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CLEP American Government
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1. 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
Closed rule
Right to Counsel
Party Identification
Statutory Law
2. In _______________ cases such as Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) - the Supreme Court has upheld that while Affirmative action policies are legal - race and gender cannot be the only determining factors.
Affirmative Action
Police Powers
Reverse Discrimination
Katz. v US
3. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Standing Committees
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Cruel and Unusual
Statutory Law
4. In Congress - _____________ are informal organizations of individual congressional representatives with like interests or constituencies. Members work together to promote the interests of the groups they represent through legislation - policy - and p
Murray v. Curlett
Judicial Review
4th Amendment
Caucuses
5. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
Mixed Economy
Free Exercise Clause
Select Committee
Instructed Delegate
6. The practice of victorious politicians to reward their followers with jobs. Also known as the spoils system.
Political Patronage
Exclusionary Rule
Third Parties
Pass the fundraising threshold
7. Protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
Ratification
4th Amendment
Interest Groups
Charter Colonies
8. Members of this party typically include Conservative Christian groups - higher socio-economic classes - middle-class white collar - and suburban voters.
Issue network
Members of Congress
Secretary of State
Republican
9. People may vote in a party's primary only if they are registered members of that party. Independents cannot participate. Note that because some political parties name themselves independent - the term 'non-partisan' often replaces 'independent' when
Jus Soli
Closed
a senior senator of the majority party
Double Jeopardy
10. The power of the president - struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998 - to veto parts of appropriations bills. Most state governors have this power.
Monopoly
Soft money
Authorizations
Line-Item Veto
11. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Democratic
18th Amendment
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Bandwagon
12. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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13. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Diminish
Situational
Convention Bounce
Concurrent
14. The period of time after the election of FDR until the Vietnam War was dominated by the Democratic Party and know as the __________________ Era.
Standing Committees
General Purpose Grants
Freedom of Speech
New Deal Era
15. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Elastic Clause
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
House of Representatives
Separate but Equal
16. Political party lead by Andrew Jackson from 1828 to 1856. Campaigned against strong central government and fought to end elitism.
national quotas
Elastic Clause
Flexible Construction
Democrats
17. A system in which the national government provides grants-in-aid to states using conditions to elicit control.
Nuclear Proliferation
Television
Jus Soli
Fiscal Federalism
18. In this essay - James Madison recognized that reconciling the competing interests of various groups was what legislation was all about
Magna Carta
The Federalist #10
Straight Ticket Voting
Amicus Curiae Brief
19. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Positive
Commonwealth
Jus Sanguinis
Low
20. Cabinet department that includes the Coast Guard - Border Patrol - FEMA - Transportation Security Administration - INS and the Secret Service. Established in 2001 in response to 9/11.
Homeland Security
10th Amendment
Speech Plus
Concurrent
21. The responsibility of the President to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur on the bench is referred to as
Demands
Interior
Judicial Selection
Appropriations
22. 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
Labor
Speech Plus
Regulatory Agencies
Clothespin vote
23. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
Liberalism
Inputs
National
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24. Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 as an attempt to form a union of the colonies. Later used to help form the Articles of Confederation.
Confederation
Recall
Albany Plan
17th
25. This called for three-fifths of all slaves in a state were counted for purposes of apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.
Presidential Veto
527 Organizations
Great Compromise
Executive
26. The view of the majority of the Supreme Court that First Amendment rights must be weighed against the competing needs of the community to preserve order.
Balancing Test
Interstate Compact
Enumerated Powers
Selective Incorporation
27. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Democrats
Regulatory Federalism
Political Efficacy
The Federal Reserve Board
28. The belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics
Internal Efficacy
Adversarial
Globalization
Violation of Law
29. The reason that electors are chosen in each state by popular vote is ____________.
Initiative
Custom
Statutory Law
Concurring Opinion
30. A legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes.
Transportation
Bill of Rights
Probable Cause
Whip
31. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Budget Resolutions
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Supremacy Clause
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
32. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Housing and Urban Development
Declining
Albany Plan
de jure
33. Define US Citizenship as any person born or naturalized in the United States.
14th Amendment
Contract Clause
Hold
Republican
34. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendment to bills or provides that only memebers of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments
Closed rule
Antitrust Legislation
16th Amendment
Bandwagon
35. A law passed by Congress in 1973 in an effort to set a time limit on the use of combat forces abroad by a president.
War Powers Resolution
Free Exercise of Religion
Dark Horse
2nd Amendment
36. 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.
Electoral College
Balance of Payments
Right of Expatriation
Free Exercise Clause
37. The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in 1982 because ____________________________.
Warrant
Free Speech
It Failed to be Ratified
Select Committee
38. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Federalism
Balance of Trade
Party Realignment
Article IV
39. The fundamental flaw in plural theory contends that pluralism weakens the backbone of democracy with too many common interest groups attempt to wield power - often leading to standstill because of unwillingness to compromise.
Proportional Representation
Original
Hyperpluralism
Woodrow Wilson
40. 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.
Focus Groups
CORE
Straight Ticket Voting
Pass the fundraising threshold
41. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Regulatory Federalism
Equity
Good Faith Exception
Television
42. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Democrats
Enacted
Permanent Registration
Tammany Hall
43. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Blacks
Ways and Means Committee
Electoral College
Shay's Rebellion
44. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
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Hatch Act
Reynolds v. Sims
Transnational Relations
45. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Ratification
Federal District
CORE
Dred Scott
46. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement is unconstitutional.
Restrictive Covenant
unlimited
Diminish
Freedom of Speech
47. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Unicameral
Inverse
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Conference Committee
48. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Resolutions
State
Democrats
Bicameral
49. 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.
Free Exercise of Religion
Legislative Veto
527 Organizations
Vice President
50. This 1973 ruling gave local communities the authority to determine obscenity - established three part test for obscene material. To qualify as obscene - speech must be considered obscene by the 'average' person - depict or describe material that is a
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Rules Committee
Miller v. California
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