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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The separation of people by race.
Segregation
Project Grant
Katz. v US
Town Meeting
2. Groups whose views serve as guidelines to an individual's opinion. See also primary groups and secondary groups.
Republicans
State Treasurer
Establishment Clause
Reference Group
3. Today the Senate operates with ____ standing and select committees. These select committees - however - are permanent in nature and are treated as standing committees under Senate rules.
20
Public Bills
Writ of Certiorari
Executive Agreements
4. In his classic study of community power in New Haven - Connecticut - political scientist Robert A. Dahl concluded that the city was a __________ system dominated by many different sets of leaders
Medicaid
4
Pluralist
Criminal Cases
5. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Shield Laws
Fast Track Authority
Standing Committees
Felonies
6. The view advocated by Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas that there are provisions of the Bill of Rights that cannot be diluted by judicial decisions.
Negative Advertising
7
Royalists
Absolute Position
7. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Self-Incrimination
Political Efficacy
New Federalism
Filibuster
8. In 2002 - a federal appeals court struck down the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that it violated ________________.
Freedom of Religion
Gitlow v. New York
Royalists
Campaign Finance Reform
9. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Supreme Court
Original
Hold
Joint Committee
10. In this case - a gay man from Georgia charged with committing sodomy in his own home with a consenting adult. The court ruled that the Constitution does not explicitly grant the right for homosexuals to practice their lifestyle and that laws against
Presidential Ticket
Bowers v. Hardwick
Baron v. Baltimore
Reference Group
11. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
Due Process of Law
Quid Pro Quo
Open
Jim Crow Laws
12. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Gitlow v. New York
Interventionism
Establishment Clause
The Federal Reserve Board
13. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Mayflower Compact
Reynolds v. Sims
Trial Balloon
Outputs
14. The response of the rest of society to actions by the authorities.
Feedback
Amicus Curiae Brief
Party Identification
Unitary System
15. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Majority and Minority Leader
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Reference Group
War Powers Resolution
16. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is an example of an
Change of Venue
Interstate Compact
Confirmed
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
17. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted
Safe seat
Poll Tax
Mark Up Session
Blanket Primary
18. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Creative Federalism
Pyramid Model
14th
Caucuses
19. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: diversity/diffusion of power - more access points for political participation - fostering of experimentation and innovation - and allowing local governments to manage local problems effectively
Smith Act
Positive
Town Meeting
Voting
20. In _______________ cases such as Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) - the Supreme Court has upheld that while Affirmative action policies are legal - race and gender cannot be the only determining factors.
Earl Warren
Secondary Group
435
Reverse Discrimination
21. 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.
Clear and Present Danger
Good Faith Exception
Grant Clemency
Common Law
22. This house committee is responsible for Supervising the authority of the federal government to borrow money - Raising the revenue required to finance the federal government by levying taxes - Overseeing Social Security and other social insurance prog
Recall
Concurrent Powers
Original
Ways and Means Committee
23. The way things actually are.
Interest groups
Free Exercise Clause
Enact a Bill of Rights
de facto
24. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Ways and Mean Committee
Blacks
Roth v. US
Local
25. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
Due Process
Marshall Plan
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Gideon v. Wainwright
26. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
Electoral College
Federal Register
Precedent
Energy
27. First governing document of the Plymouth Colony establishing freedom of religion.
Impartial
14
Mayflower Compact
Writ of Assistance
28. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
Veteran's Affairs
31
Gender Gap
Establishment Clause
29. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.
Felonies
Diminish
Roth v. US
Pork-Barrel Legislation
30. The structure and set of regulations in place to control activity - usually in large organizations and government. it is represented by standardized procedure (rule-following) that dictates the execution of most or all processes within the body - for
Pyramid Model
Elite and Class Theory
Enumerated Powers
Bureaucracy
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.
Self-Incrimination
18th Amendment
Probable Cause
Bicameral
32. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Public Opinion
House of Representatives
Petit Jury
Transportation
33. Passed in 1883 - it created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
Committee of the Whole
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Probable Cause
Pendleton Civil Service Act
34. It the job of _________ committees of a political party to hold voter registration drives - recruit new party members and final candidates for city and county positions.
State Government
Republicans
Divided Government
Local
35. The belief that one is effective when participating in politics - for example that the government will respond to one's demands
External Efficacy
Nuclear Proliferation
CORE
Freedom of Information Act
36. In an election with more than 2 options - the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number - but less that half of the votes.
Plurality
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Pluralist Theory
Senate
37. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Agriculture
Capitalism
Distribution
Executive Agencies
38. 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?
Dies
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Riders
Rules Committee
39. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Implied Powers
Shay's Rebellion
Closed rule
Closed
40. A philosophy that Supreme Court justices and other judges should boldly apply the Constitution to social and political questions.
7th Amendment
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Judicial Activism
Declining
41. This Supreme Court case infamously decided that a slave was not a citizen but property to be 'used in subservience to the interests - the convenience - or the will of his owner'
Democratic
Impoundment
Dred Scott
Article III
42. Prompted by FDR's 4th election to the Presidency - the 22nd Amendment limited the number of Presidential terms to _____ terms.
State Auditor
2
Ratification
Arraignment
43. 19th century case establishing that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government - upheld until the 20th century. Ruling allowed stated to engage in activities such as establishing state churches and denying public office to people of ce
Incumbents
Proprietary Colonies
Baron v. Baltimore
Roe v. Wade
44. A form of city government under which a council - usually elected on a nonpartisan ticket - hires a professional city manager - who runs the city government and has power to hire and fire officials.
Political Machines
Power Structure
Chief Justice
Council-Manager Plan
45. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
Laissez-Faire
Council of Economic Advisors
Raise Public Awareness
AARP
46. The action - or actions - taken by government to carry out a policy.
Petit Jury
Implementation
Instructed Delegate
Third Parties
47. _____ out of 9 justices must agree to hear an appellate case brought to them from a lower court.
4
Liberalism
Transportation
Electoral College
48. The formal source of all authority in each major political party. It nominates the party candidates for president and vice president - writes a platform - settles disputes - writes rules - and elects the members of the national committee.
Monopoly
Plain View
Quota Sampling
National Convention
49. 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.
Blacks
state legislatures
Tammany Hall
Committee of the Whole
50. These voters are registered as a party member but only participate by voting in primary and general elections. Tend to vote straight-party ticket and follow the leads of local party officials.
Cruel and Unusual
Rank and File
Attorney General
Bundling