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CLEP American Government
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1. Approximately 33% of American voters identify themselves as _______________ party.
2/3
Independent
Democratic
Selective Incorporation
2. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Earl Warren
Voting
Senate
Line-Item Veto
3. These voters are registered as a party member but only participate by voting in primary and general elections. Tend to vote straight-party ticket and follow the leads of local party officials.
Common Law
Impoundment
Rank and File
Political Efficacy
4. The binding decisions that the government makes whether in the form of laws -regulations - or judicial decisions
Formula Grant
Riders
Selective Incorporation
Outputs
5. 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).
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Shield Laws
3
Balancing Test
6. 'lame duck' amendment
President
Iron Triangle
20th
Filibuster
7. When the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party - usually the result of winning a critical election.
Lemon Test
Free Exercise of Religion
Political Machines
Party Realignment
8. In a political campaign - the surest way of reaching the largest number of voters is usually _____________.
Internationalism
Television
NY Times v. Sullivan
House of Representatives
9. Political party lead by Andrew Jackson from 1828 to 1856. Campaigned against strong central government and fought to end elitism.
Spoiler Candidate
Bandwagon
Democrats
Monetary Policy
10. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
Deviating Elections
State Treasurer
Random Sample
18th Amendment
11. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
Tariff
Petit Jury
Stare Decisis
House of Representatives
12. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution - for example - the authority to print money.
Espionage Act
Delegated Powers
14th Amendment
Civil Liberties
13. _____________ was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics and helping immigrants (most notably the Irish) rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
Mayflower Compact
Free Exercise of Religion
Balance of Trade
Tammany Hall
14. Executive office responsible for negotiating trade with foreign powers.
US Trade Representatives
Article III
3
Decreased
15. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Criminal Cases
Segregation
Regulatory Federalism
Categorical Grants
16. The proceeding before a judge in which the formal charges of an indictment or information are read to an accused person - who may plead guilty or not guilty.
Arraignment
Cluster Sampling
Public Opinion
Majority Rule
17. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Seniority System
Baron de Montesquieu
Political ideology
Free Exercise
18. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Horse race
Clear and Present Danger
Pure Speech
Independent expenditures
19. The net balance or relationship between total income and total expenditures by the nation in its dealings with the rest of the world - including trade - loans - and investments.
31
Freedom of Information Act
Balance of Payments
Safe seat
20. Finding that enough evidence exists to warrant a criminal trial.
Grand Jury Indictment
Isolationism
30
Committees
21. The case of Gregg v. Georgia set the precedent for a ________________ system in which guilt and sentencing and tried separately.
Two Trial
Flexible Construction
Presidential Ticket
High
22. Since 1960 - there has been a general trend of ______________ participation in elections.
Declining
Republicans
Two Trial
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
23. Which of the following factors is likely to be the weakest indicator of an individual's political beliefs and opinions? Age - Race - Intelligence - or Religion
Intelligence
Socialism
Political Action Committee
Executive Agencies
24. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
Enumerated Powers
National Chair
Bipartisanship
14th
25. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
Critical Election
5
War Powers Resolution
Open
26. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Cold War
Exclusionary Rule
Policy
may not
27. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
Secretary of State
President Pro Tempore
National
Freedom of Speech
28. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Vice President
Entitlement Spending
Common Law
Balance of Payments
29. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
17th
Gross Domestic Product
Suburbia
7
30. While both Asian and Hispanic immigrants experience various types of discrimination - Hispanic immigrants are more likely to experience economic discrimination. This explains why most Hispanics identify with the ____________ party - while Asians do n
Right to Work Laws
Dynamic Conservatism
Committees of Correspondence
Democratic
31. A federal law passed by Congress in 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers. The law prevents federal employees while on duty from taking an active part in party politics or campaigns and also bars federal employees from running for
Budget Resolutions
Hatch Act
Selective Incorporation
National Debt
32. In the Federalist Papers - James Madison proposed that the states under the new Constitution would retain ____________ sovereignty.
Unicameral
Foreign Policy
Entitlement Spending
Residual
33. Elects the President if no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes.
Violation of Law
House of Representatives
Party Column Ballot
Presidential Veto
34. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Royalists
Pure Speech
Interest Groups
Petition of Right
35. Organization of individuals with similar policy goals who enter the political process to influence legislation that affects the organizations interests
Interest Groups
Commission Plan
Writ of Certiorari
Writ of Assistance
36. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Residual
Supply Side Economics
Shay's Rebellion
Inverse
37. The median income of women is ___________ percent of men.
Strategic Deterrence
77
Secretary of State
Political Culture
38. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
Monroe Doctrine
Thurgood Marshall
Executive
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
39. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Administrative Law
Cluster Sampling
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Appropriation Bills
40. This 1689 English Document made the monarch
English Bill of Rights
Earl Warren
Miller v. California
Ex Post Facto
41. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Internationalism
27th Amendment
Espionage Act
Bill of Rights
42. _____________ is responsible for monetary policy.
Line-Item Veto
Recall
The Federal Reserve Board
Suburbia
43. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
Jury of Peers
Magna Carta
Republicans
Iron Triangle
44. The average voter turnout between 1960 and 2004 was __________ percent
School Desegregation
55
Negative
House Standing Committees
45. After analyzing 1 -795 platform pledges over a 10-year period - Gerald M. Pomper concluded that almost ____________ of these promises were fulfilled
2/3
Agriculture
Custom
Labor
46. The spread of nuclear weapons to more nations.
Pentagon Papers
Nuclear Proliferation
US Trade Representatives
2/3
47. The strongest factor contributing to an individual's political socialization tends to be
Social Contract
Hatch Act
Family
Federal Appellate
48. It is possible either to describe people - government - politics - and power as isolated - static elements - or to look at them as interacting elements in a_______________.
Capitalism
Closed
Political System
Elite and Class Theory
49. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
Veto
100
Public hearing
Budget Surplus
50. Charge of misconduct brought against a government official.
Adversarial
Max Weber
Impeachment
Committees of Correspondence