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CLEP American Government
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1. Since 1960 - there has been a general trend of ______________ participation in elections.
Impeachment
Declining
Presidential Ticket
Scandal Mongering
2. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Blacks
Executive
presidential line-item veto
Senate
3. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.
Department of Treasury
Executive
Equality
Redistributive Policy
4. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Hatch Act
Governmental Corporations
President Pro Tempore
Unlimited
5. Congress defined the steps for the creation and admission of new states. It forbade slavery while the region remained a territory although citizens could legalize it. First congress would appoint a territorial governor and judges. Second as soon as 5
Commonwealth
Increased
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
National Debt
6. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
Discharge Petition
7
Majority and Minority Leader
Article VI
7. Defamation by written or printed words - pictures - or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
Poll Tax
30
Establishment Clause
Libel
8. In the 1964 case of ____________ - the Supreme Court: established 'one person - one vote' -
Parallel
Delegated Powers
Caucus
Reynolds v. Sims
9. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendment to bills or provides that only memebers of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments
Speaker of the House
Baker v. Wingo
Closed rule
Riders
10. Concept of the British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
Caucuses
Trustee
CORE
Speaker of the House
11. A controversial law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001 - after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspe
Patriot Act
National Committee
Ex Post Facto
Monetary Policy
12. In addition to overseeing the activities of one or more federal agencies - a ___________________may also serve as the authorizing committee for federal agencies' programs and operations.
Trustee
Entitlement Programs
Public Administration
congressional oversight committee
13. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Clear and Present Danger
may not
Royal Colonies
Convention Bounce
14. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.
de jure
527 Organizations
Bureaucracy
Senate
15. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
Government
presidential line-item veto
Committees
Political Action Committees
16. Agencies that were at one time semi-autonomous but that through legislation have been placed under presidential control since 1945.
Democracy
de facto
Government Corporations
Ticket Splitters
17. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?
Probable Cause
Right to Work Laws
Federal Register
Monetary Policy
18. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Incumbents
Legislative
Party Identification
Caucus
19. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: diversity/diffusion of power - more access points for political participation - fostering of experimentation and innovation - and allowing local governments to manage local problems effectively
Federal Register
Positive
Pentagon Papers
Original
20. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
10th Amendment
Equal Time
Voting
Hatch Act
21. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Feedback
Bandwagon
Free Exercise
Policy Making Cycle
22. 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
Recall
14th Amendment
1964 Civil Rights Act
Positive
23. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
Free Rider
Legislative Veto
W.E.B. DuBoise
Selective Incorporation
24. Charge of misconduct brought against a government official.
Oligopoly
Impoundment
Pork Barrel Spending
Impeachment
25. An ideology that advocates limits on government power to address economic and social problems - relying instead on economic markets and individual initiative to address problems like health care and education - while promoting government involvement
Conservatism
Enterprise Zones
Due Process of Law
Republicans
26. 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
Senate
Republicans
Party Column Ballot
State Government
27. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
New Federalism
Home Rule
Military-Industrial Complex
Clean bill
28. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Exit Polls
Hatch Act
Low
Rank and File
29. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Elite and Class Theory
Cruel and Unusual
Negative
Supreme Court
30. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
Independent Expenditures
Joseph McCarthy
Albany Plan
Federalist Papers
31. In addition to a quick and speedy trial - the 6th Amendment also guarantees ________________.
Legislative
Right to Counsel
Block Grant
Grant Clemency
32. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
Non-protected Speech
Scandal Mongering
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Prior Restraint
33. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Article III
Free Exercise
Thurgood Marshall
Speaker of the House
34. 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.
Marshall Plan
6
Scottsboro Boys Case
Civilian Supremacy
35. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
Political Advertising
Implementation
Catholics
Caucuses
36. The way things actually are.
Ratification
Mark Up Session
Executive Agreements
de facto
37. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
Wallace's Progressives
Implementation
Party Column Ballot
Nationalism
38. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Office of Management and Budget
Declining
Closed rule
Confirmed
39. Law enacted in 1939 to prohibit civil servants from taking activists roles in partisan campaigns .This act prohibited federal employees from making political contributions - working for a particualr party -or campaining for a particualr canidate
Conventions
Hatch Act
Woodrow Wilson
Charter Colonies
40. Executive check on Legislative Branch.
Conventions
Veto
Parallel
Rules Committee
41. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Royalists
Lose
Conference Committee
Confederation
42. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases
National Political Parties
Selective exposure
Monetary Policy
Free Exercise Clause
43. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Poll Tax
Democrats
Office of Management and Budget
Royal Colonies
44. The separation of people by race.
Joseph McCarthy
Pass the fundraising threshold
Supreme Court
Segregation
45. Organization of individuals with similar policy goals who enter the political process to influence legislation that affects the organizations interests
Administrative Law
Petition of Right
Interest Groups
Rules Committee
46. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
Energy
Concurrent Powers
Statutory Law
Containment
47. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Miranda Rights
Public Administration
General Accounting Office
Earmarks
48. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
Rhode Island
Criminal Information
Clean bill
5
49. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
Caucuses
Bill of Attainder
Due Process of Law
Pork Barrel Spending
50. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Little Difference
Capitalism
New Jersey Plan
Stare Decisis