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CLEP American Government
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1. The term most political scientists prefer to describe the bureaucratic process
Energy
Television
Judicial
Public Administration
2. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Enterprise Zones
Scandal Mongering
Majority Opinion
Affirmative Action
3. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
CORE
Concurrent Powers
imprisoned
Unitary System
4. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
7
Hold
Conventions
Voting
5. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Ratification
2/3
Flexible Construction
Baron v. Baltimore
6. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Freedom of Information Act
Shield Laws
Literacy Tests
Due Process of Law
7. A test established by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr. - in 1919 to define the point at which speech loses the protection of the First Amendment.
Confirmed
Initiative
Blacks
Clear and Present Danger
8. Political strategists believe that presidential elections will normally be won or lost in _______________states.
Scottsboro Boys Case
Civilian Supremacy
Populous
Executive
9. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
7
High
Intelligence
Restrictive Covenant
10. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Incumbents
Warrant
Plain View
Judicial
11. Powers not specifically granted to the federal government or denied to the states belong to the states and the people
Exclusionary Rule
Reserved Powers
imprisoned
10th Amendment
12. 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 _____________.
Truman
Secretary of State
Gerrymandering
Smith Act
13. When the President's own party gains power and influence - it more puts pressure on the President to conform to the will of the party - leading to________________ between the President and the party to define their public identities
Increased competition
Writ of Mandamus
Privacy Act
Council-Manager Plan
14. Court cases that involve relations between individuals and organizations - such as a divorce action - or a suit for damages arising from an automobile accident or for violation of a business contract.
Speech Plus
Concurring Opinion
Civil Cases
Initiative
15. Law enacted by Congress - or by state legislatures or local legislative bodies.
Agriculture
Whip
18th Amendment
Statutory Law
16. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Federal
Federalism
CORE
Separation of Powers
17. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
3
W.E.B. DuBoise
Smith Act
18. Independent organizations - but more often the political arms of corporations - labor unions - or interest groups - established to contribute to candidates or to work for general political goals.
Charter Colonies
Political Action Committees
Commerce
Gerrymandering
19. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Judicial
Equality
35
Straight Ticket Voting
20. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Residual
It Failed to be Ratified
Reserved Powers
21. Legislature bills that affect all citizens.
Fast Track Authority
Public Bills
Increased
Voting Rights Act of 1965
22. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
5
Senatorial Courtesy
Caucuses
Political Efficacy
23. The power of the president - struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998 - to veto parts of appropriations bills. Most state governors have this power.
Line-Item Veto
Universe
Distribution
Warrant
24. A public assistance program established in 1965 to help pay hospital - doctor - and medical bills for people with low incomes.
Medicaid
Republican
Legislative
Original Jurisdiction
25. Programs are designed to give preferential access to education - employment - health care - or social welfare to groups of people - especially minorities and women - who have historically been discriminated against.
Class Action Suit
Affirmative Action
Delegate
2nd Amendment
26. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Republicans
Petition of Right
Speech Plus
Gitlow v. New York
27. This clause of the 1st amendment establishes a 'wall of separation' between church and state.
Establishment Clause
Adversarial
Policy
Majority Whip
28. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
Monroe Doctrine
State
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Supports
29. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
Exit Polls
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
8 Million
Truman
30. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Secondary Group
Concurrent Powers
Public Opinion
Increased competition
31. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Strategic Deterrence
Enterprise Zones
Secretary of State
Mayor-Council Plan
32. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Jim Crow Laws
Majority and Minority Leader
Petit Jury
2/3
33. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Original
6
Dynamic Conservatism
Unicameral
34. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
Northern and Southern
Probable Cause
Prior Restraint
Precedent
35. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
Random Sample
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Lobbying
US Trade Representatives
36. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Political Machines
AARP
Senate
Voting
37. 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.
Hub and Spoke Model
Freedom of Speech
New Deal Era
Social Regulation
38. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Rousseau
Party Dealignment
9
Reference Group
39. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Labor
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Hobbes
Bill of Attainder
40. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
Inputs
Judicial Selection
Gender Gap
Bureaucracy
41. 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.
Political Machines
Plurality
Block Grant
Selective exposure
42. 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.
Libertarianism
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Senate
Party Regulars
43. Constitutional Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
Lord Acton
Collective Action
Article III
Selective Incorporation
44. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
Committees of Correspondence
Quota Sampling
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
25th Amendment
45. Voters tendency to identify with a party that shares their views on important issues ignoring the party's stance on issues they deem less important. to be life-long unless there is a major change in the party's platform. 2. Influenced by ra
Party of Economic Protest
Party Identification
Social Security
Low
46. A course of action chosen by government officials
Cluster Sampling
Public Policy
Civil Liberties
Plain View
47. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the practice of _______________ allowing more diversity among immigrants.
Riders
Ways and Means Committee
Miranda Rights
national quotas
48. Independent agencies governed by an appointed and confirmed commission. Examples include the Food and Drug Administration - Environmental Protection Agency - and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Oligopoly
Commerce
Regulatory Agencies
Muckrakers
49. A series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison under the pseudonym Publius advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Majority Rule
Contract Clause
Soft money
Federalist Papers
50. In the year 2000 - the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to ban _____________ members.
Inputs
Caucus
Gay
Isolationism