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CLEP American Government
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1. The principle that the government - as provided in the Fifth Amendment - can take property for 'public use' with 'just compensation' to the owners.
Diminish
Conventions
Collective Action
Eminent Domain
2. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
National Political Parties
Majority and Minority Leader
Appropriations
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3. Because there is no Senate Rules Committee - Senators can debate a bill for an _________________ time.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Unlimited
Senate
Implied Powers
4. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Alien and Sedition Acts
Republicans
Independent expenditures
legislative and executive
5. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
Issue network
Judicial Review
General Purpose Grants
Maintaining Elections
6. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
Nuclear Proliferation
Article V
Affirmative Action
Universe
7. A federal tax on imports.
Tariff
Interest Groups
Welfare State
Electoral College
8. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Lord Acton
Interventionism
Supreme Court
Pass the fundraising threshold
9. 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.
Voting
Voting
Freedom of Information Act
Baker v. Wingo
10. The rules and regulations made and applied by federal regulatory agencies and commissions.
Logrolling
Administrative Law
President
Pocket Veto
11. 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.
Bicameral
Petit Jury
Marbury v. Madison
Alien and Sedition Acts
12. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Independent Expenditures
Categorical Grants
Party of Economic Protest
Formula Grant
13. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Mallory Rule
Creative Federalism
W.E.B. DuBoise
14. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
Nationalism
Caucuses
Senate Standing Committees
Equality
15. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Declining
Reverse Discrimination
Implementation
Omaha platform
16. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted
Monroe Doctrine
Safe seat
Federal Appellate
Restrictive Covenant
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.
Detente
Stare Decisis
Magna Carta
congressional oversight committee
18. A nation's set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.
Literacy Tests
Political Culture
Libel
Republicans
19. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Bundling
Housing and Urban Development
blockbusting and redlining
Bowers v. Hardwick
20. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Rousseau
Earl Warren
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Strategic Deterrence
21. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Patriot Act
Internationalism
Energy
Ratification
22. 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.
Interventionism
Implied
Impoundment
House Standing Committees
23. Largest interest group in the US.
Change of Venue
Reserved Powers
AARP
Realigning Elections
24. 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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25. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion
Writ of Mandamus
Independent expenditures
Redistributive Policy
Recommit the Bill to Committee
26. Government regulation of the economy through its control over taxes and government spending. Controlled by the Department of Treasury.
Implementation
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National Security
Fiscal Policy
27. The issuance of this document by a judge requires probably cause and must be worded so as to allow for the search and seizure of specific evidence.
Warrant
Department of Treasury
Katz. v US
Smith Act
28. First proposed in 1789 - this amendment passed in 1992 prohibits Congress from raising their own pay. Pay raises may not take affect until the beginning of the next term.
27th Amendment
Whips
President
Free Speech
29. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Valence issue
may not
Resolutions
Cluster Sampling
30. The demands of and supports for a political system
Conference Committee
Miranda Rights
Inputs
Caucuses
31. 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 -
Writ of Certiorari
14th Amendment
Senate Standing Committees
The Federal Reserve Board
32. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Laissez-Faire
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Welfare State
Globalization
33. Walter DeVries and Lance Tarrance have concluded that in many elections the outcome is determined by ______________.
Selective exposure
Ticket Splitters
Rhode Island
Political Advertising
34. 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
35
Universe
Habeas Corpus
Closed rule
35. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Incumbents
Little Difference
Propose an Amendment
Local
36. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Hyperpluralism
Petit Jury
Death penalty
Implied Powers
37. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
2
Whistle-blowers
27th Amendment
Zenger
38. The 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that prompted King George III's Prohibitory Act and the sending of mercenaries to the colonies.
Right of Expatriation
Common Sense
High
Privacy Act
39. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Foreign Policy
National
2/3
Rules Committee
40. Age requirement for President
National Political Parties
Royalists
3
35
41. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.
legislative and executive
Government
Capitalism
Party Regulars
42. Washington v. Chrisman (1982) established the _________________ - allowing police officers to seize evidence without a warrant if the evidence is in obvious sight.
Unicameral
Due Process of Law
Plain View
National Chair
43. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Speaker of the House
Feedback
Independent Regulatory Agencies
44. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
16th Amendment
Regulatory Federalism
Monroe Doctrine
Nationalism
45. After analyzing 1 -795 platform pledges over a 10-year period - Gerald M. Pomper concluded that almost ____________ of these promises were fulfilled
Independent
Roth v. US
2/3
imprisoned
46. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Closed Shop
Thurgood Marshall
Equity
Supreme Court
47. Members of this party typically include Conservative Christian groups - higher socio-economic classes - middle-class white collar - and suburban voters.
Republican
Equal Time
Restrictive Covenant
Marshall Plan
48. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Maintaining Elections
Committee of the Whole
Party Regulars
Cluster Sampling
49. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Riders
Blacks
Democrats
Federalism
50. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
Administrative Procedure Act
Baker v. Wingo
Line-Item Veto
Bipartisanship