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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This 1972 Supreme Court case struck down all state laws allowing the death penalty stating that they allowed for too much discretion on the part of the judge and jury resulting in lack of consistent administration of the penalty.
Furman v. Georgia
Public Policies
Majority and Minority Leader
Self-Incrimination
2. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Albany Plan
Project Grant
2/3
Internal Efficacy
3. The fundamental flaw in plural theory contends that pluralism weakens the backbone of democracy with too many common interest groups attempt to wield power - often leading to standstill because of unwillingness to compromise.
Internationalism
Balancing Test
2/3
Hyperpluralism
4. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
The Federal Reserve Board
Secondary Group
Concurrent Powers
Unicameral
5. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Judicial Review
Bundling
Major Political Party
6. Define US Citizenship as any person born or naturalized in the United States.
14th Amendment
National Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Interior
7. A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
Unlimited
Welfare State
Social Security
New Deal Era
8. The strongest factor contributing to an individual's political socialization tends to be
Delegated Powers
Family
Majority Rule
Suburbia
9. Elects the President if no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes.
Statutory Law
House of Representatives
Independent Expenditures
Detente
10. 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.
Convention Bounce
Unlimited
Governmental Corporations
Good Faith Exception
11. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Issue network
Zenger
Proportional Representation
Flexible Construction
12. _____ out of 9 justices must agree to hear an appellate case brought to them from a lower court.
Rank and File
Declining
Demands
4
13. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - founded in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover to help combat the Great Depression - was the predecessor of which federal agencies?
Entitlement Programs
Small Business Administration (SBA)
100
Contract Clause
14. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Issue network
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Concurrent Powers
Federal
15. Courts of original jurisdiction in federal crimes - civil suits under federal law - civil suits between citizens of different states where the amount in question exceeds $50 -000 - bankruptcy proceedings - cases involving some federal administrative
8th Amendment
Substantive Due Process
Establishment Clause
Federal District
16. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
Secondary Group
High
Cruel and Unusual
Federalist
17. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Mayflower Compact
Inverse
War Powers Resolution
Speech Plus
18. The way things should be by law
Committee of the Whole
de jure
Senate
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
19. Cabinet department oversees nuclear reactors.Established in 1973 in response to the Energy Crisis.
Council-Manager Plan
Energy
Smith Act
Custom
20. The median income of women is ___________ percent of men.
Affirmative Action
Freedom of Speech
Select Committee
77
21. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that permits floor amendments within the overall time allocated to the bill.
State Government
Government
Open rule
Reverse Discrimination
22. State legislation designed to outlaw the union shop - passed by 21 states acting under Section 14B of the federal Taft-Hartley Act.
Caucuses
Right to Work Laws
Natural Rights
Exclusionary Rule
23. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Civil Cases
State Legislatures
Whistle-blowers
Cabinet
24. Legislature bills that affect all citizens.
Freedom of Speech
Issue network
Secretary of State
Public Bills
25. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases
Exit Polls
8th Amendment
Muckrakers
Selective exposure
26. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Local
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Internationalism
Residual
27. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
Soft Money
Pentagon Papers
Medicare
Tammany Hall
28. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Retrospective Voting
Redistributive Policy
Earl Warren
Defense
29. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
25th Amendment
Senior Executive Service
30
Albany Plan
30. In charge of all state funds. Supervises the collection of taxes and payment of state's bill
State Treasurer
Legislative Veto
Reference Group
Entitlement Spending
31. While the verbiage of the 4th Amendment is vague as to what constitutes 'reasonable'. Police departments must rely on _____________; they cannot act on unfounded suspicion.
Poll Tax
AARP
Probable Cause
Globalization
32. 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
Residual
Agriculture
Selective exposure
33. An economy in which most economic decisions result from the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets - but in which the government plays a significant role in the allocation of resources.
Public Administration
Ticket Splitters
Democratic
Mixed Economy
34. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Select Committee
Discharge Petition
Writ of Certiorari
Ratification
35. ________________ of the Constitution dictates how the Constitution shall be amended.
Conference Committee
Social Regulation
Article V
Discharge Petition
36. Members of this party typically include women who support liberal policies on abortion and equal pay - Jews - Catholics - Blacks and other minorities - Blue-collar working class - urban - labor unions - and intelligensia
Democrats
Valence issue
Declining
Articles of Confederation
37. Concurrent resolution - adopted by both Houses of Congress - that sets forth a Congressional budget plan for the budget year and at least four out-years.
Legislative
Plain View
Budget Resolution
Impeachment
38. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Offensive Language
National Security
Self-Incrimination
Earmarks
39. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
National Convention
Political Socialization
Housing and Urban Development
Federal Courts
40. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Dred Scott Decision
Isolationism
Northern and Southern
Criminal Cases
41. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Electoral College
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Standing Committees
Declining
42. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Death penalty
Capitalism
Redistributive Policy
43. A Latin phrase meaning 'stand by past decisions -' a principle that judges often use in deciding cases. Ruling based on precedents.
Stare Decisis
External Efficacy
Federalism
Impeachment
44. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Nuclear Proliferation
State Legislatures
Due Process of Law
Party of Economic Protest
45. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Pork Barrel Spending
Self-Incrimination
Republicans
Quid Pro Quo
46. The binding decisions that the government makes whether in the form of laws -regulations - or judicial decisions
Warrant
Republicans
Outputs
Great Compromise
47. In 1987 - the FCC abandoned the fairness doctrine on the grounds that it unconstitutionally restricted the ______________ rights of broadcasters.
Probable Cause
1st Amendment
may not
Civilian Supremacy
48. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Declining
Delegated Powers
Gitlow v. New York
Right to Work Laws
49. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
Closed
Closed
Presidential Ticket
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
50. In this essay - James Madison recognized that reconciling the competing interests of various groups was what legislation was all about
Concurring Opinion
Independent
The Federalist #10
Small Business Administration (SBA)