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CLEP American Government
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1. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
Felonies
Select Committee
9
Clothespin vote
2. Guaranteed women the right to vote.
Flexible Construction
Interest Groups
Populous
19th Amendment
3. Powers of government that the national government may exercise simply because it exists as a government - such as the right to conduct foreign relations.
Economic Interest Groups
Establishment Clause
Inherent Powers
Party Dealignment
4. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Self-Incrimination
Agriculture
Council of Economic Advisors
Supreme Court
5. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Internationalism
Royalists
Speaker of the House
Cruel and Unusual
6. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion
Writ of Mandamus
Referendum
Public Opinion
Pentagon Papers
7. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Closed
Original Jurisdiction
Civil Cases
Criminal Cases
8. A compulsory national insurance program - financed by taxes on employers and employees. The insurance falls into four categories: old-age and survivors insurance - disability insurance - Medicare - and unemployment insurance.
Electoral College
Pluralist
Unlimited
Social Security
9. The coming to power of a new coalition - replacing an old dominant coalition of the other party
Popular Sovereignty
Furman v. Georgia
Pass the fundraising threshold
Critical Election
10. Powerful standing committee that puts bills on the legislative calendar and establishes the processes by which the bill will be discussed on the floor.
National Security Council
Rules Committee
Rank and File
Entitlement Programs
11. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
Budget Surplus
Enumerated Powers
Interior
Preamble
12. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
6th Amendment
Isolationism
Electoral College
Contract Clause
13. While the verbiage of the 4th Amendment is vague as to what constitutes 'reasonable'. Police departments must rely on _____________; they cannot act on unfounded suspicion.
Probable Cause
Selective exposure
CORE
Realigning Elections
14. The separation of people by race.
Positive
Segregation
3
Public hearing
15. In an election with more than 2 options - the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number - but less that half of the votes.
Plurality
Liberalism
Speaker of the House
Misdemeanors
16. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Original
Fixed
Little Difference
Ways and Mean Committee
17. The belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics
War Powers Resolution
Internal Efficacy
Earmarks
Supreme Court
18. Since 1960 - there has been a general trend of ______________ participation in elections.
Declining
Right to Counsel
Marshall Plan
Logrolling
19. Which of the following factors is likely to be the weakest indicator of an individual's political beliefs and opinions? Age - Race - Intelligence - or Religion
Royal Colonies
de jure
Intelligence
Patriot Act
20. A nation's set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.
2
Secondary Group
Political Culture
Reynolds v. Sims
21. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
7
Random Sample
Social Security
Low
22. Direct oral or written speech directed at a specific individual or group
Pure Speech
Homeland Security
Local
Primary
23. The amount of money available when the government's income is greater than what it spends in a fiscal year.
Inputs
Budget Surplus
Random Sample
2/3
24. 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.
19th Amendment
Clean bill
Democratic
Party Column Ballot
25. Article II of the Constitution establishes the ______________ branch.
Implementation
Executive
Closed
Divided Government
26. During the 1800's and early 1900's - some state and local party committees became ________________ dominating party activities. Committee members would promise new recruits money - jobs - and other benefits for joining and voting the straight party t
Political Machines
Family
Separate but Equal
Class Action Suit
27. 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.
4
Free Exercise Clause
Interventionism
Murray v. Curlett
28. Define US Citizenship as any person born or naturalized in the United States.
35
Military-Industrial Complex
National Political Parties
14th Amendment
29. Responsible for further investigation - hearings - and amendment to a bill
Foreign Policy
Caucus
Sub-committee
Gitlow v. New York
30. When the President's own party gains power and influence - it more puts pressure on the President to conform to the will of the party - leading to________________ between the President and the party to define their public identities
Detente
Lobbying
Increased competition
Family
31. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Economic Interest Groups
Political Advertising
Budget Surplus
Conglomerates
32. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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33. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
Spoiler Candidate
8th Amendment
Gay
Ways and Mean Committee
34. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Presidential Ticket
Distribution
Common Law
14th Amendment
35. A federal law passed by Congress in 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers. The law prevents federal employees while on duty from taking an active part in party politics or campaigns and also bars federal employees from running for
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Hatch Act
Ex Post Facto
Local
36. In the 1990 case OR State Employment Division v. Smith 1990 - the Supreme court allowed the state to fire employees who use peyote during native American religious ceremonies because it is in violation of drug laws. In this case - which clause of the
Incumbents
Nuclear Proliferation
Poll Tax
Free Exercise Clause
37. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Lord Acton
Public Policy
English Bill of Rights
General Election
38. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Initiative
Secondary Group
Truman
Dynamic Conservatism
39. Permitted court authorized wire-tapping and bugging by federal - state - and local authorities and use of such evidence in trial. Later reversed by the Supreme Court based on 4th Amendment rights.
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Freedom of Speech
12
Concurrent
40. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.
Social Regulation
6th Amendment
Office of Management and Budget
Joseph McCarthy
41. Law enacted in 1939 to prohibit civil servants from taking activists roles in partisan campaigns .This act prohibited federal employees from making political contributions - working for a particualr party -or campaining for a particualr canidate
Hatch Act
Judicial Activism
Writ of Certiorari
External Efficacy
42. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Legislative Courts
Dynamic Conservatism
Implementation
Double Jeopardy
43. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Felonies
Blacks
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Divided Government
44. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Bundling
Poll Tax
Democratic
Enacted
45. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Equal Protection Clause
Ratification
Impeachment
Divided Government
46. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
Exclusionary Rule
Straight Ticket Voting
3
Populous
47. 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.
Political Culture
Miranda Rights
Home Rule
Supremacy Clause
48. A law passed by Congress in 1973 in an effort to set a time limit on the use of combat forces abroad by a president.
Focus Groups
War Powers Resolution
Katz. v US
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
49. Term limit for House of Representatives.
Legislative
Unlimited
Caucuses
Ratification
50. This house committee is responsible for Supervising the authority of the federal government to borrow money - Raising the revenue required to finance the federal government by levying taxes - Overseeing Social Security and other social insurance prog
English Bill of Rights
Dissenting Opinion
Ways and Means Committee
Referendum
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