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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
The Right of Due Process
Gouverneur Morris
The Declaration of Independence.
2. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
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3. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
Brown v. Board of Education
War Powers Resolution
Administrative Rule Making
James Madison
4. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
De facto and de jure segregation
Buckley v. Valeo
The Right of Due Process
Jim Crow Laws
5. % of House that get reelected
4th Amendment protections
Bill of Rights
De facto and de jure segregation
90% or higher
6. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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7. % of votes to override a presidential veto
The Federalist Papers
2/3 from Congress
Government Corporation
14th Amendment
8. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
Dred Scot v. Standford
Native American Smoking
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Habeas Corpus
9. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Presidential Mandate
Senatorial Courtesy
90% or higher
Congressional Oversight
10. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
4th Amendment protections
Clear and Present Danger Test
2/3 from Congress
Marbury v. Madison
11. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Jim Crow Laws
State of the Union Address
War Powers Resolution
Pork Barrel Legislation
12. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
George Washington
Buckley v. Valeo
Executive Order
14th Amendment
13. A collection of essays expressing the political philosophy of the Founders and that were instrumental in bringing about the ratification of the Constitution.
The Federalist Papers
4th Amendment protections
Stare Decisis
The Right of Due Process
14. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
Independent Agency
The Right of Due Process
Dred Scot v. Standford
Jim Crow Laws
15. Implemented following the successful revolt of the British colonies in North America against imperial rule - the articles served as the national government from 1781-1787.
Power to Declare War
Gideon v. Wainwright
Articles of Confederation
Congressional Oversight
16. Term of Senate/House
Activist Judges
Power of the Federal Reserve
6 years/2 years
De facto and de jure segregation
17. Delegate - member of Congress acts on the express preference of his constituents. Trustee - member is more loosely tied to constituents and makes the decisions she thinks best.
The Declaration of Independence.
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
8th Amendment
Power of the Federal Reserve
18. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Redlining
Presidential Mandate
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
19. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.
De facto and de jure segregation
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Class Action Suit
Miranda v. Arizona
20. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
State of the Union Address
Presidential Mandate
90% or higher
Habeas Corpus
21. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
4th Amendment protections
Gideon v. Wainwright
6 years/2 years
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
22. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Activist Judges
Brown v. Board of Education
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Pork Barrel Legislation
23. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Plessy v. Fergueson
American Government and Politics
Filibuster
Buckley v. Valeo
24. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
2/3 from Congress
Administrative Rule Making
Delegated Powers
Independent Agency
25. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
Prior Restraint
Habeas Corpus
CA Prop 187
Marbury v. Madison
26. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
The Federalist Papers
90% or higher
4th Amendment protections
6 years/2 years
27. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Class Action Suit
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
American Government and Politics
President's Appointment Power
28. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Clear and Present Danger Test
Amicus Curiae
Lawrence v. Texas
Redlining
29. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Devolution
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
The Declaration of Independence.
Power of the Federal Reserve
30. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Standing
CA Prop 187
Devolution
Native American Smoking
31. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Lawrence v. Texas
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Redlining
Congressional Oversight
32. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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33. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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34. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Alexander Hamilton
4th Amendment protections
Devolution
Government Corporation
35. Civil liberties are rights that individuals have against government. Among our civil liberties are the right to free expression - the right to worship (or not) as we choose - and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Only the
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Jurisdiction
Strict Scrutiny
36. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
The Declaration of Independence.
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Executive office of the President
Clear and Present Danger Test
37. A series of meetings to reform the Articles of Confederation convened in Philadelphia in 1787 in response to the economic and social disorder and the dangers of foreign intervention. The result was an entirely new plan of government - the Constitutio
Senatorial Courtesy
Constitutional Convention
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
President's Inherent Powers
38. Temp. committees whose members are appointed by SotH and officer of the Senate. They are charged with reaching compromise on legislation once it has been passed by the House. Determine what laws are passed.
6 years/2 years
President's Inherent Powers
Conference Committee
State of the Union Address
39. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Executive office of the President
Stare Decisis
Daniel Shays
Buckley v. Valeo
40. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Logrolling
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
8th Amendment
President's Appointment Power
41. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Native American Smoking
Strict Scrutiny
42. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
2/3 from Congress
Standing
James Madison
Jurisdiction
43. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
Thomas Jefferson
Jurisdiction
Amicus Curiae
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
44. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Articles of Confederation
Executive Order
President's Appointment Power
Gouverneur Morris
45. Most common job of Senators
Administrative Rule Making
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Prior Restraint
Lawyers
46. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Government Corporation
Independent Agency
Devolution
47. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
President's Appointment Power
9
90% or higher
Delegated Powers
48. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Miranda v. Arizona
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Jim Crow Laws
49. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Thomas Jefferson
14th Amendment
50. Not allowed.
Senatorial Courtesy
Native American Smoking
President's Appointment Power
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified