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CLEP American Government
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1. The responsibility of the President to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur on the bench is referred to as
Vice President
Television
Judicial Selection
Shay's Rebellion
2. The term 'Reagan Democrats' has become a generic term for
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Public hearing
National Chair
Class Action Suit
3. In this case - a gay man from Georgia charged with committing sodomy in his own home with a consenting adult. The court ruled that the Constitution does not explicitly grant the right for homosexuals to practice their lifestyle and that laws against
Smith Act
Article III
Bowers v. Hardwick
1776
4. Things government decides to do - example: taxation - crime control - national defense - education - etc.
Equality
Public Policies
Implied Powers
Non-protected Speech
5. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Labor
Conference Committee
Television
Adversarial
6. Something given in exchange for something else; swap
Quid Pro Quo
Blacks
National Convention
6
7. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
External Efficacy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rousseau
Royalists
8. Political leaders typically try to both lead and follow ____________.
Selective Incorporation
Petit Jury
Universe
Public Opinion
9. Courts of original jurisdiction in federal crimes - civil suits under federal law - civil suits between citizens of different states where the amount in question exceeds $50 -000 - bankruptcy proceedings - cases involving some federal administrative
Speech Plus
General Accounting
Federal District
Major Political Party
10. The pursuit and exercise of power.
Virginia Plan
Politics
Blacks
Committees
11. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
Bill of Attainder
Republicans
Pork Barrel Spending
Redistributive Policy
12. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Democratic-Republicans
Secretary of State
Majority Opinion
Pentagon Papers
13. In the Federalist Papers - James Madison proposed that the states under the new Constitution would retain ____________ sovereignty.
Situational
Dissenting Opinion
Residual
Third Parties
14. This 1st amendment clause prohibits the government from making any law prohibiting the exercise of any religion
Roth v. US
Inputs
Conventions
Free Exercise Clause
15. 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.
Clear and Present Danger
Union Shop
Interest Groups
Office of Management and Budget
16. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Thomas Hobbes
Court of Appeals
Fast Track Authority
Right to Work Laws
17. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
Poll Tax
Policy
Truman
Electoral College
18. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
8th Amendment
Public hearing
Populous
Adversarial
19. A tax on voting abolished by the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964 - long used by southern states to keep blacks (and - in some cases - poor whites) from participating in elections.
Free Exercise
Right of Expatriation
Free Exercise Clause
Poll Tax
20. 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?
Free Exercise of Religion
Civil Liberties
Liberalism
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
21. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Implied Powers
Secretary of State
Equal Time
Royalists
22. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
9
General Purpose Grants
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Public Opinion
23. Representatives serve ____ year terms
2
Politics
imprisoned
Transnational Relations
24. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Eminent Domain
Roth v. US
Administrative Law
Scandal Mongering
25. 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.
Nuclear Proliferation
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Senatorial Courtesy
Speech Plus
26. 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.
Detente
Poll Tax
Interventionism
Legislative
27. Control of a market by a single company.
Monopoly
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
1964 Civil Rights Act
Discharge Petition
28. 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.
State Treasurer
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Albany Plan
Speech Plus
29. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
New Jersey Plan
Violation of Law
Popular Sovereignty
Populous
30. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
Speech Plus
Ways and Mean Committee
5 -000
Tammany Hall
31. The separation of people by race.
Political Machines
Segregation
John F. Kennedy
Bipartisanship
32. 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
Senate
Automobiles
Hatch Act
Implementation
33. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Lord Acton
Violation of Law
Bundling
Project Grant
34. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Presidential Veto
1st Amendment
Grand Jury Indictment
Foreign Policy
35. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
Max Weber
18th Amendment
7
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
36. Process by which citizens propose an amendment by petition.
Constitutional Initiative
Fixed
Council-Manager Plan
Press Secretary
37. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
Grant Clemency
Poll Tax
Libel
Political Advertising
38. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Open Meeting Law
Republicans
Affirmative Action
Cluster Sampling
39. The coming to power of a new coalition - replacing an old dominant coalition of the other party
Right of Expatriation
Decreased
Critical Election
Dissenting Opinion
40. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.
Isolationism
Mallory Rule
Contract Clause
Lord Acton
41. It the job of _________ committees of a political party to hold voter registration drives - recruit new party members and final candidates for city and county positions.
Focus Groups
Family
Exit Polls
Local
42. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over the creation and elimination of agencies as well as its control over budget appropriations.
Electoral College
Implied Powers
Open rule
Legislative
43. Voters in a political district - or supporters of an elected official; or interest groups or client groups that are either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions.
Reverse Discrimination
Regulatory Agencies
Senate
Constituencies
44. 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
Caucus
Thomas Hobbes
Increased competition
Pork Barrel Spending
45. At one time - the press generally refrained from publishing personal information that would be damaging. FDR - Eisenhower - and JFK all benefited from this reluctance to engage in _____________________. However - the American publics appetite for sen
Scandal Mongering
War Powers Resolution
Ratification
Self-Incrimination
46. The 19th Century __________ party platform was opposed to the spread of slavery - promoted preservation of the union - supported the abolition of slavery - and promoted post civil was reconstruction.
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Impartial
Double Jeopardy
Republican
47. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
Monroe Doctrine
Majority Opinion
Baker v. Wingo
House of Representatives
48. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Gideon v. Wainwright
Article V
Petition of Right
Caucuses
49. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
25
Appealed
Administrative Law
Interest groups
50. Cabinet department responsible for regulating and promoting trade and maintaining the census Established in 1913..
Self-Incrimination
Politics
Voting
Commerce