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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Riders
Budget Resolution
Federal Courts
National Supremacy
2. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Republicans
Judicial Review
Pre-clearance
Office of Management and Budget
3. A controversial law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001 - after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspe
Office of Management and Budget
Institutional
Impeachment
Patriot Act
4. The 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act - the 1965 Highway Beautification Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act are all examples of ____________________.
Quota Sampling
Regulatory Federalism
Export Taxes
Pentagon Papers
5. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Outputs
20
Rousseau
14th Amendment
6. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
Original
9
Union Shop
Blanket Primary
7. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Presidential Ticket
Monetary Policy
Increased
Whistle-blowers
8. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
New Federalism
Ad Hoc Structure
Universe
Commonwealth
9. The drawing of the lines of congressional districts - or of any other political district - in order to favor one political party or group over another.
Criminal Information
Checks and Balances
Roe v. Wade
Gerrymandering
10. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Selective Incorporation
Major Political Party
Supply Side Economics
Freedom of Speech
11. Form of obstruction in the Senate where an attempt is made to infinitely extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay the progress or completely prevent a vote on the proposal taking place.
Baron v. Baltimore
Filibuster
Pocket Veto
Party Dealignment
12. Constitutionally required address by the President typically given in a joint session of Congress.
State of the Union
Closed
Federal Register
Bipartisanship
13. 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.
War Powers Resolution
Freedom of Speech
Standing Committees
Local
14. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Delegated Powers
Public Opinion
Hold
Categorical Grants
15. While the verbiage of the 4th Amendment is vague as to what constitutes 'reasonable'. Police departments must rely on _____________; they cannot act on unfounded suspicion.
Open rule
Probable Cause
Judicial Selection
Separate but Equal
16. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Civilian Supremacy
Ways and Means Committee
14th
Writ of Certiorari
17. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Whips
Sub-committee
Monopoly
Dark Horse
18. _____ out of 9 justices must agree to hear an appellate case brought to them from a lower court.
Mark Up Session
Regulatory Federalism
Coast Guard
4
19. The response of the rest of society to actions by the authorities.
National Debt
Feedback
Primary
Commonwealth
20. A provision of the Federal Communications Act that requires broadcasters to provide the same amount of exposure to all legally qualified political candidates.
Inputs
Unlimited
Equal Time
Commerce
21. A public policy that takes something away from one person or group and gives it to another person or group.
2/3
Redistributive Policy
Trustee
Democratic
22. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 restructured the number of ______________ in both the House and Senate.
Committees
Medicaid
Party Regulars
Balancing Test
23. In the area of foreign affairs - _______________ often have the advantage because
Federalist
Republicans
Judicial Selection
Closed rule
24. Electoral college system and other campaign practices make it exceedingly difficult for even popular ______________ candidates to successfully run for the presidency.
Espionage Act
Third Party
Executive
Selective Incorporation
25. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Regulatory Federalism
Equality
Categorical Grants
Public hearing
26. Concept of the British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
Supreme Court
Ways and Mean Committee
Trustee
Pluralist
27. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
2/3
Members of Congress
Senatorial Courtesy
Republic
28. _____________ is responsible for monetary policy.
Nationalism
Pluralist
Ratification
The Federal Reserve Board
29. When the President's own party gains power and influence - it more puts pressure on the President to conform to the will of the party - leading to________________ between the President and the party to define their public identities
Earl Warren
Increased competition
Non-protected Speech
Increased
30. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Republicans
a senior senator of the majority party
Iron Triangle
Federalism
31. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
Administrative Law
Interventionism
de jure
Socialism
32. The right to privacy is ___________ in the Constitution.
Implied
Contract Clause
Conglomerates
may not
33. Also known as the Indiana ballot - lists the candidates of each party in a row or column - beside or under the party emblem. In most cases - the voter can make one mark at the top of the column - or pull one lever - and thus vote for all the party's
19th Amendment
Implied Powers
Party Column Ballot
State Government
34. Prompted by the ____________________ - the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
Containment
Vietnam War
Hub and Spoke Model
Iron Triangle
35. The power of the president - struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998 - to veto parts of appropriations bills. Most state governors have this power.
Line-Item Veto
Rules Committee
435
Reynolds v. Sims
36. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Common Law
Impartial
Executive Privilege
Interest Groups
37. Designed to protect the individual against the arbitrary power of the state.
Due Process of Law
Take Care Clause
Oligopoly
Independent Expenditures
38. Age Requirement for the Senate
Transportation
de facto
Judicial
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39. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Separation of Powers
Ratification
Article III
Spoils System
40. A system in which national and state government have shared or overlapping powers. FDR's New Deal legislation established this system in the US.
State Auditor
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Chief Justice
Department of Treasury
41. 1976 Law requiring all governmental agency meetings to be open to the public unless classified information will be discussed.
Lower
Probable Cause
Pentagon Papers
Open Meeting Law
42. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
National Political Parties
Judicial
Liberalism
Political Party
43. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Affirmative Action
2
Transnational Relations
Committees
44. In 2002 - a federal appeals court struck down the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that it violated ________________.
17th
Preamble
Freedom of Religion
Select Committee
45. ________________ of the Constitution dictates how the Constitution shall be amended.
NY Times v. Sullivan
Resolutions
Agriculture
Article V
46. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Gender Gap
Valence issue
Weber
Judicial Review
47. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
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House of Representatives
State
Outputs
48. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Checks and Balances
General Accounting
Retrospective Voting
Bandwagon
49. 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 ______________)
Right to Work Laws
Gender Gap
Free Exercise Clause
Spoiler Candidate
50. Representing - characterized by - or including members from two parties or factions
Office of Management and Budget
Plain View
27th Amendment
Bipartisanship