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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Government Corporations
Secretary of State
Original Jurisdiction
Campaign Finance Reform
2. Concept of government by the people in which everyone is free to vote - but normally whoever gets the most votes wins the election and represents all the people - including those who voted for the losing candidate.
Majority Rule
Executive Agencies
Antitrust Legislation
Jus Sanguinis
3. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Negative
Miller v. California
Flexible Construction
Article II
4. Court cases that involve relations between individuals and organizations - such as a divorce action - or a suit for damages arising from an automobile accident or for violation of a business contract.
Federal Appellate
It Failed to be Ratified
Civil Cases
Impoundment
5. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Politics
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Negative
Habeas Corpus
6. Constitutionally required address by the President typically given in a joint session of Congress.
State of the Union
Trustee
Oligopoly
Deviating Elections
7. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
Pyramid Model
7
State Auditor
Ways and Mean Committee
8. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the practice of _______________ allowing more diversity among immigrants.
Fiscal Policy
national quotas
Right of Expatriation
Federal
9. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Party Dealignment
Valence issue
2/3
Executive Privilege
10. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Redistributive Policy
Article III
Segregation
Convention Bounce
11. Several Presidents have been elected without winning the popular vote. As a result - In 1970 and 1979 - Amendments were proposed to disband the ______________ - neither passed.
Legislative
Electoral College
Furman v. Georgia
Libertarianism
12. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Restrictive Covenant
Misdemeanors
Members of Congress
Free Exercise Clause
13. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Article VI
Legislative
Realigning Elections
Articles of Confederation
14. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Executive Agreements
2/3
Reserved Powers
Separate but Equal
15. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
National Committee
3
House of Representatives
Members of Congress
16. Requests from people or groups for health care for the aged - loans for college students - equal opportunity for minorities - and higher subsidies for farmers are examples of:
High
State Government
Demands
10th Amendment
17. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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18. A law passed by Congress in 1973 in an effort to set a time limit on the use of combat forces abroad by a president.
War Powers Resolution
Implied Powers
Joseph McCarthy
Great or Connecticut Compromise
19. An annual meeting held in the spring in many New England towns - at which the townspeople come together to elect a board of selectmen and to discuss local policy questions. It has become a symbol of participatory democracy.
Libel
Town Meeting
Separation of Powers
Clothespin vote
20. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
Press Secretary
Good Faith Exception
House of Representatives
imprisoned
21. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on a sharply limited government - promoting a free market economy - a non-interventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in the moral and social spheres.
Libertarianism
Grant Clemency
Jury of Peers
Policy Making Cycle
22. Which office serves as a watchdog into waste or fraud in the bureaucracy and conducts investigations at the request of congressional committees
Enumerated Powers
General Accounting
Commission Plan
Pendleton Civil Service Act
23. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
General Accounting
Categorical Grants
Strategic Deterrence
Magna Carta
24. Philosopher John Locke - in his 1690 work Civil Government (second treatise) - advised separation of government power between
Strategic Deterrence
Impeachment
Equality
legislative and executive
25. The proceeding before a judge in which the formal charges of an indictment or information are read to an accused person - who may plead guilty or not guilty.
Arraignment
Office of Management and Budget
Implied Powers
Majority and Minority Leader
26. Cabinet department that includes the FAA and the National Hwy Traffic Safety Administration. Established in 1966.
Poll Tax
Situational
Transportation
Electoral Connection
27. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Committees of Correspondence
Dynamic Conservatism
Dissenting Opinion
Negative Advertising
28. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
4th Amendment
Categorical Grant
Supreme Court
W.E.B. DuBoise
29. In a 1943 case - the Supreme Court upheld the right to refuse to salute the American flag on the basis of the constitutional guarantee of _________________.
Free Speech
Writ of Certiorari
State Government
a senior senator of the majority party
30. Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Espionage Act
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Pyramid Model
Select Committee
31. An immigrant who wished to become a citizen may be naturalized after living in the US for ___ years.
Judicial Activism
General Election
7
5
32. A place of work in which only union members may be hired.
12th Amendment
Closed Shop
Transnational Relations
Medicaid
33. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Substantive Due Process
Blacks
Supreme Court
Defense
34. A plan to provide billions of dollars of American aid to Western Europe to speed its economic and social recovery after the Second World War.
527 Organizations
Due Process of Law
Marshall Plan
Majority and Minority Leader
35. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Inverse
Rank and File
Equal Protection Clause
Patriot Act
36. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
New Jersey Plan
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Wallace's Progressives
37. (1945-1991) The period after the Second World War marked by rivalry and tension between the two nuclear superpowers - the United States and the communist government of the Soviet Union. The Cold War ended when the Soviet government collapsed in 1991.
Judicial
Cold War
Article IV
Bill of Rights
38. When the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party - usually the result of winning a critical election.
House of Representatives
25
Party Realignment
Isolationism
39. Something given in exchange for something else; swap
Sub-committee
Unicameral
Quid Pro Quo
Affirmative Action
40. The practice of victorious politicians to reward their followers with jobs. Also known as the spoils system.
AARP
Elite and Class Theory
14th Amendment
Political Patronage
41. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
Party Dealignment
Flexible Construction
Roth v. US
Standing Committees
42. The Supreme Court holds _____________ jurisdiction in cases against the US - ambassadors - public ministers - and consuls.
8 Million
Original
Coast Guard
Reynolds v. Sims
43. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
National Security Council
Soft Money
11th Amendment
state legislatures
44. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Impoundment
National Security
Critical Election
Jurisdiction
45. Which of the following factors is likely to be the weakest indicator of an individual's political beliefs and opinions? Age - Race - Intelligence - or Religion
Intelligence
Virginia Plan
Socialism
Nuclear Proliferation
46. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as
The Enlightenment
Weber
Writ of Certiorari
Housing and Urban Development
47. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
Convention Bounce
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Nationalism
Automobiles
48. In Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972) - the Supreme Court extended the right to counsel to those accused of misdemeanors if the defendant is _____________.
President
imprisoned
Roth v. US
Joint Committees
49. The executive office established in response to intelligence lapses during WWI. Oversees American foreign policy and includes the President - Vice President - Secretary of State - Secretary of Defense and is lead by the National Security Advisor.
Federalist
National Security Council
Veteran's Affairs
Realigning Elections
50. Requires the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President separately.
Judicial
Senate
Free Exercise of Religion
12th Amendment