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CLEP American Government
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1. Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Closed
16th Amendment
Family
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
2. States that states may draw reasonable distinctions between the rights of residents and non-residents (ex. In state and out of state tuition)
Redistributive Policy
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Political Action Committee
Foreign Policy
3. After the Vietnam war - American politics entered an era of __________________ during which neither party maintained control over the government.
Bipartisanship
Divided Government
Political Patronage
may not
4. The principle of civilian control of the military - based on the clear constitutional power of the president as supreme commander of the armed forces.
Writ of Certiorari
Agriculture
Blanket Primary
Civilian Supremacy
5. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
legislative and executive
Adversarial
Council of Economic Advisors
Medicaid
6. A jury of 6 to 12 persons who determine guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action
Speech Plus
binding
Petit Jury
Miller v. California
7. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Self-Incrimination
Medicaid
Conventions
Propose an Amendment
8. According to the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 - federal trials must commence within _______ days of arrest with the exception of delay for mental health testing of the defendant and illness of the defendant or key witness.
Exit Polls
100
Government
Republicans
9. 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.
Collective Action
Bowers v. Hardwick
President Pro Tempore
Delegate
10. The 1803 case in which the Supreme Court - by declaring a portion of an act of Congress unconstitutional - first firmly set forth and established the power of judicial review.
Referendum
Secretary of State
Filibuster
Marbury v. Madison
11. 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.
National Security
Executive Privilege
Mallory Rule
Constituencies
12. The 1892 platform of the Populist party repudiating laissez-faire and demanding economic and political reform
Omaha platform
Redistributive Policy
Literacy Tests
Voting
13. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Executive Agreements
100
Town Meeting
Poll Tax
14. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Resolutions
Writ of Certiorari
Espionage Act
Trial Balloon
15. Process by which citizens propose an amendment by petition.
Medicare
Constitutional Initiative
Outputs
Power Structure
16. This was amended in 1985 to prohibit vote dilution without requiring the proof of discriminatory purpose demanded by the original Act.
Pyramid Model
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Republican
General Accounting Office
17. To an extent - the press and the government have a relationship that is _______________ and mutually dependent.
Royalists
Two Trial
Adversarial
Clear and Present Danger
18. _____________ is responsible for monetary policy.
Presidential Veto
Bicameral
The Federal Reserve Board
Concurring Opinion
19. The number of ______________ a state receives is based on the number Representatives and Senators that the state has in Congress
Declining
Third Parties
State Legislatures
Electoral Votes
20. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Budget Resolutions
Bicameral
Shield Laws
Bipartisanship
21. Included are Ways and Means - Veteran's Affairs - Transportation and Infrastructure - Standards of Official Conduct - Small Business - Science - Judiciary - Rules - Resources - Oversight of Government Reform - House Administration - Homeland Security
House Standing Committees
Union Shop
Free Exercise Clause
Horse race
22. Plan that proposed unicameral legislature with each state having one vote.
Union Shop
Concurrent
Budget Resolution
New Jersey Plan
23. Defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing - pictures
Enumerated Powers
Selective exposure
Issue network
Slander
24. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
Non-protected Speech
1st Amendment
Affirmative Action
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
25. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Housing and Urban Development
Regulatory Federalism
Freedom of Speech
5
26. Age Requirement for the Senate
30
Writ of Certiorari
Permanent Registration
Due Process
27. The term 'Reagan Democrats' has become a generic term for
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Proprietary Colonies
Freedom of Information Act
Blanket Primary
28. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Democrats
Pre-clearance
Gitlow v. New York
Antitrust Legislation
29. An immigrant who wished to become a citizen may be naturalized after living in the US for ___ years.
5
Positive
Veto
Open
30. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the practice of _______________ allowing more diversity among immigrants.
Legislative Veto
national quotas
Gerrymandering
Commission Plan
31. The average voter turnout between 1960 and 2004 was __________ percent
Sub-government
October 1st
55
Enact a Bill of Rights
32. Cabinet department that includes the FAA and the National Hwy Traffic Safety Administration. Established in 1966.
Take Care Clause
Politics
Transportation
Elastic Clause
33. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Commission Plan
Scottsboro Boys Case
Senate
Free Exercise
34. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
Laissez-Faire
Flexible Construction
Executive Agencies
NY Times v. Sullivan
35. The Democrats control over politics during the 20th century ended with this President's unpopular handling of the Vietnam War.
Dies
Lyndon B. Johnson
Government
Parallel
36. 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
Scandal Mongering
Membership
Gerrymandering
37. 1940 Act Prohibiting any person from advocating overthrowing the government through violence or force.
General Election
Salient Agenda
Smith Act
Article V
38. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
Spoils System
Interstate Compact
Federalist
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
39. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Commander in Chief
Katz. v US
Social Security
Whips
40. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 10) intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affect property rights.
Contract Clause
Baron v. Baltimore
Political Patronage
Block Grant
41. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
Federal Appellate
6th Amendment
Increased competition
Right to Counsel
42. A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation.
Convention Bounce
Public Bills
Issue Networks
Committees
43. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
High
Unlimited
Horse race
Amicus Curiae Brief
44. Considered the most sacred right in American history. Colonists felt oppressed by the tyranny of the crown but were unable to speak up about it for fear of repercussion.
Reference Group
Selective Incorporation
Freedom of Speech
Veto
45. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Mayflower Compact
Executive Agencies
Executive
Little Difference
46. 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
Television and Radio
Statutory Law
Slander
Clothespin vote
47. In his classic study of community power in New Haven - Connecticut - political scientist Robert A. Dahl concluded that the city was a __________ system dominated by many different sets of leaders
Low
Pluralist
National Security Council
Agriculture
48. A legislature with only one house.
20
5 -000
Roe v. Wade
Unicameral
49. Age requirement for President
Maintaining Elections
Democratic-Republicans
Joint Committee
35
50. _____ out of 9 justices must agree to hear an appellate case brought to them from a lower court.
4
Elite
Secondary Group
Writ of Certiorari