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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Budget Surplus
Federal
Baby Boomers
Jus Soli
2. Executive Check on the Legislative Branch.
Presidential Veto
Ways and Mean Committee
October 1st
Local
3. First proposed in 1789 - this amendment passed in 1992 prohibits Congress from raising their own pay. Pay raises may not take affect until the beginning of the next term.
Automobiles
House of Representatives
27th Amendment
Dies
4. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Interest Groups
Substantive Due Process
Budget Surplus
Elastic Clause
5. Washington v. Chrisman (1982) established the _________________ - allowing police officers to seize evidence without a warrant if the evidence is in obvious sight.
Plain View
Fast Track Authority
Reverse Discrimination
9
6. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Jurisdiction
Lobbying
Reverse Discrimination
legislative and executive
7. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: conflicts between state and national government - economic and racial discrimination - uneven enforcement of law - and dominance of local governments by special interest groups
Rousseau
435
Negative
Ratification
8. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Roe v. Wade
Collective Action
Secondary Group
Clear and Present Danger
9. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
State Government
Police Powers
Speech Plus
4
10. Head of the Supreme Court.
Article IV
1964 Civil Rights Act
Chief Justice
Lobbying
11. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Non-protected Speech
Reynolds v. Sims
Free Speech
Majority and Minority Leader
12. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Whistle-blowers
Electoral Votes
Presidential Veto
Internal Efficacy
13. Constitutionally empowered to appoint judges - ambassadors - and other high officials - Constitutionally empowered to make treaties with foreign countries.
President
Implementation
Court of Appeals
Unicameral
14. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
Zenger
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
9
Veto
15. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is an example of an
Interstate Compact
Balance of Payments
Scottsboro Boys Case
National Security Council
16. 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
Bundling
Independent
Clear and Present Danger
17. A power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action (if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period after the president receives the bill). Some court rulings have suggested that a president may exercise a pocket veto only when Congress adjour
Primary
Double Jeopardy
Virginia Plan
Pocket Veto
18. A federal tax on imports.
9
Tariff
Spoiler Candidate
Alien and Sedition Acts
19. The single biggest item in campaign spending at the presidential level is ___________________.
Television and Radio
Decreased
Popular Sovereignty
Bureaucracy
20. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
2/3
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Low
Thomas Hobbes
21. Literally meaning 'right of blood' - confers citizenship to a child from the parents.
Open Meeting Law
Outputs
Jus Sanguinis
New Federalism
22. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Party of Economic Protest
5 -000
Issue network
Open rule
23. A legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes.
Whip
New Federalism
Reference Group
Clear and Present Danger
24. 1974 Act mandating that all government files about private citizens be kept confidential.
Privacy Act
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Exclusionary Rule
Common Law
25. Largest interest group in the US.
Campaign Finance Reform
Antitrust Legislation
AARP
Common Sense
26. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.
Majority Rule
Categorical Grants
Medicare
National Convention
27. The individuals - institutions - and processes that make the rules for society and possess the power to enforce them.
Charismatic authority
Deficit
Government
Majority Rule
28. Number of Federal District courts across 50 states - DC and Puerto Rico.
Alien and Sedition Acts
10th Amendment
State of the Union
89
29. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
Campaign Finance Reform
25th Amendment
Creative Federalism
8 Million
30. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
5
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Recall
Coordinated Spending
31. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
6
Article II
Clean bill
Judicial
32. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
Situational
US Trade Representatives
Max Weber
Caucus
33. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Commonwealth
may not
Electoral College
Interest Groups
34. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Elite
30
Right of Expatriation
Campaign Contributions
35. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Liberalism
Eminent Domain
Party Identification
Low
36. The spread of nuclear weapons to more nations.
Containment
8 Million
Suburbia
Nuclear Proliferation
37. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Mark Up Session
2nd Amendment
Senate Standing Committees
Riders
38. 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
Civil Cases
Federal District
Republicans
Confederation
39. Also known as the Indiana ballot - lists the candidates of each party in a row or column - beside or under the party emblem. In most cases - the voter can make one mark at the top of the column - or pull one lever - and thus vote for all the party's
Television
Select Committee
Enumerated Powers
Party Column Ballot
40. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Veto
31
Unicameral
Free Exercise Clause
41. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
legislative and executive
Conference Committee
Parallel
Concurrent Powers
42. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Habeas Corpus
Political Action Committee
Logrolling
Institutional
43. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases
10th Amendment
Selective exposure
Katz. v US
Bill of Rights
44. Legislature bills that affect only a small group of citizens.
Custom
Committees of Correspondence
Private Bills
Secondary Group
45. A series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison under the pseudonym Publius advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Increased
Federalist Papers
31
Party Realignment
46. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Senatorial Courtesy
Concurrent Powers
Independent expenditures
blockbusting and redlining
47. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
Presidential Ticket
National Debt
Shay's Rebellion
14th Amendment
48. 1944 case established that as as long as a person accepted their beliefs in good faith that it is not the government's authority to determine whether those beliefs are valid.
US v. Ballard
Voting
Civil Liberties
Party Dealignment
49. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
Council of Economic Advisors
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Resolutions
Recall
50. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
Majority Whip
Politics
Blacks
National Chair