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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Laws must be administered in a fair manner.
Free Exercise Clause
Categorical Grants
Decreased
Procedural Due Process
2. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
Establishment Clause
Balance of Trade
Exit Polls
Random Sample
3. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
Liberalism
Select Committee
Fiscal Federalism
national quotas
4. Government branch established in Article I of the Constitution.
Legislative
Speech Plus
Precedent
Majority and Minority Leader
5. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
War Powers Resolution
Lafolette's Progressive s
Political Action Committees
Murray v. Curlett
6. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
Articles of Confederation
Commonwealth
14
Budget Surplus
7. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
2/3
CORE
High
Federal District
8. The name commonly given to a private group - regardless of size - organized to elect political candidates. An organization becomes one by receiving contributions or making expenditures in excess of $1 -000 for the purpose of influencing a federal ele
Bowers v. Hardwick
Political Action Committee
Article III
Freedom of Information Act
9. The demands of and supports for a political system
Espionage Act
Ways and Mean Committee
Electoral College
Inputs
10. Article VI - Paragraph 2 - of the Constitution - which declares that the Constitution - and the laws and treaties of the United States made under it - are 'the supreme Law of the Land' and prevail over any conflicting state constitutions or laws.
Vice President
Supremacy Clause
Quota Sampling
Warrant
11. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
3
Freedom of Information Act
It Failed to be Ratified
state legislatures
12. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Populous
9
31
Earmarks
13. An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words - one means by which a political party nominate candidates for the following general election.s
Budget Surplus
Jury of Peers
Earl Warren
Primary
14. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
Power Structure
Reference Group
Administrative Law
Affirmative Action
15. Legislature bills that affect only a small group of citizens.
Implied
Public Bills
Referendum
Private Bills
16. Protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
presidential line-item veto
Pre-clearance
4th Amendment
Slander
17. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Delegated Powers
Office of Management and Budget
Government
Conference Committee
18. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.
Article III
Issue network
Isolationism
Charter Colonies
19. 1944 case established that as as long as a person accepted their beliefs in good faith that it is not the government's authority to determine whether those beliefs are valid.
Exit Polls
Absolute Position
US v. Ballard
legislative and executive
20. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Gender Gap
Elastic Clause
Arraignment
Deviating Elections
21. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Transnational Relations
Judicial Selection
presidential line-item veto
Warrant
22. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Unlimited
House of Representatives
Unitary System
New Deal Era
23. The 24th amendment banned _____________ - making it harder for states to discriminate against poor and minority voters.
Poll Tax
1964 Civil Rights Act
Administrative Law
1st Amendment
24. States that arrestees must be informed of their right to remain silent - that anything they say can be held against them in a court - that they have a right to an attorney and that an attorney will be appointed to them if they cannot afford one.
Senate
Military-Industrial Complex
Cold War
Miranda Rights
25. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Grand Jury Indictment
Reverse Discrimination
Republicans
Articles of Confederation
26. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
Low
Speaker of the House
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Republicans
27. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
Impeachment
2/3
Interest groups
Democratic
28. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
Sub-government
Blanket Primary
Bill of Attainder
Rules Committee
29. A study of Bennington College students in the 1930s illustrated that the influence of the family on political attitudes tends to ______________ as they grow older and come into contact with other groups.
Democratic
Categorical Grants
Welfare State
Diminish
30. Article II of the Constitution establishes the ______________ branch.
Executive
Monetary Policy
Elite and Class Theory
National Security
31. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
Medicare
Interior
Initiative
Selective Incorporation
32. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
Procedural Due Process
Dissenting Opinion
Open rule
Increased
33. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
Town Meeting
Pentagon Papers
Equal Time
General Purpose Grants
34. Baby boomers - women - and voters with higher levels of education tend to have a ____________ voter turnout.
Articles of Confederation
Supreme Court
Natural Rights
High
35. The Supreme Court's broad interpretation of this clause has denied direct aid from the government for religious groups - but does allow religious groups to make use of government services such as police and fire.
Council of Economic Advisors
Establishment Clause
Great Compromise
Federal Courts
36. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Literacy Tests
Omaha platform
Poll Tax
Laissez-Faire
37. Organization of individuals with similar policy goals who enter the political process to influence legislation that affects the organizations interests
Implied Powers
Political Party
Interest Groups
Proprietary Colonies
38. People may vote in a party's primary only if they are registered members of that party. Independents cannot participate. Note that because some political parties name themselves independent - the term 'non-partisan' often replaces 'independent' when
Closed
Court of Appeals
Probable Cause
Closed rule
39. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Libel
Transportation
Riders
Closed rule
40. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.
Budget Resolution
25
Senate
Speaker of the House
41. Article I - Section 8 - of the Constitution - which allows Congress to make all laws that are 'necessary and proper' to carry out the powers of the Constitution.
Independent
Interventionism
imprisoned
Elastic Clause
42. The 1892 platform of the Populist party repudiating laissez-faire and demanding economic and political reform
Omaha platform
Third Parties
Cluster Sampling
Shield Laws
43. Finding that enough evidence exists to warrant a criminal trial.
Decreased
Coordinated Spending
Catholics
Grand Jury Indictment
44. The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate and so votes for the less objectionable of the two - putting a clothespin over his nose to keep out the unpleasant stench
Article III
Unlimited
Baby Boomers
Clothespin vote
45. A law passed in 1966 that requires federal executive branch and regulatory agencies to make information available to journalists - scholars - and the public unless it falls into one of several confidential categories.
Libertarianism
Freedom of Information Act
Impartial
Joseph McCarthy
46. Belief in the value of strong government to provide economic secruity and protection for civil rights - combined with a belief in personal freedom from government intervention in social conduct
Exit Polls
Fiscal Policy
Politics
Liberalism
47. Cabinet department that includes the Coast Guard - Border Patrol - FEMA - Transportation Security Administration - INS and the Secret Service. Established in 2001 in response to 9/11.
Homeland Security
Agriculture
Labor
Ex Post Facto
48. A writ designed to protect against illegal imprisonment by requiring that a person who is detained be brought before a judge for investigation.
Baron de Montesquieu
Unlimited
12
Writ of Certiorari
49. President Hoover's laissez-faire approach to the economy during the Great Depression left many poor voters disenfranchised by the Republican Party. They left to join the _______________ Party.
National Supremacy
Writ of Certiorari
Democratic
Ratification
50. Information sent out in order to observe the reaction of an audience. Used by politicians who deliberately leak information on a policy change under consideration.
Trial Balloon
Project Grant
Baron v. Baltimore
Exit Polls