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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Criminal Cases
presidential line-item veto
Members of Congress
Free Rider
2. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Charter Colonies
Fiscal Policy
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Gross Domestic Product
3. 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.
16th Amendment
Critical Election
Equal Protection Clause
Periodic Registration
4. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
President Pro Tempore
Judicial Restraint
Economic Interest Groups
Max Weber
5. An immigrant who wished to become a citizen may be naturalized after living in the US for ___ years.
Commander in Chief
5
Federalism
Lemon Test
6. The median income of women is ___________ percent of men.
8th Amendment
77
House of Representatives
Retrospective Voting
7. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
Prior Restraint
Concurrent
Veto
Medicaid
8. The executive office established in response to intelligence lapses during WWI. Oversees American foreign policy and includes the President - Vice President - Secretary of State - Secretary of Defense and is lead by the National Security Advisor.
National Security Council
Baron v. Baltimore
House Standing Committees
Petition of Right
9. This 1964 case established strict standards for proving slander and libel - court must prove intent of malice on the part of the publisher.
Political Efficacy
Committees
Original
NY Times v. Sullivan
10. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
Senatorial Courtesy
2
Instructed Delegate
Affirmative Action
11. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Flexible Construction
Electoral College
Party Identification
Recorded Vote
12. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Bull Moose Progressives
Critical Election
Executive Agreements
Majority Rule
13. Decides which bills will be considered.
Roth v. US
4
Mugwumps
Committees
14. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
Implementation
Third Parties
Administrative Procedure Act
Closed
15. Freedoms that protect the individual from the government.
Judicial Activism
Civil Liberties
Mayor-Council Plan
Probable Cause
16. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
5 -000
General Purpose Grants
National Security Council
Right to Counsel
17. 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
Articles of Confederation
Mayor-Council Plan
Democrats
18. 'lame duck' amendment
Permanent Registration
Television and Radio
Soft money
20th
19. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
30
Impeachment
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Budget Resolution
20. 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.
Mark Up Session
Fixed
Political Party
Monetary Policy
21. 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.
Party Column Ballot
Contract Clause
Union Shop
Balance of Trade
22. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Economic Interest Groups
Internationalism
National Chair
Caucus
23. _____ out of 9 justices must agree to hear an appellate case brought to them from a lower court.
4
Deviating Elections
Equal Protection Clause
Federal Register
24. The elected position of President pro tempore of the Senate is almost always held by
a senior senator of the majority party
Mixed Economy
Oligopoly
Automobiles
25. Plan that proposed unicameral legislature with each state having one vote.
20
Lemon Test
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
New Jersey Plan
26. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Balance of Payments
Murray v. Curlett
Equity
Medicare
27. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
Affirmative Action
Electoral Votes
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Senate
28. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
Executive Privilege
New Jersey Plan
Mallory Rule
Roe v. Wade
29. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Two Trial
Lower
Criminal Information
de facto
30. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Article III
Federal
Automobiles
Political Efficacy
31. Electoral college system and other campaign practices make it exceedingly difficult for even popular ______________ candidates to successfully run for the presidency.
Raiding
Project Grant
Third Party
Dynamic Conservatism
32. 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
Politics
1964 Civil Rights Act
Common Law
12
33. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Murray v. Curlett
Appropriations
Balance of Trade
Establishment Clause
34. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
7th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
Spoils System
Commonwealth
35. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Standing Committees
Project Grant
Freedom of Speech
Jus Soli
36. Between 1909 and 2002 - the number of daily newspapers in the United States______________.
Cruel and Unusual
Bundling
Decreased
Democratic
37. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Katz. v US
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
District of Columbia
Roth v. US
38. The fundamental rights of a free society that are protected by the Bill of Rights against the power of the government - such as freedom of speech - religion - press - and assembly.
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Parallel
Civil Liberties
Horse race
39. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Double Jeopardy
District of Columbia
Interest Groups
Voting
40. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Incorporation Doctrine
Recall
Hub and Spoke Model
Television and Radio
41. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
Warrant
General Accounting Office
Antitrust Legislation
Truman
42. Important during the Revolution - these bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution for the purposes of coordinating written communication outside of the colony.
Committees of Correspondence
Supports
Globalization
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
43. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
19th Amendment
Cluster Sampling
Decreased
Gitlow v. New York
44. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Free Exercise
Jus Sanguinis
Veteran's Affairs
Soft money
45. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
Public Bills
Majority Rule
Joseph McCarthy
Probable Cause
46. In some cases where blicity too much publicity surrounds a trial - courts have granted _______________ to help ensure a fair trial. One example is the trial of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Change of Venue
state legislatures
Cruel and Unusual
national quotas
47. The foreign policy of the United States during the period after the Second World War - designed to contain the expansion of Soviet power.
Political Action Committee
Containment
5
435
48. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Seniority System
Right of Expatriation
Committees of Correspondence
Petition of Right
49. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over lawsuits filed against the agency.
Independent expenditures
Articles of Confederation
Judicial
de jure
50. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Common Law
Substantive Due Process
Bipartisanship
Due Process of Law