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CLEP American Government
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1. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has less discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Campaign Finance Reform
Separate but Equal
House of Representatives
Formula Grant
2. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
Agriculture
Small Business Administration (SBA)
General Election
National
3. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
10th Amendment
Gender Gap
Albany Plan
30
4. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Quota Sampling
Soft money
Suburbia
Lower
5. Number of original cabinet positions under George Washington.
Enterprise Zones
Great Compromise
3
Rousseau
6. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Labor
Automobiles
Deviating Elections
Party Purists
7. Executive check on Legislative Branch.
Veto
Judicial
Balance of Payments
Incorporation Doctrine
8. The ______________________ were formed to unite the colonists against Britain.
Party Activists
Referendum
Scottsboro Boys Case
Committees of Correspondence
9. This term refers to the gain in the polls that a candidate often enjoys after a national convention
Closed
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Internationalism
Convention Bounce
10. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Commonwealth
Rules Committee
Sub-government
House Standing Committees
11. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Democrats
Housing and Urban Development
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Prior Restraint
12. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Spoiler Candidate
Bull Moose Progressives
Nationalism
Realigning Elections
13. The formal source of all authority in each major political party. It nominates the party candidates for president and vice president - writes a platform - settles disputes - writes rules - and elects the members of the national committee.
National Convention
Inputs
Ad Hoc Structure
W.E.B. DuBoise
14. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
Proposition 187
Open rule
Take Care Clause
6th Amendment
15. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as
The Enlightenment
Outputs
Executive
Independent Regulatory Agencies
16. Which two British Acts - passed in 1764 - caused American colonists for the first time to organize protests against the injustices of British rule - and sparked the rallying cry 'no taxation without representation'?
Policy Making Cycle
Council-Manager Plan
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Bundling
17. 1976 Law requiring all governmental agency meetings to be open to the public unless classified information will be discussed.
11th Amendment
Open Meeting Law
Joseph McCarthy
Closed
18. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
Independent expenditures
25
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Selective Incorporation
19. Voter turnout is usually ____________ when there is a binding referendum on the ballot.
binding
Hold
Winston Churchill
Permanent Registration
20. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
Monroe Doctrine
Impeachment
2
Miranda Rights
21. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
President Pro Tempore
Majority Rule
Liberalism
2/3
22. Voters tendency to identify with a party that shares their views on important issues ignoring the party's stance on issues they deem less important. to be life-long unless there is a major change in the party's platform. 2. Influenced by ra
Government Corporations
Fiscal Policy
Party Identification
Bull Moose Progressives
23. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Collective Action
Supreme Court
Pure Speech
Feedback
24. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Democratic
Implied Powers
Committee of the Whole
Article III
25. The 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act - the 1965 Highway Beautification Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act are all examples of ____________________.
Regulatory Federalism
Separate but Equal
Focus Groups
Democrats
26. 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.
Writ of Mandamus
Public Opinion
Instructed Delegate
Original Jurisdiction
27. A technique polling organizations use in which several people from the same neighborhood are interviewed.
unlimited
Cluster Sampling
National
Political Patronage
28. 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.
Pluralist Theory
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Republicans
Television
29. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Mayor-Council Plan
Concurrent
Parallel
Arraignment
30. The foreign policy of the United States during the period after the Second World War - designed to contain the expansion of Soviet power.
Legislative Courts
President Pro Tempore
Marshall Plan
Containment
31. There are 11 circuit ____________________ who have no original jurisdiction.
Coordinated Spending
Court of Appeals
Clear and Present Danger
Free Exercise Clause
32. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Ex Post Facto
Agriculture
Confederation
Recall
33. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Redistributive Policy
Office Column Ballot
Warrant
Military-Industrial Complex
34. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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35. Number of Federal District courts across 50 states - DC and Puerto Rico.
Logrolling
89
presidential line-item veto
Pocket Veto
36. A system in which the national government sets requirements that are then implemented by state and local governments.
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Libertarianism
Regulatory Federalism
Horse race
37. A jury of 6 to 12 persons who determine guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action
Administrative Law
Globalization
Lower
Petit Jury
38. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Bipartisanship
Globalization
Open
House Standing Committees
39. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
Constituencies
10th Amendment
blockbusting and redlining
Lobbying
40. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.
Senate
Jim Crow Laws
Presidential Ticket
Press Secretary
41. Age requirement for President
35
17th
Selective Incorporation
Blacks
42. 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.
Woodrow Wilson
Wallace's Progressives
Absolute Position
Creative Federalism
43. The 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that prompted King George III's Prohibitory Act and the sending of mercenaries to the colonies.
Common Sense
Trustee
Zenger
Diminish
44. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Ways and Means Committee
Civilian Supremacy
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Federalist
45. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
Housing and Urban Development
Pork Barrel Spending
Truman
6th Amendment
46. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Bill of Rights
Pyramid Model
Prior Restraint
47. In Schenck v. US (1919) - The Supreme Court ruled that government may prohibit speech that creates an immediate threat of criminal action. Essentially established different standards for speech during wartime than in peacetime. Thus - establishing th
Articles of Confederation
Clear and Present Danger
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Exclusionary Rule
48. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion
Blacks
Third Parties
Supports
Writ of Mandamus
49. A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation.
Dynamic Conservatism
Quota Sampling
Issue Networks
Hyperpluralism
50. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned contributions of soft money to______________.
Wallace's Progressives
National Political Parties
Slander
Economic Interest Groups
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