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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. While these voters have traditionally supported the Democrats - some have begun to support Republicans in light of the Democrats liberal policies on abortion.
Free Exercise of Religion
Articles of Confederation
Catholics
Committees
2. 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
Lower
Right to Counsel
Freedom of Religion
3. Until the law was changed in 2002 - the term described unregulated campaign funds not subject to the limits of federal law because they went to party committees and not directly to candidates. The 2002 law banned contributions of soft money to nation
Soft Money
Categorical Grant
Executive Privilege
2nd Amendment
4. A form of city government under which a board of city commissioners is popularly elected (often on a nonpartisan ballot). The commissioners make policy as a city council - but they also run city departments as administrators.
Pyramid Model
Confederation
Mayflower Compact
Commission Plan
5. 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
Open
Blacks
national quotas
Categorical Grants
6. Concept of the British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Homeland Security
Trustee
Establishment Clause
7. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Riders
Precedent
Republicans
Roe v. Wade
8. Powers of government that are specifically granted to the three branches of the federal government under the Constitution.
Transnational Relations
Enumerated Powers
Judicial Review
Equal Time
9. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Supremacy Clause
Whip
Affirmative Action
Secretary of State
10. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Balance of Trade
Executive Agreements
Pyramid Model
Republicans
11. The average voter turnout between 1960 and 2004 was __________ percent
Majority Rule
General Purpose Grants
Political System
55
12. Article I of the Constitution establishes the ___________________ branch.
Reverse Discrimination
Budget Resolution
Party Dealignment
Legislative
13. Article VI - Paragraph 2 - of the Constitution - which declares that the Constitution - and the laws and treaties of the United States made under it - are 'the supreme Law of the Land' and prevail over any conflicting state constitutions or laws.
Medicare
Regulatory Federalism
Supremacy Clause
Residual
14. ___________ vote in both the House and Senate may override a Presidential veto of legislation.
Commonwealth
2/3
Clear and Present Danger
Commander in Chief
15. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
General Election
Executive Agreements
Separate but Equal
Freedom of Speech
16. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
31
Filibuster
Bicameral
Common Sense
17. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
55
Rank and File
Governmental Corporations
District of Columbia
18. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Secondary Group
Electoral College
35
Substantive Due Process
19. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
8th Amendment
77
Sub-government
Free Exercise of Religion
20. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Primary
Council-Manager Plan
Unitary System
Earl Warren
21. 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.
Furman v. Georgia
National Security Council
House of Representatives
Homeland Security
22. The vagueness of this phrase has allowed juries to exclude specific genders or races in order to affect the outcome of the verdict.
State of the Union
Jury of Peers
Rhode Island
Unicameral
23. The gap between the government's income and outlays.
Exit Polls
Office of Management and Budget
Deficit
Logrolling
24. The coming to power of a new coalition - replacing an old dominant coalition of the other party
Exit Polls
Poll Tax
Flexible Construction
Critical Election
25. The chair and the heads of the three armed services - and - when Marine Corps matters are under consideration - the commandant of the marines. By law - they advise the president and the secretary of defense and are the chiefs of their respective mili
Agriculture
Double Jeopardy
Equity
Joint Chiefs of Staff
26. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Entitlement Programs
Scottsboro Boys Case
Department of State
Exit Polls
27. Age Requirement for the Senate
Due Process of Law
Voting Rights Act of 1965
30
Change of Venue
28. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
3
Common Sense
W.E.B. DuBoise
Confirmed
29. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Natural Rights
Enact a Bill of Rights
Right of Expatriation
House of Representatives
30. Established in 1947 as a combined Department of War and Navy.
Defense
Closed rule
Executive Agencies
Clear and Present Danger
31. The federal fiscal year begins ___________.
Proprietary Colonies
14th Amendment
October 1st
Alien and Sedition Acts
32. Presidential management model in which corporate CEO tactics are used employing committees - task forces - and special advisors. Successfully utilized by Clinton and G W Bush.
Rhode Island
12
Ad Hoc Structure
Salient Agenda
33. This body of government has final authority on the meaning of the Constitution.
Supreme Court
Flexible Construction
CORE
2
34. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Criminal Cases
Primary
6
Balance of Payments
35. Concept of government by the people in which everyone is free to vote - but normally whoever gets the most votes wins the election and represents all the people - including those who voted for the losing candidate.
Majority Rule
Senatorial Courtesy
Affirmative Action
4th Amendment
36. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Clear and Present Danger
Permanent Registration
Demands
Globalization
37. A compulsory national insurance program - financed by taxes on employers and employees. The insurance falls into four categories: old-age and survivors insurance - disability insurance - Medicare - and unemployment insurance.
Social Security
Instructed Delegate
Universe
Free Exercise of Religion
38. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the practice of _______________ allowing more diversity among immigrants.
Constituencies
national quotas
Equity
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
39. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.
7
Containment
Cruel and Unusual
Speaker of the House
40. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Executive Privilege
Amicus Curiae Brief
Chief Justice
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
41. Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Campaign Finance Reform
Free Exercise Clause
270
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
42. The concept that political power rests with the people who can create - alter - and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government
Supremacy Clause
Popular Sovereignty
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Equal Protection Clause
43. Baby boomers - women - and voters with higher levels of education tend to have a ____________ voter turnout.
High
Jurisdiction
Bowers v. Hardwick
Television and Radio
44. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Proposition 187
Miranda Rights
Roth v. US
Negative
45. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.
Family
Article VI
Hatch Act
Jim Crow Laws
46. A philosophy that Supreme Court justices and other judges should boldly apply the Constitution to social and political questions.
Judicial Activism
Universe
Declining
General Election
47. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Discharge Petition
Freedom of Speech
Collective Action
Shay's Rebellion
48. 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.
Equality
Rank and File
Marshall Plan
Delegated Powers
49. To an extent - the press and the government have a relationship that is _______________ and mutually dependent.
Truman
Adversarial
Gross Domestic Product
Separate but Equal
50. Plan that proposed unicameral legislature with each state having one vote.
New Jersey Plan
12
Ways and Means Committee
Deficit