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CLEP American Government
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1. Polls taken as people leave voting places. In the past - television networks sometimes used these polls to predict election outcomes before the polls close. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to project the winner in a state until the major
Raiding
Unlimited
Exit Polls
Eminent Domain
2. Requires the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President separately.
Elite and Class Theory
Executive Agencies
Implied Powers
12th Amendment
3. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
2/3
Soft Money
Reverse Discrimination
Precedent
4. 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
Senate
Statutory Law
Committee of the Whole
Popular Sovereignty
5. A primary in which any registered voter is able to vote for candidates from more than one party. A voter - for example - may vote for a Democrat for U.S. senator and for a Republican for governor. In 2000 - the Supreme Court struck down the blanket p
Ex Post Facto
Blanket Primary
Office Column Ballot
9
6. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Smith Act
Joint Committees
Conglomerates
Civilian Supremacy
7. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
14th Amendment
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Mayor-Council Plan
Straight Ticket Voting
8. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
Affirmative Action
Positive
Tammany Hall
Executive
9. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.
Isolationism
National
New Jersey Plan
2
10. 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.
Police Powers
Monroe Doctrine
Free Exercise Clause
Equity
11. Most states have ___________ legislatures.
Bicameral
Liberalism
Whip
Home Rule
12. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Voting
Party Dealignment
Blacks
Appropriations
13. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.
Winston Churchill
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Distribution
Speaker of the House
14. A nation's set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.
Interstate Compact
Implied
Due Process
Political Culture
15. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Retrospective Voting
Free Exercise Clause
Administrative Law
Petition of Right
16. In a political campaign - the surest way of reaching the largest number of voters is usually _____________.
Federal Appellate
Recorded Vote
Television
Department of Treasury
17. Defamation by written or printed words - pictures - or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
presidential line-item veto
5
Libel
Joint Committees
18. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Voting
7
Clean bill
19th Amendment
19. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?
Probable Cause
Felonies
35
17th
20. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Creative Federalism
Equality
Gender Gap
Political Advertising
21. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
Quota Sampling
Enumerated Powers
Incumbents
Majority and Minority Leader
22. 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.
State
States
Stare Decisis
Seniority System
23. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Dark Horse
Membership
Office Column Ballot
Incumbents
24. President requires their approval to appoint judges - ambassadors and other high officials.
Senate
Grand Jury Indictment
Supports
Absolute Position
25. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
House of Representatives
Criminal Cases
Baron v. Baltimore
Pyramid Model
26. 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.
Constituencies
2nd Amendment
Internal Efficacy
Recommit the Bill to Committee
27. Head of the Supreme Court.
Party Dealignment
Jus Soli
Council of Economic Advisors
Chief Justice
28. A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation.
Popular Sovereignty
National Committee
Issue Networks
Commonwealth
29. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Housing and Urban Development
Nuclear Proliferation
Secretary of State
Baby Boomers
30. Presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. Position awarded to the longest serving Senator from the majority party. 3rd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Valence issue
Civil Cases
Issue network
President Pro Tempore
31. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Writ of Assistance
Local
Enacted
32. A 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union limiting the number of defensive missiles each country could build. In 2001 President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the treaty.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Members of Congress
7
Virginia Plan
33. 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
Concurrent
Balance of Trade
527 Organization
Internal Efficacy
34. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Free Exercise of Religion
Criminal Information
Whips
Party of Economic Protest
35. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
New Jersey Plan
Vietnam War
Espionage Act
Council of Economic Advisors
36. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as
Senior Executive Service
Roth v. US
Charismatic authority
The Enlightenment
37. Repealed by the 21st Amendment - this Amendment prohibited alcohol.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Unicameral
18th Amendment
Implied
38. A public policy that takes something away from one person or group and gives it to another person or group.
Redistributive Policy
Lose
Libel
Article II
39. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Dark Horse
Elastic Clause
Petit Jury
Party Realignment
40. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.
Judicial
Republicans
Residual
Electoral Connection
41. A pluralist theory by C. Wright Mills where a small number of wealthy elite wield most of the power. Fundamental to all governments around the world - the elite rule while they make the lower classes feel like they are involved in democracy. The elit
Automobiles
4th Amendment
Elite and Class Theory
War Powers Resolution
42. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
Medicaid
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
10th Amendment
Hatch Act
43. Largest interest group in the US.
Containment
30
Free Exercise Clause
AARP
44. A joint committee of Congress established to help negotiate discrepancies and gain consensus between legislation passed in each house before sending the bill to the President.
Conference Committee
Closed
Enumerated Powers
Federal Appellate
45. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.
Unicameral
Ratification
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Article VI
46. The view advocated by Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas that there are provisions of the Bill of Rights that cannot be diluted by judicial decisions.
Absolute Position
5 -000
Raiding
Distribution
47. The Supreme Court is the only judicial body that may hear disputes between _________________.
Free Exercise
States
Commerce
Segregation
48. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
English Bill of Rights
Political Socialization
Gitlow v. New York
Incorporation Doctrine
49. 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
Police Powers
Free Exercise of Religion
Earl Warren
50. Belief in the value of strong government to provide economic secruity and protection for civil rights - combined with a belief in personal freedom from government intervention in social conduct
Party Column Ballot
Senate
Liberalism
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