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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Furman v. Georgia
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Independent Regulatory Agencies
may not
2. The philosophy that government should intervene as little as possible in economic affairs.
Scandal Mongering
Laissez-Faire
7
Supreme Court
3. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Executive
Substantive Due Process
2/3
Appropriation Bills
4. The only amendments to be ratified through the process of 'ratifying conventions -' not a vote in the state legislatures
Bill of Rights
Supreme Court
External Efficacy
1st Amendment
5. A political group organized under section 527 of the IRS code that may accept and spend unlimited amounts of money on election activities so long as they are not spent on broadcast ads run in the last 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a gene
Lafolette's Progressive s
527 Organization
Poll Tax
Enumerated Powers
6. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
Probable Cause
Checks and Balances
6th Amendment
Civil Liberties
7. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Good Faith Exception
Labor
Cluster Sampling
Political ideology
8. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Committees of Correspondence
Trustee
Veto
Katz. v US
9. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
14th Amendment
Freedom of Information Act
Elastic Clause
Unicameral
10. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
Unlimited
Coordinated Spending
Petit Jury
9
11. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
Independent Expenditures
Plain View
Judicial Activism
Agriculture
12. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
imprisoned
Magna Carta
Third Parties
5
13. Urban or rural areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate because of tax breaks and other incentives.
Enterprise Zones
Deficit
Independent expenditures
Third Parties
14. 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
Increased competition
Good Faith Exception
Conventions
Unicameral
15. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Residual
Project Grant
Albany Plan
Creative Federalism
16. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
Membership
Clothespin vote
Bicameral
18th Amendment
17. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
New Federalism
Due Process of Law
Critical Election
18. 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.
Dred Scott Decision
Senatorial Courtesy
Capitalism
Democratic
19. This Supreme Court case infamously decided that a slave was not a citizen but property to be 'used in subservience to the interests - the convenience - or the will of his owner'
Self-Incrimination
Dred Scott
It Failed to be Ratified
Original Jurisdiction
20. ________________ of the Constitution governs the relationships of the states.
imprisoned
Baby Boomers
War Powers Resolution
Article IV
21. 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.
Federalist Papers
Max Weber
Permanent Registration
Petition of Right
22. A relaxation of international tensions.
Impoundment
Detente
17th
Tariff
23. 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).
New Deal Era
Free Speech
Independent Regulatory Agencies
State Government
24. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Original Jurisdiction
Democratic
Discharge Petition
Executive Agencies
25. In a political campaign - the surest way of reaching the largest number of voters is usually _____________.
Affirmative Action
National Convention
Television
State
26. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Original Jurisdiction
Secondary Group
Earmarks
Inverse
27. It is possible either to describe people - government - politics - and power as isolated - static elements - or to look at them as interacting elements in a_______________.
Articles of Confederation
Jus Soli
Political System
Budget Resolution
28. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
Deviating Elections
Joseph McCarthy
Truman
Blacks
29. A system - until modified and reformed in the 1970s - that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.
Fast Track Authority
Project Grant
School Desegregation
Seniority System
30. The Democrats control over politics during the 20th century ended with this President's unpopular handling of the Vietnam War.
Agriculture
Lyndon B. Johnson
State of the Union
Interior
31. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Interest Groups
Initiative
Judicial
Economic Interest Groups
32. After a bill has passed both the House and Senate - it goes to _________________ where any differences between the house bill and the senate bill are resolved before sending to the President for signature
Conference Committee
Jus Sanguinis
House of Representatives
Equal Time
33. 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.
Offensive Language
blockbusting and redlining
Clear and Present Danger
Government Corporations
34. _____ out of 9 justices must agree to hear an appellate case brought to them from a lower court.
Inputs
Campaign Contributions
4
Northern and Southern
35. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Bundling
Defense
Resolutions
Wallace's Progressives
36. 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.
Jury of Peers
Pyramid Model
Democrats
Government Corporations
37. Decides which bills will be considered.
Committees
Lobbying
Office Column Ballot
Permanent Registration
38. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
Dred Scott
Free Exercise of Religion
2nd Amendment
16th Amendment
39. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
Administrative Procedure Act
Joseph McCarthy
435
Categorical Grants
40. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Procedural Due Process
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Executive Agencies
Free Rider
41. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
3
US Trade Representatives
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Campaign Contributions
42. Until the law was changed in 2002 - the term described unregulated campaign funds not subject to the limits of federal law because they went to party committees and not directly to candidates. The 2002 law banned contributions of soft money to nation
Jurisdiction
Administrative Procedure Act
Soft Money
Project Grant
43. Cabinet department responsible for regulating and promoting trade and maintaining the census Established in 1913..
Elastic Clause
89
Commerce
Senate Standing Committees
44. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Article V
Dred Scott Decision
Lose
Caucus
45. A philosophy that the Supreme Court should avoid constitutional questions when possible and uphold acts of Congress unless they clearly violate a specific section of the Constitution.
Lose
Party Column Ballot
Judicial Restraint
Truman
46. Voting based on looking back and making judgments about the way things have gone and the kind of government experienced during a political leader's time in office.
Article VI
Hatch Act
Retrospective Voting
Supports
47. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Random Sample
Gross Domestic Product
Lemon Test
Low
48. Grants that an accused may not be held in custody without charge - literally 'You shall have the body'.
18th Amendment
national quotas
Habeas Corpus
Change of Venue
49. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
Intelligence
Procedural Due Process
435
Non-protected Speech
50. A method available in most states that allows voters - in effect - to 'veto' a bill passed by the legislature or to accept or reject a proposal - such as a bond issue - made by a government agency.
Earl Warren
Monetary Policy
legislative and executive
Referendum