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CLEP American Government
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1. 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
Conservatism
Freedom of Information Act
Recall
Permanent Registration
2. Broadly worded warrants used by British soldiers during colonial America to search for contraband and prevent smuggling.
Writ of Assistance
Murray v. Curlett
Appealed
Independent
3. A coherent set of beliefs about politics - public policy - and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political event - personalities - and policies.
Catholics
Political ideology
Public Opinion
Precedent
4. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
Senate Standing Committees
Voting
Political Culture
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
5. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Situational
Ratification
Ways and Means Committee
Clear and Present Danger
6. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
Third Parties
Republicans
Republicans
Standing Committees
7. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Supremacy Clause
Legislative
Oligopoly
Spoiler Candidate
8. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
Article V
Exclusionary Rule
Majority Whip
Violation of Law
9. 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.
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Civil Liberties
de facto
Political Patronage
10. 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.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Majority Opinion
Balance of Payments
Pyramid Model
11. Approximately 33% of American voters identify themselves as _______________ party.
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Independent
14th
89
12. Lead by Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. Dedicated to defending federal authority and high tariffs. Gained supports of merchants - bankers - industrialists and planters.
Liberalism
Whigs
Oligopoly
Policy Making Cycle
13. The executive office established in response to intelligence lapses during WWI. Oversees American foreign policy and includes the President - Vice President - Secretary of State - Secretary of Defense and is lead by the National Security Advisor.
Implied Powers
Constitutional Initiative
National Security Council
Capitalism
14. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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15. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Negative Advertising
General Accounting Office
Bill of Attainder
Double Jeopardy
16. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Public hearing
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Majority Whip
a senior senator of the majority party
17. A provision of the Federal Communications Act that requires broadcasters to provide the same amount of exposure to all legally qualified political candidates.
Supreme Court
Enumerated Powers
Balancing Test
Equal Time
18. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Budget Resolutions
Unlimited
1776
national quotas
19. In Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - The Supreme Court upheld that ___________________ was inherently not the case as is applied to the University of Texas Law School.
Redistributive Policy
Capitalism
Separate but Equal
Custom
20. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
25th Amendment
Impoundment
Propose an Amendment
Executive Agreements
21. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Senate
Detente
4
Economic Interest Groups
22. 'lame duck' amendment
Safe seat
Unlimited
20th
Demands
23. In this 1972 case - the Supreme Court established four guidelines for determining if a trial was appropriately speedy and fair: cause of delay - length of delay - affect on the outcome - and the defendant's claim to a speedy trial.
Republicans
Popular Sovereignty
presidential line-item veto
Baker v. Wingo
24. Popular until the early 20th century when they lost favor to primaries due to corruption - now used in only 12 states.
Third Parties
Caucuses
School Desegregation
Members of Congress
25. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Double Jeopardy
New Federalism
Populous
Blacks
26. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on a sharply limited government - promoting a free market economy - a non-interventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in the moral and social spheres.
Libertarianism
Impeachment
2nd Amendment
Reynolds v. Sims
27. In the 1990 case OR State Employment Division v. Smith 1990 - the Supreme court allowed the state to fire employees who use peyote during native American religious ceremonies because it is in violation of drug laws. In this case - which clause of the
Police Powers
Free Exercise Clause
Earl Warren
Original
28. Electoral college system and other campaign practices make it exceedingly difficult for even popular ______________ candidates to successfully run for the presidency.
Third Party
Whigs
National Chair
Referendum
29. The response of the rest of society to actions by the authorities.
Feedback
Checks and Balances
8 Million
Omaha platform
30. ________________ of the Constitution dictates how the Constitution shall be amended.
Article V
Speaker of the House
Political Party
Joseph McCarthy
31. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
Federalism
Budget Resolutions
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Jurisdiction
32. In an election with more than 2 options - the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number - but less that half of the votes.
Electoral Connection
Plurality
Grand Jury Indictment
Transnational Relations
33. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
House of Representatives
Family
District of Columbia
Television
34. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Original Jurisdiction
3
Majority and Minority Leader
Literacy Tests
35. A policy adopted by the United States after the Second World War that assumed that if enough nuclear weapons were deployed by the United States - an enemy would not attack for fear of being destroyed in retaliation.
Speaker of the House
Strategic Deterrence
Issue network
Mayor-Council Plan
36. This 1689 English Document made the monarch
Formula Grant
2/3
Shay's Rebellion
English Bill of Rights
37. 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
Restrictive Covenant
Original Jurisdiction
NY Times v. Sullivan
38. The only court specifically outlined in the Constitution.
Governmental Corporations
Scottsboro Boys Case
Supreme Court
Creative Federalism
39. James Madison proposed to deal with the threat of political factions by ______________________.
New Federalism
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Separation of Powers
Universe
40. The gap between the government's income and outlays.
Natural Rights
Majority Rule
Deficit
12th Amendment
41. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
11th Amendment
Thomas Hobbes
Senate Standing Committees
Committee of the Whole
42. Court cases that involve relations between individuals and organizations - such as a divorce action - or a suit for damages arising from an automobile accident or for violation of a business contract.
Civil Liberties
The Enlightenment
Common Sense
Civil Cases
43. Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors - subject to the king's approval.
Closed
Divided Government
Proprietary Colonies
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44. A compulsory national insurance program - financed by taxes on employers and employees. The insurance falls into four categories: old-age and survivors insurance - disability insurance - Medicare - and unemployment insurance.
Social Security
Independent Expenditures
Republicans
Senate
45. In Johnson v. Texas (1989) - the Supreme Court ruled that burning the flag in a manner that does not pose a threat to people or property is allowed as this type of freedom of speech.
Flexible Construction
Speech Plus
Patriot Act
Incumbents
46. Government regulation of the economy through its control over taxes and government spending. Controlled by the Department of Treasury.
Fiscal Policy
Baron de Montesquieu
Deviating Elections
Federalism
47. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
2nd Amendment
Miller v. California
Agriculture
binding
48. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
2
Freedom of Information Act
Committees
Royalists
49. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
Select Committee
Fiscal Policy
Charismatic authority
House of Representatives
50. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Balancing Test
Detente
Supreme Court
Voting Rights Act of 1965