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CLEP Political Science Us

Subjects : clep, political-science
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.






2. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.






3. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.






4. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.






5. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?






6. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.






7. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.






8. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.






9. 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.






10. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.






11. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.






12. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.






13. Number of Supreme Court Justices






14. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.






15. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.






16. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.






17. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.






18. 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.






19. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.

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20. WWll - 1941






21. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?






22. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.






23. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.






24. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.






25. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.






26. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.






27. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.






28. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.






29. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.






30. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.






31. 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






32. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.






33. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.






34. 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.






35. Term of Senate/House






36. 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.






37. 30 minutes.






38. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.






39. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.






40. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.






41. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.

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42. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.






43. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.






44. 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






45. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.






46. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.






47. Congress has this power - only used twice.






48. Congress because they're tied to the people.

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49. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.






50. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.