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CLEP American Government
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1. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
Interest Groups
House of Representatives
Open Meeting Law
Pendleton Civil Service Act
2. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Spoils System
Whistle-blowers
Warrant
Enumerated Powers
3. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Political Action Committee
Two Trial
Committees
Conventions
4. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Supreme Court
Bandwagon
Inverse
Dies
5. Members of this party typically include Conservative Christian groups - higher socio-economic classes - middle-class white collar - and suburban voters.
Original
Democratic
Mark Up Session
Republican
6. Largest interest group in the US.
National Political Parties
Caucus
Deviating Elections
AARP
7. A coherent set of beliefs about politics - public policy - and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political event - personalities - and policies.
Negative Advertising
External Efficacy
Raise Public Awareness
Political ideology
8. Responsible for further investigation - hearings - and amendment to a bill
Members of Congress
Sub-committee
Freedom of Speech
External Efficacy
9. Established the Federal Reserve Bank - responsible for conducting the nation's monetary policy - maintaining the stability of the financial system - supervising and regulating banking institutions - and protecting the credit rights of consumers - and
Woodrow Wilson
Albany Plan
Detente
Constitutional Initiative
10. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
Transportation
Issue network
House of Representatives
Issue Networks
11. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
Interventionism
Maintaining Elections
Local
Winston Churchill
12. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
US Trade Representatives
Residual
3
Elastic Clause
13. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
Violation of Law
Death penalty
Party Realignment
President
14. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
Democratic-Republicans
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Literacy Tests
General Accounting
15. Includes expressive conduct/assembly/actions and symbolic behavior (ex. Picketing or burning the flag) Based on our country history of symbolic acts such as the Boston Tea Party - courts almost always uphold symbolic acts of speech unless they are cr
Speech Plus
Authorizations
Nuclear Proliferation
Exit Polls
16. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Committee of the Whole
Mixed Economy
Alien and Sedition Acts
Pork-Barrel Legislation
17. Groups named for the section of the Internal Revenue Service code under which they must report their expenditures. The tax-exempt groups were created to exploit a loophole in the law regulating campaign finance.
Salient Agenda
Reverse Discrimination
Detente
527 Organizations
18. Grants that an accused may not be held in custody without charge - literally 'You shall have the body'.
Pluralist
Free Speech
Habeas Corpus
Residual
19. The formal source of all authority in each major political party. It nominates the party candidates for president and vice president - writes a platform - settles disputes - writes rules - and elects the members of the national committee.
Political Machines
Export Taxes
Oligopoly
National Convention
20. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Elite and Class Theory
Slander
Governmental Corporations
Cruel and Unusual
21. The house armed services and foreign affairs committees each have ___ subcommittees.
Political Machines
7
Open
Sub-committee
22. By far - the largest amount of federal aid to state and local governments comes in the form of:
Intelligence
The Federal Reserve Board
Whip
Categorical Grants
23. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Deviating Elections
Proprietary Colonies
Segregation
CORE
24. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Issue network
Mugwumps
Permanent Registration
Horse race
25. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
27th Amendment
Lower
Exclusionary Rule
Collective Action
26. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
blockbusting and redlining
House of Representatives
Separate but Equal
Constituencies
27. The spread of nuclear weapons to more nations.
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Separate but Equal
Nuclear Proliferation
Regulatory Agencies
28. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Town Meeting
Antitrust Legislation
New Deal Era
Supreme Court
29. 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.
Mayflower Compact
Pure Speech
Conference Committee
Checks and Balances
30. A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be ___________.
Natural Rights
Hold
Appealed
Presidential Ticket
31. Federal grants in which the recipient has little discretion over how the money is spent. The national government sets narrowly defined rules for use of funds and often requires the states or local governments to provide matching funds. These grants a
Equal Protection Clause
Party Realignment
Low
Categorical Grant
32. Between conventions - the governing body of a major political party. Members of this group are chosen in the states and formally elected by the party
National Committee
Common Sense
Alien and Sedition Acts
Mugwumps
33. Included are Agriculture - Nutrition - and Forestry; Appropriations; Armed Services; Banking - Housing and Urban Affairs; Commerce - Science and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Environment and Public Works; Finance; Health - Education -
Gitlow v. New York
Democrats
Senate Standing Committees
Party Identification
34. The issue of slavery split the Democratic Party into what two factions?
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Roth v. US
Substantive Due Process
Northern and Southern
35. In Schenck v. US (1919) - The Supreme Court ruled that government may prohibit speech that creates an immediate threat of criminal action. Essentially established different standards for speech during wartime than in peacetime. Thus - establishing th
Clear and Present Danger
state legislatures
Executive
Cruel and Unusual
36. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Executive Agencies
Negative
Senate
Concurrent
37. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Bowers v. Hardwick
Pre-clearance
Independent expenditures
Spoiler Candidate
38. Political commercials that strongly attack a rival candidate.
Negative Advertising
Committees of Correspondence
Lower
Roe v. Wade
39. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Republicans
31
Commonwealth
National
40. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Mark Up Session
Gross Domestic Product
National Convention
Federal Register
41. In Woodson v. North Carolina - the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing of capital punishment as ______________________ because it does not allow for any discretion.
Cruel and Unusual
Pluralist
Appropriations
Private Bills
42. 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
Veto
5 -000
Lemon Test
Closed rule
43. 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.
Medicaid
Random Sample
President Pro Tempore
Electoral Connection
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
Majority Rule
Ways and Means Committee
High
Mugwumps
45. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Pentagon Papers
Democracy
Habeas Corpus
46. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Segregation
Bundling
Medicare
Implied Powers
47. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
may not
National Security
Caucus
Family
48. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Recorded Vote
Unlimited
Balance of Payments
Housing and Urban Development
49. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Executive Privilege
Voting
Political ideology
Writ of Assistance
50. Congress' first step towards allocating funds
Grant Clemency
Bowers v. Hardwick
Articles of Confederation
Authorizations