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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Executive Order
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Clear and Present Danger Test
CA Prop 187
2. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
George Washington
8th Amendment
The Federalist Papers
Critical Period
3. 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.
Presidential Mandate
The Right of Due Process
Articles of Confederation
The Federalist Papers
4. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
Speaker of the House
The Right of Due Process
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Alexander Hamilton
5. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
De facto and de jure segregation
Around 100
Regulatory Agency
The Right of Due Process
6. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
4th Amendment protections
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Power of the Federal Reserve
Native American Smoking
7. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Lawrence v. Texas
Congressional Oversight
Devolution
Power of the Federal Reserve
8. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Conference Committee
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
State of the Union Address
9. Term of Senate/House
Civil Service Act of 1883
6 years/2 years
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Devolution
10. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Dred Scot v. Standford
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Stare Decisis
The Federalist Papers
11. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Clear and Present Danger Test
Standing
Activist Judges
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
12. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Miranda v. Arizona
War Powers Resolution
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Class Action Suit
13. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
Amicus Curiae
Jim Crow Laws
Habeas Corpus
Gouverneur Morris
14. A rule that gov't action toward religion is permissible if it is secular in purpose. Separation of law and religion.
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15. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
George Washington
Strict Scrutiny
Government Corporation
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
16. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
90% or higher
Government Corporation
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
17. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Presidential Mandate
Redlining
Civil Service Act of 1883
Filibuster
18. The chief presiding officer of the HoR. The speaker is the most important party and House leader - can influence lefislative agenda - fate of individual pieces of legislation - and members positions with the House.
Power of the Federal Reserve
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Speaker of the House
De facto and de jure segregation
19. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Gouverneur Morris
American Government and Politics
Jurisdiction
George Washington
20. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Standing
The Federalist Papers
Senatorial Courtesy
Thomas Jefferson
21. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
CA Prop 187
Redlining
Alexander Hamilton
Around 100
22. High-ranking military officers who represent the Navy - Army - Air Force and Marines. They assist the civilian leaders of the Department of Defense-advise the president on security matters.
James Madison
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Native American Smoking
Prior Restraint
23. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
State of the Union Address
Power to Declare War
Brown v. Board of Education
Griswald v. Connecticut
24. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Shays' Rebellion
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
9
Filibuster
25. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
President's Appointment Power
Pork Barrel Legislation
Shays' Rebellion
Bill of Rights
26. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Conference Committee
Miranda v. Arizona
Independent Agency
Bill of Rights
27. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
8th Amendment
Class Action Suit
Buckley v. Valeo
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
28. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
9
President's Appointment Power
Daniel Shays
29. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
Miranda v. Arizona
4th Amendment protections
Executive office of the President
Dred Scot v. Standford
30. Most common job of Senators
Amicus Curiae
4th Amendment protections
Lawyers
The Federalist Papers
31. Congress has this power - only used twice.
9
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Dred Scot v. Standford
Power to Declare War
32. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
Alexander Hamilton
Prior Restraint
Filibuster
The Federalist Papers
33. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Around 100
Civil Service Act of 1883
Executive office of the President
Regulatory Agency
34. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Shays' Rebellion
The Exclusionary Rule
The Declaration of Independence.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
35. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Presidential Mandate
Constitutional Convention
14th Amendment
36. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Articles of Confederation
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Habeas Corpus
37. 30 minutes.
Class Action Suit
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Miranda v. Arizona
Shays' Rebellion
38. % of House that get reelected
Conference Committee
Filibuster
90% or higher
Logrolling
39. An inability to regulate interstate and foreign trade - lack of a chief executive and a national court system - and its rule that amendments must be approved by unanimous consent.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Conference Committee
Power of the Federal Reserve
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
40. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Alexander Hamilton
Redlining
Native American Smoking
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
41. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Executive Agreements
Constitutional Convention
Presidential Mandate
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
42. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
Independent Agency
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
The Right of Due Process
Prior Restraint
43. 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
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Constitutional Convention
Presidential Mandate
Plessy v. Fergueson
44. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
George Washington
Activist Judges
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Logrolling
45. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Articles of Confederation
President's Inherent Powers
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Regulatory Agency
46. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Constitutional Convention
Standing
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
47. The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Gouverneur Morris
Devolution
George Washington
48. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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49. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
The Exclusionary Rule
Native American Smoking
Marbury v. Madison
Jim Crow Laws
50. 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
Last time Congress declared war
Redlining
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties