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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
Caucuses
Critical Election
Judicial
Majority Whip
2. 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.
Supply Side Economics
Thomas Hobbes
Administrative Law
Welfare State
3. The drawing of the lines of congressional districts - or of any other political district - in order to favor one political party or group over another.
Democratic
Gerrymandering
The Federal Reserve Board
Pork-Barrel Legislation
4. Political commercials that strongly attack a rival candidate.
Dark Horse
Authorizations
Negative Advertising
Popular Sovereignty
5. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
Logrolling
Republicans
Civil Liberties
Royalists
6. 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.
Absolute Position
Political System
Baron de Montesquieu
Violation of Law
7. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
House of Representatives
Public Opinion
Party Regulars
Homeland Security
8. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
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Clear and Present Danger
Medicaid
Regulatory Federalism
9. 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:
Socialism
Demands
Political Machines
Appealed
10. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Flexible Construction
Jurisdiction
25th Amendment
Free Exercise Clause
11. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Executive Privilege
Hyperpluralism
Membership
Home Rule
12. Legislature bills that affect all citizens.
Public Bills
Parallel
Filibuster
Bandwagon
13. This act prohibited Discrimination because of race - color - sex - religion - or national origin by employers or labor unions; The adoption by voting registrars of different standards for black and white applicants; and Racial or religious discrimina
1964 Civil Rights Act
Impoundment
Housing and Urban Development
Democratic-Republicans
14. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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15. While the voting rights act of 1965 did direct the Attorney General to investigate the constitutionality of poll taxes and prohibit literacy tests - it did not expressly prohibit _____________.
Political Socialization
Segregation
Cruel and Unusual
Gerrymandering
16. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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17. Freedoms that protect the individual from the government.
State
Civil Liberties
Open Meeting Law
Patriot Act
18. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.
Delegate
Select Committee
Seniority System
Republicans
19. Requires the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President separately.
may not
12th Amendment
Habeas Corpus
2nd Amendment
20. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Balance of Trade
Third Parties
Majority Rule
Secondary Group
21. 1917 Reincarnation of the Sedition Act during WWI
New Federalism
Espionage Act
blockbusting and redlining
Marbury v. Madison
22. The 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act - the 1965 Highway Beautification Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act are all examples of ____________________.
Civil Cases
Regulatory Federalism
Commission Plan
Federal District
23. During the 1800's and early 1900's - some state and local party committees became ________________ dominating party activities. Committee members would promise new recruits money - jobs - and other benefits for joining and voting the straight party t
Political Machines
Balance of Trade
W.E.B. DuBoise
Deviating Elections
24. In WV State BOE v Barnette (1943) - the Supreme Court ruled that compelling citizens to salute the flag violates the principles of a free society - upholding which 1st Amendment rights?
Television
Free Exercise of Religion
Fixed
Patriot Act
25. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Clean bill
Closed rule
Homeland Security
Murray v. Curlett
26. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
435
Dies
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Suburbia
27. 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.
Diminish
Writ of Assistance
Balance of Payments
Republicans
28. In 1978 - the Supreme Court - in the 'seven dirty words' case - ruled that the government has the right to prohibit the broadcasting of _______________.
Bicameral
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527 Organization
Offensive Language
29. A power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action (if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period after the president receives the bill). Some court rulings have suggested that a president may exercise a pocket veto only when Congress adjour
Office Column Ballot
John Locke
Pocket Veto
Cruel and Unusual
30. _____ out of 9 justices must agree to hear an appellate case brought to them from a lower court.
Major Political Party
Article II
Electoral College
4
31. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Unlimited
Impeachment
Gerrymandering
Commonwealth
32. Leader of the House of Representatives - elected by the majority party. 2nd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Dred Scott
Speaker of the House
Interventionism
Exclusionary Rule
33. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
House of Representatives
Deviating Elections
Vietnam War
Roth v. US
34. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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35. 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
Jus Sanguinis
Closed
Petition of Right
Supreme Court
36. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Bundling
Supports
Diminish
Gitlow v. New York
37. The gap between the government's income and outlays.
Mayor-Council Plan
Deficit
Welfare State
Third Parties
38. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
Energy
Random Sample
Ticket Splitters
Democratic-Republicans
39. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Closed rule
unlimited
Article IV
Roe v. Wade
40. The way things should be by law
Fast Track Authority
de jure
Logrolling
Implied
41. A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be ___________.
Appealed
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Executive Privilege
Speech Plus
42. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
National Security Council
Senior Executive Service
Public hearing
State Government
43. In California v. Avecedo (1991) - The Supreme Court established that authorities may search ____________________ without a warrant providing reasonable suspicion.
Automobiles
Poll Tax
Equal Protection Clause
25th Amendment
44. After hearings are complete - a congressional subcommittee will usually determine a bill's future in final deliberations known as
20th
Impeachment
Equal Time
Mark Up Session
45. The president - the vice president - the heads of the major executive departments of the government - and certain other senior officials who may hold 'cabinet rank.'
Divided Government
Checks and Balances
Prior Restraint
Cabinet
46. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
Periodic Registration
Articles of Confederation
Party of Economic Protest
Unlimited
47. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Creative Federalism
Labor
House of Representatives
19th Amendment
48. Concept of government by the people in which everyone is free to vote - but normally whoever gets the most votes wins the election and represents all the people - including those who voted for the losing candidate.
John F. Kennedy
States
Majority Rule
Appealed
49. The principle - established by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland - that the Constitution must be interpreted flexibly to meet changing conditions.
Arraignment
Dred Scott Decision
Flexible Construction
Electoral College
50. Constitutionally required address by the President typically given in a joint session of Congress.
Realigning Elections
Jus Soli
State of the Union
Electoral College