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CLEP American Government
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1. Germany - Switzerland - and India are examples of countries with a _______________ system of government.
Political Machines
Federal
Chief Justice
Prior Restraint
2. Political strategists believe that presidential elections will normally be won or lost in _______________states.
Populous
District of Columbia
Royalists
Federal
3. A course of action chosen by government officials
Campaign Contributions
Public Policy
Categorical Grant
Checks and Balances
4. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
7
National
President
Supremacy Clause
5. The issuance of this document by a judge requires probably cause and must be worded so as to allow for the search and seizure of specific evidence.
Wallace's Progressives
Warrant
Zenger
Freedom of Speech
6. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
External Efficacy
Redistributive Policy
House of Representatives
12
7. In some cases where blicity too much publicity surrounds a trial - courts have granted _______________ to help ensure a fair trial. One example is the trial of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Campaign Finance Reform
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Change of Venue
Declining
8. 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.
Monroe Doctrine
Joint Committees
Poll Tax
Flexible Construction
9. 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
Blanket Primary
Democratic-Republicans
Major Political Party
Speaker of the House
10. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
Public Bills
Initiative
Export Taxes
Contract Clause
11. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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12. 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
Exit Polls
Miranda Rights
Hub and Spoke Model
Foreign Policy
13. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over lawsuits filed against the agency.
Judicial
Coast Guard
14th Amendment
Rank and File
14. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
12
Separate but Equal
W.E.B. DuBoise
Bicameral
15. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Inherent Powers
Negative
Budget Surplus
2/3
16. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.
Senate
Categorical Grants
Republic
Antitrust Legislation
17. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Warrant
14th
Equality
Conference Committee
18. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguements in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case
Amicus Curiae Brief
may not
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Parallel
19. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Gerrymandering
Political ideology
Focus Groups
Low
20. Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 as an attempt to form a union of the colonies. Later used to help form the Articles of Confederation.
Affirmative Action
Albany Plan
Joint Committees
270
21. A powerful alliance of mutual benefit among an agency or unit of the government - an interest group - and a committee or subcommittee of Congress. Also called a triangle or a subgovernment.
CORE
Internationalism
Iron Triangle
Original
22. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
Public Policy
Joint Committees
5
Administrative Law
23. Which committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
Appropriations
Permanent Registration
Supremacy Clause
Elastic Clause
24. The constitutional requirement (in article II - sec 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws
Monetary Policy
Take Care Clause
Television
Caucuses
25. 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
national quotas
Committees
Voting
26. 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
Bipartisanship
Party Purists
Closed
US Trade Representatives
27. Cabinet department that includes the Coast Guard - Border Patrol - FEMA - Transportation Security Administration - INS and the Secret Service. Established in 2001 in response to 9/11.
Homeland Security
Commonwealth
Universe
Random Sample
28. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Interest Groups
Liberalism
may not
Party Realignment
29. The philosophy that government should intervene as little as possible in economic affairs.
Public Policies
Laissez-Faire
7
Great Compromise
30. The rules and regulations made and applied by federal regulatory agencies and commissions.
Good Faith Exception
Administrative Law
Amicus Curiae Brief
Miller v. California
31. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Separate but Equal
Enacted
Council-Manager Plan
Gay
32. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
Pentagon Papers
National Convention
Entitlement Programs
Party Activists
33. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Jus Soli
Civilian Supremacy
Implied Powers
Joint Committee
34. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
Increased
Thurgood Marshall
Clothespin vote
Family
35. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Charter Colonies
Supreme Court
Suburbia
36. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
2/3
Grant Clemency
Instructed Delegate
Miller v. California
37. The principle of civilian control of the military - based on the clear constitutional power of the president as supreme commander of the armed forces.
Sub-committee
Civilian Supremacy
Voting
Cold War
38. The elected position of President pro tempore of the Senate is almost always held by
a senior senator of the majority party
9
8th Amendment
Separate but Equal
39. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Earmarks
Federal District
Bureaucracy
October 1st
40. Government agencies that exercise quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative powers and are administratively independent of both the president and Congress (although politically independent of neither).
Categorical Grants
Voting
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Members of Congress
41. (1781-1789) The written framework for the government of the original 13 states before the Constitution was adopted. Under this - the national government was weak and dominated by the states. There was a unicameral legislature - but no national execut
9
Universe
Articles of Confederation
2/3
42. Several Presidents have been elected without winning the popular vote. As a result - In 1970 and 1979 - Amendments were proposed to disband the ______________ - neither passed.
Free Rider
Republican
Electoral College
89
43. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Caucus
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Energy
270
44. The amount of money available when the government's income is greater than what it spends in a fiscal year.
Constituencies
Members of Congress
Budget Surplus
Whigs
45. Also known as the Indiana ballot - lists the candidates of each party in a row or column - beside or under the party emblem. In most cases - the voter can make one mark at the top of the column - or pull one lever - and thus vote for all the party's
Party Column Ballot
Entitlement Spending
35
Probable Cause
46. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
District of Columbia
Vice President
55
Proprietary Colonies
47. 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.
Private Bills
It Failed to be Ratified
Preamble
Quota Sampling
48. The class of independent voters who do not vote according to party affiliation - but who typically have a broader range of concerns than single-issue voters - are known colloquially as
Budget Resolutions
Caucuses
19th Amendment
Mugwumps
49. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Libertarianism
Literacy Tests
Federal Register
Government
50. The executive office established in response to intelligence lapses during WWI. Oversees American foreign policy and includes the President - Vice President - Secretary of State - Secretary of Defense and is lead by the National Security Advisor.
National Security Council
Office of Management and Budget
Dynamic Conservatism
Shay's Rebellion