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CLEP American Government
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1. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
9
Office of Management and Budget
527 Organizations
Prior Restraint
2. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Jurisdiction
Blacks
Prior Restraint
Distribution
3. This 1932 case established that a case can be too speedy and under-counseled - providing defendants in a capital case the right to a reasonable amount of time to establish a defense.
Scottsboro Boys Case
Political Action Committees
Criminal Information
Collective Action
4. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
Committees
Commonwealth
Straight Ticket Voting
Enumerated Powers
5. An ideology that advocates limits on government power to address economic and social problems - relying instead on economic markets and individual initiative to address problems like health care and education - while promoting government involvement
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Plurality
Conservatism
2nd Amendment
6. Decides which bills will be considered.
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Public Opinion
17th
Committees
7. In 2002 - a federal appeals court struck down the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that it violated ________________.
Oligopoly
Freedom of Religion
Good Faith Exception
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
8. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Open rule
7
Incumbents
Cold War
9. A system of _______________ - as in Italy - encourages the existence of many parties by allotting seats to competing candidates according to the percentage of votes they win.
Proportional Representation
Gideon v. Wainwright
Campaign Finance Reform
Contract Clause
10. A power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action (if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period after the president receives the bill). Some court rulings have suggested that a president may exercise a pocket veto only when Congress adjour
Senate
Party Activists
Declining
Pocket Veto
11. A system in which national and state governments are competitors with distinct powers. This system was prominent in the US from the during the 19th century until 1937.
Elastic Clause
Separate but Equal
The Federalist #10
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
12. There are 11 circuit ____________________ who have no original jurisdiction.
Court of Appeals
Freedom of Information Act
2/3
Clear and Present Danger
13. 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.
Probable Cause
Death penalty
Nationalism
Closed Shop
14. Which form of registration prevails in all but a few states?
Office of Management and Budget
Permanent Registration
Implied Powers
Interest groups
15. First Executive Branch
Bicameral
Family
Senior Executive Service
Department of State
16. Theory that a government requires the consent of the governed.
Proposition 187
Appropriations
Inputs
Social Contract
17. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
Senate
Union Shop
Containment
Article II
18. The principle of civilian control of the military - based on the clear constitutional power of the president as supreme commander of the armed forces.
6th Amendment
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Civilian Supremacy
Magna Carta
19. A provision of the Federal Communications Act that requires broadcasters to provide the same amount of exposure to all legally qualified political candidates.
Economic Interest Groups
Plurality
Equal Time
Woodrow Wilson
20. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.
Plurality
Concurrent Powers
Capitalism
Republican
21. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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22. The only amendments to be ratified through the process of 'ratifying conventions -' not a vote in the state legislatures
Virginia Plan
Interest Groups
Bill of Rights
Electoral Connection
23. 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.
Town Meeting
Confederation
Cabinet
Administrative Procedure Act
24. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Interest Groups
Campaign Contributions
Office of Management and Budget
Jim Crow Laws
25. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Interest groups
Resolutions
Judicial Review
1776
26. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: conflicts between state and national government - economic and racial discrimination - uneven enforcement of law - and dominance of local governments by special interest groups
Negative
Concurrent Powers
Impoundment
2nd Amendment
27. 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.
Presidential Ticket
Pre-clearance
Furman v. Georgia
Due Process of Law
28. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
Bipartisanship
Baron v. Baltimore
Free Speech
10th Amendment
29. Prohibits citizens of one state or foreign country from suing another state.
11th Amendment
Attorney General
Legislative Veto
Impeachment
30. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
Maintaining Elections
Joseph McCarthy
Veto
Unlimited
31. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Lower
Periodic Registration
Internationalism
7
32. The expansion of cable and satellite tv has _________________ the president's power to influence public opinion.
Increased
Dred Scott
Home Rule
Sub-government
33. Something given in exchange for something else; swap
Party Identification
Quid Pro Quo
Public Policy
Standing Committees
34. Included are Ways and Means - Veteran's Affairs - Transportation and Infrastructure - Standards of Official Conduct - Small Business - Science - Judiciary - Rules - Resources - Oversight of Government Reform - House Administration - Homeland Security
Campaign Contributions
Bull Moose Progressives
State Auditor
House Standing Committees
35. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
25th Amendment
Office of Management and Budget
Recall
Safe seat
36. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Party of Economic Protest
Free Exercise Clause
Unicameral
Conference Committee
37. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
Unicameral
Spoils System
Shay's Rebellion
Campaign Contributions
38. 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.
President Pro Tempore
New Federalism
Welfare State
Legislative
39. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Inputs
25th Amendment
Espionage Act
Elastic Clause
40. Designed to protect the individual against the arbitrary power of the state.
Liberalism
Due Process of Law
Line-Item Veto
Executive Agencies
41. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
Unlimited
Affirmative Action
Blacks
Republicans
42. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Lord Acton
Article VI
Common Law
Double Jeopardy
43. 1940 Act Prohibiting any person from advocating overthrowing the government through violence or force.
Veto
Clear and Present Danger
Smith Act
Enterprise Zones
44. 1974 Act mandating that all government files about private citizens be kept confidential.
Common Law
Line-Item Veto
Privacy Act
Two Trial
45. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Preamble
School Desegregation
Monopoly
Caucus
46. 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
Royalists
Agriculture
Incorporation Doctrine
Elite and Class Theory
47. Constitutional Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
Article III
Focus Groups
Free Exercise Clause
Woodrow Wilson
48. 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
Death penalty
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Supremacy Clause
Patriot Act
49. During the 1800's and early 1900's - some state and local party committees became ________________ dominating party activities. Committee members would promise new recruits money - jobs - and other benefits for joining and voting the straight party t
Defense
Lyndon B. Johnson
Political Machines
Sub-committee
50. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
Bicameral
Senatorial Courtesy
Bill of Rights
Military-Industrial Complex