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CLEP American Government
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1. 'lame duck' amendment
Distribution
20th
Probable Cause
Executive Agencies
2. 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.
Supreme Court
Tammany Hall
Unicameral
Raiding
3. Makes sure that funds are used safely and wisely. They oversee the state's financial records
Medicare
Joseph McCarthy
Criminal Cases
State Auditor
4. Philosopher John Locke - in his 1690 work Civil Government (second treatise) - advised separation of government power between
Realigning Elections
The Federal Reserve Board
Agriculture
legislative and executive
5. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Committee of the Whole
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Plain View
6. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
18th Amendment
Executive Privilege
Cluster Sampling
Transnational Relations
7. The 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that prompted King George III's Prohibitory Act and the sending of mercenaries to the colonies.
Common Sense
Ticket Splitters
Precedent
Block Grant
8. Charge of misconduct brought against a government official.
Inverse
Clear and Present Danger
Impeachment
Caucuses
9. Impact elections by siphoning off votes from major parties spoiling a party's chance in a close race.
17th
25
Third Parties
Precedent
10. The spread of nuclear weapons to more nations.
Presidential Ticket
Nuclear Proliferation
Permanent Registration
Lemon Test
11. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Earl Warren
Inputs
Universe
Caucus
12. ___________ vote in both the House and Senate may override a Presidential veto of legislation.
Closed
Nuclear Proliferation
Military-Industrial Complex
2/3
13. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
25th Amendment
527 Organizations
Shield Laws
National
14. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
Attorney General
Magna Carta
Resolutions
Power Structure
15. First proposed in 1789 - this amendment passed in 1992 prohibits Congress from raising their own pay. Pay raises may not take affect until the beginning of the next term.
General Election
Elastic Clause
Mixed Economy
27th Amendment
16. A federal tax on imports.
Sub-committee
Tariff
Democratic
Independent Regulatory Agencies
17. 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.
Standing Committees
Albany Plan
Legislative Courts
Decreased
18. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Resolutions
Balance of Trade
Writ of Certiorari
Suburbia
19. PACs may donate a ______________ amount of indirect or in-kind donations to a campaign. (Ex. placing ads to support their candidate)
Whip
Due Process of Law
Entitlement Spending
Unlimited
20. Capital punishment is also known as the _________________.
Rules Committee
Impartial
Death penalty
9
21. The strongest factor contributing to an individual's political socialization tends to be
Family
Chief Justice
Interior
Decreased
22. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
Interventionism
14th Amendment
Due Process of Law
Selective exposure
23. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Department of Treasury
Realigning Elections
Budget Resolution
Police Powers
24. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)
Attorney General
Constitutional Initiative
Free Exercise Clause
Agriculture
25. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Interest Groups
Collective Action
Union Shop
Social Contract
26. The Constitution requires that state governments - like the federal government - must be _____________ in form - with final authority resting with the people.
Iron Triangle
Amicus Curiae Brief
2/3
Democratic
27. Individual contributions to PACs are limited to ______________ dollars per candidate per election with primaries - general and special elections counting separately.
5 -000
Original
11th Amendment
Internal Efficacy
28. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
NY Times v. Sullivan
National Debt
Gender Gap
Delegate
29. 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
8th Amendment
de jure
100
Amicus Curiae Brief
30. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Civil War Amendments
Homeland Security
Flexible Construction
Open
31. Formerly known as the Anti-Federalist - this party lead by Thomas Jefferson advocated states rights pressing the causes of the common people and agrarian interest. Dominated the political arena until the Civil War.
Commerce
Democratic-Republicans
Institutional
Positive
32. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Exit Polls
Poll Tax
Free Exercise
Republicans
33. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Campaign Contributions
Due Process of Law
Administrative Law
Clear and Present Danger
34. 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
Majority and Minority Leader
Death penalty
Scandal Mongering
Blanket Primary
35. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
Ad Hoc Structure
Electoral College
Random Sample
14th Amendment
36. This powerful House committee is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor.
Article III
Rules Committee
Grand Jury Indictment
Foreign Policy
37. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
Fast Track Authority
Bill of Attainder
527 Organizations
Union Shop
38. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
Office Column Ballot
Mallory Rule
Ex Post Facto
Inputs
39. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
Supply Side Economics
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Espionage Act
40. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
Judicial Selection
7
Pre-clearance
Public hearing
41. 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.
Standing Committees
Supreme Court
Bundling
Non-protected Speech
42. 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:
National Supremacy
Cloture
Free Rider
Probable Cause
43. Head of the Supreme Court.
Safe seat
2/3
Chief Justice
Pure Speech
44. There are 11 circuit ____________________ who have no original jurisdiction.
Truman
Low
Balance of Trade
Court of Appeals
45. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Earl Warren
Issue Networks
Rank and File
Monetary Policy
46. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Select Committee
Referendum
Precedent
Thomas Hobbes
47. Decides which bills will be considered.
Permanent Registration
Committees
12th Amendment
Pendleton Civil Service Act
48. The only court specifically outlined in the Constitution.
Supreme Court
Due Process
Sub-government
Entitlement Programs
49. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Commander in Chief
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Low
10th Amendment
50. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
Pluralist
Freedom of Speech
Jus Soli
Interior
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