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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
14
55
Bull Moose Progressives
Soft Money
2. Method by which federal court judges may lose their position.
House Standing Committees
Committees of Correspondence
Whips
Impeachment
3. The 1892 platform of the Populist party repudiating laissez-faire and demanding economic and political reform
Automobiles
Omaha platform
Pluralist Theory
Dies
4. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
31
Salient Agenda
Whistle-blowers
Northern and Southern
5. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
state legislatures
Shay's Rebellion
Free Speech
Issue network
6. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Free Rider
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Jury of Peers
7. 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.
Raiding
Open
2
Institutional
8. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.
Department of Treasury
Committees of Correspondence
Great Compromise
General Election
9. PACs may donate a ______________ amount of indirect or in-kind donations to a campaign. (Ex. placing ads to support their candidate)
Unlimited
House of Representatives
Commander in Chief
Free Exercise Clause
10. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
The Federalist #10
Democrats
Salient Agenda
Recall
11. Federal grants in which the recipient has little discretion over how the money is spent. The national government sets narrowly defined rules for use of funds and often requires the states or local governments to provide matching funds. These grants a
Flexible Construction
Categorical Grant
Open rule
Hatch Act
12. The Supreme Court holds _____________ jurisdiction in cases against the US - ambassadors - public ministers - and consuls.
Original
Monetary Policy
Court of Appeals
Lemon Test
13. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.
Demands
Delegate
Pork Barrel Spending
Political Action Committees
14. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
Literacy Tests
Interstate Compact
1776
25
15. Government agencies that exercise quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative powers and are administratively independent of both the president and Congress (although politically independent of neither).
2/3
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Procedural Due Process
Marbury v. Madison
16. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.
Budget Resolution
Prior Restraint
CORE
Article VI
17. Also known as the Indiana ballot - lists the candidates of each party in a row or column - beside or under the party emblem. In most cases - the voter can make one mark at the top of the column - or pull one lever - and thus vote for all the party's
Charter Colonies
Party Column Ballot
Judicial Selection
Good Faith Exception
18. 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.
Spoils System
Senior Executive Service
Zenger
Democratic
19. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
may not
Freedom of Speech
Interior
Tammany Hall
20. Approximately 33% of American voters identify themselves as _______________ party.
Civil War Amendments
Freedom of Religion
Attorney General
Independent
21. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Pure Speech
Grant Clemency
Fiscal Policy
Recorded Vote
22. Constitutional Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
Article III
Poll Tax
Freedom of Information Act
Judicial Restraint
23. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
General Accounting Office
Budget Resolutions
Writ of Mandamus
Transportation
24. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
Issue Networks
Charismatic authority
Prior Restraint
High
25. Article II of the Constitution establishes the ______________ branch.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Executive
Party Identification
Free Exercise Clause
26. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Common Sense
Public Opinion
Balance of Trade
Spoiler Candidate
27. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Campaign Contributions
Political Advertising
Cabinet
Literacy Tests
28. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over lawsuits filed against the agency.
National Political Parties
Ways and Mean Committee
2
Judicial
29. Presidential management model in which the Chief of Staff plays a prominent role as the head of a military style chain of command. Used successfully by Reagan and Eisenhower.
Enacted
Pyramid Model
Attorney General
Intelligence
30. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
Interest groups
Freedom of Religion
Enumerated Powers
Thurgood Marshall
31. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution - for example - the authority to print money.
congressional oversight committee
Delegated Powers
Union Shop
Winston Churchill
32. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Federalism
Conglomerates
Freedom of Speech
Trustee
33. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Gay
Office Column Ballot
Balance of Trade
Globalization
34. (1781-1789) The written framework for the government of the original 13 states before the Constitution was adopted. Under this - the national government was weak and dominated by the states. There was a unicameral legislature - but no national execut
Articles of Confederation
8 Million
Ways and Means Committee
Unlimited
35. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Independent Expenditures
Mugwumps
Voting
Supports
36. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
Free Exercise
Vietnam War
Majority Whip
Selective exposure
37. Protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
Legislative Courts
Closed rule
4th Amendment
Zenger
38. A legislature with only one house.
4
Unicameral
Republicans
Vietnam War
39. A form of city government under which power is divided between a mayor and an elected city council.
Roe v. Wade
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Little Difference
Mayor-Council Plan
40. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
School Desegregation
Two Trial
Pentagon Papers
Redistributive Policy
41. 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.
Referendum
Quota Sampling
Cruel and Unusual
Bundling
42. The attitudes and actions of people that sustain and buttress the political system at all levels and allows the political system to continue to work.
89
It Failed to be Ratified
Supports
Rousseau
43. Clause in the 14th Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The 5th Amendment also imposes this limitation on the national government.
Free Exercise of Religion
Equal Protection Clause
Senate
Foreign Policy
44. A coherent set of beliefs about politics - public policy - and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political event - personalities - and policies.
3
Weber
Political ideology
Eminent Domain
45. Includes expressive conduct/assembly/actions and symbolic behavior (ex. Picketing or burning the flag) Based on our country history of symbolic acts such as the Boston Tea Party - courts almost always uphold symbolic acts of speech unless they are cr
Closed
Speech Plus
Third Parties
30
46. Also known as the Massachusetts ballot - groups candidates according to the office for which they are running
Quid Pro Quo
Office Column Ballot
Chief Justice
Executive
47. Most likely to board a foreign ship suspected of drug trafficking at a U.S. port
Civil Liberties
Espionage Act
Libel
Coast Guard
48. The head of a national political party
National Chair
AARP
Coordinated Spending
House of Representatives
49. The Constitution requires that state governments - like the federal government - must be _____________ in form - with final authority resting with the people.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
8th Amendment
Democratic
Prior Restraint
50. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Original
Magna Carta
5
Office of Management and Budget