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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Freedom of Information Act
Social Security
Whips
Logrolling
2. Requests from people or groups for health care for the aged - loans for college students - equal opportunity for minorities - and higher subsidies for farmers are examples of:
435
Commander in Chief
Bipartisanship
Demands
3. A philosophy that Supreme Court justices and other judges should boldly apply the Constitution to social and political questions.
may not
Coordinated Spending
Establishment Clause
Judicial Activism
4. In addition to overseeing the activities of one or more federal agencies - a ___________________may also serve as the authorizing committee for federal agencies' programs and operations.
Party Purists
unlimited
congressional oversight committee
House Standing Committees
5. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Proprietary Colonies
Shield Laws
Raiding
Low
6. Executive office responsible for negotiating trade with foreign powers.
US Trade Representatives
unlimited
Petit Jury
Majority Rule
7. Article I - Section 8 - of the Constitution - which allows Congress to make all laws that are 'necessary and proper' to carry out the powers of the Constitution.
Elastic Clause
Proposition 187
Plain View
Closed Shop
8. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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9. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Categorical Grants
Balance of Trade
Writ of Mandamus
10. In California v. Avecedo (1991) - The Supreme Court established that authorities may search ____________________ without a warrant providing reasonable suspicion.
Automobiles
Baker v. Wingo
Rank and File
Political ideology
11. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Clean bill
Majority Whip
Redistributive Policy
Senate Standing Committees
12. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
17th
Hold
Criminal Information
Redistributive Policy
13. Impact elections by siphoning off votes from major parties spoiling a party's chance in a close race.
Original Jurisdiction
Establishment Clause
Quid Pro Quo
Third Parties
14. Process by which citizens propose an amendment by petition.
Constitutional Initiative
Bandwagon
Deficit
Federal District
15. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Political Efficacy
Espionage Act
Housing and Urban Development
Concurring Opinion
16. 1917 Reincarnation of the Sedition Act during WWI
Government
Espionage Act
Block Grant
Constitutional Initiative
17. The executive office established in response to intelligence lapses during WWI. Oversees American foreign policy and includes the President - Vice President - Secretary of State - Secretary of Defense and is lead by the National Security Advisor.
Third Party
National Security Council
Instructed Delegate
Article III
18. 'lame duck' amendment
Open rule
Permanent Registration
20th
Pre-clearance
19. Largest interest group in the US.
Arraignment
Baby Boomers
Local
AARP
20. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
Supports
Article V
Joint Committees
Open
21. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Shay's Rebellion
Federal Register
Bill of Attainder
Deviating Elections
22. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
Bundling
Straight Ticket Voting
Grand Jury Indictment
3
23. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
10th Amendment
Voting
Articles of Confederation
Permanent Registration
24. 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.
Referendum
John Locke
may not
Interest Groups
25. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Economic Interest Groups
Party Regulars
25th Amendment
unlimited
26. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Membership
House of Representatives
Interest Groups
House of Representatives
27. Passed in 1883 - it created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
15
Pendleton Civil Service Act
national quotas
The Federalist #10
28. Overall spending targets set by the Congress.
7th Amendment
Republican
Categorical Grant
Budget Resolutions
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.
Universe
Seniority System
Caucuses
Safe seat
30. In Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972) - the Supreme Court extended the right to counsel to those accused of misdemeanors if the defendant is _____________.
imprisoned
Budget Resolutions
Ex Post Facto
Senatorial Courtesy
31. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
Delegate
House Standing Committees
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Political Advertising
32. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Thomas Hobbes
Elite and Class Theory
Low
Miller v. California
33. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
Council of Economic Advisors
2nd Amendment
1964 Civil Rights Act
Baby Boomers
34. When the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party - usually the result of winning a critical election.
Logrolling
Strategic Deterrence
Party Realignment
Cruel and Unusual
35. 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.
Republicans
English Bill of Rights
Absolute Position
Internal Efficacy
36. Each Senate committee may have ________ subcommittees.
General Accounting
unlimited
27th Amendment
a senior senator of the majority party
37. The strongest factor contributing to an individual's political socialization tends to be
Family
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Patriot Act
AARP
38. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
Writ of Certiorari
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Interest Groups
Selective exposure
39. A legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes.
Socialism
14th Amendment
Fixed
Whip
40. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
Party Purists
Right of Expatriation
Patriot Act
National Security Council
41. A group of writers - journalists - and critics who exposed corporate malfeasance and political corruption in the first decade of the 20th century.
Muckrakers
Formula Grant
Declining
2/3
42. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.
Department of Treasury
Reverse Discrimination
Federal District
2
43. These parties often emerge as off-shoots of major parties or as single-issue parties. They typically act as critic/innovator bringing attention to issues and influencing the platforms of the major parties.
Common Sense
Conservatism
Unlimited
Third Parties
44. The way things should be by law
Nationalism
Propose an Amendment
de jure
Standing Committees
45. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is an example of an
Federalist Papers
Interstate Compact
Rank and File
October 1st
46. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Little Difference
Selective Incorporation
State of the Union
Wallace's Progressives
47. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
The Enlightenment
Police Powers
Government
Administrative Law
48. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Ways and Means Committee
Isolationism
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Select Committee
49. These courts only hear appeals on cases from lower courts.
Federal Appellate
Criminal Cases
Libertarianism
Rousseau
50. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Federal Courts
Voting
Right to Work Laws
Balance of Trade