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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
Soft money
Coordinated Spending
Self-Incrimination
High
2. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Presidential Ticket
Referendum
Project Grant
Rousseau
3. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Senate
Major Political Party
Presidential Veto
Free Exercise of Religion
4. Information sent out in order to observe the reaction of an audience. Used by politicians who deliberately leak information on a policy change under consideration.
Trial Balloon
Strategic Deterrence
Third Party
Party Column Ballot
5. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Public hearing
Soft money
Antitrust Legislation
presidential line-item veto
6. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Redistributive Policy
Executive Privilege
100
House of Representatives
7. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has less discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Formula Grant
Max Weber
Impeachment
Gerrymandering
8. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Housing and Urban Development
Legislative Courts
Implied Powers
Original
9. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Third Party
Senate
Criminal Cases
Transnational Relations
10. President Hoover's laissez-faire approach to the economy during the Great Depression left many poor voters disenfranchised by the Republican Party. They left to join the _______________ Party.
Federal Register
2
Democratic
Absolute Position
11. The pursuit and exercise of power.
Article II
Jim Crow Laws
9
Politics
12. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
Clear and Present Danger
National
Free Exercise of Religion
Logrolling
13. The issuance of this document by a judge requires probably cause and must be worded so as to allow for the search and seizure of specific evidence.
Federal
Warrant
Unlimited
Issue network
14. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
Fiscal Policy
Random Sample
Senatorial Courtesy
Trial Balloon
15. 1917 Reincarnation of the Sedition Act during WWI
Increased competition
Pure Speech
Budget Surplus
Espionage Act
16. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Majority Rule
Military-Industrial Complex
Republican
17. A system in which the national government provides grants-in-aid to states using conditions to elicit control.
Ex Post Facto
Transnational Relations
Fiscal Federalism
Veteran's Affairs
18. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
Energy
General Purpose Grants
Ratification
Jus Soli
19. The Supreme Court is the only judicial body that may hear disputes between _________________.
Judicial Selection
States
Speaker of the House
Democratic
20. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Incorporation Doctrine
Democrats
Riders
12th Amendment
21. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Wallace's Progressives
Blacks
Majority Rule
Tammany Hall
22. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
Great Compromise
Declining
2
Office Column Ballot
23. While these voters have traditionally supported the Democrats - some have begun to support Republicans in light of the Democrats liberal policies on abortion.
4th Amendment
Liberalism
Catholics
Jurisdiction
24. State legislation designed to outlaw the union shop - passed by 21 states acting under Section 14B of the federal Taft-Hartley Act.
Right to Work Laws
Press Secretary
Blanket Primary
Shield Laws
25. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Commander in Chief
Focus Groups
Hold
Realigning Elections
26. The President's role in the armed forces which during the 20th century has allowed Presidents to circumvent Congress' refusal to declare war.
2
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Commander in Chief
Privacy Act
27. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Supreme Court
Majority and Minority Leader
Federalist Papers
Equality
28. Lead by Theodore Roosevelt - this party platform focused on women's suffrage - social reform - fair business practices - and direct election of senators. The won 25% of the popular vote in 1911 - splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Wo
Democrats
Vietnam War
Bull Moose Progressives
Office Column Ballot
29. In presidential campaigns - federal matching funds are provided to candidates who ______________.
Lose
state legislatures
Pass the fundraising threshold
Voting
30. If significant amendments are made to a bill during committee - the bill is sometimes given a new number as a _______________.
Clean bill
Popular Sovereignty
Change of Venue
Conference Committee
31. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
435
Rules Committee
Article II
Energy
32. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Jurisdiction
Gitlow v. New York
National Security Council
General Accounting Office
33. Infamous 1735 English case established the precedent for Freedom of the Press in the US.
Zenger
27th Amendment
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Ways and Means Committee
34. In addition to a quick and speedy trial - the 6th Amendment also guarantees ________________.
Right to Counsel
Lyndon B. Johnson
Demands
Referendum
35. Most states have ___________ legislatures.
Caucuses
Bicameral
Establishment Clause
Government
36. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Pure Speech
Joint Committees
Confederation
Due Process of Law
37. If 10 days do not remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the bill __________.
Petition of Right
10th Amendment
Dies
Plain View
38. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
Majority Whip
Freedom of Speech
Unitary System
Policy Making Cycle
39. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
Declining
Coordinated Spending
Union Shop
Regulatory Federalism
40. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
Ticket Splitters
10th Amendment
Speaker of the House
Quota Sampling
41. Urban or rural areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate because of tax breaks and other incentives.
Cabinet
The Enlightenment
Enterprise Zones
Foreign Policy
42. Control of a market by a single company.
Joint Committee
Categorical Grants
Focus Groups
Monopoly
43. Guaranteed women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Writ of Certiorari
Civil Cases
Nuclear Proliferation
44. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
Bill of Attainder
Incumbents
Baron de Montesquieu
Federal Courts
45. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Veto
Criminal Cases
Commerce
Hatch Act
46. The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
Jus Sanguinis
Party Dealignment
Pluralist
Nuclear Proliferation
47. Individual contributions to PACs are limited to ______________ dollars per candidate per election with primaries - general and special elections counting separately.
Declining
Soft Money
5 -000
Blacks
48. 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.
Flexible Construction
Federalist Papers
Office of Management and Budget
Electoral Connection
49. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Deviating Elections
Redistributive Policy
Executive Agencies
Republicans
50. President requires their approval to appoint judges - ambassadors and other high officials.
Senate
Instructed Delegate
15
Ratification