Lyndon B. Johnson
Universe
Incumbents
14. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Equality
Pentagon Papers
Capitalism
Majority Rule
15. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Magna Carta
Independent Expenditures
Ratification
Pyramid Model
16. It is possible either to describe people - government - politics - and power as isolated - static elements - or to look at them as interacting elements in a_______________.
Freedom of Speech
Political System
Petit Jury
Political Patronage
17. 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.
Literacy Tests
8 Million
Ways and Mean Committee
Miller v. California
18. This clause of the 1st amendment establishes a 'wall of separation' between church and state.
Safe seat
Custom
Establishment Clause
Oligopoly
19. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Realigning Elections
Article IV
Instructed Delegate
Random Sample
20. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
Balance of Payments
Good Faith Exception
Instructed Delegate
Supply Side Economics
21. First Executive Branch
Filibuster
Propose an Amendment
Department of State
Select Committee
22. This term refers to the gain in the polls that a candidate often enjoys after a national convention
Convention Bounce
Rank and File
Categorical Grant
Department of State
23. States that arrestees must be informed of their right to remain silent - that anything they say can be held against them in a court - that they have a right to an attorney and that an attorney will be appointed to them if they cannot afford one.
Welfare State
77
Unitary System
Miranda Rights
24. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Political Patronage
Virginia Plan
2
General Accounting Office
25. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Presidential Veto
Judicial Activism
Antitrust Legislation
Proprietary Colonies
26. 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
Impeachment
Impartial
25th Amendment
27. 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
Separation of Powers
imprisoned
Class Action Suit
527 Organization
28. The principle that the government - as provided in the Fifth Amendment - can take property for 'public use' with 'just compensation' to the owners.
Feedback
Eminent Domain
Confederation
Divided Government
29. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Thomas Hobbes
Blacks
New Jersey Plan
2
30. Groups named for the section of the Internal Revenue Service code under which they must report their expenditures. The tax-exempt groups were created to exploit a loophole in the law regulating campaign finance.
527 Organizations
Reynolds v. Sims
Presidential Ticket
31
31. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
Joint Committee
Entitlement Programs
Baby Boomers
Royalists
32. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
Impoundment
Hatch Act
Violation of Law
Interventionism
33. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Muckrakers
Transnational Relations
Privacy Act
Seniority System
34. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
Foreign Policy
8th Amendment
Veteran's Affairs
Majority and Minority Leader
35. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Economic Interest Groups
Smith Act
Caucuses
Northern and Southern
36. 1966 Act allowing citizens to inspect all government records with the exception of classified military or intelligence documents - trade secrets or private personnel files.
Albany Plan
Freedom of Information Act
Pluralist Theory
Bull Moose Progressives
37. Raise Public Awareness - Create Policy Agenda - Prioritize Agenda - Enact Policy - Public Evaluation
Bull Moose Progressives
Membership
Libel
Policy Making Cycle
38. _____________ is responsible for monetary policy.
The Federal Reserve Board
Majority Rule
State Government
State Legislatures
39. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Baker v. Wingo
Globalization
Criminal Information
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
40. States that states may draw reasonable distinctions between the rights of residents and non-residents (ex. In state and out of state tuition)
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Party Column Ballot
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Wallace's Progressives
41. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
Implied Powers
9
Campaign Finance Reform
Legislative
42. These parties often emerge as off-shoots of major parties or as single-issue parties. They typically act as critic/innovator bringing attention to issues and influencing the platforms of the major parties.
Speech Plus
Television
Third Parties
Dred Scott
43. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Dred Scott
Elastic Clause
Low
14th
44. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
US v. Ballard
Joint Committees
Committees
Prior Restraint
45. A coherent set of beliefs about politics - public policy - and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political event - personalities - and policies.
Northern and Southern
Political ideology
Precedent
Committees
46. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
Redistributive Policy
Medicaid
Realigning Elections
9
47. Most Americans support ______________ primarily as part of their criticism of PACs
Party Column Ballot
Campaign Finance Reform
Joint Committee
national quotas
48. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Redistributive Policy
Inputs
Television
Office Column Ballot
49. _____ out of 9 justices must agree to hear an appellate case brought to them from a lower court.
Closed
Political ideology
Bill of Rights
4
50. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Pyramid Model
Rules Committee
Blacks
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