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CLEP American Government
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1. Compromise between the large states and small states that established the bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Also included 3/5 compromise on the status of slaves in representation.
Interest Groups
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Caucus
Police Powers
2. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
Spoiler Candidate
Democracy
Closed
Delegated Powers
3. Belief in the value of strong government to provide economic secruity and protection for civil rights - combined with a belief in personal freedom from government intervention in social conduct
5
55
Closed rule
Liberalism
4. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
20
Federal
Unlimited
5. In Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - The Supreme Court upheld that ___________________ was inherently not the case as is applied to the University of Texas Law School.
Bipartisanship
Cabinet
Separate but Equal
Restrictive Covenant
6. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
Detente
Confederation
Muckrakers
Exit Polls
7. The way things actually are.
Separate but Equal
Enumerated Powers
de facto
Senate Standing Committees
8. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Divided Government
Social Contract
1776
Political Machines
9. 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
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Pyramid Model
Fiscal Policy
10. Lead by Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. Dedicated to defending federal authority and high tariffs. Gained supports of merchants - bankers - industrialists and planters.
Whigs
Pluralist
Office of Management and Budget
18th Amendment
11. In Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972) - the Supreme Court extended the right to counsel to those accused of misdemeanors if the defendant is _____________.
imprisoned
Retrospective Voting
The Federal Reserve Board
Internal Efficacy
12. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Creative Federalism
Arraignment
Democratic
Rousseau
13. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Economic Interest Groups
Periodic Registration
Lobbying
National Political Parties
14. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Office of Management and Budget
Petition of Right
Supreme Court
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
15. Agenda that includes issues that affect the daily lives of the people.
Fiscal Policy
Reserved Powers
National Committee
Salient Agenda
16. Communication with legislators or other government officials to try to influence their decisions.
Writ of Certiorari
Safe seat
Lobbying
Right to Work Laws
17. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Pentagon Papers
Interior
Little Difference
Clean bill
18. A form of city government under which a council - usually elected on a nonpartisan ticket - hires a professional city manager - who runs the city government and has power to hire and fire officials.
Majority Whip
Council-Manager Plan
Natural Rights
Rousseau
19. ___________ vote in both the House and Senate may override a Presidential veto of legislation.
2/3
Random Sample
Bandwagon
Joseph McCarthy
20. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Project Grant
Popular Sovereignty
Habeas Corpus
Fiscal Federalism
21. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Regulatory Federalism
Cloture
Self-Incrimination
Public Opinion
22. 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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23. This 1973 ruling gave local communities the authority to determine obscenity - established three part test for obscene material. To qualify as obscene - speech must be considered obscene by the 'average' person - depict or describe material that is a
Elite
Northern and Southern
Party Column Ballot
Miller v. California
24. An economy in which most economic decisions result from the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets - but in which the government plays a significant role in the allocation of resources.
Prior Restraint
Negative
Ratification
Mixed Economy
25. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Legislative Courts
Referendum
Gitlow v. New York
Truman
26. In Woodson v. North Carolina - the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing of capital punishment as ______________________ because it does not allow for any discretion.
Hatch Act
Ticket Splitters
Demands
Cruel and Unusual
27. 1976 Law requiring all governmental agency meetings to be open to the public unless classified information will be discussed.
Confederation
Equal Time
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Open Meeting Law
28. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
Committees
Royal Colonies
Gideon v. Wainwright
Elastic Clause
29. 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
15
John F. Kennedy
Agriculture
30. Method by which federal court judges may lose their position.
3
Interest groups
Feedback
Impeachment
31. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
Death penalty
12
Automobiles
Raise Public Awareness
32. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Miller v. California
Criminal Information
Raise Public Awareness
270
33. The oldest House committee still in existence.
Supremacy Clause
Ways and Means Committee
House of Representatives
Lyndon B. Johnson
34. Concept of government by the people in which everyone is free to vote - but normally whoever gets the most votes wins the election and represents all the people - including those who voted for the losing candidate.
Republicans
Pentagon Papers
Majority Rule
Establishment Clause
35. Independent agencies governed by an appointed and confirmed commission. Examples include the Food and Drug Administration - Environmental Protection Agency - and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Reynolds v. Sims
Instructed Delegate
Regulatory Agencies
Periodic Registration
36. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.
Democracy
Periodic Registration
Thurgood Marshall
Select Committee
37. Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Unicameral
20th
de facto
38. Makes sure that funds are used safely and wisely. They oversee the state's financial records
Probable Cause
State Auditor
Shay's Rebellion
Judicial
39. Freedoms that protect the individual from the government.
Supreme Court
Civil Liberties
Speaker of the House
Inherent Powers
40. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Senatorial Courtesy
CORE
Bicameral
19th Amendment
41. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Miller v. California
legislative and executive
Internationalism
Gitlow v. New York
42. (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
Articles of Confederation
Northern and Southern
Speaker of the House
Veto
43. In 1987 - the FCC abandoned the fairness doctrine on the grounds that it unconstitutionally restricted the ______________ rights of broadcasters.
Labor
Murray v. Curlett
1st Amendment
Increased competition
44. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution - for example - the authority to print money.
Whigs
Ratification
8th Amendment
Delegated Powers
45. This type of government suits a large country with a diverse population
Political Culture
Federal
Ticket Splitters
Chief Justice
46. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
Selective Incorporation
Selective exposure
Campaign Finance Reform
Decreased
47. Guarantees that citizens cannot be compelled by the government to act in a way that is contrary to their religious beliefs. (ex. Conscientious objection to military service required by the draft is the execution of ______________)
School Desegregation
Increased competition
Free Exercise Clause
Local
48. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Civil War Amendments
Writ of Certiorari
State
1964 Civil Rights Act
49. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Separate but Equal
National Security Council
Elastic Clause
Inverse
50. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
3
Zenger
Executive