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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. There are 11 circuit ____________________ who have no original jurisdiction.
8th Amendment
Convention Bounce
Senate Standing Committees
Court of Appeals
2. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
Creative Federalism
Office Column Ballot
Standing Committees
Senate
3. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
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Conglomerates
Hub and Spoke Model
4. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Bull Moose Progressives
House Standing Committees
Redistributive Policy
5. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Town Meeting
Increased competition
Virginia Plan
Royal Colonies
6. A primary in which any registered voter is able to vote for candidates from more than one party. A voter - for example - may vote for a Democrat for U.S. senator and for a Republican for governor. In 2000 - the Supreme Court struck down the blanket p
Bipartisanship
Blanket Primary
Murray v. Curlett
National Debt
7. In addition to the doctrine of implied powers - Chief Justice Marshall - in his decision in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - established the key concept of:
Veteran's Affairs
Populous
National Supremacy
Baker v. Wingo
8. Government regulation of the economy through its control over taxes and government spending. Controlled by the Department of Treasury.
Interventionism
Constitutional Initiative
Change of Venue
Fiscal Policy
9. A technique polling organizations use in which several people from the same neighborhood are interviewed.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Cluster Sampling
Concurring Opinion
Pendleton Civil Service Act
10. The reason that electors are chosen in each state by popular vote is ____________.
Republicans
Custom
89
4
11. The view of the majority of the Supreme Court that First Amendment rights must be weighed against the competing needs of the community to preserve order.
Balancing Test
External Efficacy
Local
The Federal Reserve Board
12. The number of ______________ a state receives is based on the number Representatives and Senators that the state has in Congress
Tariff
Electoral Votes
Non-protected Speech
7
13. ________________ of the Constitution governs the relationships of the states.
Conference Committee
Clear and Present Danger
Open Meeting Law
Article IV
14. A relaxation of international tensions.
Negative Advertising
Detente
High
Standing Committees
15. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Democrats
Criminal Cases
Ratification
Caucus
16. The pursuit and exercise of power
Joint Committee
National Political Parties
Articles of Confederation
Politics
17. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Establishment Clause
Universe
Non-protected Speech
Baby Boomers
18. Once the Supreme Court justices have agreed to hear an appeal - they issue a _________________.
Negative
Political Party
Writ of Certiorari
Internationalism
19. Communication with legislators or other government officials to try to influence their decisions.
Great Compromise
Blacks
State
Lobbying
20. In this essay - James Madison recognized that reconciling the competing interests of various groups was what legislation was all about
Government
October 1st
Concurring Opinion
The Federalist #10
21. After a bill has passed both the House and Senate - it goes to _________________ where any differences between the house bill and the senate bill are resolved before sending to the President for signature
Conference Committee
Privacy Act
Seniority System
Shay's Rebellion
22. This house committee is responsible for Supervising the authority of the federal government to borrow money - Raising the revenue required to finance the federal government by levying taxes - Overseeing Social Security and other social insurance prog
Governmental Corporations
Council-Manager Plan
Impoundment
Ways and Means Committee
23. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
October 1st
14
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Grant Clemency
24. In the 1962 case of Robinson v. California - the Supreme Court ruled that incarcerating a drug addict is ______________________ because drug addiction is an illness.
Cruel and Unusual
Committees
Isolationism
Civil Cases
25. 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.
John Locke
President
Absolute Position
Outputs
26. A coherent set of beliefs about politics - public policy - and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political event - personalities - and policies.
Coast Guard
Freedom of Information Act
Political ideology
Convention Bounce
27. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Reverse Discrimination
Elastic Clause
Shay's Rebellion
Gross Domestic Product
28. A form of city government under which power is divided between a mayor and an elected city council.
War Powers Resolution
Housing and Urban Development
Civilian Supremacy
Mayor-Council Plan
29. A philosophy that the Supreme Court should avoid constitutional questions when possible and uphold acts of Congress unless they clearly violate a specific section of the Constitution.
Nuclear Proliferation
state legislatures
Smith Act
Judicial Restraint
30. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
State Treasurer
Administrative Law
Public Opinion
Resolutions
31. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
Outputs
Regulatory Federalism
Exit Polls
Committees of Correspondence
32. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
The Federal Reserve Board
Voting
District of Columbia
8th Amendment
33. Includes expressive conduct/assembly/actions and symbolic behavior (ex. Picketing or burning the flag) Based on our country history of symbolic acts such as the Boston Tea Party - courts almost always uphold symbolic acts of speech unless they are cr
Line-Item Veto
Speech Plus
25th Amendment
Due Process of Law
34. The principle that the government - as provided in the Fifth Amendment - can take property for 'public use' with 'just compensation' to the owners.
Reference Group
14
Delegate
Eminent Domain
35. Its the responsibility of ___________ committees of a political party to solidify the party within each state and organize primary elections
State
The Federal Reserve Board
Articles of Confederation
Cluster Sampling
36. A system in which the power to govern is shared between national and state governments
de jure
Elite
Federalism
W.E.B. DuBoise
37. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Murray v. Curlett
Federal
Distribution
Permanent Registration
38. An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the publicand operate for the welfare of all.
Jus Soli
Socialism
Medicare
Judicial
39. 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:
Transnational Relations
Interest groups
Resolutions
Demands
40. Polls taken as people leave voting places. In the past - television networks sometimes used these polls to predict election outcomes before the polls close. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to project the winner in a state until the major
New Deal Era
Enacted
Exit Polls
Cold War
41. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Budget Resolutions
Pluralist
Privacy Act
Jim Crow Laws
42. A tax on voting abolished by the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964 - long used by southern states to keep blacks (and - in some cases - poor whites) from participating in elections.
Poll Tax
Jurisdiction
Medicare
National
43. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
Oligopoly
Charter Colonies
Situational
Roe v. Wade
44. Article I of the Constitution establishes the ___________________ branch.
Commission Plan
Decreased
Coast Guard
Legislative
45. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.
Pork Barrel Spending
Issue Networks
Nationalism
Monetary Policy
46. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Bicameral
Creative Federalism
Party Realignment
Selective Incorporation
47. 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
Critical Election
Federalist
Writ of Mandamus
Creative Federalism
48. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Medicaid
States
Executive Agencies
Maintaining Elections
49. 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.
Veteran's Affairs
Internationalism
Libertarianism
Categorical Grant
50. Freedoms that protect the individual from the government.
Cruel and Unusual
Situational
Civil Liberties
Senior Executive Service