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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
Brown v. Board of Education
CA Prop 187
8th Amendment
2/3 from Congress
2. 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.
Buckley v. Valeo
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
14th Amendment
CA Prop 187
3. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
Dred Scot v. Standford
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Gideon v. Wainwright
Executive office of the President
4. 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
Activist Judges
The Exclusionary Rule
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
War Powers Resolution
5. 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.
Jurisdiction
Executive office of the President
Senatorial Courtesy
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
6. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Regulatory Agency
Senatorial Courtesy
Miranda v. Arizona
Marbury v. Madison
7. 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.
Devolution
War Powers Resolution
Articles of Confederation
Congressional Oversight
8. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Plessy v. Fergueson
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Thomas Jefferson
Dred Scot v. Standford
9. 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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10. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Civil Service Act of 1883
The Exclusionary Rule
Executive Order
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
11. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Delegated Powers
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
12. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
State of the Union Address
Constitutional Convention
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
13. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Senatorial Courtesy
Pork Barrel Legislation
Stare Decisis
War Powers Resolution
14. 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
Miranda v. Arizona
Jurisdiction
Filibuster
15. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Critical Period
Standing
State of the Union Address
Jurisdiction
16. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Alexander Hamilton
Government Corporation
State of the Union Address
Bill of Rights
17. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Filibuster
Amicus Curiae
18. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
Jurisdiction
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Senatorial Courtesy
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
19. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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20. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
Dred Scot v. Standford
Executive Agreements
George Washington
Redlining
21. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Standing
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Devolution
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
22. Term of Senate/House
Jurisdiction
6 years/2 years
Critical Period
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
23. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Government Corporation
Gideon v. Wainwright
Constitutional Convention
The Exclusionary Rule
24. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Delegated Powers
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
25. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
James Madison
Logrolling
The Declaration of Independence.
Lawrence v. Texas
26. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Shays' Rebellion
Daniel Shays
14th Amendment
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
27. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Critical Period
Constitutional Convention
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
De facto and de jure segregation
28. % of votes to override a presidential veto
Critical Period
The Declaration of Independence.
2/3 from Congress
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
29. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
The Exclusionary Rule
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Senatorial Courtesy
Jurisdiction
30. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Jim Crow Laws
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
War Powers Resolution
Prior Restraint
31. 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.
Griswald v. Connecticut
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bill of Rights
32. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Daniel Shays
Buckley v. Valeo
6 years/2 years
2/3 from Congress
33. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Marbury v. Madison
Class Action Suit
De facto and de jure segregation
34. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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35. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Buckley v. Valeo
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Class Action Suit
Power of the Federal Reserve
36. 30 minutes.
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Amicus Curiae
Executive office of the President
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
37. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Alexander Hamilton
War Powers Resolution
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Native American Smoking
38. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Filibuster
Habeas Corpus
Miranda v. Arizona
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
39. The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress
Marbury v. Madison
Devolution
Habeas Corpus
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
40. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Redlining
Amicus Curiae
War Powers Resolution
41. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Marbury v. Madison
Class Action Suit
Lawyers
Critical Period
42. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Regulatory Agency
Daniel Shays
Lawrence v. Texas
Critical Period
43. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Articles of Confederation
Senatorial Courtesy
George Washington
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
Constitutional Convention
The Right of Due Process
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Independent Agency
45. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Senatorial Courtesy
Administrative Rule Making
The Federalist Papers
War Powers Resolution
46. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
The Declaration of Independence.
Administrative Rule Making
Daniel Shays
Executive office of the President
47. The 1780s in the United States - maked by internal conflict. The economy deteriorated as individual states printed their own currencies - taxed the products of their neighbors - and ignored foreign trade agreements. Inflation soared - small farmers l
War Powers Resolution
Critical Period
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
2/3 from Congress
48. Gave equal right to black people covering voting - employment - public accommodation - and educations.
President's Appointment Power
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Service Act of 1883
Pork Barrel Legislation
49. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
Stare Decisis
Executive office of the President
Last time Congress declared war
Prior Restraint
50. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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