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CLEP American Government

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1. 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






2. Requires the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President separately.






3. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.






4. The concept that political power rests with the people who can create - alter - and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government






5. A primary in which any registered voter is able to vote for candidates from more than one party. A voter - for example - may vote for a Democrat for U.S. senator and for a Republican for governor. In 2000 - the Supreme Court struck down the blanket p






6. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.






7. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.






8. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.






9. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.






10. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.






11. Most states have ___________ legislatures.






12. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.






13. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.






14. A nation's set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.






15. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes






16. In a political campaign - the surest way of reaching the largest number of voters is usually _____________.






17. Defamation by written or printed words - pictures - or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.






18. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for






19. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?






20. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.






21. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.






22. A system - until modified and reformed in the 1970s - that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.






23. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)






24. President requires their approval to appoint judges - ambassadors and other high officials.






25. Tax legislation must originate in this house.






26. 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.






27. Head of the Supreme Court.






28. A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation.






29. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the






30. Presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. Position awarded to the longest serving Senator from the majority party. 3rd in line of succession for the Presidency.






31. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.






32. A 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union limiting the number of defensive missiles each country could build. In 2001 President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the treaty.






33. 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






34. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.






35. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.






36. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as






37. Repealed by the 21st Amendment - this Amendment prohibited alcohol.






38. A public policy that takes something away from one person or group and gives it to another person or group.






39. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.






40. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.






41. A pluralist theory by C. Wright Mills where a small number of wealthy elite wield most of the power. Fundamental to all governments around the world - the elite rule while they make the lower classes feel like they are involved in democracy. The elit






42. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.






43. Largest interest group in the US.






44. A joint committee of Congress established to help negotiate discrepancies and gain consensus between legislation passed in each house before sending the bill to the President.






45. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.






46. The view advocated by Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas that there are provisions of the Bill of Rights that cannot be diluted by judicial decisions.






47. The Supreme Court is the only judicial body that may hear disputes between _________________.






48. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.






49. The most important committees - always assembled and delegated with the responsibility of handling all bills under their concern. Includes the Ways and Means - Appropriations - Budget - Rules and Agriculture Committees.






50. 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






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