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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Distribution
Due Process of Law
Grant Clemency
Furman v. Georgia
2. Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors - subject to the king's approval.
Writ of Certiorari
Proprietary Colonies
States
Slander
3. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Veto
AARP
Democratic
Deviating Elections
4. 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
Liberalism
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Pork Barrel Spending
Political ideology
5. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
7
Democratic
Ways and Mean Committee
6. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Jurisdiction
Commission Plan
Party Regulars
Due Process of Law
7. Members of this party typically include women who support liberal policies on abortion and equal pay - Jews - Catholics - Blacks and other minorities - Blue-collar working class - urban - labor unions - and intelligensia
Fixed
Democrats
Rules Committee
Rank and File
8. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Spoils System
Labor
Charismatic authority
Implied Powers
9. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Change of Venue
Legislative
Good Faith Exception
Original Jurisdiction
10. 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.
October 1st
Presidential Ticket
Proposition 187
House of Representatives
11. After hearings are complete - a congressional subcommittee will usually determine a bill's future in final deliberations known as
State of the Union
Petition of Right
Mark Up Session
Spoils System
12. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
Inverse
Instructed Delegate
Electoral College
School Desegregation
13. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Implementation
Globalization
Entitlement Spending
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
14. Method by which federal court judges may lose their position.
Judicial Review
Impeachment
Committees of Correspondence
Recommit the Bill to Committee
15. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
17th
Unicameral
state legislatures
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
16. The amount of money available when the government's income is greater than what it spends in a fiscal year.
Budget Surplus
Enumerated Powers
Electoral College
Energy
17. A method of amending state constitutions under which proposed constitutional amendments can be placed on the ballot if enough signatures are obtained on a petition. Almost half the states also employ the initiative on the ballot to allow voters to en
Initiative
General Accounting
Suburbia
Change of Venue
18. 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.
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Presidential Ticket
Valence issue
Electoral College
19. In addition to the doctrine of implied powers - Chief Justice Marshall - in his decision in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - established the key concept of:
National Supremacy
Standing Committees
Katz. v US
Intelligence
20. 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.
Freedom of Information Act
Misdemeanors
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Budget Resolution
21. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
Pluralist Theory
W.E.B. DuBoise
Party Identification
Commission Plan
22. By far - the largest amount of federal aid to state and local governments comes in the form of:
Categorical Grants
Impoundment
Confirmed
Miller v. California
23. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
Policy
Salient Agenda
Democrats
8th Amendment
24. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Governmental Corporations
12
Confirmed
Judicial Activism
25. 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.
Due Process of Law
527 Organizations
Misdemeanors
Proposition 187
26. A legislature with only one house.
state legislatures
Interest Groups
Unicameral
State Treasurer
27. First governing document of the Plymouth Colony establishing freedom of religion.
Legislative
Balance of Payments
Impartial
Mayflower Compact
28. The 19th Century __________ party platform was opposed to the spread of slavery - promoted preservation of the union - supported the abolition of slavery - and promoted post civil was reconstruction.
Party Column Ballot
Clear and Present Danger
Executive Privilege
Republican
29. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
binding
House of Representatives
Discharge Petition
1776
30. Voter turnout is usually ____________ when there is a binding referendum on the ballot.
John Locke
binding
Writ of Certiorari
Speaker of the House
31. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Standing Committees
W.E.B. DuBoise
Electoral College
Inverse
32. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
National Political Parties
Home Rule
Affirmative Action
Party Column Ballot
33. Executive office responsible for negotiating trade with foreign powers.
Poll Tax
US Trade Representatives
The Federal Reserve Board
Two Trial
34. Established in 1947 as a combined Department of War and Navy.
Mayflower Compact
Defense
Speaker of the House
Regulatory Federalism
35. Constitutional Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
Blanket Primary
National Security Council
Article III
14th Amendment
36. 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.
Select Committee
Murray v. Curlett
National Security
may not
37. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Party Realignment
Police Powers
Regulatory Federalism
Enacted
38. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
Closed
Federalist
Balance of Trade
Standing Committees
39. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
Regulatory Federalism
Freedom of Speech
Bicameral
Council of Economic Advisors
40. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Incumbents
US Trade Representatives
Blacks
Secondary Group
41. 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
Bureaucracy
Defense
Mallory Rule
Executive Agreements
42. 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.
District of Columbia
Democratic-Republicans
States
presidential line-item veto
43. After the Vietnam war - American politics entered an era of __________________ during which neither party maintained control over the government.
Constituencies
Divided Government
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
20
44. Laws - rules - and government programs designed to protect individual rights and specific groups - as well as to benefit society as a whole in such areas as health - worker safety - consumer protection - and the environment.
Libel
John Locke
Social Regulation
Convention Bounce
45. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
National Debt
Bowers v. Hardwick
Bicameral
Literacy Tests
46. Polls taken as people leave voting places. In the past - television networks sometimes used these polls to predict election outcomes before the polls close. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to project the winner in a state until the major
Regulatory Federalism
20
Exit Polls
Isolationism
47. The Supreme Court is the only judicial body that may hear disputes between _________________.
Rank and File
States
Eminent Domain
Murray v. Curlett
48. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Military-Industrial Complex
Governmental Corporations
Oligopoly
Permanent Registration
49. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Conference Committee
Outputs
Republicans
Blanket Primary
50. 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
Writ of Certiorari
Categorical Grant
Affirmative Action
Speech Plus