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CLEP American Government
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1. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Executive Privilege
The Enlightenment
14th
Judicial
2. Constitutionally required address by the President typically given in a joint session of Congress.
Office of Management and Budget
Republicans
Baron v. Baltimore
State of the Union
3. Legislature bills that affect all citizens.
Enumerated Powers
English Bill of Rights
Public Bills
Primary
4. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Shay's Rebellion
Federalist Papers
Due Process of Law
Political Machines
5. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
Commander in Chief
Gender Gap
Ratification
Foreign Policy
6. This contraversial legal technicality intended to protect civil liberties has allowed criminals to remain free when the courts refuse to admit evidence that may have been obtained illegally.
Democratic-Republicans
Exclusionary Rule
27th Amendment
Permanent Registration
7. 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
legislative and executive
Right to Work Laws
Blanket Primary
National Political Parties
8. 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.
Whips
Hyperpluralism
Mark Up Session
Delegated Powers
9. 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.
Reverse Discrimination
Social Regulation
20th
Mugwumps
10. A relaxation of international tensions.
Albany Plan
Detente
Energy
Civil War Amendments
11. Walter DeVries and Lance Tarrance have concluded that in many elections the outcome is determined by ______________.
Jury of Peers
Affirmative Action
Convention Bounce
Ticket Splitters
12. In order to win support for ratification of the Constitution - the Federalists had to promise that the first order of business under a new government would be to _______________.
Interest Groups
Original Jurisdiction
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Enact a Bill of Rights
13. An immigrant who wished to become a citizen may be naturalized after living in the US for ___ years.
5
Constitutional Initiative
Political ideology
presidential line-item veto
14. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Republican
Separate but Equal
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Gerrymandering
15. The Democrats control over politics during the 20th century ended with this President's unpopular handling of the Vietnam War.
Dissenting Opinion
Lyndon B. Johnson
US v. Ballard
Political Party
16. 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.
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Constituencies
Proportional Representation
Lyndon B. Johnson
17. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 10) intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affect property rights.
Contract Clause
Alien and Sedition Acts
Rank and File
Enumerated Powers
18. Repealed by the 21st Amendment - this Amendment prohibited alcohol.
Equality
18th Amendment
Royalists
Rules Committee
19. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Great Compromise
Executive Agreements
89
unlimited
20. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
Political Socialization
Dissenting Opinion
Monroe Doctrine
Free Exercise of Religion
21. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Independent Expenditures
6
National Committee
Project Grant
22. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
20
Appropriations
Bipartisanship
Baby Boomers
23. The way things should be by law
de jure
Clean bill
Unlimited
Issue network
24. 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
Separate but Equal
Tammany Hall
State Legislatures
Categorical Grant
25. 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
Laissez-Faire
Free Exercise
Presidential Veto
Valence issue
26. 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.
Office of Management and Budget
Monetary Policy
Pure Speech
Roe v. Wade
27. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
4th Amendment
Internal Efficacy
Horse race
Unlimited
28. While the verbiage of the 4th Amendment is vague as to what constitutes 'reasonable'. Police departments must rely on _____________; they cannot act on unfounded suspicion.
Probable Cause
Proportional Representation
Government
Libel
29. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Spoiler Candidate
Committees
Interventionism
Internationalism
30. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Declining
Gerrymandering
2
Formula Grant
31. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Resolutions
Jurisdiction
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Joint Committee
32. _____________ was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics and helping immigrants (most notably the Irish) rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
Clean bill
Impeachment
Defense
Tammany Hall
33. In his classic study of community power in New Haven - Connecticut - political scientist Robert A. Dahl concluded that the city was a __________ system dominated by many different sets of leaders
Pluralist
Laissez-Faire
Enumerated Powers
2
34. 1944 case established that as as long as a person accepted their beliefs in good faith that it is not the government's authority to determine whether those beliefs are valid.
Constitutional Initiative
US v. Ballard
Social Security
Article V
35. 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
Sub-government
Soft Money
Gerrymandering
Royalists
36. 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.
Federal Courts
Pyramid Model
Categorical Grants
Administrative Procedure Act
37. A system - until modified and reformed in the 1970s - that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.
Seniority System
Speaker of the House
Select Committee
Committees
38. A system in which national and state governments are competitors with distinct powers. This system was prominent in the US from the during the 19th century until 1937.
Conglomerates
Closed rule
Hyperpluralism
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
39. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Television and Radio
Free Exercise
Institutional
Recorded Vote
40. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 required states in the covered jurisdiction to attain _________________ from the Attorney General before making changes to voting standards - practice - or procedure
Bicameral
30
Pre-clearance
Suburbia
41. Which committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
Appropriations
AARP
Select Committee
Diminish
42. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
8 Million
Populous
2nd Amendment
Pocket Veto
43. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Winston Churchill
Shay's Rebellion
Blacks
Pocket Veto
44. Powers of government that the national government may exercise simply because it exists as a government - such as the right to conduct foreign relations.
Federalist Papers
Republicans
Legislative
Inherent Powers
45. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Miller v. California
Preamble
Criminal Information
may not
46. The responsibility of the President to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur on the bench is referred to as
Procedural Due Process
Commander in Chief
National Security
Judicial Selection
47. The total amount of money that the United States owes to its creditors.
Block Grant
National Political Parties
Earl Warren
National Debt
48. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
Executive Privilege
binding
Closed
Royalists
49. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
Slander
state legislatures
House of Representatives
Policy
50. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the practice of _______________ allowing more diversity among immigrants.
Committee of the Whole
national quotas
Clear and Present Danger
Ratification