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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A small group of voters chosen by a political campaign for their demographic similarities who are brought together to gauge how the group they represent feels about the candidate.
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Unlimited
Free Exercise of Religion
Focus Groups
2. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Voting
Political ideology
Commission Plan
Blacks
3. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Unitary System
Nationalism
527 Organizations
Nuclear Proliferation
4. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases
Socialism
National Committee
Dred Scott Decision
Selective exposure
5. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
Pre-clearance
Union Shop
House of Representatives
5
6. 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.
527 Organizations
Open
Judicial
Federal
7. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Incorporation Doctrine
Roe v. Wade
7
Scandal Mongering
8. These parties often emerge as off-shoots of major parties or as single-issue parties. They typically act as critic/innovator bringing attention to issues and influencing the platforms of the major parties.
Third Parties
Free Exercise of Religion
Joint Committees
Senate Standing Committees
9. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 restructured the number of ______________ in both the House and Senate.
Arraignment
Flexible Construction
Random Sample
Committees
10. While the verbiage of the 4th Amendment is vague as to what constitutes 'reasonable'. Police departments must rely on _____________; they cannot act on unfounded suspicion.
Agriculture
Democratic
Petition of Right
Probable Cause
11. The binding decisions that the government makes whether in the form of laws -regulations - or judicial decisions
Outputs
Probable Cause
Criminal Information
Freedom of Speech
12. 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.
Electoral College
Coordinated Spending
Change of Venue
Civil Liberties
13. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
8th Amendment
Rules Committee
Democracy
Third Parties
14. Charge of misconduct brought against a government official.
Senate Standing Committees
Original Jurisdiction
Impeachment
Politics
15. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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16. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
Plain View
Social Regulation
General Purpose Grants
Salient Agenda
17. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Riders
Union Shop
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Legislative
18. 19th century case establishing that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government - upheld until the 20th century. Ruling allowed stated to engage in activities such as establishing state churches and denying public office to people of ce
Baron v. Baltimore
Executive
Pluralist
Ways and Means Committee
19. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
Gender Gap
State Government
Cabinet
Mugwumps
20. This customary power allows the President to grant reprieves and pardons for federal offenses.
Dred Scott Decision
Grant Clemency
Federal
Criminal Cases
21. A ruling by the Supreme Court in 1857
Mayflower Compact
Blacks
Wallace's Progressives
Dred Scott Decision
22. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Pluralist Theory
Great Compromise
Separate but Equal
Third Parties
23. In 2002 - a federal appeals court struck down the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that it violated ________________.
Freedom of Religion
Housing and Urban Development
5
General Purpose Grants
24. The class of independent voters who do not vote according to party affiliation - but who typically have a broader range of concerns than single-issue voters - are known colloquially as
Mugwumps
Checks and Balances
Senate
Closed rule
25. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Federalist
Quota Sampling
Pyramid Model
Equality
26. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
Open Meeting Law
2
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Charter Colonies
27. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
Nationalism
Criminal Cases
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Dred Scott Decision
28. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
Implied Powers
Unicameral
Campaign Finance Reform
Fiscal Federalism
29. Legislature bills that affect only a small group of citizens.
Writ of Certiorari
Shay's Rebellion
Gay
Private Bills
30. Organization of individuals with similar policy goals who enter the political process to influence legislation that affects the organizations interests
Supreme Court
Block Grant
Public Bills
Interest Groups
31. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Closed rule
Entitlement Programs
Commission Plan
Government Corporations
32. The action - or actions - taken by government to carry out a policy.
Implementation
Bill of Attainder
Spoils System
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
33. A system - until modified and reformed in the 1970s - that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.
Monroe Doctrine
Seniority System
Standing Committees
Thomas Hobbes
34. President requires their approval to appoint judges - ambassadors and other high officials.
14th Amendment
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Senate
Enact a Bill of Rights
35. A law passed in 1966 that requires federal executive branch and regulatory agencies to make information available to journalists - scholars - and the public unless it falls into one of several confidential categories.
Freedom of Information Act
Commission Plan
Executive
Strategic Deterrence
36. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
Quota Sampling
congressional oversight committee
Enacted
Selective exposure
37. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Katz. v US
Select Committee
Roth v. US
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
38. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
Selective exposure
Propose an Amendment
Pentagon Papers
Interior
39. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.
Balancing Test
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Appealed
Isolationism
40. ___________ vote in both the House and Senate may override a Presidential veto of legislation.
Ways and Means Committee
Cluster Sampling
Political Culture
2/3
41. In WV State BOE v Barnette (1943) - the Supreme Court ruled that compelling citizens to salute the flag violates the principles of a free society - upholding which 1st Amendment rights?
Pendleton Civil Service Act
General Accounting
Free Exercise of Religion
Union Shop
42. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Earl Warren
Free Speech
Deviating Elections
Administrative Law
43. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Collective Action
Open rule
25
Judicial Activism
44. Practice by which voters of one party crossing over and voting in the primary of another party - effectively allowing a party to help choose its opposition's candidate.
Government Corporations
Enumerated Powers
Republicans
Raiding
45. A word that comes from two Greek roots - demos - 'the populace -' and kratia - 'rule'
Recall
Democracy
Political ideology
Television and Radio
46. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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47. Constitutionally empowered to appoint judges - ambassadors - and other high officials - Constitutionally empowered to make treaties with foreign countries.
President
Ratification
Parallel
Low
48. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 required states in the covered jurisdiction to attain _________________ from the Attorney General before making changes to voting standards - practice - or procedure
Pre-clearance
Television and Radio
Commonwealth
Shay's Rebellion
49. A relaxation of international tensions.
Hatch Act
Equal Protection Clause
Detente
Exit Polls
50. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Committee of the Whole
Executive Agreements
National Supremacy
7th Amendment