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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Logrolling
Power to Declare War
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
2. 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
Constitutional Convention
The Exclusionary Rule
CA Prop 187
Plessy v. Fergueson
3. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Logrolling
The Right of Due Process
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
4. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
The Declaration of Independence.
Standing
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Conference Committee
5. The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).
Prior Restraint
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Devolution
6. % of votes to override a presidential veto
2/3 from Congress
Constitutional Convention
Native American Smoking
James Madison
7. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Executive Order
4th Amendment protections
Administrative Rule Making
8. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
14th Amendment
Delegated Powers
Executive Order
Standing
9. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Activist Judges
The Right of Due Process
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
The Federalist Papers
10. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
Habeas Corpus
Jim Crow Laws
Stare Decisis
11. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
12. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Civil Service Act of 1883
Daniel Shays
Shays' Rebellion
13. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Independent Agency
Articles of Confederation
Prior Restraint
Griswald v. Connecticut
14. 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.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Prior Restraint
State of the Union Address
War Powers Resolution
15. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Congressional Oversight
President's Inherent Powers
Delegated Powers
Habeas Corpus
16. 30 minutes.
Activist Judges
Executive Agreements
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
The Exclusionary Rule
17. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
President's Inherent Powers
90% or higher
Jurisdiction
Clear and Present Danger Test
18. 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
Daniel Shays
Conference Committee
De facto and de jure segregation
19. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
The Federalist Papers
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
CA Prop 187
War Powers Resolution
20. Term of Senate/House
9
6 years/2 years
Miranda v. Arizona
Senatorial Courtesy
21. 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.
Buckley v. Valeo
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Conference Committee
22. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
Native American Smoking
Dred Scot v. Standford
James Madison
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
23. 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.
Miranda v. Arizona
De facto and de jure segregation
Conference Committee
The Federalist Papers
24. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
25. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Executive Agreements
President's Appointment Power
Native American Smoking
26. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
8th Amendment
Logrolling
Activist Judges
Brown v. Board of Education
27. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
28. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Class Action Suit
Gouverneur Morris
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
George Washington
29. A rule that gov't action toward religion is permissible if it is secular in purpose. Separation of law and religion.
30. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
James Madison
Congressional Oversight
14th Amendment
Gouverneur Morris
31. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
Administrative Rule Making
Constitutional Convention
The Right of Due Process
6 years/2 years
32. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
The Right of Due Process
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
President's Inherent Powers
Filibuster
33. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Miranda v. Arizona
Logrolling
Strict Scrutiny
Habeas Corpus
34. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Buckley v. Valeo
Filibuster
Thomas Jefferson
90% or higher
35. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Habeas Corpus
State of the Union Address
The Declaration of Independence.
Constitutional Convention
36. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
Pork Barrel Legislation
90% or higher
Strict Scrutiny
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
37. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
CA Prop 187
Bill of Rights
Jurisdiction
President's Inherent Powers
38. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Alexander Hamilton
Civil Service Act of 1883
Power to Declare War
39. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Executive office of the President
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Redlining
40. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
90% or higher
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
Executive office of the President
41. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
2/3 from Congress
Executive Order
Plessy v. Fergueson
Jurisdiction
42. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
Amicus Curiae
Pork Barrel Legislation
Power of the Federal Reserve
6 years/2 years
43. A survey of the origins and development of the political system in the United States from the colonial days to modern times with an emphasis on the Constitution - various political structures such as the legislative - executive - and judicial branche
Regulatory Agency
American Government and Politics
James Madison
Independent Agency
44. Not allowed.
The Exclusionary Rule
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Native American Smoking
Griswald v. Connecticut
45. Most common job of Senators
8th Amendment
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Lawyers
Senatorial Courtesy
46. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Standing
8th Amendment
Administrative Rule Making
47. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
De facto and de jure segregation
9
Congressional Oversight
Dred Scot v. Standford
48. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.
Clear and Present Danger Test
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Articles of Confederation
6 years/2 years
49. 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.
Executive Agreements
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Amicus Curiae
50. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Speaker of the House
Daniel Shays
Government Corporation
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'