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CLEP American Government
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1. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
Categorical Grants
12th Amendment
Executive Agreements
Senatorial Courtesy
2. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
Separate but Equal
3
14th Amendment
Earl Warren
3. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
9
Restrictive Covenant
Amicus Curiae Brief
20th
4. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Propose an Amendment
Raise Public Awareness
Secretary of State
Negative Advertising
5. Compromise between the large states and small states that established the bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Also included 3/5 compromise on the status of slaves in representation.
Democracy
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Bicameral
Family
6. Polls taken as people leave voting places. In the past - television networks sometimes used these polls to predict election outcomes before the polls close. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to project the winner in a state until the major
Cruel and Unusual
Veto
4
Exit Polls
7. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
Demands
1964 Civil Rights Act
Truman
Standing Committees
8. After the Vietnam war - American politics entered an era of __________________ during which neither party maintained control over the government.
Freedom of Information Act
Nuclear Proliferation
Shay's Rebellion
Divided Government
9. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
Maintaining Elections
Lafolette's Progressive s
Ways and Mean Committee
Exit Polls
10. Laws must be administered in a fair manner.
Procedural Due Process
Creative Federalism
Nationalism
Roe v. Wade
11. American politics is dominated by a small ___________ who is responsible for most of the important policy decisions
Elite
Equity
October 1st
The Federal Reserve Board
12. The net balance or relationship between total income and total expenditures by the nation in its dealings with the rest of the world - including trade - loans - and investments.
Unicameral
Balance of Payments
States
Flexible Construction
13. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
20th
Pentagon Papers
Federalist Papers
Woodrow Wilson
14. The term most political scientists prefer to describe the bureaucratic process
Common Law
435
Rules Committee
Public Administration
15. The class of independent voters who do not vote according to party affiliation - but who typically have a broader range of concerns than single-issue voters - are known colloquially as
Public Bills
Mugwumps
Line-Item Veto
Dark Horse
16. The president - the vice president - the heads of the major executive departments of the government - and certain other senior officials who may hold 'cabinet rank.'
Politics
Implementation
Elite and Class Theory
Cabinet
17. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Pluralist Theory
Vice President
October 1st
Ratification
18. An individual who does not join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Council of Economic Advisors
National Security Council
Free Rider
Trustee
19. 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.
Soft money
Plurality
Constituencies
Party Dealignment
20. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Recorded Vote
Jury of Peers
Majority and Minority Leader
Stare Decisis
21. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Low
Earl Warren
Cloture
Dark Horse
22. 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
Medicaid
14th Amendment
Right to Counsel
Baron v. Baltimore
23. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Republicans
Executive Agreements
Felonies
House of Representatives
24. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
Fixed
Spoils System
Bill of Attainder
6th Amendment
25. Cabinet department responsible for regulating and promoting trade and maintaining the census Established in 1913..
12th Amendment
Petit Jury
20th
Commerce
26. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Members of Congress
Spoiler Candidate
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Independent expenditures
27. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendment to bills or provides that only memebers of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments
Virginia Plan
Closed rule
Monopoly
Bureaucracy
28. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguements in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case
Committees of Correspondence
Amicus Curiae Brief
Monetary Policy
Probable Cause
29. When the President's own party gains power and influence - it more puts pressure on the President to conform to the will of the party - leading to________________ between the President and the party to define their public identities
Ticket Splitters
Safe seat
Increased competition
Medicare
30. In the area of foreign affairs - _______________ often have the advantage because
Roe v. Wade
Republicans
AARP
Deficit
31. Representatives serve ____ year terms
Executive Agencies
Article VI
2
Majority Whip
32. The Democrats control over politics during the 20th century ended with this President's unpopular handling of the Vietnam War.
Members of Congress
National Committee
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jury of Peers
33. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Elastic Clause
Deviating Elections
New Jersey Plan
Interior
34. Most states have ___________ legislatures.
Party Activists
Public Bills
Enact a Bill of Rights
Bicameral
35. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Cruel and Unusual
Executive
Murray v. Curlett
Independent Regulatory Agencies
36. 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
Articles of Confederation
Bureaucracy
Low
Gerrymandering
37. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Free Exercise
Regulatory Federalism
General Accounting
Civil Cases
38. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Fiscal Policy
Administrative Law
Campaign Contributions
Negative
39. The house armed services and foreign affairs committees each have ___ subcommittees.
7
National Supremacy
Interest groups
Amicus Curiae Brief
40. The constitutional requirement (in article II - sec 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws
Take Care Clause
Bill of Rights
Voting
Cruel and Unusual
41. A tax on voting abolished by the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964 - long used by southern states to keep blacks (and - in some cases - poor whites) from participating in elections.
55
Freedom of Speech
Poll Tax
Trustee
42. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Balancing Test
1776
Clean bill
Max Weber
43. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
Fast Track Authority
Flexible Construction
Diminish
Hatch Act
44. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
Impeachment
5
W.E.B. DuBoise
Politics
45. The principle that the government - as provided in the Fifth Amendment - can take property for 'public use' with 'just compensation' to the owners.
State
Eminent Domain
Open Meeting Law
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
46. Agenda that includes issues that affect the daily lives of the people.
Salient Agenda
17th
Original
Roth v. US
47. In California v. Avecedo (1991) - The Supreme Court established that authorities may search ____________________ without a warrant providing reasonable suspicion.
Blanket Primary
Civil Liberties
Automobiles
Impeachment
48. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
unlimited
Double Jeopardy
Political Advertising
Gerrymandering
49. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
1964 Civil Rights Act
Pure Speech
20th
Presidential Ticket
50. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
Straight Ticket Voting
Dynamic Conservatism
Selective Incorporation
Decreased