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CLEP American Government
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1. 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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2. Included are Ways and Means - Veteran's Affairs - Transportation and Infrastructure - Standards of Official Conduct - Small Business - Science - Judiciary - Rules - Resources - Oversight of Government Reform - House Administration - Homeland Security
Automobiles
Presidential Ticket
7th Amendment
House Standing Committees
3. Powers of government that are specifically granted to the three branches of the federal government under the Constitution.
Appropriation Bills
Enumerated Powers
Implied Powers
Free Exercise Clause
4. 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
Take Care Clause
Political Efficacy
Equality
5. 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.
Change of Venue
9
Social Regulation
Joint Committees
6. A provision of the Federal Communications Act that requires broadcasters to provide the same amount of exposure to all legally qualified political candidates.
Restrictive Covenant
Equal Time
Right of Expatriation
Thomas Hobbes
7. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Enacted
Two Trial
Low
Supports
8. First Executive Branch
Pentagon Papers
Department of State
Little Difference
Probable Cause
9. Bills passed by Congress to pay for the spending it has authorized.
Creative Federalism
Appropriation Bills
Blanket Primary
Plain View
10. Agencies that were at one time semi-autonomous but that through legislation have been placed under presidential control since 1945.
Good Faith Exception
Feedback
Spoiler Candidate
Government Corporations
11. A plan to provide billions of dollars of American aid to Western Europe to speed its economic and social recovery after the Second World War.
Cruel and Unusual
Political System
state legislatures
Marshall Plan
12. Which committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
35
Intelligence
Appropriations
Political System
13. The formal source of all authority in each major political party. It nominates the party candidates for president and vice president - writes a platform - settles disputes - writes rules - and elects the members of the national committee.
Veteran's Affairs
National Convention
Discharge Petition
W.E.B. DuBoise
14. The 5th amendment protect against _____________.
Self-Incrimination
Baker v. Wingo
Socialism
Veto
15. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Trustee
Conventions
Regulatory Federalism
Sub-government
16. The drawing of the lines of congressional districts - or of any other political district - in order to favor one political party or group over another.
Gerrymandering
Recall
Exit Polls
Joseph McCarthy
17. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: conflicts between state and national government - economic and racial discrimination - uneven enforcement of law - and dominance of local governments by special interest groups
Delegated Powers
6th Amendment
Appropriations
Negative
18. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Plurality
Bundling
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Political System
19. Things government decides to do - example: taxation - crime control - national defense - education - etc.
Members of Congress
Public Policies
Judicial Activism
Warrant
20. According to the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 - federal trials must commence within _______ days of arrest with the exception of delay for mental health testing of the defendant and illness of the defendant or key witness.
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Entitlement Spending
Intelligence
Baker v. Wingo
21. A course of action chosen by government officials
Public Policy
2
Free Exercise
Political System
22. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Confirmed
Detente
Legislative Courts
Political Socialization
23. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Pyramid Model
Agriculture
Majority Opinion
11th Amendment
24. Congress defined the steps for the creation and admission of new states. It forbade slavery while the region remained a territory although citizens could legalize it. First congress would appoint a territorial governor and judges. Second as soon as 5
Separation of Powers
Secretary of State
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Clean bill
25. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is an example of an
Entitlement Spending
Whigs
Critical Election
Interstate Compact
26. A broad concept that may be defined in many ways - but the term is generally used to refer to the basic protection and defense of the nation.
Categorical Grant
1st Amendment
National Security
Liberalism
27. Something given in exchange for something else; swap
Referendum
Freedom of Religion
Quid Pro Quo
2/3
28. In Johnson v. Texas (1989) - the Supreme Court ruled that burning the flag in a manner that does not pose a threat to people or property is allowed as this type of freedom of speech.
Probable Cause
Criminal Information
House of Representatives
Speech Plus
29. Considered the most sacred right in American history. Colonists felt oppressed by the tyranny of the crown but were unable to speak up about it for fear of repercussion.
Freedom of Speech
Equal Protection Clause
Inverse
Referendum
30. Political commercials that strongly attack a rival candidate.
Negative Advertising
Electoral College
Ad Hoc Structure
Shay's Rebellion
31. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
Concurrent
Constitutional Initiative
Public hearing
Freedom of Information Act
32. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Proposition 187
Universe
Violation of Law
Executive Agreements
33. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
state legislatures
Impeachment
Winston Churchill
Article II
34. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Jury of Peers
Increased
Presidential Veto
Conglomerates
35. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Rhode Island
New Federalism
Furman v. Georgia
House of Representatives
36. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Labor
Redistributive Policy
Precedent
Committees
37. During the period from 1976 to 1824 - This party was lead by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They wanted a stronger national government that would rectify the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation. Their supporters held a stronghold in New
Government
Senior Executive Service
Federalist
Bundling
38. Finding that enough evidence exists to warrant a criminal trial.
Social Security
20th
Executive Privilege
Grand Jury Indictment
39. Clause in the 14th Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The 5th Amendment also imposes this limitation on the national government.
Open rule
Rousseau
Writ of Mandamus
Equal Protection Clause
40. ____________________ define Congressional voting districts acting within constraints set down by Congress and the Supreme Court.
State Legislatures
Katz. v US
Policy Making Cycle
Senate
41. American politics is dominated by a small ___________ who is responsible for most of the important policy decisions
unlimited
Power Structure
Elite
Impartial
42. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted
Republic
Safe seat
25th Amendment
Voting
43. 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
Incumbents
Closed
Fixed
Closed Shop
44. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
de jure
Whistle-blowers
Senior Executive Service
Executive
45. Political party lead by Andrew Jackson from 1828 to 1856. Campaigned against strong central government and fought to end elitism.
Budget Resolution
Democrats
Entitlement Programs
Right to Work Laws
46. A legislature with only one house.
Unicameral
Antitrust Legislation
State
Permanent Registration
47. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
Independent Expenditures
Good Faith Exception
Party Purists
Reverse Discrimination
48. 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.
Enumerated Powers
Republicans
Interventionism
Gay
49. This 1964 case established strict standards for proving slander and libel - court must prove intent of malice on the part of the publisher.
NY Times v. Sullivan
Equity
Rhode Island
Cruel and Unusual
50. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
Mallory Rule
Freedom of Speech
Royal Colonies
Veteran's Affairs
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