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CLEP American Government
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1. States that arrestees must be informed of their right to remain silent - that anything they say can be held against them in a court - that they have a right to an attorney and that an attorney will be appointed to them if they cannot afford one.
Miranda Rights
Voting
Dissenting Opinion
state legislatures
2. After hearings are complete - a congressional subcommittee will usually determine a bill's future in final deliberations known as
Mark Up Session
Joint Committees
8th Amendment
Economic Interest Groups
3. Executive check on Legislative Branch.
Reserved Powers
Implied Powers
Democracy
Veto
4. Capital punishment is also known as the _________________.
Death penalty
Fast Track Authority
Soft Money
State of the Union
5. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
Concurrent
Supreme Court
Senate Standing Committees
Export Taxes
6. An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the publicand operate for the welfare of all.
Federal
Lobbying
Petition of Right
Socialism
7. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Gender Gap
Inverse
State Treasurer
Independent expenditures
8. The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
Nuclear Proliferation
6th Amendment
Administrative Law
Elite and Class Theory
9. Concurrent resolution - adopted by both Houses of Congress - that sets forth a Congressional budget plan for the budget year and at least four out-years.
Ways and Means Committee
Coordinated Spending
Budget Resolution
Elite and Class Theory
10. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Economic Interest Groups
Administrative Law
Ways and Means Committee
Antitrust Legislation
11. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.
Pre-clearance
Felonies
Commander in Chief
New Jersey Plan
12. Leader of the House of Representatives - elected by the majority party. 2nd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Max Weber
Budget Surplus
Speaker of the House
Gideon v. Wainwright
13. 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).
30
Habeas Corpus
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Nationalism
14. 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
Conventions
Propose an Amendment
Great or Connecticut Compromise
15. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Fixed
5
Caucuses
Executive Privilege
16. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Original
Public Policy
Regulatory Federalism
Gross Domestic Product
17. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Pure Speech
Declining
Socialism
Shield Laws
18. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was somewhat undermined by racist practices in the real estate market such as _____________ and ______________ - which continued illegally in many areas following passage of the Act.
blockbusting and redlining
Whip
Commander in Chief
Committees of Correspondence
19. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.
89
Closed rule
Good Faith Exception
Republicans
20. 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
Jus Soli
Federalist
Political Action Committees
Cruel and Unusual
21. President Hoover's laissez-faire approach to the economy during the Great Depression left many poor voters disenfranchised by the Republican Party. They left to join the _______________ Party.
Isolationism
Shay's Rebellion
Democratic
Trustee
22. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
House of Representatives
Winston Churchill
Cluster Sampling
Exit Polls
23. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
General Purpose Grants
Whip
Governmental Corporations
Muckrakers
24. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: diversity/diffusion of power - more access points for political participation - fostering of experimentation and innovation - and allowing local governments to manage local problems effectively
Positive
Party Column Ballot
national quotas
Appropriation Bills
25. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
435
Senior Executive Service
General Accounting
Detente
26. The fundamental rights of a free society that are protected by the Bill of Rights against the power of the government - such as freedom of speech - religion - press - and assembly.
Standing Committees
Civil Liberties
National Security Council
270
27. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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28. Philosopher John Locke - in his 1690 work Civil Government (second treatise) - advised separation of government power between
legislative and executive
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Voting
Royalists
29. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
19th Amendment
Clear and Present Danger
Quota Sampling
Unitary System
30. 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.
Muckrakers
Separation of Powers
Legislative Veto
Unicameral
31. Raise Public Awareness - Create Policy Agenda - Prioritize Agenda - Enact Policy - Public Evaluation
School Desegregation
Increased
Policy Making Cycle
Thomas Hobbes
32. 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.
Executive
Bandwagon
Senior Executive Service
27th Amendment
33. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
Freedom of Information Act
Jim Crow Laws
Senatorial Courtesy
89
34. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
Detente
Gideon v. Wainwright
Low
Nationalism
35. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
unlimited
Majority and Minority Leader
Globalization
Jim Crow Laws
36. After analyzing 1 -795 platform pledges over a 10-year period - Gerald M. Pomper concluded that almost ____________ of these promises were fulfilled
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
House Standing Committees
2/3
Supports
37. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
Gross Domestic Product
Baby Boomers
Republicans
Democrats
38. Groups whose views serve as guidelines to an individual's opinion. See also primary groups and secondary groups.
Reference Group
2
National Security Council
Balance of Trade
39. A system of voter registration in which voters must register only once in their district.
Permanent Registration
Magna Carta
Whigs
Republicans
40. Programs are designed to give preferential access to education - employment - health care - or social welfare to groups of people - especially minorities and women - who have historically been discriminated against.
Affirmative Action
Voting
Veteran's Affairs
Universe
41. 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.
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
President Pro Tempore
Proposition 187
Judicial
42. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Redistributive Policy
State Auditor
a senior senator of the majority party
Petition of Right
43. An opinion of one or more judges expressing disagreement with the majority opinion of the court which gives rise to its judgment.
Budget Surplus
Speaker of the House
President
Dissenting Opinion
44. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Conference Committee
Attorney General
Entitlement Programs
Freedom of Religion
45. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Senior Executive Service
Lobbying
Constitutional Initiative
Criminal Cases
46. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Valence issue
Department of State
US v. Ballard
Whips
47. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.
Realigning Elections
Article VI
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Gerrymandering
48. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Low
435
Public Opinion
Conservatism
49. This term refers to the gain in the polls that a candidate often enjoys after a national convention
Unlimited
Convention Bounce
Confirmed
Fiscal Federalism
50. The binding decisions that the government makes whether in the form of laws -regulations - or judicial decisions
Universe
Outputs
11th Amendment
14th Amendment
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