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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Supremacy Clause
Fixed
Blacks
Institutional
2. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
Outputs
Standing Committees
Rhode Island
Pork Barrel Spending
3. A broad concept that may be defined in many ways - but the term is generally used to refer to the basic protection and defense of the nation.
Seniority System
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
National Security
Elastic Clause
4. ____________________ define Congressional voting districts acting within constraints set down by Congress and the Supreme Court.
Republican
Deviating Elections
National Convention
State Legislatures
5. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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6. 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.
Legislative Veto
Unicameral
Monetary Policy
Stare Decisis
7. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Executive Agreements
Open Meeting Law
Speech Plus
Majority Whip
8. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Pluralist
Cloture
Horse race
Balance of Trade
9. A philosophy that the Supreme Court should avoid constitutional questions when possible and uphold acts of Congress unless they clearly violate a specific section of the Constitution.
Establishment Clause
Nuclear Proliferation
John F. Kennedy
Judicial Restraint
10. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
House of Representatives
Delegate
Sub-committee
Ratification
11. This Supreme Court case infamously decided that a slave was not a citizen but property to be 'used in subservience to the interests - the convenience - or the will of his owner'
Deficit
Dred Scott
Defense
Checks and Balances
12. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Judicial Review
Soft money
Deviating Elections
Writ of Certiorari
13. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
20
Third Parties
5
Antitrust Legislation
14. A federal tax on imports.
Miller v. California
Tariff
Earmarks
Public Policies
15. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
US v. Ballard
Commander in Chief
Institutional
Resolutions
16. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Voting
House of Representatives
Affirmative Action
Republicans
17. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
25
Thurgood Marshall
Liberalism
Article IV
18. Plan that proposed unicameral legislature with each state having one vote.
New Jersey Plan
Patriot Act
Divided Government
Parallel
19. 1974 Act mandating that all government files about private citizens be kept confidential.
Roe v. Wade
Privacy Act
Thomas Hobbes
Dark Horse
20. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Riders
Unicameral
6th Amendment
Pork Barrel Spending
21. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Issue network
Little Difference
Appropriation Bills
Recorded Vote
22. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
Public Opinion
Medicare
2
Jus Soli
23. The gap between the government's income and outlays.
Deficit
Supreme Court
W.E.B. DuBoise
Gender Gap
24. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Soft Money
Jim Crow Laws
Campaign Finance Reform
Executive
25. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Issue network
presidential line-item veto
Hold
Constitutional Initiative
26. 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
2/3
Power Structure
Categorical Grants
Substantive Due Process
27. 1798 Act that criminalized speech that was derisive to the government. Later ruled unconstitutional - Andrew Jackson issued blanket pardon in 1801
Alien and Sedition Acts
Due Process of Law
Free Exercise Clause
Freedom of Speech
28. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - founded in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover to help combat the Great Depression - was the predecessor of which federal agencies?
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Rules Committee
Party Regulars
Concurrent Powers
29. Most likely to board a foreign ship suspected of drug trafficking at a U.S. port
Legislative
Referendum
Coast Guard
Globalization
30. The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate and so votes for the less objectionable of the two - putting a clothespin over his nose to keep out the unpleasant stench
Enacted
Free Exercise Clause
Clothespin vote
Free Exercise
31. Groups named for the section of the Internal Revenue Service code under which they must report their expenditures. The tax-exempt groups were created to exploit a loophole in the law regulating campaign finance.
Legislative Courts
Enterprise Zones
New Jersey Plan
527 Organizations
32. The belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics
Supply Side Economics
Inverse
Public Policy
Internal Efficacy
33. In 1998 - the Supreme Court struck down the________________ law - declaring it unconstitutional - because Congress did not have the constitutional authority to hand that power to the President.
Ticket Splitters
Legislative Courts
presidential line-item veto
Gender Gap
34. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
National Political Parties
may not
Coordinated Spending
7th Amendment
35. A jury of 6 to 12 persons who determine guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action
5 -000
Petit Jury
Probable Cause
Lower
36. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated
Petit Jury
Agriculture
Class Action Suit
Felonies
37. Belief in the value of strong government to provide economic secruity and protection for civil rights - combined with a belief in personal freedom from government intervention in social conduct
Executive Privilege
Liberalism
Judicial Activism
Members of Congress
38. The introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution - setting forth the general principles of American government and beginning with the words - 'We the people of the United States - in order to form a more perfect union. ...'
Gerrymandering
Felonies
a senior senator of the majority party
Preamble
39. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Hold
General Accounting
Quid Pro Quo
40. Held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
9
Speech Plus
General Election
Free Speech
41. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Checks and Balances
binding
20
Mark Up Session
42. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Jury of Peers
Deviating Elections
Whistle-blowers
Regulatory Federalism
43. The action - or actions - taken by government to carry out a policy.
Implementation
Impoundment
John Locke
Espionage Act
44. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Union Shop
Fixed
Earmarks
Nuclear Proliferation
45. An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words - one means by which a political party nominate candidates for the following general election.s
Majority and Minority Leader
Fiscal Policy
Unlimited
Primary
46. The amount of money available when the government's income is greater than what it spends in a fiscal year.
Welfare State
Charismatic authority
Presidential Ticket
Budget Surplus
47. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Raise Public Awareness
Equality
Political Patronage
Negative
48. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Ways and Means Committee
Criminal Cases
State Auditor
Senate
49. Political commercials that strongly attack a rival candidate.
Prior Restraint
Misdemeanors
Negative Advertising
Primary
50. Executive Check on the Legislative Branch.
Government
Double Jeopardy
Presidential Veto
Recommit the Bill to Committee