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CLEP American Government
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1. There are 11 circuit ____________________ who have no original jurisdiction.
Open
Freedom of Speech
Civil Cases
Court of Appeals
2. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
National
Elastic Clause
Royal Colonies
Delegate
3. 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.
Supreme Court
20
Tariff
Senate
4. Between 1909 and 2002 - the number of daily newspapers in the United States______________.
Decreased
US v. Ballard
Detente
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
5. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted
4
Non-protected Speech
Oligopoly
Safe seat
6. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
10th Amendment
Free Exercise
Vice President
Checks and Balances
7. At one time - the press generally refrained from publishing personal information that would be damaging. FDR - Eisenhower - and JFK all benefited from this reluctance to engage in _____________________. However - the American publics appetite for sen
Administrative Law
14th
Scandal Mongering
Contract Clause
8. A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
Welfare State
Joseph McCarthy
Straight Ticket Voting
Jurisdiction
9. A plan to provide billions of dollars of American aid to Western Europe to speed its economic and social recovery after the Second World War.
1964 Civil Rights Act
5 -000
2
Marshall Plan
10. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Furman v. Georgia
Suburbia
Earmarks
States
11. This article of the Constitution establishes the Executive Branch.
Members of Congress
Reynolds v. Sims
Interior
Article II
12. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Executive Agencies
Probable Cause
Bundling
13. Head of the Supreme Court.
Northern and Southern
Chief Justice
Democratic
Oligopoly
14. A word that comes from two Greek roots - demos - 'the populace -' and kratia - 'rule'
Implied Powers
Commerce
Democracy
Sub-committee
15. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Political Efficacy
Budget Surplus
Federal Register
Cluster Sampling
16. 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.
President Pro Tempore
Sub-government
Electoral College
War Powers Resolution
17. 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.
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Libertarianism
Party Column Ballot
Mayor-Council Plan
18. Federal grants in which the recipient has a lot of discretion over how the money is spent. These grants are issued in support of general government functions such as education and law enforcement.
Federalist Papers
Block Grant
Low
Habeas Corpus
19. Cabinet department responsible for regulating and promoting trade and maintaining the census Established in 1913..
Zenger
Commerce
Interventionism
Weber
20. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
Political Socialization
Political System
20th
31
21. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Inverse
Republicans
presidential line-item veto
Proportional Representation
22. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
National Chair
Social Contract
Creative Federalism
Membership
23. The median income of women is ___________ percent of men.
77
Television and Radio
Equity
Press Secretary
24. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Pocket Veto
Situational
Katz. v US
Governmental Corporations
25. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Propose an Amendment
Balance of Trade
Legislative Veto
527 Organizations
26. Members of this party typically include Conservative Christian groups - higher socio-economic classes - middle-class white collar - and suburban voters.
Republican
Separate but Equal
Violation of Law
Deviating Elections
27. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)
Medicare
Electoral Votes
Agriculture
General Accounting
28. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
Mark Up Session
Interior
14th Amendment
Appropriations
29. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Political Advertising
blockbusting and redlining
Horse race
30. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Majority Rule
Soft money
Public hearing
Shield Laws
31. Number of current cabinet positions under GW Bush.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Bureaucracy
15
Dred Scott
32. Concurrent resolution - adopted by both Houses of Congress - that sets forth a Congressional budget plan for the budget year and at least four out-years.
Budget Resolution
Political Culture
Freedom of Information Act
Gitlow v. New York
33. Which committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
3
Appropriations
Contract Clause
Political ideology
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.
Elite
Ways and Mean Committee
New Deal Era
Royalists
35. Minor criminal offenses - such as speeding.
Private Bills
binding
Party of Economic Protest
Misdemeanors
36. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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37. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.
Isolationism
Interest Groups
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Issue Networks
38. This author was highly influential on Thomas Jefferson - rejecting divine right - proposing that government is a social contract requiring the consent of the govern and establishing the concept of self-evident rights of life - liberty - and property.
Monroe Doctrine
Line-Item Veto
John Locke
Ratification
39. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Senior Executive Service
1st Amendment
Housing and Urban Development
Resolutions
40. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
1776
Literacy Tests
Ways and Mean Committee
Senate
41. The net balance or relationship between total income and total expenditures by the nation in its dealings with the rest of the world - including trade - loans - and investments.
Balance of Payments
Trustee
Supply Side Economics
Jim Crow Laws
42. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Patriot Act
Grand Jury Indictment
Formula Grant
Royalists
43. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
2/3
Poll Tax
Legislative
Right to Counsel
44. 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.
Committees
1964 Civil Rights Act
Raiding
President
45. Laws must be administered in a fair manner.
Vice President
Procedural Due Process
Catholics
President
46. A provision of the Federal Communications Act that requires broadcasters to provide the same amount of exposure to all legally qualified political candidates.
Change of Venue
Police Powers
Equal Time
10th Amendment
47. 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.
Executive Privilege
Republic
Pentagon Papers
Third Parties
48. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Caucus
Laissez-Faire
7
Third Parties
49. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Enumerated Powers
Political Culture
Electoral College
Fiscal Policy
50. 1976 Law requiring all governmental agency meetings to be open to the public unless classified information will be discussed.
Seniority System
Open Meeting Law
Jury of Peers
Political System