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CLEP American Government
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1. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Third Parties
Committees of Correspondence
Suburbia
Balance of Trade
2. A federal tax on imports.
5 -000
Tariff
Balance of Payments
Oligopoly
3. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Senate
Offensive Language
Office of Management and Budget
Death penalty
4. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over lawsuits filed against the agency.
School Desegregation
Impartial
Judicial
Voting Rights Act of 1965
5. Congress' first step towards allocating funds
Grant Clemency
Authorizations
Jus Soli
Discharge Petition
6. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
Hub and Spoke Model
Instructed Delegate
Joint Committees
Blacks
7. 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.
Budget Surplus
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Baby Boomers
Due Process of Law
8. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
17th
Low
Cabinet
Democracy
9. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
Homeland Security
8th Amendment
Enact a Bill of Rights
Fiscal Policy
10. A course of action chosen by government officials
Gerrymandering
Public Policy
Strategic Deterrence
Riders
11. Makes sure that funds are used safely and wisely. They oversee the state's financial records
Senior Executive Service
Caucuses
State Auditor
Democratic
12. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
5
Commonwealth
Bicameral
Implementation
13. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?
Arraignment
General Accounting Office
House of Representatives
Probable Cause
14. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Soft money
Democrats
Two Trial
Executive Privilege
15. In presidential campaigns - federal matching funds are provided to candidates who ______________.
Incumbents
Pluralist Theory
Pass the fundraising threshold
Max Weber
16. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
2
Lyndon B. Johnson
House of Representatives
Good Faith Exception
17. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
Senatorial Courtesy
Omaha platform
Executive Privilege
Defense
18. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Gerrymandering
Entitlement Programs
Commerce
2nd Amendment
19. An annual meeting held in the spring in many New England towns - at which the townspeople come together to elect a board of selectmen and to discuss local policy questions. It has become a symbol of participatory democracy.
Major Political Party
House of Representatives
Town Meeting
congressional oversight committee
20. Political leaders typically try to both lead and follow ____________.
Power Structure
W.E.B. DuBoise
Free Exercise
Public Opinion
21. Germany - Switzerland - and India are examples of countries with a _______________ system of government.
Federal
Regulatory Federalism
Party Realignment
Housing and Urban Development
22. The Supreme Court holds _____________ jurisdiction in cases against the US - ambassadors - public ministers - and consuls.
State of the Union
Original
Unicameral
Flexible Construction
23. A group of writers - journalists - and critics who exposed corporate malfeasance and political corruption in the first decade of the 20th century.
State Legislatures
Implementation
Nationalism
Muckrakers
24. Minor criminal offenses - such as speeding.
Unlimited
Misdemeanors
Good Faith Exception
Selective exposure
25. Political party lead by Andrew Jackson from 1828 to 1856. Campaigned against strong central government and fought to end elitism.
Democrats
Monroe Doctrine
Containment
Dissenting Opinion
26. Spending determined by the number of qualified recipients and their legally determined need is called
Gross Domestic Product
Fast Track Authority
Entitlement Spending
National Committee
27. Political strategists believe that presidential elections will normally be won or lost in _______________states.
2
Public hearing
Party of Economic Protest
Populous
28. In 1978 - the Supreme Court - in the 'seven dirty words' case - ruled that the government has the right to prohibit the broadcasting of _______________.
Pork Barrel Spending
Judicial Restraint
Offensive Language
Exit Polls
29. The term most political scientists prefer to describe the bureaucratic process
Public Administration
Shay's Rebellion
Agriculture
Medicare
30. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
General Purpose Grants
31
Equal Time
Interventionism
31. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
Common Law
Government Corporations
Ways and Means Committee
House of Representatives
32. The pursuit and exercise of power
Republicans
Export Taxes
Local
Politics
33. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
14th
Enact a Bill of Rights
Thurgood Marshall
34. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Ratification
Issue Networks
Hold
Open rule
35. A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
Welfare State
Interstate Compact
Whigs
Civil Cases
36. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Literacy Tests
Rhode Island
Confirmed
Automobiles
37. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Monopoly
Political Machines
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Jus Soli
38. ____________ often influence political appointments in an effort to influence bureaucracy.
Interest groups
Monroe Doctrine
Muckrakers
Outputs
39. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
Violation of Law
Hatch Act
General Accounting Office
Political Patronage
40. 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
Categorical Grant
Bicameral
Pork Barrel Spending
Foreign Policy
41. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
Majority Rule
Office of Management and Budget
Pentagon Papers
Cluster Sampling
42. These party members take active non-leadership roles such as working polls or contributing money to campaigns. Tend to compromise on important issues and are mostly concerned about winning elections.
Demands
Council of Economic Advisors
Party Regulars
Federal District
43. The power of some municipalities to modify their charters and run their affairs without approval by the state legislature.
Defense
Caucus
Independent expenditures
Home Rule
44. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
Katz. v US
Concurrent
Jurisdiction
Quota Sampling
45. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Creative Federalism
a senior senator of the majority party
Welfare State
Dissenting Opinion
46. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Veteran's Affairs
Republicans
Cloture
Independent expenditures
47. Decides which bills will be considered.
Monetary Policy
Periodic Registration
Committees
Jury of Peers
48. The way things should be by law
Regulatory Agencies
de jure
National Security Council
Offensive Language
49. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Albany Plan
may not
Pendleton Civil Service Act
state legislatures
50. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement is unconstitutional.
Restrictive Covenant
Civil War Amendments
Implied
The Federal Reserve Board
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