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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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2. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Brown v. Board of Education
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Griswald v. Connecticut
3. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Bill of Rights
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Brown v. Board of Education
4. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
Critical Period
Activist Judges
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Redlining
5. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
American Government and Politics
Articles of Confederation
8th Amendment
6. de jure - 'by law'. Legally enforced practices - such as school segregation in the South before the 1960s. De facto - 'by fact'. Practices that occur even when there is no legal enforcement - such as school segregation in much of the US today.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
De facto and de jure segregation
Clear and Present Danger Test
Presidential Mandate
7. A system in which the president submits the name of a candidate for judicial appointment to the senators from the candidate's state before formally submitting it for full senate approval.
Senatorial Courtesy
Congressional Oversight
Prior Restraint
Stare Decisis
8. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Executive office of the President
Class Action Suit
President's Inherent Powers
Redlining
9. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
Gouverneur Morris
Marbury v. Madison
Speaker of the House
10. % of House that get reelected
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
President's Inherent Powers
90% or higher
Bill of Rights
11. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Standing
Pork Barrel Legislation
De facto and de jure segregation
Habeas Corpus
12. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Power of the Federal Reserve
President's Appointment Power
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
90% or higher
13. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Clear and Present Danger Test
Senatorial Courtesy
Pork Barrel Legislation
Joint Chiefs of Staff
14. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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15. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
American Government and Politics
8th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Congressional Oversight
16. 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.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Articles of Confederation
6 years/2 years
Activist Judges
17. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Senatorial Courtesy
Jim Crow Laws
9
18. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Habeas Corpus
Senatorial Courtesy
Gideon v. Wainwright
Presidential Mandate
19. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
6 years/2 years
CA Prop 187
Prior Restraint
20. Gave equal right to black people covering voting - employment - public accommodation - and educations.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
4th Amendment protections
Government Corporation
De facto and de jure segregation
21. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
Jurisdiction
Government Corporation
Conference Committee
Critical Period
22. 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
Miranda v. Arizona
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Habeas Corpus
Constitutional Convention
23. Most common job of Senators
Conference Committee
Shays' Rebellion
Lawyers
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
24. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Government Corporation
Standing
War Powers Resolution
Bill of Rights
25. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
8th Amendment
Buckley v. Valeo
26. A collection of essays expressing the political philosophy of the Founders and that were instrumental in bringing about the ratification of the Constitution.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist Papers
Griswald v. Connecticut
27. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
Stare Decisis
Power of the Federal Reserve
President's Inherent Powers
Strict Scrutiny
28. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
Miranda v. Arizona
6 years/2 years
Amicus Curiae
American Government and Politics
29. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Executive Agreements
Constitutional Convention
Regulatory Agency
President's Inherent Powers
30. Court found detainess held both at US and Guantanamo bay had the right to challenge their detention before a judge or other neutral decision maker.
Brown v. Board of Education
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Articles of Confederation
Logrolling
31. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Amicus Curiae
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Brown v. Board of Education
32. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Class Action Suit
President's Appointment Power
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
33. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
8th Amendment
Around 100
George Washington
Executive Order
34. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Lawrence v. Texas
9
Pork Barrel Legislation
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
35. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Buckley v. Valeo
Around 100
Bill of Rights
The Declaration of Independence.
36. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Miranda v. Arizona
Government Corporation
Lawrence v. Texas
CA Prop 187
37. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Buckley v. Valeo
Clear and Present Danger Test
Pork Barrel Legislation
The Exclusionary Rule
38. 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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39. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
Executive office of the President
Filibuster
Critical Period
Shays' Rebellion
40. 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.
Speaker of the House
Dred Scot v. Standford
President's Inherent Powers
14th Amendment
41. 30 minutes.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Habeas Corpus
Government Corporation
Administrative Rule Making
42. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Standing
Redlining
Native American Smoking
Jim Crow Laws
43. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Executive Agreements
Activist Judges
44. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Alexander Hamilton
Bill of Rights
Activist Judges
Dred Scot v. Standford
45. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
Habeas Corpus
14th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Strict Scrutiny
46. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Brown v. Board of Education
Buckley v. Valeo
Civil Service Act of 1883
Thomas Jefferson
47. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Government Corporation
Administrative Rule Making
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Speaker of the House
48. WWll - 1941
Last time Congress declared war
Executive Agreements
Civil Service Act of 1883
President's Inherent Powers
49. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Redlining
Presidential Mandate
The Right of Due Process
Logrolling
50. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Stare Decisis
Executive office of the President
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Plessy v. Fergueson