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CLEP American Government
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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
Popular Sovereignty
Earmarks
Article V
Ex Post Facto
2. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Due Process
Veto
Budget Surplus
16th Amendment
3. After a bill has passed both the House and Senate - it goes to _________________ where any differences between the house bill and the senate bill are resolved before sending to the President for signature
Convention Bounce
Conference Committee
Private Bills
20th
4. Age Requirement for the Senate
Outputs
Membership
Political Action Committee
30
5. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Exclusionary Rule
Political Efficacy
Policy
Bureaucracy
6. Courts of original jurisdiction in federal crimes - civil suits under federal law - civil suits between citizens of different states where the amount in question exceeds $50 -000 - bankruptcy proceedings - cases involving some federal administrative
Feedback
Conventions
Regulatory Agencies
Federal District
7. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
Thurgood Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
Good Faith Exception
Increased
8. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
Earl Warren
Writ of Certiorari
Great Compromise
Closed
9. Each Senate committee may have ________ subcommittees.
Adversarial
Regulatory Agencies
Exit Polls
unlimited
10. The way things should be by law
Good Faith Exception
Creative Federalism
de jure
Private Bills
11. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
Divided Government
Supreme Court
Union Shop
Lobbying
12. Baby boomers - women - and voters with higher levels of education tend to have a ____________ voter turnout.
Cluster Sampling
Political ideology
High
Natural Rights
13. Grants that an accused may not be held in custody without charge - literally 'You shall have the body'.
state legislatures
Habeas Corpus
Earmarks
Pluralist Theory
14. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
Open Meeting Law
Baby Boomers
435
Inherent Powers
15. The head of a national political party
Joseph McCarthy
New Federalism
Enumerated Powers
National Chair
16. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Vice President
blockbusting and redlining
Governmental Corporations
Small Business Administration (SBA)
17. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Jurisdiction
Situational
Woodrow Wilson
Bowers v. Hardwick
18. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Weber
Creative Federalism
Shield Laws
Privileges and Immunities Clause
19. In Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969) - the Supreme Court established precedents for ___________________ in schools and government institutions.
Freedom of Speech
Supports
Lower
Entitlement Spending
20. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Suburbia
Equality
Freedom of Information Act
Ratification
21. The expansion of cable and satellite tv has _________________ the president's power to influence public opinion.
Majority Whip
16th Amendment
Jus Soli
Increased
22. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Lord Acton
89
Chief Justice
Great or Connecticut Compromise
23. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Conventions
Cruel and Unusual
Office of Management and Budget
Statutory Law
24. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 10) intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affect property rights.
Contract Clause
Marshall Plan
Voting
Office of Management and Budget
25. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
The Federal Reserve Board
Caucus
35
may not
26. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution - for example - the authority to print money.
Mayflower Compact
Delegated Powers
Detente
Offensive Language
27. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
congressional oversight committee
Raise Public Awareness
Elite
Amicus Curiae Brief
28. 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.
Party Purists
Pyramid Model
Dred Scott Decision
89
29. The attitudes and actions of people that sustain and buttress the political system at all levels and allows the political system to continue to work.
Exit Polls
Murray v. Curlett
Supports
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
30. 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
Inverse
Civil Liberties
Pentagon Papers
Woodrow Wilson
31. Define US Citizenship as any person born or naturalized in the United States.
General Accounting Office
14th Amendment
Elite
Reverse Discrimination
32. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Voting
Literacy Tests
Free Exercise of Religion
Republican
33. If significant amendments are made to a bill during committee - the bill is sometimes given a new number as a _______________.
Clean bill
Rules Committee
Private Bills
Energy
34. The pursuit and exercise of power
State Legislatures
Politics
Residual
Catholics
35. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
12
National Security
Majority and Minority Leader
Enacted
36. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
9
Custom
Lobbying
Interventionism
37. This house committee is responsible for Supervising the authority of the federal government to borrow money - Raising the revenue required to finance the federal government by levying taxes - Overseeing Social Security and other social insurance prog
Rousseau
5
Ways and Means Committee
Situational
38. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
Magna Carta
1964 Civil Rights Act
Conservatism
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
39. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
Democrats
Soft money
Open
Bowers v. Hardwick
40. Representing - characterized by - or including members from two parties or factions
Bipartisanship
Coordinated Spending
Earl Warren
Commonwealth
41. Also known as the Indiana ballot - lists the candidates of each party in a row or column - beside or under the party emblem. In most cases - the voter can make one mark at the top of the column - or pull one lever - and thus vote for all the party's
Mark Up Session
Katz. v US
Party Column Ballot
Right to Work Laws
42. PACs may donate a ______________ amount of indirect or in-kind donations to a campaign. (Ex. placing ads to support their candidate)
Unlimited
Civil Cases
Public Bills
Federal Courts
43. The 24th amendment banned _____________ - making it harder for states to discriminate against poor and minority voters.
Poll Tax
Conservatism
Initiative
Sub-government
44. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
435
Majority and Minority Leader
Third Party
Lobbying
45. An economic philosophy that advocates both tax and budget cuts to increase incentives to produce in order to expand the total supply of the nation's goods and services.
Supply Side Economics
Feedback
Due Process
Party of Economic Protest
46. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Pass the fundraising threshold
Procedural Due Process
Jus Soli
Criminal Cases
47. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Creative Federalism
Monroe Doctrine
Public Opinion
New Jersey Plan
48. Law enacted in 1939 to prohibit civil servants from taking activists roles in partisan campaigns .This act prohibited federal employees from making political contributions - working for a particualr party -or campaining for a particualr canidate
binding
Quota Sampling
Hatch Act
Civil War Amendments
49. A system of voter registration in which voters must register only once in their district.
5
Permanent Registration
Marshall Plan
President
50. A political candidate who is thought to have only an outside chance of gaining the nomination.
Dark Horse
Republicans
Gerrymandering
Free Exercise of Religion