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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A legislature with only one house.
Unicameral
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Federalist Papers
Enact a Bill of Rights
2. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
Negative Advertising
Safe seat
Separate but Equal
Instructed Delegate
3. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
4. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Privacy Act
Maintaining Elections
Pure Speech
CORE
5. A place of work in which only union members may be hired.
Closed Shop
Political Action Committee
Royalists
Lose
6. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
House of Representatives
Social Regulation
Independent Expenditures
Council of Economic Advisors
7. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
Medicare
Writ of Mandamus
Senior Executive Service
Right to Counsel
8. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
20
Independent Expenditures
Random Sample
Agriculture
9. The principle that the government - as provided in the Fifth Amendment - can take property for 'public use' with 'just compensation' to the owners.
Gross Domestic Product
Eminent Domain
Lose
Parallel
10. A controversial law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001 - after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspe
Judicial
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Patriot Act
Amicus Curiae Brief
11. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
Trustee
7
Habeas Corpus
Internal Efficacy
12. An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the publicand operate for the welfare of all.
Socialism
Whigs
20
imprisoned
13. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Original
Roe v. Wade
Office of Management and Budget
Creative Federalism
14. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
Bundling
Bill of Attainder
Pluralist Theory
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
15. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Democracy
Katz. v US
Scottsboro Boys Case
Selective exposure
16. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
Civilian Supremacy
Negative Advertising
Gideon v. Wainwright
Straight Ticket Voting
17. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Inherent Powers
Judicial Selection
Public Policy
Due Process of Law
18. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Absolute Position
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Petition of Right
Filibuster
19. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
Unicameral
Open
Selective Incorporation
Judicial
20. The Democrats control over politics during the 20th century ended with this President's unpopular handling of the Vietnam War.
2nd Amendment
Closed
Lord Acton
Lyndon B. Johnson
21. 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.
W.E.B. DuBoise
100
Selective Incorporation
Raiding
22. Federal and State Courts function in a _____________manner so that federal courts may receive appeals from state courts.
Parallel
Residual
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Convention Bounce
23. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
Inputs
Federal District
2/3
Concurrent Powers
24. The single biggest item in campaign spending at the presidential level is ___________________.
Television and Radio
Committee of the Whole
Attorney General
State
25. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
Poll Tax
Regulatory Federalism
state legislatures
Commonwealth
26. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
Shield Laws
Pentagon Papers
President Pro Tempore
Fixed
27. First Executive Branch
Concurrent Powers
Department of State
House of Representatives
Albany Plan
28. Courts of original jurisdiction in federal crimes - civil suits under federal law - civil suits between citizens of different states where the amount in question exceeds $50 -000 - bankruptcy proceedings - cases involving some federal administrative
Concurrent
Federal District
Hub and Spoke Model
Rules Committee
29. This 1973 ruling gave local communities the authority to determine obscenity - established three part test for obscene material. To qualify as obscene - speech must be considered obscene by the 'average' person - depict or describe material that is a
Speaker of the House
Miller v. California
Raiding
Thomas Hobbes
30. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
National
Checks and Balances
Reference Group
Standing Committees
31. Procedure typically requiring 3/5 vote of the entire Senate to end a filibuster.
General Accounting
Cloture
Monopoly
Clothespin vote
32. The Supreme Court is the only judicial body that may hear disputes between _________________.
Transportation
States
Federal District
National Supremacy
33. Judicial Check on Legislative Branch. Not specifically outlined in the Constitution - but established in the case of Marbury v. Madison through the application of the Supremacy Clause in Article VI.
Bipartisanship
Writ of Certiorari
Article II
Judicial Review
34. Popular until the early 20th century when they lost favor to primaries due to corruption - now used in only 12 states.
Caucuses
55
Recorded Vote
Incumbents
35. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Presidential Veto
11th Amendment
Public Administration
Blacks
36. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Declining
Right of Expatriation
National Supremacy
Executive Privilege
37. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Dynamic Conservatism
Public hearing
Cruel and Unusual
Separate but Equal
38. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as
Blacks
The Enlightenment
Department of State
7
39. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Rules Committee
Collective Action
Natural Rights
Ex Post Facto
40. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
Bundling
Veto
Max Weber
Ways and Mean Committee
41. 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.
2
Budget Resolutions
Homeland Security
State Treasurer
42. A written opinion by some of the judges of a court which agrees with the majority of the court but might arrive there in a different manner.
Concurring Opinion
Ex Post Facto
Campaign Finance Reform
Electoral College
43. Article I - Section 8 - of the Constitution - which allows Congress to make all laws that are 'necessary and proper' to carry out the powers of the Constitution.
Party Regulars
25th Amendment
Fiscal Policy
Elastic Clause
44. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Adversarial
Caucus
Government
Max Weber
45. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
Common Sense
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Little Difference
46. Repealed by the 21st Amendment - this Amendment prohibited alcohol.
Raise Public Awareness
State Auditor
18th Amendment
Freedom of Speech
47. A course of action chosen by government officials
Substantive Due Process
25th Amendment
Public Policy
Defense
48. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Confirmed
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Political Culture
Antitrust Legislation
49. Number of justices of the Supreme Court.
9
Party Realignment
Issue network
Closed
50. 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.
Distribution
Antitrust Legislation
Exclusionary Rule
Elastic Clause