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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Television and Radio
Majority Whip
Politics
John F. Kennedy
2. The vagueness of this phrase has allowed juries to exclude specific genders or races in order to affect the outcome of the verdict.
Coordinated Spending
Department of Treasury
imprisoned
Jury of Peers
3. Leader of the House of Representatives - elected by the majority party. 2nd in line of succession for the Presidency.
NY Times v. Sullivan
Catholics
Speaker of the House
Veto
4. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Bandwagon
Proposition 187
Political Advertising
Lemon Test
5. New Jersey v. TLO (1985) established that school authorities may search students without _____________ as long as they are reasonable.
Ad Hoc Structure
Impartial
Probable Cause
Confederation
6. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
Entitlement Spending
State Treasurer
Recall
Contract Clause
7. The structure and set of regulations in place to control activity - usually in large organizations and government. it is represented by standardized procedure (rule-following) that dictates the execution of most or all processes within the body - for
Supremacy Clause
Bureaucracy
Federal Register
Oligopoly
8. Concept of the British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
Union Shop
Convention Bounce
Trial Balloon
Trustee
9. Senators have a __________ rate of re-election than Representatives primarily because of their larger constituency and lack of direct involvement with them.
Supports
Lower
Redistributive Policy
Freedom of Religion
10. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
Concurrent Powers
3
Vietnam War
Gitlow v. New York
11. 1974 Act mandating that all government files about private citizens be kept confidential.
Privacy Act
Governmental Corporations
Literacy Tests
Budget Surplus
12. The principle that the government - as provided in the Fifth Amendment - can take property for 'public use' with 'just compensation' to the owners.
Office of Management and Budget
Eminent Domain
Enacted
Lower
13. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Senate
Civil War Amendments
Supreme Court
Dynamic Conservatism
14. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.
Medicare
Impeachment
Fiscal Policy
Federal
15. Infamous 1735 English case established the precedent for Freedom of the Press in the US.
Zenger
Free Exercise Clause
Regulatory Federalism
Cold War
16. In order to win support for ratification of the Constitution - the Federalists had to promise that the first order of business under a new government would be to _______________.
Retrospective Voting
Contract Clause
Enact a Bill of Rights
Deviating Elections
17. Congress' first step towards allocating funds
Federal Courts
Authorizations
Feedback
9
18. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
Random Sample
New Federalism
Committees
12
19. This was amended in 1985 to prohibit vote dilution without requiring the proof of discriminatory purpose demanded by the original Act.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Inherent Powers
435
Cluster Sampling
20. The pursuit and exercise of power.
Ad Hoc Structure
Politics
Reverse Discrimination
8th Amendment
21. Prompted by FDR's 4th election to the Presidency - the 22nd Amendment limited the number of Presidential terms to _____ terms.
Vietnam War
2
31
Clear and Present Danger
22. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Freedom of Speech
Separate but Equal
Instructed Delegate
Presidential Veto
23. An immigrant who wished to become a citizen may be naturalized after living in the US for ___ years.
Appealed
Earl Warren
5
Amicus Curiae Brief
24. A writ designed to protect against illegal imprisonment by requiring that a person who is detained be brought before a judge for investigation.
Cruel and Unusual
Probable Cause
Creative Federalism
Writ of Certiorari
25. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Institutional
Dred Scott Decision
Bicameral
Veto
26. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Social Security
Raiding
Mallory Rule
Whistle-blowers
27. 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.
Gerrymandering
Interest Groups
Electoral College
House of Representatives
28. _____________ was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics and helping immigrants (most notably the Irish) rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
16th Amendment
Exit Polls
Home Rule
Tammany Hall
29. Presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. Position awarded to the longest serving Senator from the majority party. 3rd in line of succession for the Presidency.
President Pro Tempore
Zenger
14th Amendment
Enumerated Powers
30. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Due Process
Incorporation Doctrine
Equality
Federalist
31. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
Dissenting Opinion
Political Socialization
Baron v. Baltimore
Implied Powers
32. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Soft Money
Executive Privilege
Speaker of the House
Mayflower Compact
33. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
Implied Powers
Democratic-Republicans
Whistle-blowers
Impartial
34. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
20th
Jim Crow Laws
Commerce
Senate
35. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Lemon Test
Third Party
National Security Council
Realigning Elections
36. 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.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Pyramid Model
Elastic Clause
Homeland Security
37. Included are Ways and Means - Veteran's Affairs - Transportation and Infrastructure - Standards of Official Conduct - Small Business - Science - Judiciary - Rules - Resources - Oversight of Government Reform - House Administration - Homeland Security
Vietnam War
Spoils System
House Standing Committees
Permanent Registration
38. A federal tax on imports.
Concurrent
Selective exposure
Tariff
14th
39. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.
New Deal Era
5
Transnational Relations
Capitalism
40. During the period from 1976 to 1824 - This party was lead by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They wanted a stronger national government that would rectify the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation. Their supporters held a stronghold in New
4th Amendment
Legislative
Federalist
Furman v. Georgia
41. 1944 case established that as as long as a person accepted their beliefs in good faith that it is not the government's authority to determine whether those beliefs are valid.
US v. Ballard
Rank and File
Elite and Class Theory
Convention Bounce
42. Representing - characterized by - or including members from two parties or factions
Project Grant
Federal
Bipartisanship
State Government
43. The 1803 case in which the Supreme Court - by declaring a portion of an act of Congress unconstitutional - first firmly set forth and established the power of judicial review.
Increased competition
Freedom of Information Act
Senate
Marbury v. Madison
44. Philosopher John Locke - in his 1690 work Civil Government (second treatise) - advised separation of government power between
congressional oversight committee
Stare Decisis
legislative and executive
States
45. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted
Republican
Standing Committees
Pass the fundraising threshold
Safe seat
46. A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
10th Amendment
Home Rule
Class Action Suit
Welfare State
47. In the area of foreign affairs - _______________ often have the advantage because
Political Machines
Republicans
Regulatory Federalism
Rank and File
48. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
Incumbents
Spoils System
Proprietary Colonies
District of Columbia
49. According to one survey - what percentage of Americans belongs to groups that sometimes take a stand on public issues
Project Grant
31
Royalists
Whip
50. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Habeas Corpus
Incumbents
18th Amendment
The Federal Reserve Board