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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Conference Committee
Thomas Jefferson
President's Inherent Powers
Congressional Oversight
2. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
Shays' Rebellion
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
4th Amendment protections
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
3. 30 minutes.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Jurisdiction
Marbury v. Madison
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
4. 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
American Government and Politics
4th Amendment protections
Strict Scrutiny
Executive Order
5. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Gouverneur Morris
Jim Crow Laws
State of the Union Address
Buckley v. Valeo
6. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
The Exclusionary Rule
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
9
Administrative Rule Making
7. Term of Senate/House
Habeas Corpus
6 years/2 years
Power to Declare War
14th Amendment
8. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Last time Congress declared war
6 years/2 years
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Brown v. Board of Education
9. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Redlining
Buckley v. Valeo
Alexander Hamilton
President's Appointment Power
10. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
Power of the Federal Reserve
Redlining
14th Amendment
Around 100
11. Not allowed.
Shays' Rebellion
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Native American Smoking
Senatorial Courtesy
12. 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.
Speaker of the House
Jim Crow Laws
Brown v. Board of Education
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
13. 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
Logrolling
Independent Agency
De facto and de jure segregation
14. 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.
Conference Committee
Civil Service Act of 1883
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
American Government and Politics
15. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Bill of Rights
Gideon v. Wainwright
President's Inherent Powers
Thomas Jefferson
16. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Civil Service Act of 1883
State of the Union Address
The Right of Due Process
Shays' Rebellion
17. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Buckley v. Valeo
Government Corporation
6 years/2 years
George Washington
18. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Jim Crow Laws
Stare Decisis
Conference Committee
Devolution
19. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
The Declaration of Independence.
Devolution
War Powers Resolution
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
20. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Griswald v. Connecticut
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Delegated Powers
The Declaration of Independence.
21. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Regulatory Agency
Miranda v. Arizona
Redlining
Executive Order
22. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Articles of Confederation
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Gideon v. Wainwright
23. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Gouverneur Morris
Last time Congress declared war
War Powers Resolution
24. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Devolution
George Washington
President's Appointment Power
Miranda v. Arizona
25. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Lawrence v. Texas
Dred Scot v. Standford
Articles of Confederation
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
26. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Stare Decisis
Congressional Oversight
Gideon v. Wainwright
Standing
27. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
6 years/2 years
Bill of Rights
8th Amendment
28. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Devolution
4th Amendment protections
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Clear and Present Danger Test
29. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
The Exclusionary Rule
Amicus Curiae
Critical Period
Prior Restraint
30. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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31. 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.
Lawrence v. Texas
The Federalist Papers
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senatorial Courtesy
32. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Standing
9
Around 100
33. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
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34. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Brown v. Board of Education
Alexander Hamilton
Daniel Shays
Buckley v. Valeo
35. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
Last time Congress declared war
CA Prop 187
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Buckley v. Valeo
36. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
Strict Scrutiny
President's Inherent Powers
State of the Union Address
Filibuster
37. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Executive Order
14th Amendment
Independent Agency
George Washington
38. 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.
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Regulatory Agency
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
39. Most common job of Senators
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Conference Committee
Lawyers
40. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Independent Agency
Power of the Federal Reserve
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Joint Chiefs of Staff
41. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Marbury v. Madison
Logrolling
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Independent Agency
42. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Pork Barrel Legislation
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Class Action Suit
Constitutional Convention
43. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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44. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Daniel Shays
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Logrolling
90% or higher
45. WWll - 1941
Jurisdiction
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Last time Congress declared war
46. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Senatorial Courtesy
6 years/2 years
Redlining
Government Corporation
47. 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
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Daniel Shays
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
48. 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.
Clear and Present Danger Test
De facto and de jure segregation
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Brown v. Board of Education
49. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
6 years/2 years
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
8th Amendment
Buckley v. Valeo
50. 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
Power of the Federal Reserve
Speaker of the House
4th Amendment protections