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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Included are Agriculture - Nutrition - and Forestry; Appropriations; Armed Services; Banking - Housing and Urban Affairs; Commerce - Science and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Environment and Public Works; Finance; Health - Education -
Republicans
Senate Standing Committees
Interventionism
Political System
2. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Closed
Categorical Grants
Office of Management and Budget
Agriculture
3. 1976 Law requiring all governmental agency meetings to be open to the public unless classified information will be discussed.
Jim Crow Laws
Writ of Certiorari
Fiscal Policy
Open Meeting Law
4. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
National Security Council
Supreme Court
John F. Kennedy
Marbury v. Madison
5. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Voting
General Purpose Grants
Institutional
Jurisdiction
6. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)
Lemon Test
Katz. v US
Agriculture
Government
7. The most important committees - always assembled and delegated with the responsibility of handling all bills under their concern. Includes the Ways and Means - Appropriations - Budget - Rules and Agriculture Committees.
Standing Committees
Nuclear Proliferation
John Locke
Party Activists
8. A course of action decided upon by a government
Libel
Policy
Whistle-blowers
Petit Jury
9. Several Presidents have been elected without winning the popular vote. As a result - In 1970 and 1979 - Amendments were proposed to disband the ______________ - neither passed.
Electoral College
Whistle-blowers
Proprietary Colonies
Reserved Powers
10. The concept that political power rests with the people who can create - alter - and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government
Regulatory Agencies
5
Establishment Clause
Popular Sovereignty
11. The action - or actions - taken by government to carry out a policy.
Implementation
Furman v. Georgia
Affirmative Action
Royalists
12. Presidential management model in which the Chief of Staff plays a prominent role as the head of a military style chain of command. Used successfully by Reagan and Eisenhower.
Pyramid Model
National Security Council
Dred Scott Decision
1964 Civil Rights Act
13. In Congress - _____________ are informal organizations of individual congressional representatives with like interests or constituencies. Members work together to promote the interests of the groups they represent through legislation - policy - and p
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New Federalism
External Efficacy
Caucuses
14. People may vote in a party's primary only if they are registered members of that party. Independents cannot participate. Note that because some political parties name themselves independent - the term 'non-partisan' often replaces 'independent' when
Incorporation Doctrine
Capitalism
Political Efficacy
Closed
15. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Free Exercise Clause
Veto
Coordinated Spending
25th Amendment
16. 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
Intelligence
12th Amendment
Charismatic authority
Democratic-Republicans
17. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
Royal Colonies
The Federal Reserve Board
Socialism
Prior Restraint
18. This contraversial legal technicality intended to protect civil liberties has allowed criminals to remain free when the courts refuse to admit evidence that may have been obtained illegally.
Vice President
Ticket Splitters
Right to Counsel
Exclusionary Rule
19. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on a sharply limited government - promoting a free market economy - a non-interventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in the moral and social spheres.
Exit Polls
Attorney General
imprisoned
Libertarianism
20. Committees of Congress composed of both representatives and senators.
Party Realignment
Trial Balloon
Closed
Joint Committees
21. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Trustee
Lemon Test
Clear and Present Danger
Republicans
22. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
Permanent Registration
Earl Warren
Open
Chief Justice
23. Cabinet department responsible for regulating and promoting trade and maintaining the census Established in 1913..
Class Action Suit
Commerce
Primary
Power Structure
24. Representing - characterized by - or including members from two parties or factions
Bipartisanship
state legislatures
Public Policy
Outputs
25. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
Random Sample
Party Regulars
Free Exercise of Religion
Institutional
26. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Commonwealth
English Bill of Rights
1964 Civil Rights Act
General Election
27. Plan that proposed bicameral legislature where states were to have representation based on size in both houses.
Exit Polls
Virginia Plan
Political Efficacy
Clear and Present Danger
28. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Cloture
Roth v. US
Outputs
Internal Efficacy
29. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Judicial Restraint
Blacks
Lord Acton
Interest groups
30. Political leaders typically try to both lead and follow ____________.
Policy
Public Opinion
Jurisdiction
Iron Triangle
31. First governing document of the Plymouth Colony establishing freedom of religion.
Two Trial
Mayflower Compact
Major Political Party
Office of Management and Budget
32. Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 as an attempt to form a union of the colonies. Later used to help form the Articles of Confederation.
Independent expenditures
Party Activists
Albany Plan
Baby Boomers
33. Laws - rules - and government programs designed to protect individual rights and specific groups - as well as to benefit society as a whole in such areas as health - worker safety - consumer protection - and the environment.
Public Administration
Writ of Assistance
Social Regulation
Politics
34. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Writ of Mandamus
Establishment Clause
Conservatism
Gitlow v. New York
35. Government regulation of the economy through its control over the supply of money and the cost and availability of credit. Controlled by the Federal Reserve Board.
national quotas
Dred Scott Decision
Freedom of Speech
Monetary Policy
36. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Free Exercise of Religion
Unlimited
Gross Domestic Product
Fiscal Policy
37. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Impeachment
Earl Warren
Jus Soli
Divided Government
38. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Albany Plan
Television and Radio
Lobbying
Negative
39. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
Political ideology
2/3
Legislative Courts
Roe v. Wade
40. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
25
Entitlement Spending
Interior
State Legislatures
41. 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.
Equity
State Treasurer
527 Organizations
Political Machines
42. The foreign policy of the United States during the period after the Second World War - designed to contain the expansion of Soviet power.
Public hearing
Permanent Registration
Containment
Tammany Hall
43. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Flexible Construction
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Democratic
Unicameral
44. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.
Medicare
Lose
US Trade Representatives
Incorporation Doctrine
45. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Natural Rights
Iron Triangle
Politics
Winston Churchill
46. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
14
Riders
Categorical Grants
Impartial
47. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Increased competition
Scandal Mongering
Enumerated Powers
Electoral College
48. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
de jure
Commerce
Family
Executive Privilege
49. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Low
Policy
Issue network
Open rule
50. The way things actually are.
435
2/3
Article VI
de facto