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CLEP American Government
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1. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Power Structure
Petition of Right
89
Federal
2. Each Senate committee may have ________ subcommittees.
Violation of Law
Speech Plus
Checks and Balances
unlimited
3. A broad concept that may be defined in many ways - but the term is generally used to refer to the basic protection and defense of the nation.
State Legislatures
Judicial Restraint
Marshall Plan
National Security
4. This called for three-fifths of all slaves in a state were counted for purposes of apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.
Great Compromise
Rousseau
Monroe Doctrine
Espionage Act
5. Something given in exchange for something else; swap
Quid Pro Quo
Policy Making Cycle
Inverse
Separate but Equal
6. 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
Inverse
Clear and Present Danger
Senate Standing Committees
Budget Surplus
7. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Sub-government
Absolute Position
Jurisdiction
State
8. 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
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Writ of Certiorari
Categorical Grant
Royalists
9. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Mark Up Session
Conglomerates
Caucuses
Open Meeting Law
10. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Whips
National Debt
Civil War Amendments
11th Amendment
11. 'lame duck' amendment
Nuclear Proliferation
Labor
Ticket Splitters
20th
12. Guaranteed women the right to vote.
Dark Horse
19th Amendment
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Scandal Mongering
13. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Blacks
Republic
Common Sense
Patriot Act
14. A provision of the Federal Communications Act that requires broadcasters to provide the same amount of exposure to all legally qualified political candidates.
Equal Time
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Globalization
Due Process
15. Popular until the early 20th century when they lost favor to primaries due to corruption - now used in only 12 states.
Campaign Contributions
Republican
Caucuses
Free Exercise Clause
16. These parties often emerge as off-shoots of major parties or as single-issue parties. They typically act as critic/innovator bringing attention to issues and influencing the platforms of the major parties.
Presidential Ticket
Third Parties
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
New Jersey Plan
17. A nation's set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.
Committees
Political Culture
Joint Committee
Local
18. The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
Nuclear Proliferation
Commerce
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
4
19. This event was an important factor in creating the climate for a new Constitution.
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20. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)
2nd Amendment
Public Opinion
Agriculture
Due Process of Law
21. Constitutionally empowered to appoint judges - ambassadors - and other high officials - Constitutionally empowered to make treaties with foreign countries.
Open
Focus Groups
President
presidential line-item veto
22. The demands of and supports for a political system
Rules Committee
Military-Industrial Complex
Inputs
Collective Action
23. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Party Regulars
Executive Agencies
Veto
24. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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25. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Public hearing
Judicial Activism
1776
Warrant
26. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
Divided Government
Scottsboro Boys Case
National Supremacy
Pentagon Papers
27. Philosopher John Locke - in his 1690 work Civil Government (second treatise) - advised separation of government power between
Plain View
legislative and executive
Politics
Mugwumps
28. A policy adopted by the United States after the Second World War that assumed that if enough nuclear weapons were deployed by the United States - an enemy would not attack for fear of being destroyed in retaliation.
Strategic Deterrence
Lemon Test
Council-Manager Plan
Constitutional Initiative
29. The Constitution requires that state governments - like the federal government - must be _____________ in form - with final authority resting with the people.
Democratic
Project Grant
Policy
Cruel and Unusual
30. States that arrestees must be informed of their right to remain silent - that anything they say can be held against them in a court - that they have a right to an attorney and that an attorney will be appointed to them if they cannot afford one.
Unicameral
Freedom of Speech
Miranda Rights
Civil Liberties
31. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Catholics
Political Efficacy
Executive Agreements
Membership
32. A political group organized under section 527 of the IRS code that may accept and spend unlimited amounts of money on election activities so long as they are not spent on broadcast ads run in the last 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a gene
House of Representatives
Smith Act
527 Organization
Valence issue
33. Representing - characterized by - or including members from two parties or factions
Bipartisanship
6th Amendment
Due Process of Law
Democrats
34. Form of government in which the people are sovereign but their power is exercised by their elected representatives.
Republic
Republican
War Powers Resolution
Raiding
35. There are 11 circuit ____________________ who have no original jurisdiction.
Little Difference
Death penalty
Court of Appeals
Majority Opinion
36. Capital punishment is also known as the _________________.
Winston Churchill
Blanket Primary
English Bill of Rights
Death penalty
37. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
Dies
Balance of Trade
Committees of Correspondence
5
38. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Police Powers
Grant Clemency
Electoral College
5 -000
39. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Raise Public Awareness
Deviating Elections
Political Action Committee
Thomas Hobbes
40. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Mark Up Session
Katz. v US
Vietnam War
congressional oversight committee
41. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
John Locke
Selective Incorporation
Soft money
Shield Laws
42. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Concurrent
National
Self-Incrimination
Export Taxes
43. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Political ideology
Agriculture
Felonies
Enacted
44. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Electoral College
Checks and Balances
Commission Plan
Article V
45. When the President's own party gains power and influence - it more puts pressure on the President to conform to the will of the party - leading to________________ between the President and the party to define their public identities
Campaign Contributions
Demands
Supreme Court
Increased competition
46. 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.
20
Privacy Act
President
Pyramid Model
47. The oldest House committee still in existence.
Article IV
Raise Public Awareness
Caucus
Ways and Means Committee
48. A jury of 6 to 12 persons who determine guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action
Exclusionary Rule
Article V
Secretary of State
Petit Jury
49. 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
Espionage Act
Hatch Act
Omaha platform
Enterprise Zones
50. 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
Gitlow v. New York
Legislative
Caucuses
4th Amendment