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CLEP American Government
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1. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Block Grant
Earl Warren
Clean bill
The Federal Reserve Board
2. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Enacted
Hatch Act
Economic Interest Groups
Office Column Ballot
3. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
Blacks
Attorney General
Standing Committees
Scandal Mongering
4. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1964 Civil Rights Act
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Freedom of Religion
5. Voting based on looking back and making judgments about the way things have gone and the kind of government experienced during a political leader's time in office.
Equity
Negative
President
Retrospective Voting
6. A philosophy that Supreme Court justices and other judges should boldly apply the Constitution to social and political questions.
Unicameral
Cruel and Unusual
Judicial Activism
Inverse
7. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Creative Federalism
House of Representatives
Blanket Primary
Party Dealignment
8. Powers not specifically granted to the federal government or denied to the states belong to the states and the people
Commonwealth
National Security Council
Caucuses
Reserved Powers
9. These party members tend to be ideologues who put issues ahead of winning elections and withhold support from candidates who do not share their stance on issues. Very active in special interest groups and caucuses within the party. Willing to break a
State Legislatures
Lemon Test
Literacy Tests
Party Purists
10. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Supreme Court
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Bundling
Bureaucracy
11. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: conflicts between state and national government - economic and racial discrimination - uneven enforcement of law - and dominance of local governments by special interest groups
Negative
Television and Radio
Marbury v. Madison
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
12. 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.
Policy
Regulatory Agencies
Libertarianism
General Election
13. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Balance of Trade
Select Committee
It Failed to be Ratified
Oligopoly
14. In the Federalist Papers - James Madison proposed that the states under the new Constitution would retain ____________ sovereignty.
Bill of Rights
Detente
Supply Side Economics
Residual
15. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Amicus Curiae Brief
Deviating Elections
Committee of the Whole
Agriculture
16. 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 ______________)
Politics
Judicial Selection
Flexible Construction
Free Exercise Clause
17. Most Americans support ______________ primarily as part of their criticism of PACs
Senate Standing Committees
Campaign Finance Reform
Unlimited
Raise Public Awareness
18. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
100
Council of Economic Advisors
Civil Liberties
Retrospective Voting
19. While the voting rights act of 1965 did direct the Attorney General to investigate the constitutionality of poll taxes and prohibit literacy tests - it did not expressly prohibit _____________.
Jus Sanguinis
5 -000
Gerrymandering
10th Amendment
20. Prompted by the ____________________ - the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
Jus Sanguinis
Vietnam War
Right of Expatriation
Clear and Present Danger
21. Requests from people or groups for health care for the aged - loans for college students - equal opportunity for minorities - and higher subsidies for farmers are examples of:
Demands
Reserved Powers
Espionage Act
Committees
22. 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.
Amicus Curiae Brief
Baby Boomers
8th Amendment
Writ of Mandamus
23. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
Maintaining Elections
Instructed Delegate
National Security Council
Custom
24. Voters in a political district - or supporters of an elected official; or interest groups or client groups that are either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions.
Criminal Information
Constituencies
Balancing Test
Custom
25. Defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing - pictures
Adversarial
New Jersey Plan
Slander
Confederation
26. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
14th
Clean bill
Common Sense
Formula Grant
27. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
Mayor-Council Plan
Segregation
8 Million
Office of Management and Budget
28. These courts only hear appeals on cases from lower courts.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Federal Appellate
Non-protected Speech
8 Million
29. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Office Column Ballot
Riders
Whip
Third Parties
30. 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.
General Accounting Office
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Arraignment
Gitlow v. New York
31. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Institutional
Libertarianism
Bicameral
Dynamic Conservatism
32. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has less discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
John Locke
Petition of Right
Probable Cause
Formula Grant
33. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
10th Amendment
Party of Economic Protest
5
Alien and Sedition Acts
34. Broadly worded warrants used by British soldiers during colonial America to search for contraband and prevent smuggling.
Baron v. Baltimore
congressional oversight committee
Writ of Assistance
Interventionism
35. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Collective Action
Jurisdiction
Fixed
Bicameral
36. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
Articles of Confederation
John Locke
House of Representatives
Regulatory Federalism
37. Powerful standing committee that puts bills on the legislative calendar and establishes the processes by which the bill will be discussed on the floor.
Safe seat
Majority Rule
Rules Committee
It Failed to be Ratified
38. Special courts assigned to deal with specific legislative issues such as taxes - military appeals - and international trade.
Legislative Courts
W.E.B. DuBoise
Political Action Committees
State Auditor
39. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Whistle-blowers
1st Amendment
Categorical Grant
Murray v. Curlett
40. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
Joint Committees
Free Exercise of Religion
Logrolling
Republican
41. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
435
Gender Gap
Exclusionary Rule
Roth v. US
42. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
Presidential Ticket
Ratification
Majority Rule
Implied
43. Decides which bills will be considered.
Amicus Curiae Brief
Committees
Campaign Finance Reform
Negative
44. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
Warrant
Senior Executive Service
binding
Interest Groups
45. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Politics
Federal
Low
Riders
46. Protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
Pre-clearance
4th Amendment
Declining
Regulatory Federalism
47. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
The Federal Reserve Board
Department of State
Conglomerates
Dred Scott Decision
48. The introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution - setting forth the general principles of American government and beginning with the words - 'We the people of the United States - in order to form a more perfect union. ...'
US Trade Representatives
National Chair
The Federal Reserve Board
Preamble
49. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
Maintaining Elections
Council of Economic Advisors
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
States
50. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Judicial
Cloture
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