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CLEP American Government
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1. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Republic
presidential line-item veto
Due Process of Law
Major Political Party
2. 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
Majority Rule
Intelligence
Social Security
Medicaid
3. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Issue network
Electoral College
Magna Carta
Independent expenditures
4. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
Roe v. Wade
25th Amendment
Royal Colonies
Increased
5. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Northern and Southern
Third Parties
Republicans
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
6. 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:
Pyramid Model
Demands
4th Amendment
Mark Up Session
7. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)
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Freedom of Information Act
Agriculture
Party Identification
8. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Commerce
Lord Acton
Civil Cases
Committee of the Whole
9. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Membership
Department of State
Dred Scott
Bowers v. Hardwick
10. Cabinet department oversees nuclear reactors.Established in 1973 in response to the Energy Crisis.
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Exclusionary Rule
Scandal Mongering
Energy
11. Petition that - if signed by a majority of the members of the House of Representatives - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration
Discharge Petition
Slander
Selective Incorporation
Concurrent Powers
12. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Freedom of Speech
Constitutional Initiative
Horse race
Declining
13. A federal law passed by Congress in 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers. The law prevents federal employees while on duty from taking an active part in party politics or campaigns and also bars federal employees from running for
Resolutions
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Hatch Act
presidential line-item veto
14. The Supreme Court is the only judicial body that may hear disputes between _________________.
States
Mixed Economy
6
Home Rule
15. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
Department of State
25
Public Opinion
6th Amendment
16. The Supreme Court's broad interpretation of this clause has denied direct aid from the government for religious groups - but does allow religious groups to make use of government services such as police and fire.
Establishment Clause
Tariff
Pass the fundraising threshold
Laissez-Faire
17. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Caucus
Interventionism
Due Process of Law
Majority Rule
18. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Outputs
Original
Majority and Minority Leader
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
19. Washington v. Chrisman (1982) established the _________________ - allowing police officers to seize evidence without a warrant if the evidence is in obvious sight.
Caucus
Retrospective Voting
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Plain View
20. A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation.
Entitlement Programs
19th Amendment
National Committee
Issue Networks
21. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
Federal
Unitary System
4
Prior Restraint
22. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
Laissez-Faire
7th Amendment
Agriculture
Charismatic authority
23. In WV State BOE v Barnette (1943) - the Supreme Court ruled that compelling citizens to salute the flag violates the principles of a free society - upholding which 1st Amendment rights?
Free Exercise of Religion
Hatch Act
Television
Judicial Activism
24. Decides which bills will be considered.
Class Action Suit
Referendum
Non-protected Speech
Committees
25. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Implied Powers
Public Bills
Baron v. Baltimore
Jus Soli
26. These voters are registered as a party member but only participate by voting in primary and general elections. Tend to vote straight-party ticket and follow the leads of local party officials.
Unicameral
National Convention
Rank and File
NY Times v. Sullivan
27. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Absolute Position
Jurisdiction
Democrats
Equal Time
28. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Presidential Ticket
Ad Hoc Structure
Lord Acton
Commander in Chief
29. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
National Chair
Monroe Doctrine
Ratification
Shay's Rebellion
30. A provision of law in which Congress asserts the power to nullify actions of the executive branch. In 1983 the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional - but Congress continued to pass laws containing such provisions.
New Jersey Plan
Legislative Veto
Lower
Judicial
31. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Republicans
Authorizations
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Conglomerates
32. Defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing - pictures
Line-Item Veto
Civil Liberties
Slander
Sub-committee
33. The pursuit and exercise of power.
Articles of Confederation
Public Policy
Politics
Poll Tax
34. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
Interstate Compact
Enacted
State
Majority Whip
35. Prohibits citizens of one state or foreign country from suing another state.
Speech Plus
Police Powers
House of Representatives
11th Amendment
36. This may be done by a national constitutional convention called by Congress on the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures OR By the passage of a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress
State Treasurer
Local
Propose an Amendment
11th Amendment
37. The fundamental flaw in plural theory contends that pluralism weakens the backbone of democracy with too many common interest groups attempt to wield power - often leading to standstill because of unwillingness to compromise.
Inputs
Constituencies
Hyperpluralism
Chief Justice
38. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Cabinet
War Powers Resolution
Ratification
Voting Rights Act of 1965
39. 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.
Equal Time
Ex Post Facto
High
Standing Committees
40. In the year 2000 - the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to ban _____________ members.
Gay
Fixed
Liberalism
Dynamic Conservatism
41. The individuals - institutions - and processes that make the rules for society and possess the power to enforce them.
Ticket Splitters
Joint Committees
Article VI
Government
42. An annual meeting held in the spring in many New England towns - at which the townspeople come together to elect a board of selectmen and to discuss local policy questions. It has become a symbol of participatory democracy.
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Appealed
Inherent Powers
Town Meeting
43. The 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that prompted King George III's Prohibitory Act and the sending of mercenaries to the colonies.
Conglomerates
Common Sense
Catholics
Writ of Certiorari
44. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
National Security Council
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Deficit
Legislative Courts
45. A law passed by Congress in 1973 in an effort to set a time limit on the use of combat forces abroad by a president.
Declining
Economic Interest Groups
Redistributive Policy
War Powers Resolution
46. President requires their approval to appoint judges - ambassadors and other high officials.
Segregation
Offensive Language
Warrant
Senate
47. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Hatch Act
Veto
Antitrust Legislation
Federalism
48. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Budget Resolutions
Clear and Present Danger
Federal Courts
Political Machines
49. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Rousseau
W.E.B. DuBoise
Conventions
Scottsboro Boys Case
50. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Judicial Review
Executive Agencies
Earl Warren
Civil Liberties