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CLEP American Government
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1. 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.
Family
District of Columbia
Office of Management and Budget
Monroe Doctrine
2. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
House of Representatives
Article IV
Whigs
Equality
3. ________________ of the Constitution dictates how the Constitution shall be amended.
Bull Moose Progressives
Article V
Balancing Test
Ex Post Facto
4. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Party Activists
Enacted
John F. Kennedy
Hub and Spoke Model
5. Laws on Schools - Marriage - and owning property;Licensee Lawyers - Doctors - and Teachers.
State Government
Hatch Act
Deficit
Supreme Court
6. Agenda that includes issues that affect the daily lives of the people.
Salient Agenda
Military-Industrial Complex
Propose an Amendment
Press Secretary
7. 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.
Balance of Payments
Poll Tax
Zenger
Nuclear Proliferation
8. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
2nd Amendment
Antitrust Legislation
Presidential Veto
3
9. The power of the president - struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998 - to veto parts of appropriations bills. Most state governors have this power.
Line-Item Veto
Legislative
Earmarks
Right to Work Laws
10. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Sub-government
State
State of the Union
Earl Warren
11. The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate and so votes for the less objectionable of the two - putting a clothespin over his nose to keep out the unpleasant stench
Closed
General Accounting Office
Clothespin vote
Interventionism
12. A form of city government under which a council - usually elected on a nonpartisan ticket - hires a professional city manager - who runs the city government and has power to hire and fire officials.
6th Amendment
Conservatism
Separation of Powers
Council-Manager Plan
13. If significant amendments are made to a bill during committee - the bill is sometimes given a new number as a _______________.
Concurrent
Inherent Powers
89
Clean bill
14. In charge of all state funds. Supervises the collection of taxes and payment of state's bill
Supreme Court
Elastic Clause
Civilian Supremacy
State Treasurer
15. Individual contributions to PACs are limited to ______________ dollars per candidate per election with primaries - general and special elections counting separately.
1964 Civil Rights Act
5 -000
Equity
Bull Moose Progressives
16. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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17. Also known as the Indiana ballot - lists the candidates of each party in a row or column - beside or under the party emblem. In most cases - the voter can make one mark at the top of the column - or pull one lever - and thus vote for all the party's
Party Column Ballot
Instructed Delegate
Dynamic Conservatism
Positive
18. Federal grants in which the recipient has little discretion over how the money is spent. The national government sets narrowly defined rules for use of funds and often requires the states or local governments to provide matching funds. These grants a
National Security Council
Categorical Grant
Globalization
Negative
19. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
Party Identification
Restrictive Covenant
Public Opinion
National
20. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
20
Spoils System
Coordinated Spending
Lord Acton
21. Head of the Supreme Court.
Political Socialization
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Chief Justice
Democrats
22. A provision of law in which Congress asserts the power to nullify actions of the executive branch. In 1983 the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional - but Congress continued to pass laws containing such provisions.
Federal Register
Ways and Means Committee
Conglomerates
Legislative Veto
23. 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
Constitutional Initiative
Exit Polls
Policy
24. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Negative
Federal Register
Supreme Court
Majority Rule
25. Makes sure that funds are used safely and wisely. They oversee the state's financial records
Federal
State Auditor
100
Two Trial
26. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.
Felonies
Divided Government
Interstate Compact
Transnational Relations
27. This 1st amendment clause prohibits the government from making any law prohibiting the exercise of any religion
Free Exercise Clause
27th Amendment
100
Policy Making Cycle
28. 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.
Public Opinion
Instructed Delegate
Permanent Registration
National Convention
29. Which two British Acts - passed in 1764 - caused American colonists for the first time to organize protests against the injustices of British rule - and sparked the rallying cry 'no taxation without representation'?
Mugwumps
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Confederation
Creative Federalism
30. Constitutional Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
2/3
Policy
Article III
Whips
31. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Fast Track Authority
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Ratification
2/3
32. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Oligopoly
Judicial
Supply Side Economics
Populous
33. Under this governing document - national government lacked authority to set up tariffs - regulate commerce - levy taxes - control international relations - establish common currency
Prior Restraint
Federal Appellate
Articles of Confederation
Commonwealth
34. The period of time after the election of FDR until the Vietnam War was dominated by the Democratic Party and know as the __________________ Era.
Critical Election
New Deal Era
State Legislatures
blockbusting and redlining
35. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Republicans
12
Budget Resolution
Political ideology
36. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Concurrent Powers
Declining
Shay's Rebellion
Redistributive Policy
37. The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
Nuclear Proliferation
Transnational Relations
Democratic
77
38. A small group of voters chosen by a political campaign for their demographic similarities who are brought together to gauge how the group they represent feels about the candidate.
Nuclear Proliferation
Party Purists
John F. Kennedy
Focus Groups
39. A form of city government under which a board of city commissioners is popularly elected (often on a nonpartisan ballot). The commissioners make policy as a city council - but they also run city departments as administrators.
Council-Manager Plan
Whip
Joseph McCarthy
Commission Plan
40. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Oligopoly
Major Political Party
Federal Courts
Thurgood Marshall
41. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
100
Dynamic Conservatism
Equal Time
Pyramid Model
42. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
31
Exit Polls
Fixed
Propose an Amendment
43. Today the Senate operates with ____ standing and select committees. These select committees - however - are permanent in nature and are treated as standing committees under Senate rules.
Republicans
20
Categorical Grant
Mixed Economy
44. Prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
4th Amendment
Party Realignment
Cabinet
45. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Housing and Urban Development
Capitalism
Fiscal Federalism
Public Opinion
46. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
State Government
Baby Boomers
Agriculture
Inherent Powers
47. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
School Desegregation
5
Democrats
Administrative Law
48. A course of action decided upon by a government
Budget Surplus
Truman
9
Policy
49. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
Administrative Law
National Political Parties
Open rule
270
50. According to one survey - what percentage of Americans belongs to groups that sometimes take a stand on public issues
Campaign Contributions
31
Office of Management and Budget
Proposition 187