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CLEP American Government
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1. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Labor
Policy
Republican
Checks and Balances
2. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Nuclear Proliferation
Commonwealth
Gay
3. In the area of foreign affairs - _______________ often have the advantage because
Little Difference
Raiding
Procedural Due Process
Republicans
4. The responsibility of the President to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur on the bench is referred to as
Judicial Selection
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Royalists
Freedom of Speech
5. Under this governing document - national government lacked authority to set up tariffs - regulate commerce - levy taxes - control international relations - establish common currency
Equal Time
Capitalism
Articles of Confederation
Pluralist
6. A plan to provide billions of dollars of American aid to Western Europe to speed its economic and social recovery after the Second World War.
Supports
National Committee
Marshall Plan
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
7. Lead by Theodore Roosevelt - this party platform focused on women's suffrage - social reform - fair business practices - and direct election of senators. The won 25% of the popular vote in 1911 - splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Wo
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Segregation
Bull Moose Progressives
Television
8. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Raiding
Federalism
Lord Acton
Article II
9. 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
Party Identification
Categorical Grants
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Alien and Sedition Acts
10. The constitutional requirement (in article II - sec 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws
Discharge Petition
Take Care Clause
Due Process of Law
Homeland Security
11. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Muckrakers
Committees of Correspondence
Thomas Hobbes
Take Care Clause
12. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Retrospective Voting
Private Bills
John F. Kennedy
Export Taxes
13. A tax on voting abolished by the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964 - long used by southern states to keep blacks (and - in some cases - poor whites) from participating in elections.
Zenger
Poll Tax
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Right of Expatriation
14. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
20th
Criminal Information
Caucuses
Rules Committee
15. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
Implied Powers
Precedent
General Election
Charter Colonies
16. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Supply Side Economics
Transportation
Incorporation Doctrine
Jus Sanguinis
17. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Unicameral
Power Structure
Writ of Mandamus
New Jersey Plan
18. The view advocated by Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas that there are provisions of the Bill of Rights that cannot be diluted by judicial decisions.
Separation of Powers
National Security
Trustee
Absolute Position
19. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Open rule
congressional oversight committee
Categorical Grant
Conference Committee
20. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Agriculture
Pluralist
435
Republicans
21. Requests from people or groups for health care for the aged - loans for college students - equal opportunity for minorities - and higher subsidies for farmers are examples of:
Television and Radio
Poll Tax
Democratic
Demands
22. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Republicans
Gross Domestic Product
Eminent Domain
Reynolds v. Sims
23. Protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
High
4th Amendment
7
School Desegregation
24. In the 1962 case of Robinson v. California - the Supreme Court ruled that incarcerating a drug addict is ______________________ because drug addiction is an illness.
State
Custom
Cruel and Unusual
Executive Agencies
25. Court cases that involve relations between individuals and organizations - such as a divorce action - or a suit for damages arising from an automobile accident or for violation of a business contract.
Civil Cases
Cloture
4th Amendment
Creative Federalism
26. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution - for example - the authority to print money.
Permanent Registration
Miller v. California
Democratic-Republicans
Delegated Powers
27. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Attorney General
Non-protected Speech
National Security Council
Party Regulars
28. A system of _______________ - as in Italy - encourages the existence of many parties by allotting seats to competing candidates according to the percentage of votes they win.
Proportional Representation
NY Times v. Sullivan
Unicameral
Logrolling
29. By far - the largest amount of federal aid to state and local governments comes in the form of:
Federal Appellate
Categorical Grants
unlimited
Hatch Act
30. Capital punishment is also known as the _________________.
Death penalty
Pocket Veto
Federal Appellate
Legislative
31. 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
17th
Speaker of the House
Mugwumps
Two Trial
32. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
Writ of Assistance
Safe seat
Export Taxes
Committees of Correspondence
33. Passed in 1883 - it created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
Supply Side Economics
Pendleton Civil Service Act
State Auditor
Truman
34. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
AARP
Shield Laws
Party of Economic Protest
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
35. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Original Jurisdiction
Pre-clearance
Natural Rights
Democratic
36. Overall spending targets set by the Congress.
Chief Justice
Public Opinion
Article III
Budget Resolutions
37. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
Confirmed
9
High
The Federalist #10
38. Elects the President if no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes.
Confirmed
Electoral College
Charismatic authority
House of Representatives
39. Federal and State Courts function in a _____________manner so that federal courts may receive appeals from state courts.
Party Purists
Television
Parallel
2/3
40. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
Salient Agenda
House of Representatives
Project Grant
Power Structure
41. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Roe v. Wade
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Caucus
Governmental Corporations
42. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Electoral College
Impoundment
Open
Exclusionary Rule
43. 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
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Popular Sovereignty
Caucus
Select Committee
44. Theory of democracy in which competition among common interest groups promote ideas to influence politics
Reserved Powers
Establishment Clause
Laissez-Faire
Pluralist Theory
45. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
Free Speech
12
Pentagon Papers
Antitrust Legislation
46. Federal grants in which the recipient has a lot of discretion over how the money is spent. These grants are issued in support of general government functions such as education and law enforcement.
Block Grant
Increased competition
Recall
Institutional
47. Cabinet department oversees nuclear reactors.Established in 1973 in response to the Energy Crisis.
House of Representatives
Energy
Article II
Miranda Rights
48. First Executive Branch
Gitlow v. New York
Federal
Democrats
Department of State
49. During the period from 1976 to 1824 - This party was lead by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They wanted a stronger national government that would rectify the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation. Their supporters held a stronghold in New
Attorney General
NY Times v. Sullivan
Federalist
Impoundment
50. An issue on which voters distinguish rival parties by the degree to which they associate each party or candidate with conditions - goals - or symbols the electorate universally approves or disapproves of. Examples of such issues are economic prosperi
National Security
Valence issue
Change of Venue
Budget Surplus