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CLEP American Government
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1. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
Substantive Due Process
Incorporation Doctrine
House of Representatives
Civil Liberties
2. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Ratification
Interventionism
Tariff
Realigning Elections
3. Process by which citizens propose an amendment by petition.
Constitutional Initiative
Appropriations
Supports
English Bill of Rights
4. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
House of Representatives
Civil Liberties
Precedent
Low
5. Repealed by the 21st Amendment - this Amendment prohibited alcohol.
Redistributive Policy
Freedom of Speech
Party Identification
18th Amendment
6. Representatives serve ____ year terms
2
Closed
Welfare State
Capitalism
7. In Woodson v. North Carolina - the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing of capital punishment as ______________________ because it does not allow for any discretion.
Increased
Right to Counsel
Cruel and Unusual
Democrats
8. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
Speech Plus
Magna Carta
Capitalism
Distribution
9. The proceeding before a judge in which the formal charges of an indictment or information are read to an accused person - who may plead guilty or not guilty.
New Deal Era
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Arraignment
Articles of Confederation
10. 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.
Soft Money
Contract Clause
Hatch Act
Party Purists
11. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Party Regulars
congressional oversight committee
Oligopoly
Tariff
12. The drawing of the lines of congressional districts - or of any other political district - in order to favor one political party or group over another.
Republicans
Ticket Splitters
Free Exercise Clause
Gerrymandering
13. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
Majority Rule
Flexible Construction
Commander in Chief
Poll Tax
14. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Northern and Southern
Republicans
Right of Expatriation
Electoral Votes
15. A philosophy that Supreme Court justices and other judges should boldly apply the Constitution to social and political questions.
Judicial Review
Judicial Activism
Rules Committee
Electoral College
16. (1781-1789) The written framework for the government of the original 13 states before the Constitution was adopted. Under this - the national government was weak and dominated by the states. There was a unicameral legislature - but no national execut
Gay
5
Straight Ticket Voting
Articles of Confederation
17. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Judicial
Deviating Elections
Enact a Bill of Rights
Hatch Act
18. First Roman Catholic elected President.
John F. Kennedy
Muckrakers
Freedom of Speech
Free Speech
19. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Dred Scott Decision
Shay's Rebellion
Unitary System
Political Efficacy
20. Executive Check on the Legislative Branch.
Sub-government
Presidential Veto
Ways and Mean Committee
Internationalism
21. Elects the President if no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes.
Senate Standing Committees
Freedom of Speech
Felonies
House of Representatives
22. In Congress - _____________ are informal organizations of individual congressional representatives with like interests or constituencies. Members work together to promote the interests of the groups they represent through legislation - policy - and p
Nuclear Proliferation
Iron Triangle
Caucuses
Reverse Discrimination
23. Lobbyists for special interest groups have found ____________________ to be the most direct and effective method to secure their objectives in Congress.
Catholics
Campaign Contributions
Unicameral
Office of Management and Budget
24. 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.
Blacks
Recall
527 Organization
31
25. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Libel
Institutional
Divided Government
Select Committee
26. In a political campaign - the surest way of reaching the largest number of voters is usually _____________.
Television
Mixed Economy
Interest Groups
Riders
27. Practice by which voters of one party crossing over and voting in the primary of another party - effectively allowing a party to help choose its opposition's candidate.
Raiding
Equality
Campaign Contributions
Poll Tax
28. In addition to a quick and speedy trial - the 6th Amendment also guarantees ________________.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Party of Economic Protest
Right to Counsel
Institutional
29. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Voting
Blanket Primary
Ratification
Housing and Urban Development
30. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Fast Track Authority
Petition of Right
Outputs
Politics
31. The power of some municipalities to modify their charters and run their affairs without approval by the state legislature.
Home Rule
Regulatory Agencies
Raise Public Awareness
Whips
32. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Rules Committee
25th Amendment
25
Major Political Party
33. 1917 Reincarnation of the Sedition Act during WWI
Espionage Act
Roe v. Wade
Thurgood Marshall
Earl Warren
34. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Lord Acton
77
Segregation
Felonies
35. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
Party of Economic Protest
Social Security
Recall
7
36. Polls taken as people leave voting places. In the past - television networks sometimes used these polls to predict election outcomes before the polls close. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to project the winner in a state until the major
77
Civil Cases
Exit Polls
Quota Sampling
37. 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
Valence issue
Quid Pro Quo
Internal Efficacy
Common Law
38. Author of The Spirit of the Laws advocating balance of power in politics with liberty is dependant upon a separation of the judicial - legislative - and executive branches of government.
High
Baron de Montesquieu
Custom
Writ of Certiorari
39. This house committee is responsible for Supervising the authority of the federal government to borrow money - Raising the revenue required to finance the federal government by levying taxes - Overseeing Social Security and other social insurance prog
Ways and Means Committee
Iron Triangle
Public Opinion
Republican
40. Form of government in which the people are sovereign but their power is exercised by their elected representatives.
Lafolette's Progressive s
Export Taxes
Republic
3
41. In Schenck v. US (1919) - The Supreme Court ruled that government may prohibit speech that creates an immediate threat of criminal action. Essentially established different standards for speech during wartime than in peacetime. Thus - establishing th
Clear and Present Danger
Impeachment
Campaign Contributions
20th
42. The pursuit and exercise of power.
Politics
12th Amendment
legislative and executive
12
43. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
Open rule
Affirmative Action
Electoral College
Selective Incorporation
44. Today the Senate operates with ____ standing and select committees. These select committees - however - are permanent in nature and are treated as standing committees under Senate rules.
National Debt
20
State of the Union
55
45. Which form of registration prevails in all but a few states?
Committees of Correspondence
Jus Soli
Permanent Registration
District of Columbia
46. 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.
Conference Committee
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Party Regulars
Homeland Security
47. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Low
Federalism
Judicial
Free Exercise Clause
48. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
may not
Good Faith Exception
Social Regulation
Campaign Contributions
49. The gap between the government's income and outlays.
Reverse Discrimination
Implied Powers
Offensive Language
Deficit
50. The separation of people by race.
Segregation
Plain View
Demands
Public Policies
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