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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. 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.
Alexander Hamilton
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Plessy v. Fergueson
Logrolling
2. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
The Federalist Papers
Plessy v. Fergueson
Filibuster
Executive Order
3. 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?
Alexander Hamilton
The Exclusionary Rule
Habeas Corpus
4. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
State of the Union Address
Lawrence v. Texas
Clear and Present Danger Test
5. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Standing
Daniel Shays
Filibuster
Redlining
6. 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
Redlining
Devolution
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
American Government and Politics
7. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Brown v. Board of Education
Congressional Oversight
4th Amendment protections
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
8. 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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9. 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.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
8th Amendment
Gouverneur Morris
Jurisdiction
10. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Buckley v. Valeo
Miranda v. Arizona
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Congressional Oversight
11. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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12. 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.
The Declaration of Independence.
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Stare Decisis
Conference Committee
13. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Speaker of the House
Activist Judges
Civil Service Act of 1883
De facto and de jure segregation
14. 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
The Right of Due Process
President's Inherent Powers
The Exclusionary Rule
15. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
6 years/2 years
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Regulatory Agency
Brown v. Board of Education
16. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Devolution
Stare Decisis
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
17. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Constitutional Convention
Plessy v. Fergueson
CA Prop 187
Clear and Present Danger Test
18. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
The Declaration of Independence.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Jurisdiction
Regulatory Agency
19. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Class Action Suit
Power to Declare War
Redlining
20. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Brown v. Board of Education
Regulatory Agency
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Gideon v. Wainwright
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.
Administrative Rule Making
Joint Chiefs of Staff
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
CA Prop 187
22. Most common job of Senators
Brown v. Board of Education
Lawyers
The Federalist Papers
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
23. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
The Federalist Papers
Devolution
Pork Barrel Legislation
24. WWll - 1941
Last time Congress declared war
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
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Jim Crow Laws
25. The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).
Dred Scot v. Standford
Devolution
The Right of Due Process
Standing
26. 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.
Clear and Present Danger Test
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Power of the Federal Reserve
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
27. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
Around 100
Strict Scrutiny
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
The Federalist Papers
28. A collection of essays expressing the political philosophy of the Founders and that were instrumental in bringing about the ratification of the Constitution.
Conference Committee
The Federalist Papers
Prior Restraint
Standing
29. 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
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Critical Period
Shays' Rebellion
Redlining
30. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
2/3 from Congress
American Government and Politics
Devolution
31. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Griswald v. Connecticut
Jurisdiction
32. % of House that get reelected
Shays' Rebellion
Gideon v. Wainwright
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
90% or higher
33. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
Griswald v. Connecticut
James Madison
Lawrence v. Texas
8th Amendment
34. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
James Madison
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Independent Agency
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
35. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Gouverneur Morris
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
36. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Jim Crow Laws
Standing
Thomas Jefferson
37. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Brown v. Board of Education
6 years/2 years
The Exclusionary Rule
38. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Power to Declare War
Senatorial Courtesy
Bill of Rights
39. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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40. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Prior Restraint
Strict Scrutiny
Power of the Federal Reserve
Last time Congress declared war
41. 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.
Congressional Oversight
CA Prop 187
De facto and de jure segregation
Articles of Confederation
42. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Executive office of the President
4th Amendment protections
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
The Declaration of Independence.
43. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
14th Amendment
8th Amendment
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Critical Period
44. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
Native American Smoking
Jurisdiction
Redlining
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
45. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
90% or higher
Daniel Shays
Articles of Confederation
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
46. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
6 years/2 years
Government Corporation
Executive Agreements
47. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Redlining
Devolution
Dred Scot v. Standford
48. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Activist Judges
Executive Agreements
Thomas Jefferson
49. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Jim Crow Laws
8th Amendment
Last time Congress declared war
50. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Alexander Hamilton
The Exclusionary Rule
Activist Judges
Clear and Present Danger Test