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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Power to Declare War
Daniel Shays
2/3 from Congress
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
2. % of House that get reelected
Amicus Curiae
Presidential Mandate
Executive office of the President
90% or higher
3. Term of Senate/House
Clear and Present Danger Test
90% or higher
Filibuster
6 years/2 years
4. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Independent Agency
Executive Order
Logrolling
The Declaration of Independence.
5. 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
Constitutional Convention
Government Corporation
Stare Decisis
Critical Period
6. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
9
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
War Powers Resolution
7. 30 minutes.
Administrative Rule Making
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
The Declaration of Independence.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
8. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Executive Agreements
Griswald v. Connecticut
Class Action Suit
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
9. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Marbury v. Madison
8th Amendment
Strict Scrutiny
10. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Griswald v. Connecticut
Government Corporation
11. % of votes to override a presidential veto
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Constitutional Convention
2/3 from Congress
State of the Union Address
12. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Marbury v. Madison
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Daniel Shays
13. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
6 years/2 years
14. 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
Jurisdiction
Constitutional Convention
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
15. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
State of the Union Address
Pork Barrel Legislation
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
War Powers Resolution
16. Most common job of Senators
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Lawyers
Administrative Rule Making
Lawrence v. Texas
17. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Government Corporation
9
Stare Decisis
Jim Crow Laws
18. WWll - 1941
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Thomas Jefferson
Last time Congress declared war
Plessy v. Fergueson
19. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
War Powers Resolution
20. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
The Exclusionary Rule
Stare Decisis
The Declaration of Independence.
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
21. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
2/3 from Congress
14th Amendment
Presidential Mandate
Administrative Rule Making
22. 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
Government Corporation
Lawrence v. Texas
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
23. 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.
Around 100
Class Action Suit
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Speaker of the House
24. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
The Right of Due Process
Devolution
Activist Judges
Gouverneur Morris
25. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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26. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
Around 100
War Powers Resolution
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
27. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Buckley v. Valeo
Lawyers
Habeas Corpus
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
28. 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?
Congressional Oversight
Executive Agreements
Redlining
29. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
Filibuster
Last time Congress declared war
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Jurisdiction
30. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Regulatory Agency
Constitutional Convention
Executive Agreements
The Federalist Papers
31. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
The Exclusionary Rule
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Prior Restraint
Around 100
32. 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
14th Amendment
American Government and Politics
90% or higher
Speaker of the House
33. 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?
Activist Judges
The Federalist Papers
The Declaration of Independence.
34. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
Presidential Mandate
8th Amendment
Bill of Rights
James Madison
35. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
6 years/2 years
4th Amendment protections
Griswald v. Connecticut
Gouverneur Morris
36. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Lawrence v. Texas
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Plessy v. Fergueson
37. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
The Right of Due Process
Logrolling
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Strict Scrutiny
38. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
The Right of Due Process
Administrative Rule Making
Executive office of the President
Clear and Present Danger Test
39. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
James Madison
Shays' Rebellion
CA Prop 187
Miranda v. Arizona
40. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Clear and Present Danger Test
Miranda v. Arizona
6 years/2 years
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
41. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Activist Judges
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Power of the Federal Reserve
42. 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.
Government Corporation
Conference Committee
Administrative Rule Making
6 years/2 years
43. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Brown v. Board of Education
De facto and de jure segregation
Gouverneur Morris
Power to Declare War
44. 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.
De facto and de jure segregation
Constitutional Convention
Activist Judges
Regulatory Agency
45. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
14th Amendment
Redlining
Last time Congress declared war
Power of the Federal Reserve
46. Not allowed.
Jurisdiction
Activist Judges
6 years/2 years
Native American Smoking
47. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Critical Period
Presidential Mandate
48. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Articles of Confederation
Pork Barrel Legislation
Standing
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
49. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
Executive office of the President
Critical Period
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
8th Amendment
50. The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).
De facto and de jure segregation
Devolution
9
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court