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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Murray v. Curlett
Valence issue
Popular Sovereignty
Legislative Courts
2. California measure designed to deny welfare and other benefits to illegal aliens. Overwhelmingly passed the popular vote - but overturned in federal court because it extending beyond the bounds of state rights to attempt to control immigration.
Isolationism
Senatorial Courtesy
Proposition 187
Inverse
3. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
Union Shop
Pyramid Model
Independent expenditures
School Desegregation
4. Independent agencies governed by an appointed and confirmed commission. Examples include the Food and Drug Administration - Environmental Protection Agency - and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Enterprise Zones
Scottsboro Boys Case
Authorizations
Regulatory Agencies
5. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Budget Surplus
Party Realignment
Entitlement Programs
House of Representatives
6. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Executive Agreements
Secondary Group
Federal Appellate
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7. PACs may donate a ______________ amount of indirect or in-kind donations to a campaign. (Ex. placing ads to support their candidate)
Incorporation Doctrine
Probable Cause
Cruel and Unusual
Unlimited
8. New Jersey v. TLO (1985) established that school authorities may search students without _____________ as long as they are reasonable.
Natural Rights
Probable Cause
Espionage Act
Right to Work Laws
9. Form of government in which the people are sovereign but their power is exercised by their elected representatives.
Republic
Divided Government
Home Rule
Freedom of Speech
10. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Ways and Means Committee
Executive Privilege
Unicameral
Free Exercise Clause
11. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Civilian Supremacy
Jim Crow Laws
Whips
Transnational Relations
12. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
25th Amendment
Oligopoly
Jim Crow Laws
Legislative Veto
13. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Housing and Urban Development
Exit Polls
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Dies
14. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
Party Identification
14
Closed rule
Privileges and Immunities Clause
15. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Office of Management and Budget
Veto
Federal District
Demands
16. A powerful alliance of mutual benefit among an agency or unit of the government - an interest group - and a committee or subcommittee of Congress. Also called a triangle or a subgovernment.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Open Meeting Law
Lobbying
Iron Triangle
17. In addition to overseeing the activities of one or more federal agencies - a ___________________may also serve as the authorizing committee for federal agencies' programs and operations.
legislative and executive
Electoral College
New Deal Era
congressional oversight committee
18. 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.
The Federal Reserve Board
Marbury v. Madison
Clean bill
Civil Liberties
19. The president - the vice president - the heads of the major executive departments of the government - and certain other senior officials who may hold 'cabinet rank.'
Furman v. Georgia
Elastic Clause
Cabinet
State of the Union
20. This customary power allows the President to grant reprieves and pardons for federal offenses.
Grant Clemency
Impoundment
Patriot Act
Public Bills
21. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Riders
Propose an Amendment
Equality
Elastic Clause
22. The foreign policy of the United States during the period after the Second World War - designed to contain the expansion of Soviet power.
Cruel and Unusual
Containment
Divided Government
Fiscal Policy
23. 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.
Right of Expatriation
Article VI
Committees of Correspondence
War Powers Resolution
24. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Due Process of Law
Interior
Federal Courts
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
25. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
Committees
National Convention
Warrant
Periodic Registration
26. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Third Party
Seniority System
Electoral College
Due Process
27. Presidential management model in which corporate CEO tactics are used employing committees - task forces - and special advisors. Successfully utilized by Clinton and G W Bush.
Scandal Mongering
Legislative
Enacted
Ad Hoc Structure
28. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
Article II
Maintaining Elections
Baby Boomers
Negative
29. Because there is no Senate Rules Committee - Senators can debate a bill for an _________________ time.
Bundling
Elite
Joseph McCarthy
Unlimited
30. The proceeding before a judge in which the formal charges of an indictment or information are read to an accused person - who may plead guilty or not guilty.
State Auditor
Arraignment
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Decreased
31. 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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32. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Bull Moose Progressives
Conference Committee
Supreme Court
Class Action Suit
33. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
House of Representatives
Equity
de jure
Shield Laws
34. Most Americans support ______________ primarily as part of their criticism of PACs
Random Sample
Supreme Court
Campaign Finance Reform
Standing Committees
35. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
Shay's Rebellion
Spoiler Candidate
Seniority System
Senior Executive Service
36. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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37. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is an example of an
Deficit
Interstate Compact
Salient Agenda
Monroe Doctrine
38. A system in which the national government sets requirements that are then implemented by state and local governments.
Gerrymandering
Regulatory Federalism
Balance of Payments
de facto
39. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Open rule
Federal Register
Concurring Opinion
House of Representatives
40. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
Free Exercise of Religion
Baby Boomers
Categorical Grants
Lemon Test
41. The way things should be by law
de jure
Gerrymandering
14th
Royalists
42. The spread of nuclear weapons to more nations.
Catholics
Oligopoly
Government Corporations
Nuclear Proliferation
43. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Deviating Elections
Homeland Security
Incorporation Doctrine
Impoundment
44. The 1803 case in which the Supreme Court - by declaring a portion of an act of Congress unconstitutional - first firmly set forth and established the power of judicial review.
AARP
Socialism
Impeachment
Marbury v. Madison
45. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
12
Office of Management and Budget
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Party Purists
46. When neither political party is dominant.
Dynamic Conservatism
House of Representatives
Party Dealignment
October 1st
47. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Blanket Primary
Antitrust Legislation
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Natural Rights
48. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Free Exercise Clause
Charismatic authority
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Implied Powers
49. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
14th Amendment
New Federalism
Scottsboro Boys Case
Political Culture
50. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Mallory Rule
Deviating Elections
Executive Agencies
Government