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CLEP American Government
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1. 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
Block Grant
Situational
Maintaining Elections
2. In Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - The Supreme Court upheld that ___________________ was inherently not the case as is applied to the University of Texas Law School.
Royalists
Closed
Separate but Equal
Oligopoly
3. Presidential management model in which the Chief of Staff plays a prominent role as the head of a military style chain of command. Used successfully by Reagan and Eisenhower.
7th Amendment
Federal District
Closed Shop
Pyramid Model
4. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Issue network
Cloture
Double Jeopardy
Winston Churchill
5. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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6. 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.
Take Care Clause
Propose an Amendment
Private Bills
Monroe Doctrine
7. This contraversial legal technicality intended to protect civil liberties has allowed criminals to remain free when the courts refuse to admit evidence that may have been obtained illegally.
Filibuster
Slander
Clean bill
Exclusionary Rule
8. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Members of Congress
Miranda Rights
Valence issue
Caucuses
9. This type of government suits a large country with a diverse population
Third Party
Federal
Joseph McCarthy
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
10. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Issue Networks
Constituencies
Antitrust Legislation
Sub-committee
11. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.
Medicare
Establishment Clause
Social Security
Two Trial
12. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Shield Laws
binding
7
Plain View
13. Finding that enough evidence exists to warrant a criminal trial.
Grand Jury Indictment
Flexible Construction
Substantive Due Process
Royal Colonies
14. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Patriot Act
Pocket Veto
Impartial
Right of Expatriation
15. Number of current cabinet positions under GW Bush.
Low
Hub and Spoke Model
15
2/3
16. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Party of Economic Protest
General Election
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Pentagon Papers
17. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Bundling
National Chair
Public hearing
Declining
18. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Bipartisanship
Commission Plan
Regulatory Federalism
Ratification
19. A writ designed to protect against illegal imprisonment by requiring that a person who is detained be brought before a judge for investigation.
Double Jeopardy
Supreme Court
unlimited
Writ of Certiorari
20. Spending determined by the number of qualified recipients and their legally determined need is called
Shay's Rebellion
Entitlement Spending
Containment
Public Policies
21. Compromise between the large states and small states that established the bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Also included 3/5 compromise on the status of slaves in representation.
Political Action Committees
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Custom
Northern and Southern
22. Number of Federal District courts across 50 states - DC and Puerto Rico.
Concurring Opinion
Supreme Court
89
Pyramid Model
23. Requires the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President separately.
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
12th Amendment
Caucuses
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
24. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
Freedom of Speech
Enumerated Powers
14th Amendment
31
25. The President's role in the armed forces which during the 20th century has allowed Presidents to circumvent Congress' refusal to declare war.
Commander in Chief
Little Difference
Hatch Act
Issue Networks
26. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Recorded Vote
Bowers v. Hardwick
Arraignment
October 1st
27. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
Public hearing
17th
Roth v. US
Open
28. In 1978 - the Supreme Court - in the 'seven dirty words' case - ruled that the government has the right to prohibit the broadcasting of _______________.
Executive Privilege
Quota Sampling
Third Parties
Offensive Language
29. Established national income tax.
Budget Surplus
Lafolette's Progressive s
2
16th Amendment
30. Minor criminal offenses - such as speeding.
Pork Barrel Spending
17th
Misdemeanors
Party Identification
31. Federal and State Courts function in a _____________manner so that federal courts may receive appeals from state courts.
Parallel
Pentagon Papers
Gerrymandering
Class Action Suit
32. Method by which federal court judges may lose their position.
Gender Gap
Majority Whip
Impeachment
Labor
33. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
Clothespin vote
Max Weber
Poll Tax
Rules Committee
34. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Negative
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Public Administration
Exit Polls
35. 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.
Pyramid Model
2
Raiding
Redistributive Policy
36. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
Scandal Mongering
Positive
8th Amendment
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
37. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
State Government
Arraignment
Gideon v. Wainwright
Mayflower Compact
38. Senators have a __________ rate of re-election than Representatives primarily because of their larger constituency and lack of direct involvement with them.
Reserved Powers
Sub-committee
Lower
Department of State
39. A jury of 6 to 12 persons who determine guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action
Espionage Act
Petit Jury
Zenger
Pass the fundraising threshold
40. 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
1776
It Failed to be Ratified
Conference Committee
Freedom of Speech
41. 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.
Hub and Spoke Model
Selective Incorporation
Referendum
Political Action Committees
42. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
Flexible Construction
Nuclear Proliferation
Low
Nationalism
43. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.
Republicans
Electoral Connection
Weber
Legislative Veto
44. Presides over the Senate without voting privileges except in the case of a tie.
Secretary of State
Magna Carta
Vice President
Blanket Primary
45. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
Periodic Registration
District of Columbia
John F. Kennedy
Caucuses
46. An ideology that advocates limits on government power to address economic and social problems - relying instead on economic markets and individual initiative to address problems like health care and education - while promoting government involvement
Woodrow Wilson
4
Conservatism
Free Rider
47. This clause of the 1st amendment establishes a 'wall of separation' between church and state.
Legislative
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Establishment Clause
Implied
48. The Constitution requires that state governments - like the federal government - must be _____________ in form - with final authority resting with the people.
de jure
Voting
Democratic
Truman
49. 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
National Chair
Scandal Mongering
27th Amendment
Republicans
50. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
Thurgood Marshall
Bull Moose Progressives
Warrant
Export Taxes