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CLEP American Government
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1. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Riders
16th Amendment
Freedom of Speech
It Failed to be Ratified
2. Between 1909 and 2002 - the number of daily newspapers in the United States______________.
Decreased
Universe
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Good Faith Exception
3. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Party Realignment
Outputs
Wallace's Progressives
Attorney General
4. The Constitution requires that state governments - like the federal government - must be _____________ in form - with final authority resting with the people.
Democratic
State Legislatures
Majority Rule
Constituencies
5. If 10 days do not remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the bill __________.
Politics
Dies
4
Voting
6. In the year 2000 - the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to ban _____________ members.
Monroe Doctrine
Gay
Murray v. Curlett
Incumbents
7. A philosophy that Supreme Court justices and other judges should boldly apply the Constitution to social and political questions.
Freedom of Information Act
Senior Executive Service
Judicial Activism
Freedom of Speech
8. 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
270
Distribution
Safe seat
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
9. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
General Accounting Office
state legislatures
Restrictive Covenant
Federal Register
10. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Mugwumps
Enterprise Zones
Bundling
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
11. A jury of 6 to 12 persons who determine guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action
Gender Gap
Petit Jury
4th Amendment
Grant Clemency
12. A system in which the power to govern is shared between national and state governments
Federalism
Fiscal Federalism
Decreased
Gideon v. Wainwright
13. The principle - established by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland - that the Constitution must be interpreted flexibly to meet changing conditions.
25
Ratification
Town Meeting
Flexible Construction
14. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Foreign Policy
Majority Opinion
Whips
Appealed
15. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
Instructed Delegate
Flexible Construction
25th Amendment
2
16. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
527 Organizations
Mixed Economy
Supreme Court
Flexible Construction
17. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: diversity/diffusion of power - more access points for political participation - fostering of experimentation and innovation - and allowing local governments to manage local problems effectively
Federal Courts
Interior
Positive
Articles of Confederation
18. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Public Administration
Enacted
General Accounting Office
Roth v. US
19. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Poll Tax
Executive Agreements
States
Truman
20. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Department of Treasury
Logrolling
Redistributive Policy
Marbury v. Madison
21. 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.
Enumerated Powers
Equal Protection Clause
Charter Colonies
House of Representatives
22. Prohibits conviction of a crime that occurred before the act became illegal
National Supremacy
Reynolds v. Sims
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Ex Post Facto
23. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
Thomas Hobbes
25th Amendment
Redistributive Policy
Katz. v US
24. Prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment.
Implied Powers
Due Process of Law
8th Amendment
Legislative
25. The elected position of President pro tempore of the Senate is almost always held by
Legislative
Enterprise Zones
a senior senator of the majority party
Contract Clause
26. 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
Democratic
Free Exercise Clause
Intelligence
Low
27. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Transnational Relations
Democratic
General Accounting Office
27th Amendment
28. In WV State BOE v Barnette (1943) - the Supreme Court ruled that compelling citizens to salute the flag violates the principles of a free society - upholding which 1st Amendment rights?
Public Administration
Budget Resolution
Natural Rights
Free Exercise of Religion
29. The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in 1982 because ____________________________.
Budget Resolution
Executive
It Failed to be Ratified
Supply Side Economics
30. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Stare Decisis
Joint Committees
Entitlement Spending
Recommit the Bill to Committee
31. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Oligopoly
Patriot Act
Arraignment
Fiscal Federalism
32. In Woodson v. North Carolina - the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing of capital punishment as ______________________ because it does not allow for any discretion.
Policy Making Cycle
Legislative Veto
Political Action Committees
Cruel and Unusual
33. A power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action (if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period after the president receives the bill). Some court rulings have suggested that a president may exercise a pocket veto only when Congress adjour
Articles of Confederation
Pocket Veto
War Powers Resolution
Feedback
34. The view of the majority of the Supreme Court that First Amendment rights must be weighed against the competing needs of the community to preserve order.
Political Action Committee
Balancing Test
Hatch Act
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
35. 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.
Senior Executive Service
Enact a Bill of Rights
Public Bills
Unicameral
36. Finding that enough evidence exists to warrant a criminal trial.
Arraignment
Grand Jury Indictment
Unlimited
2nd Amendment
37. Legislature bills that affect all citizens.
Filibuster
100
Public Bills
Soft Money
38. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
Plain View
Senatorial Courtesy
5
Party Identification
39. 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
Pork Barrel Spending
Impoundment
Freedom of Information Act
Substantive Due Process
40. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is an example of an
Major Political Party
Bill of Rights
Conference Committee
Interstate Compact
41. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
Balancing Test
House of Representatives
Realigning Elections
Issue network
42. The pursuit and exercise of power.
Pass the fundraising threshold
High
Politics
Line-Item Veto
43. A system of _______________ - as in Italy - encourages the existence of many parties by allotting seats to competing candidates according to the percentage of votes they win.
Political Socialization
Appropriations
Proportional Representation
2/3
44. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Maintaining Elections
Permanent Registration
Office of Management and Budget
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
45. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Increased competition
Gerrymandering
Agriculture
46. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over budget and appointments of leadership.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Executive
Blacks
527 Organizations
47. A writ designed to protect against illegal imprisonment by requiring that a person who is detained be brought before a judge for investigation.
Committees of Correspondence
Murray v. Curlett
Writ of Certiorari
Closed
48. 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.
Misdemeanors
National Convention
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
District of Columbia
49. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
Concurrent Powers
Defense
Strategic Deterrence
12
50. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
3
Home Rule
Gitlow v. New York
Judicial
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