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CLEP American Government
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1. It is possible either to describe people - government - politics - and power as isolated - static elements - or to look at them as interacting elements in a_______________.
2
Hyperpluralism
Article V
Political System
2. Government regulation of the economy through its control over the supply of money and the cost and availability of credit. Controlled by the Federal Reserve Board.
Coordinated Spending
Monetary Policy
Free Exercise of Religion
Gross Domestic Product
3. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
17th
Periodic Registration
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Ways and Mean Committee
4. This type of government suits a large country with a diverse population
Third Parties
Federal
Implied Powers
John F. Kennedy
5. In _______________ cases such as Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) - the Supreme Court has upheld that while Affirmative action policies are legal - race and gender cannot be the only determining factors.
Reverse Discrimination
National Security Council
Shay's Rebellion
National Chair
6. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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7. The practice of victorious politicians to reward their followers with jobs. Also known as the spoils system.
Federal Courts
Political Patronage
3
Legislative
8. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 restructured the number of ______________ in both the House and Senate.
Secretary of State
Contract Clause
Committees
Pork Barrel Spending
9. 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.
Energy
Standing Committees
Unlimited
Supreme Court
10. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
Committees
Marshall Plan
Concurrent
Gideon v. Wainwright
11. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Rousseau
Article V
Class Action Suit
Closed
12. If significant amendments are made to a bill during committee - the bill is sometimes given a new number as a _______________.
Trial Balloon
Clean bill
Detente
Public Administration
13. Lobbyists for special interest groups have found ____________________ to be the most direct and effective method to secure their objectives in Congress.
Block Grant
External Efficacy
Internationalism
Campaign Contributions
14. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Delegated Powers
Royalists
Affirmative Action
Free Exercise of Religion
15. A system of _______________ - as in Italy - encourages the existence of many parties by allotting seats to competing candidates according to the percentage of votes they win.
Antitrust Legislation
Liberalism
Valence issue
Proportional Representation
16. A law passed in 1966 that requires federal executive branch and regulatory agencies to make information available to journalists - scholars - and the public unless it falls into one of several confidential categories.
Political Socialization
Elite
Internationalism
Freedom of Information Act
17. Charge of misconduct brought against a government official.
Impeachment
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Diminish
Nuclear Proliferation
18. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Max Weber
Royal Colonies
Delegate
Members of Congress
19. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Senatorial Courtesy
Gideon v. Wainwright
CORE
Criminal Cases
20. 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.
Welfare State
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Negative
Absolute Position
21. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Speaker of the House
Home Rule
Scottsboro Boys Case
Veto
22. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
External Efficacy
Low
Charter Colonies
Presidential Ticket
23. 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.
Hold
Bill of Attainder
15
Zenger
24. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
Policy Making Cycle
Great Compromise
Commander in Chief
Good Faith Exception
25. Urban or rural areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate because of tax breaks and other incentives.
Earmarks
Select Committee
Mixed Economy
Enterprise Zones
26. 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.
Marbury v. Madison
Criminal Information
Bicameral
Delegated Powers
27. An economy in which most economic decisions result from the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets - but in which the government plays a significant role in the allocation of resources.
Federalism
Mixed Economy
Recommit the Bill to Committee
New Federalism
28. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Redistributive Policy
Blacks
Political System
President Pro Tempore
29. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Socialism
binding
Economic Interest Groups
Deviating Elections
30. Laws - rules - and government programs designed to protect individual rights and specific groups - as well as to benefit society as a whole in such areas as health - worker safety - consumer protection - and the environment.
Social Regulation
Valence issue
Interventionism
Interest groups
31. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on a sharply limited government - promoting a free market economy - a non-interventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in the moral and social spheres.
Maintaining Elections
Political Patronage
Family
Libertarianism
32. A group of writers - journalists - and critics who exposed corporate malfeasance and political corruption in the first decade of the 20th century.
Concurrent Powers
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Bicameral
Muckrakers
33. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Ex Post Facto
General Accounting Office
Horse race
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
34. 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.
General Election
2
Third Parties
Public Opinion
35. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Due Process of Law
Unitary System
State Government
Procedural Due Process
36. Most likely to board a foreign ship suspected of drug trafficking at a U.S. port
Coast Guard
Civil Liberties
Articles of Confederation
Public Policies
37. 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
Federal District
Katz. v US
Institutional
Implied
38. Practice by which voters of one party crossing over and voting in the primary of another party - effectively allowing a party to help choose its opposition's candidate.
Raiding
Legislative
Delegated Powers
Miller v. California
39. Compromise between the large states and small states that established the bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Also included 3/5 compromise on the status of slaves in representation.
Attorney General
Party Column Ballot
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Closed rule
40. People may vote in a party's primary only if they are registered members of that party. Independents cannot participate. Note that because some political parties name themselves independent - the term 'non-partisan' often replaces 'independent' when
Conference Committee
Baby Boomers
Outputs
Closed
41. 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.
8th Amendment
Campaign Contributions
President Pro Tempore
General Accounting
42. ___________ vote in both the House and Senate may override a Presidential veto of legislation.
8th Amendment
89
31
2/3
43. In Woodson v. North Carolina - the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing of capital punishment as ______________________ because it does not allow for any discretion.
Cruel and Unusual
Police Powers
Eminent Domain
Enact a Bill of Rights
44. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Creative Federalism
Affirmative Action
Veto
6
45. The philosophy that government should intervene as little as possible in economic affairs.
2/3
Maintaining Elections
Laissez-Faire
de facto
46. In this essay - James Madison recognized that reconciling the competing interests of various groups was what legislation was all about
Veto
National
imprisoned
The Federalist #10
47. The expansion of cable and satellite tv has _________________ the president's power to influence public opinion.
Increased
Dred Scott
Roe v. Wade
National Supremacy
48. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Executive Agencies
Laissez-Faire
Cabinet
Royal Colonies
49. Repealed by the 21st Amendment - this Amendment prohibited alcohol.
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Confirmed
Executive Agencies
18th Amendment
50. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Senate
Interest Groups
8th Amendment