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CLEP American Government
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1. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.
Demands
Max Weber
Committee of the Whole
Office of Management and Budget
2. A course of action decided upon by a government
Policy
Eminent Domain
Third Parties
Violation of Law
3. 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
Internationalism
Political Machines
Independent expenditures
Low
4. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Arraignment
Gitlow v. New York
Committees of Correspondence
Substantive Due Process
5. 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.
2/3
Open Meeting Law
Standing Committees
Realigning Elections
6. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Freedom of Speech
Resolutions
Executive Agencies
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
7. 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.
Democratic
New Jersey Plan
Supports
Contract Clause
8. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Original Jurisdiction
8th Amendment
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Voting Rights Act of 1965
9. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
Baby Boomers
Defense
Constitutional Initiative
435
10. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Interest Groups
Grand Jury Indictment
Petit Jury
Collective Action
11. Infamous 1735 English case established the precedent for Freedom of the Press in the US.
Jus Soli
Zenger
Segregation
Ex Post Facto
12. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
CORE
Raise Public Awareness
Clean bill
Straight Ticket Voting
13. Procedure typically requiring 3/5 vote of the entire Senate to end a filibuster.
89
Original Jurisdiction
Cloture
Cold War
14. This term refers to the gain in the polls that a candidate often enjoys after a national convention
Vice President
Convention Bounce
Supports
Gitlow v. New York
15. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
Council of Economic Advisors
Hyperpluralism
Bipartisanship
2
16. Included are Agriculture - Nutrition - and Forestry; Appropriations; Armed Services; Banking - Housing and Urban Affairs; Commerce - Science and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Environment and Public Works; Finance; Health - Education -
Party Realignment
Senate Standing Committees
Proportional Representation
Unicameral
17. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated
Pluralist
National Security Council
Class Action Suit
Political Socialization
18. 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
Writ of Mandamus
Article V
Weber
Council-Manager Plan
19. An economic philosophy that advocates both tax and budget cuts to increase incentives to produce in order to expand the total supply of the nation's goods and services.
Supply Side Economics
Bowers v. Hardwick
Negative
Policy Making Cycle
20. The demands of and supports for a political system
Winston Churchill
Inputs
Commander in Chief
Institutional
21. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Criminal Information
Inverse
House of Representatives
National Security
22. Largest interest group in the US.
AARP
Double Jeopardy
Interest groups
Article VI
23. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Office Column Ballot
Equality
Public Opinion
8 Million
24. Prompted by FDR's 4th election to the Presidency - the 22nd Amendment limited the number of Presidential terms to _____ terms.
435
2
John Locke
Executive Privilege
25. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Dissenting Opinion
Party Column Ballot
Precedent
Roe v. Wade
26. Tips the balance between two leading candidates by attracting a minority of voters who otherwise might have voted for one of the leading candidates.
Isolationism
Freedom of Speech
Spoiler Candidate
Political System
27. Bills passed by Congress to pay for the spending it has authorized.
Mallory Rule
14th Amendment
Appropriation Bills
Implied Powers
28. A system in which the power to govern is shared between national and state governments
Federalism
17th
Impartial
Elite and Class Theory
29. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Substantive Due Process
Vietnam War
Caucus
Bandwagon
30. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
Majority Rule
Gerrymandering
Marbury v. Madison
Coast Guard
31. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Executive Agreements
Federal Appellate
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Lose
32. 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
Pocket Veto
Political Patronage
Senate
Party Purists
33. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Caucus
Judicial
Jim Crow Laws
Republican
34. First Roman Catholic elected President.
John F. Kennedy
Coast Guard
Political Action Committees
Socialism
35. In an election with more than 2 options - the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number - but less that half of the votes.
Unicameral
Thurgood Marshall
Writ of Certiorari
Plurality
36. During the period from 1976 to 1824 - This party was lead by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They wanted a stronger national government that would rectify the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation. Their supporters held a stronghold in New
Plain View
Republican
Federalist
Parallel
37. Concept of the British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
Non-protected Speech
Supreme Court
State Auditor
Trustee
38. In the 1990 case OR State Employment Division v. Smith 1990 - the Supreme court allowed the state to fire employees who use peyote during native American religious ceremonies because it is in violation of drug laws. In this case - which clause of the
English Bill of Rights
Majority Rule
Political ideology
Free Exercise Clause
39. A form of city government under which a council - usually elected on a nonpartisan ticket - hires a professional city manager - who runs the city government and has power to hire and fire officials.
Petit Jury
Ways and Means Committee
Council-Manager Plan
Union Shop
40. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Committees of Correspondence
Riders
Foreign Policy
12
41. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
State Government
Virginia Plan
Export Taxes
Coordinated Spending
42. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)
8th Amendment
Electoral Votes
Propose an Amendment
Agriculture
43. Constitutionally required address by the President typically given in a joint session of Congress.
Gay
Probable Cause
Redistributive Policy
State of the Union
44. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?
Deficit
Privacy Act
8th Amendment
Probable Cause
45. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Pre-clearance
Judicial Selection
Cruel and Unusual
Creative Federalism
46. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
Exit Polls
Caucus
Independent Expenditures
Ways and Mean Committee
47. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
Third Party
National Security Council
Veto
imprisoned
48. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
Bicameral
Republicans
3
Petition of Right
49. Plan that proposed bicameral legislature where states were to have representation based on size in both houses.
presidential line-item veto
Party Activists
Virginia Plan
Cold War
50. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as
The Enlightenment
Negative Advertising
Elastic Clause
Authorizations