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CLEP American Government
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1. Under this governing document - national government lacked authority to set up tariffs - regulate commerce - levy taxes - control international relations - establish common currency
Seniority System
Articles of Confederation
Parallel
Gay
2. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
Conference Committee
Wallace's Progressives
2nd Amendment
11th Amendment
3. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
14th
Thomas Hobbes
Dred Scott
Furman v. Georgia
4. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
Freedom of Speech
Writ of Mandamus
Feedback
Recall
5. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Whips
Appropriation Bills
Federal
Committees
6. 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
Rousseau
Probable Cause
Party Purists
31
7. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Periodic Registration
Earl Warren
Low
Pass the fundraising threshold
8. This 1972 Supreme Court case struck down all state laws allowing the death penalty stating that they allowed for too much discretion on the part of the judge and jury resulting in lack of consistent administration of the penalty.
Lord Acton
Furman v. Georgia
Flexible Construction
Earmarks
9. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
Affirmative Action
Jury of Peers
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Impeachment
10. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
Shay's Rebellion
Enumerated Powers
Social Contract
Political Machines
11. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
31
Republicans
16th Amendment
Natural Rights
12. 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
Recommit the Bill to Committee
14th
Ways and Means Committee
Jus Sanguinis
13. Organization of individuals with similar policy goals who enter the political process to influence legislation that affects the organizations interests
Electoral College
Gerrymandering
Interest Groups
Stare Decisis
14. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
Ticket Splitters
Supreme Court
High
Poll Tax
15. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Republicans
The Federalist #10
New Deal Era
Recommit the Bill to Committee
16. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over lawsuits filed against the agency.
Murray v. Curlett
Judicial
Probable Cause
Free Exercise of Religion
17. 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 ______________)
Grand Jury Indictment
English Bill of Rights
Catholics
Free Exercise Clause
18. By far - the largest amount of federal aid to state and local governments comes in the form of:
Outputs
Categorical Grants
Transportation
Woodrow Wilson
19. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
Hold
Earl Warren
Caucuses
Negative
20. 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.
Elite
Members of Congress
Situational
Majority Rule
21. Most Americans support ______________ primarily as part of their criticism of PACs
Open Meeting Law
Selective exposure
State Auditor
Campaign Finance Reform
22. The number of ______________ a state receives is based on the number Representatives and Senators that the state has in Congress
Cluster Sampling
Electoral Votes
Closed rule
Great Compromise
23. _____________ is responsible for monetary policy.
Third Parties
Confirmed
The Federal Reserve Board
Political Action Committees
24. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Literacy Tests
Mugwumps
8th Amendment
Political Patronage
25. Germany - Switzerland - and India are examples of countries with a _______________ system of government.
State Treasurer
Bureaucracy
Federal
12
26. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Capitalism
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Murray v. Curlett
Baby Boomers
27. 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.
Thurgood Marshall
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Free Exercise Clause
Republicans
28. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
Free Exercise Clause
Interest Groups
10th Amendment
Governmental Corporations
29. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
Concurrent
State
Presidential Ticket
Executive
30. 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.
Defense
Exclusionary Rule
Random Sample
Senior Executive Service
31. Passed in 1883 - it created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Roe v. Wade
Laissez-Faire
Senatorial Courtesy
32. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Commonwealth
Valence issue
legislative and executive
Office of Management and Budget
33. An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words - one means by which a political party nominate candidates for the following general election.s
Campaign Finance Reform
Right to Work Laws
Referendum
Primary
34. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Secretary of State
Take Care Clause
Republican
Government
35. This term refers to the gain in the polls that a candidate often enjoys after a national convention
Supply Side Economics
Declining
Supremacy Clause
Convention Bounce
36. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Incorporation Doctrine
16th Amendment
Prior Restraint
Speech Plus
37. Impact elections by siphoning off votes from major parties spoiling a party's chance in a close race.
Gay
Third Parties
Rank and File
Pyramid Model
38. Which office serves as a watchdog into waste or fraud in the bureaucracy and conducts investigations at the request of congressional committees
Mugwumps
General Accounting
Right to Work Laws
Impeachment
39. The Democrats control over politics during the 20th century ended with this President's unpopular handling of the Vietnam War.
Class Action Suit
Detente
Lyndon B. Johnson
Defense
40. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
435
Committee of the Whole
Republicans
Pendleton Civil Service Act
41. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Federal Register
Free Speech
5 -000
Shield Laws
42. Designed to protect the individual against the arbitrary power of the state.
Baby Boomers
Unicameral
Due Process of Law
Blanket Primary
43. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
8th Amendment
Policy
Entitlement Spending
Equal Time
44. It the job of _________ committees of a political party to hold voter registration drives - recruit new party members and final candidates for city and county positions.
Vietnam War
Executive Privilege
Local
Interstate Compact
45. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Distribution
Monetary Policy
Political Culture
Felonies
46. A method available in most states that allows voters - in effect - to 'veto' a bill passed by the legislature or to accept or reject a proposal - such as a bond issue - made by a government agency.
Due Process of Law
Appropriations
Wallace's Progressives
Referendum
47. These party members are highly involved in the electoral process. Donate funds to party and candidates - demand a voice in state party agendas and tend to have a strong belief in their party's ideology.
Categorical Grants
Writ of Certiorari
The Federalist #10
Party Activists
48. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
state legislatures
Grant Clemency
Right of Expatriation
Secondary Group
49. Which of the following factors is likely to be the weakest indicator of an individual's political beliefs and opinions? Age - Race - Intelligence - or Religion
Salient Agenda
Intelligence
Earmarks
Articles of Confederation
50. The way things actually are.
Sub-committee
de facto
Double Jeopardy
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