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CLEP American Government
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1. First proposed in 1789 - this amendment passed in 1992 prohibits Congress from raising their own pay. Pay raises may not take affect until the beginning of the next term.
27th Amendment
Soft money
national quotas
Federal Appellate
2. The President's role in the armed forces which during the 20th century has allowed Presidents to circumvent Congress' refusal to declare war.
16th Amendment
Plurality
The Federal Reserve Board
Commander in Chief
3. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Ways and Means Committee
Entitlement Programs
Conference Committee
Project Grant
4. Presidential management model in which the Chief of Staff plays a prominent role as the head of a military style chain of command. Used successfully by Reagan and Eisenhower.
Judicial
Pyramid Model
Electoral College
Plurality
5. 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
Line-Item Veto
Pork Barrel Spending
Popular Sovereignty
Government Corporations
6. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
25
Royal Colonies
Libertarianism
General Election
7. 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.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Lower
Absolute Position
Political ideology
8. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 restructured the number of ______________ in both the House and Senate.
Party Activists
Rhode Island
Committees
Supreme Court
9. 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.
imprisoned
Ex Post Facto
Redistributive Policy
Retrospective Voting
10. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Equal Protection Clause
Political Efficacy
Political Action Committee
Party Identification
11. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 10) intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affect property rights.
Cruel and Unusual
CORE
Libel
Contract Clause
12. This Supreme Court case infamously decided that a slave was not a citizen but property to be 'used in subservience to the interests - the convenience - or the will of his owner'
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Dred Scott
Administrative Law
Bowers v. Hardwick
13. 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.
Positive
Seniority System
Miller v. California
Independent expenditures
14. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendment to bills or provides that only memebers of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments
Whigs
Veto
Closed rule
National Supremacy
15. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Statutory Law
Agriculture
Public Policies
Military-Industrial Complex
16. A term popularized by sociologist Floyd Hunter to describe the community leaders who he said determined policy in Atlanta - Georgia. More broadly - the term is used to describe 'power elites' generally.
Freedom of Religion
Alien and Sedition Acts
Power Structure
Chief Justice
17. A political candidate who is thought to have only an outside chance of gaining the nomination.
Secretary of State
2
Plain View
Dark Horse
18. (1945-1991) The period after the Second World War marked by rivalry and tension between the two nuclear superpowers - the United States and the communist government of the Soviet Union. The Cold War ended when the Soviet government collapsed in 1991.
Third Parties
Majority Opinion
Cold War
Cloture
19. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Electoral Connection
Secretary of State
Incumbents
Public Administration
20. The Supreme Court holds _____________ jurisdiction in cases against the US - ambassadors - public ministers - and consuls.
4
Federal
Realigning Elections
Original
21. At one time - the press generally refrained from publishing personal information that would be damaging. FDR - Eisenhower - and JFK all benefited from this reluctance to engage in _____________________. However - the American publics appetite for sen
16th Amendment
Selective Incorporation
Scandal Mongering
Independent Regulatory Agencies
22. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Habeas Corpus
Lafolette's Progressive s
Enacted
Earl Warren
23. In the 1962 case of Robinson v. California - the Supreme Court ruled that incarcerating a drug addict is ______________________ because drug addiction is an illness.
National Security
Separation of Powers
Conference Committee
Cruel and Unusual
24. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
Voting
Articles of Confederation
Free Exercise
School Desegregation
25. An economic philosophy that advocates both tax and budget cuts to increase incentives to produce in order to expand the total supply of the nation's goods and services.
Gay
Supply Side Economics
Recall
Democratic-Republicans
26. This article of the Constitution establishes the Executive Branch.
High
Senate
Elastic Clause
Article II
27. A form of city government under which a council - usually elected on a nonpartisan ticket - hires a professional city manager - who runs the city government and has power to hire and fire officials.
Council-Manager Plan
Unlimited
7
Selective exposure
28. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
7th Amendment
Spoils System
Pluralist Theory
Right to Work Laws
29. In Congress - _____________ are informal organizations of individual congressional representatives with like interests or constituencies. Members work together to promote the interests of the groups they represent through legislation - policy - and p
Reverse Discrimination
Caucuses
8th Amendment
Northern and Southern
30. A course of action decided upon by a government
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Flexible Construction
Policy
31. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
Rank and File
10th Amendment
Grant Clemency
Third Parties
32. Popular until the early 20th century when they lost favor to primaries due to corruption - now used in only 12 states.
Soft money
Caucuses
High
Truman
33. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.
Earl Warren
Nuclear Proliferation
National Security Council
Department of Treasury
34. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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The Federal Reserve Board
Soft Money
35. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Oligopoly
Democratic
Speaker of the House
Interior
36. Walter DeVries and Lance Tarrance have concluded that in many elections the outcome is determined by ______________.
John F. Kennedy
Ticket Splitters
Misdemeanors
Selective exposure
37. The fundamental rights of a free society that are protected by the Bill of Rights against the power of the government - such as freedom of speech - religion - press - and assembly.
Civil Liberties
Mayor-Council Plan
Delegate
General Accounting
38. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Permanent Registration
Federalist
Major Political Party
Articles of Confederation
39. 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
Public Opinion
state legislatures
Budget Surplus
527 Organization
40. ____________ often influence political appointments in an effort to influence bureaucracy.
Interest groups
Energy
Closed Shop
Presidential Ticket
41. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Riders
War Powers Resolution
31
Redistributive Policy
42. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
The Federalist #10
House of Representatives
Suburbia
Capitalism
43. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Patriot Act
Warrant
Outputs
Conventions
44. The class of independent voters who do not vote according to party affiliation - but who typically have a broader range of concerns than single-issue voters - are known colloquially as
Police Powers
President Pro Tempore
may not
Mugwumps
45. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Amicus Curiae Brief
Instructed Delegate
Governmental Corporations
State
46. Law enacted in 1939 to prohibit civil servants from taking activists roles in partisan campaigns .This act prohibited federal employees from making political contributions - working for a particualr party -or campaining for a particualr canidate
Budget Resolution
Hatch Act
Ticket Splitters
States
47. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Woodrow Wilson
Substantive Due Process
Libel
Whistle-blowers
48. Literally meaning 'right of blood' - confers citizenship to a child from the parents.
Jus Sanguinis
Mallory Rule
Monetary Policy
Interest groups
49. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Commonwealth
Politics
Supreme Court
Selective exposure
50. Senators are re-elected every ___ years with 1/3 of the Senate being up for election every 2 years.
Detente
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5
Freedom of Religion
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