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CLEP American Government
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1. Control of a market by a single company.
31
John Locke
Monopoly
Petit Jury
2. 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.
Residual
Initiative
Good Faith Exception
a senior senator of the majority party
3. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
Felonies
Press Secretary
Civil Cases
Hold
4. Since 1960 - there has been a general trend of ______________ participation in elections.
Referendum
Declining
Electoral College
New Deal Era
5. Agenda that includes issues that affect the daily lives of the people.
Petition of Right
Jus Soli
Appealed
Salient Agenda
6. In 1943 - The Supreme Court upheld the Jehovah's Witnesses right to refrain from saluting the American flag based on their right to _____________.
Reverse Discrimination
Increased competition
Free Exercise of Religion
Office Column Ballot
7. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.
Supply Side Economics
Medicare
Members of Congress
Standing Committees
8. 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
Gideon v. Wainwright
Referendum
Ways and Means Committee
Court of Appeals
9. This act prohibited Discrimination because of race - color - sex - religion - or national origin by employers or labor unions; The adoption by voting registrars of different standards for black and white applicants; and Racial or religious discrimina
Exit Polls
Earl Warren
Party Regulars
1964 Civil Rights Act
10. 19th century case establishing that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government - upheld until the 20th century. Ruling allowed stated to engage in activities such as establishing state churches and denying public office to people of ce
1st Amendment
Dred Scott
John Locke
Baron v. Baltimore
11. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Membership
Espionage Act
Exclusionary Rule
Positive
12. This author was highly influential on Thomas Jefferson - rejecting divine right - proposing that government is a social contract requiring the consent of the govern and establishing the concept of self-evident rights of life - liberty - and property.
Whistle-blowers
Republicans
John Locke
Writ of Certiorari
13. A public assistance program established in 1965 to help pay hospital - doctor - and medical bills for people with low incomes.
Medicaid
Filibuster
Cold War
Patriot Act
14. 1940 Act Prohibiting any person from advocating overthrowing the government through violence or force.
Clothespin vote
Smith Act
Free Exercise Clause
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
15. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.
Joint Committees
Deviating Elections
Department of Treasury
State Auditor
16. In the mid-term elections following a President's inauguration - his party tends to ___________ seats in Congress.
Enterprise Zones
Lose
Supports
Trustee
17. Term limit for House of Representatives.
Distribution
Lose
Unlimited
Gerrymandering
18. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
10th Amendment
Exit Polls
Balance of Trade
John Locke
19. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Interventionism
Enact a Bill of Rights
Hold
Agriculture
20. In _______________ cases such as Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) - the Supreme Court has upheld that while Affirmative action policies are legal - race and gender cannot be the only determining factors.
Convention Bounce
Whigs
Pentagon Papers
Reverse Discrimination
21. In his classic study of community power in New Haven - Connecticut - political scientist Robert A. Dahl concluded that the city was a __________ system dominated by many different sets of leaders
Pluralist
Rousseau
Precedent
Tariff
22. A method of amending state constitutions under which proposed constitutional amendments can be placed on the ballot if enough signatures are obtained on a petition. Almost half the states also employ the initiative on the ballot to allow voters to en
House Standing Committees
Habeas Corpus
Initiative
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
23. A provision of the Federal Communications Act that requires broadcasters to provide the same amount of exposure to all legally qualified political candidates.
Political Efficacy
Equal Time
Welfare State
Monopoly
24. Members of this party typically include Conservative Christian groups - higher socio-economic classes - middle-class white collar - and suburban voters.
Soft money
Containment
Judicial Selection
Republican
25. These party members are highly involved in the electoral process. Donate funds to party and candidates - demand a voice in state party agendas and tend to have a strong belief in their party's ideology.
Party Activists
Political Advertising
5 -000
Elastic Clause
26. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Original Jurisdiction
Plain View
Probable Cause
Stare Decisis
27. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
Voting
Declining
National Security Council
President Pro Tempore
28. The demands of and supports for a political system
national quotas
6th Amendment
Inputs
Senate
29. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Charismatic authority
Lobbying
Reference Group
Natural Rights
30. 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 iron triangle.
Concurrent Powers
Sub-government
1st Amendment
Shay's Rebellion
31. Electoral college system and other campaign practices make it exceedingly difficult for even popular ______________ candidates to successfully run for the presidency.
John F. Kennedy
19th Amendment
Feedback
Third Party
32. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
Delegated Powers
7th Amendment
House of Representatives
Proportional Representation
33. Voters in a political district - or supporters of an elected official; or interest groups or client groups that are either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions.
Policy
Constituencies
Republicans
Standing Committees
34. A federal tax on imports.
Democrats
Common Law
Political ideology
Tariff
35. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Delegate
Republicans
Redistributive Policy
Filibuster
36. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Joint Committee
Implementation
General Accounting Office
Precedent
37. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Clothespin vote
Mallory Rule
Project Grant
Jus Soli
38. Constitutionally empowered to appoint judges - ambassadors - and other high officials - Constitutionally empowered to make treaties with foreign countries.
President
Iron Triangle
Impeachment
Conventions
39. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Ways and Mean Committee
Cluster Sampling
Voting
State Auditor
40. The oldest House committee still in existence.
Ways and Means Committee
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Unlimited
41. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Magna Carta
Military-Industrial Complex
Federal Courts
Declining
42. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned contributions of soft money to______________.
National Political Parties
It Failed to be Ratified
Confirmed
7th Amendment
43. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Affirmative Action
Major Political Party
Formula Grant
Veto
44. Which historical figure described democracy as 'the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time?'
Senatorial Courtesy
Winston Churchill
Unlimited
Judicial
45. A form of city government under which a board of city commissioners is popularly elected (often on a nonpartisan ballot). The commissioners make policy as a city council - but they also run city departments as administrators.
Commission Plan
Dissenting Opinion
Thurgood Marshall
October 1st
46. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
1st Amendment
Self-Incrimination
Republicans
Committee of the Whole
47. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Whips
Equality
Proportional Representation
Categorical Grants
48. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
77
Declining
Transnational Relations
Thurgood Marshall
49. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Due Process
Isolationism
Writ of Certiorari
Elite and Class Theory
50. A legislature with only one house.
President Pro Tempore
Senate
Unicameral
Right to Work Laws