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CLEP American Government
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1. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Inherent Powers
Royalists
Executive Privilege
Unicameral
2. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senate
Baron de Montesquieu
Inputs
3. 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.
Federal Appellate
Petition of Right
7
Democratic-Republicans
4. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Automobiles
Legislative Veto
Economic Interest Groups
Pocket Veto
5. A coherent set of beliefs about politics - public policy - and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political event - personalities - and policies.
Political ideology
Block Grant
Writ of Certiorari
Vietnam War
6. 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.
Public Administration
Homeland Security
Tariff
Freedom of Information Act
7. The attitudes and actions of people that sustain and buttress the political system at all levels and allows the political system to continue to work.
Democratic-Republicans
Supports
Absolute Position
Equal Protection Clause
8. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Politics
Members of Congress
Albany Plan
Jus Sanguinis
9. Government regulation of the economy through its control over taxes and government spending. Controlled by the Department of Treasury.
Fiscal Policy
Soft Money
Dred Scott Decision
Majority Rule
10. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Transnational Relations
Contract Clause
Universe
Free Exercise Clause
11. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
Socialism
Bicameral
Majority Whip
Democratic
12. The view advocated by Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas that there are provisions of the Bill of Rights that cannot be diluted by judicial decisions.
Absolute Position
Appropriation Bills
Retrospective Voting
Authorizations
13. 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.
Marbury v. Madison
Bill of Attainder
Deviating Elections
Sub-committee
14. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
6th Amendment
National
Office of Management and Budget
Attorney General
15. Voter turnout is usually ____________ when there is a binding referendum on the ballot.
Legislative
Critical Election
binding
Sub-government
16. Groups whose views serve as guidelines to an individual's opinion. See also primary groups and secondary groups.
unlimited
Constituencies
Reference Group
Ad Hoc Structure
17. Between conventions - the governing body of a major political party. Members of this group are chosen in the states and formally elected by the party
Declining
Federal Register
8 Million
National Committee
18. When neither political party is dominant.
Party Dealignment
Judicial Activism
Increased
Secretary of State
19. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Whistle-blowers
Major Political Party
Miranda Rights
Majority Opinion
20. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?
Probable Cause
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Horse race
Federal
21. Federal grants in which the recipient has little discretion over how the money is spent. The national government sets narrowly defined rules for use of funds and often requires the states or local governments to provide matching funds. These grants a
Furman v. Georgia
Categorical Grant
Select Committee
Habeas Corpus
22. The principle of civilian control of the military - based on the clear constitutional power of the president as supreme commander of the armed forces.
Ways and Means Committee
Separate but Equal
Civilian Supremacy
Joseph McCarthy
23. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Jim Crow Laws
Flexible Construction
National Supremacy
Article IV
24. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Party Regulars
Membership
Gideon v. Wainwright
Judicial Restraint
25. Article I of the Constitution establishes the ___________________ branch.
Legislative
10th Amendment
Concurrent
Exit Polls
26. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Political System
Enumerated Powers
John Locke
Low
27. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Non-protected Speech
Woodrow Wilson
Change of Venue
Incumbents
28. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Blacks
War Powers Resolution
President Pro Tempore
Public Administration
29. California measure designed to deny welfare and other benefits to illegal aliens. Overwhelmingly passed the popular vote - but overturned in federal court because it extending beyond the bounds of state rights to attempt to control immigration.
Ratification
Feedback
Redistributive Policy
Proposition 187
30. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
Federal District
Freedom of Speech
Commander in Chief
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
31. A provision of law in which Congress asserts the power to nullify actions of the executive branch. In 1983 the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional - but Congress continued to pass laws containing such provisions.
Offensive Language
12th Amendment
Supply Side Economics
Legislative Veto
32. Prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment.
Marbury v. Madison
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Membership
8th Amendment
33. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Political Socialization
Negative
National Security Council
Unitary System
34. 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
Periodic Registration
Divided Government
Government
35. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Fast Track Authority
Outputs
Cold War
Pork-Barrel Legislation
36. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Dissenting Opinion
35
Dies
Checks and Balances
37. (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
Senate
Articles of Confederation
Cold War
Magna Carta
38. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over budget and appointments of leadership.
Politics
Deficit
Federal
Executive
39. Age requirement for President
35
Interest Groups
Negative Advertising
Political System
40. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
General Purpose Grants
Conglomerates
Agriculture
8 Million
41. 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
Mugwumps
Universe
Concurrent
Political Advertising
42. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Interior
Political Advertising
Unitary System
43. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
Whip
2nd Amendment
Cloture
Catholics
44. A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be ___________.
Republicans
Appealed
Quota Sampling
Concurrent
45. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.
Focus Groups
Republicans
Office of Management and Budget
Max Weber
46. In addition to a quick and speedy trial - the 6th Amendment also guarantees ________________.
Gerrymandering
Right to Counsel
Senate
Supports
47. 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.
Spoiler Candidate
Literacy Tests
Political Action Committees
Public Opinion
48. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Outputs
Valence issue
Substantive Due Process
Free Exercise of Religion
49. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
Laissez-Faire
Judicial Selection
9
Criminal Cases
50. Law enacted by Congress - or by state legislatures or local legislative bodies.
Press Secretary
Bicameral
Legislative
Statutory Law
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