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CLEP American Government
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1. This type of government suits a large country with a diverse population
Federal
Fast Track Authority
Writ of Certiorari
Nationalism
2. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
Residual
Petition of Right
15
9
3. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Political System
Article VI
Agriculture
Concurrent Powers
4. An individual who does not join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Free Rider
Party Realignment
Supports
Legislative
5. States that states may draw reasonable distinctions between the rights of residents and non-residents (ex. In state and out of state tuition)
Privileges and Immunities Clause
4th Amendment
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Supports
6. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.
19th Amendment
National Convention
Felonies
Joint Committee
7. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
President Pro Tempore
House of Representatives
Conservatism
Antitrust Legislation
8. Government agencies that exercise quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative powers and are administratively independent of both the president and Congress (although politically independent of neither).
Office of Management and Budget
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Administrative Law
527 Organizations
9. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Federal Appellate
Military-Industrial Complex
Plurality
Republic
10. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Democratic
Roe v. Wade
3
Mixed Economy
11. The responsibility of the President to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur on the bench is referred to as
Conventions
Literacy Tests
Judicial
Judicial Selection
12. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
Charismatic authority
Reverse Discrimination
Baron v. Baltimore
October 1st
13. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Statutory Law
3
Membership
Due Process of Law
14. This event was an important factor in creating the climate for a new Constitution.
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15. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Freedom of Information Act
October 1st
Safe seat
Petition of Right
16. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
11th Amendment
Plurality
Writ of Certiorari
Mallory Rule
17. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Administrative Procedure Act
Royal Colonies
Incumbents
Federal Courts
18. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
presidential line-item veto
Speaker of the House
Lobbying
Blacks
19. The house armed services and foreign affairs committees each have ___ subcommittees.
President
7
Mayflower Compact
Free Exercise of Religion
20. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Veto
14th Amendment
National Debt
Murray v. Curlett
21. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
Criminal Information
Original Jurisdiction
2nd Amendment
Smith Act
22. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
2
Interest Groups
Outputs
Voting
23. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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24. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 10) intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affect property rights.
Implied Powers
Contract Clause
Supremacy Clause
Public Policy
25. Representing - characterized by - or including members from two parties or factions
State
Bipartisanship
Redistributive Policy
Committees of Correspondence
26. Procedure typically requiring 3/5 vote of the entire Senate to end a filibuster.
Establishment Clause
Probable Cause
Cloture
Critical Election
27. State legislation designed to outlaw the union shop - passed by 21 states acting under Section 14B of the federal Taft-Hartley Act.
Interest Groups
Northern and Southern
Housing and Urban Development
Right to Work Laws
28. The president - the vice president - the heads of the major executive departments of the government - and certain other senior officials who may hold 'cabinet rank.'
14th Amendment
Blacks
AARP
Cabinet
29. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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30. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
New Deal Era
Coordinated Spending
Freedom of Speech
20
31. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
Quota Sampling
Freedom of Information Act
Enumerated Powers
Court of Appeals
32. 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
Recall
Periodic Registration
Writ of Mandamus
Senior Executive Service
33. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Dynamic Conservatism
Unlimited
Regulatory Federalism
Budget Surplus
34. A form of city government under which a board of city commissioners is popularly elected (often on a nonpartisan ballot). The commissioners make policy as a city council - but they also run city departments as administrators.
Free Exercise Clause
8th Amendment
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Commission Plan
35. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated
Medicare
Class Action Suit
Bureaucracy
Dred Scott
36. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
US Trade Representatives
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Majority and Minority Leader
Civilian Supremacy
37. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Whigs
Council-Manager Plan
Party Dealignment
Deviating Elections
38. 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.
Miranda Rights
Clear and Present Danger
Project Grant
Federal
39. Most states have ___________ legislatures.
Bicameral
Discharge Petition
Decreased
Electoral College
40. A pluralist theory by C. Wright Mills where a small number of wealthy elite wield most of the power. Fundamental to all governments around the world - the elite rule while they make the lower classes feel like they are involved in democracy. The elit
Elite and Class Theory
Random Sample
Select Committee
Judicial Restraint
41. The vagueness of this phrase has allowed juries to exclude specific genders or races in order to affect the outcome of the verdict.
Conference Committee
Jury of Peers
527 Organization
Unicameral
42. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Judicial Review
Press Secretary
15
Declining
43. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
Conservatism
Politics
Roth v. US
District of Columbia
44. The attitudes and actions of people that sustain and buttress the political system at all levels and allows the political system to continue to work.
Ad Hoc Structure
Implied
Freedom of Information Act
Supports
45. Cabinet department that includes the Coast Guard - Border Patrol - FEMA - Transportation Security Administration - INS and the Secret Service. Established in 2001 in response to 9/11.
Homeland Security
Attorney General
Bundling
Truman
46. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
High
Truman
Line-Item Veto
Lyndon B. Johnson
47. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
14
Divided Government
Feedback
Press Secretary
48. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Poll Tax
Town Meeting
Office of Management and Budget
Interstate Compact
49. 1944 case established that as as long as a person accepted their beliefs in good faith that it is not the government's authority to determine whether those beliefs are valid.
Declining
US v. Ballard
Bureaucracy
State Legislatures
50. A public assistance program established in 1965 to help pay hospital - doctor - and medical bills for people with low incomes.
Medicaid
Majority Rule
Gay
Coordinated Spending
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