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CLEP American Government
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1. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Lafolette's Progressive s
Rousseau
Establishment Clause
Party Regulars
2. A primary in which any registered voter is able to vote for candidates from more than one party. A voter - for example - may vote for a Democrat for U.S. senator and for a Republican for governor. In 2000 - the Supreme Court struck down the blanket p
Pass the fundraising threshold
Blanket Primary
Blacks
Bicameral
3. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
Impartial
Lemon Test
Lord Acton
Independent Expenditures
4. ____________________ define Congressional voting districts acting within constraints set down by Congress and the Supreme Court.
State Legislatures
Senate
de facto
Committees of Correspondence
5. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Hyperpluralism
Party Identification
Project Grant
Pork-Barrel Legislation
6. This contraversial 2001 law allows anti-terrorism authorities to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The government argues that cyberspace is public domain and that no warrants should be needed to access informa
Supreme Court
Critical Election
Redistributive Policy
Patriot Act
7. 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
Probable Cause
Eminent Domain
Due Process of Law
8. Procedure typically requiring 3/5 vote of the entire Senate to end a filibuster.
Divided Government
Cloture
Dissenting Opinion
Freedom of Information Act
9. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Hatch Act
Pentagon Papers
Select Committee
10. A policy adopted by the United States after the Second World War that assumed that if enough nuclear weapons were deployed by the United States - an enemy would not attack for fear of being destroyed in retaliation.
a senior senator of the majority party
Strategic Deterrence
General Accounting Office
Clothespin vote
11. A word that comes from two Greek roots - demos - 'the populace -' and kratia - 'rule'
Royalists
Democracy
Concurrent Powers
20th
12. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
1964 Civil Rights Act
Criminal Cases
Republic
Exit Polls
13. In the year 2000 - the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to ban _____________ members.
Gay
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Delegate
6
14. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Supremacy Clause
Writ of Certiorari
Senior Executive Service
15. The belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics
Internal Efficacy
Free Rider
Whips
Quota Sampling
16. Theory of democracy in which competition among common interest groups promote ideas to influence politics
Pluralist Theory
Appropriations
Open Meeting Law
7th Amendment
17. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
14
Periodic Registration
Party of Economic Protest
Freedom of Information Act
18. 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.
Civil War Amendments
Jury of Peers
Arraignment
Discharge Petition
19. This act prohibited Discrimination because of race - color - sex - religion - or national origin by employers or labor unions; The adoption by voting registrars of different standards for black and white applicants; and Racial or religious discrimina
3
Take Care Clause
1964 Civil Rights Act
Ticket Splitters
20. The pursuit and exercise of power
Politics
Instructed Delegate
Government
Select Committee
21. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
Major Political Party
5
Budget Surplus
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
22. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Public Administration
Implementation
Committee of the Whole
7
23. The oldest House committee still in existence.
Project Grant
Ways and Means Committee
Charismatic authority
1st Amendment
24. 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
Senior Executive Service
Restrictive Covenant
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Closed rule
25. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Confirmed
Negative
Republican
Members of Congress
26. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Senior Executive Service
Bundling
Defense
2nd Amendment
27. In an election with more than 2 options - the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number - but less that half of the votes.
Unicameral
Independent expenditures
Plurality
state legislatures
28. Government regulation of the economy through its control over the supply of money and the cost and availability of credit. Controlled by the Federal Reserve Board.
Mallory Rule
Policy
Arraignment
Monetary Policy
29. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
Due Process
Realigning Elections
Separation of Powers
Open
30. 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.
Social Regulation
Self-Incrimination
Vietnam War
Third Party
31. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Democrats
Democracy
Delegated Powers
Negative
32. Defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing - pictures
Caucus
Energy
Slander
Omaha platform
33. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Deficit
Regulatory Agencies
Interstate Compact
Free Exercise
34. Established national income tax.
Governmental Corporations
16th Amendment
20th
Statutory Law
35. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Open rule
Detente
Checks and Balances
Electoral College
36. Direct oral or written speech directed at a specific individual or group
Literacy Tests
Party Realignment
Zenger
Pure Speech
37. Considered the most sacred right in American history. Colonists felt oppressed by the tyranny of the crown but were unable to speak up about it for fear of repercussion.
77
Department of State
Freedom of Speech
Intelligence
38. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Public Opinion
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
14
Entitlement Programs
39. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Republicans
Checks and Balances
Commonwealth
Institutional
40. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.
Capitalism
Bill of Attainder
Free Exercise Clause
Ticket Splitters
41. ________________ of the Constitution governs the relationships of the states.
Legislative
Take Care Clause
Article IV
Checks and Balances
42. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cabinet
Interventionism
Electoral Votes
43. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Exit Polls
Mixed Economy
Weber
Standing Committees
44. A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation.
Proprietary Colonies
Issue Networks
Low
527 Organizations
45. Responsible for further investigation - hearings - and amendment to a bill
National
Open rule
Sub-committee
Social Security
46. The federal fiscal year begins ___________.
Select Committee
October 1st
Impartial
Pass the fundraising threshold
47. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Bicameral
Vice President
National Supremacy
Ratification
48. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
Articles of Confederation
Universe
Petition of Right
17th
49. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Senate Standing Committees
Interest Groups
Royalists
Vietnam War
50. Overall spending targets set by the Congress.
Pluralist Theory
Grant Clemency
Maintaining Elections
Budget Resolutions
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