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CLEP American Government
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1. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Fixed
Freedom of Speech
Articles of Confederation
Whips
2. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Blanket Primary
Secondary Group
Impoundment
a senior senator of the majority party
3. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 10) intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affect property rights.
Republicans
Contract Clause
Selective Incorporation
Outputs
4. 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 _________________.
State Treasurer
General Accounting
Free Speech
Party Dealignment
5. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?
Probable Cause
Majority Whip
Impeachment
4
6. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
Selective Incorporation
Speech Plus
2/3
Transnational Relations
7. The individuals - institutions - and processes that make the rules for society and possess the power to enforce them.
Conference Committee
Council-Manager Plan
Divided Government
Government
8. Guaranteed women the right to vote.
Concurrent
Right to Counsel
19th Amendment
Bill of Attainder
9. A public policy that takes something away from one person or group and gives it to another person or group.
14th Amendment
Select Committee
527 Organizations
Redistributive Policy
10. Prompted by the ____________________ - the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
Low
Creative Federalism
Vietnam War
55
11. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Jus Soli
Resolutions
Implied Powers
Baron de Montesquieu
12. The way things should be by law
Exit Polls
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Television
de jure
13. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.
Procedural Due Process
Capitalism
Article VI
11th Amendment
14. A federal law passed by Congress in 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers. The law prevents federal employees while on duty from taking an active part in party politics or campaigns and also bars federal employees from running for
Clothespin vote
Hatch Act
Statutory Law
Isolationism
15. In 1943 - The Supreme Court upheld the Jehovah's Witnesses right to refrain from saluting the American flag based on their right to _____________.
Supremacy Clause
Free Exercise of Religion
Proposition 187
Committees of Correspondence
16. A 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union limiting the number of defensive missiles each country could build. In 2001 President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the treaty.
Interstate Compact
State Auditor
Exclusionary Rule
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
17. Laws - rules - and government programs designed to protect individual rights and specific groups - as well as to benefit society as a whole in such areas as health - worker safety - consumer protection - and the environment.
Freedom of Speech
Policy Making Cycle
Social Regulation
Universe
18. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.
Speaker of the House
Spoiler Candidate
Shay's Rebellion
Political Party
19. A joint committee of Congress established to help negotiate discrepancies and gain consensus between legislation passed in each house before sending the bill to the President.
Miller v. California
Murray v. Curlett
Conference Committee
Federalist Papers
20. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
Retrospective Voting
Agriculture
7th Amendment
Regulatory Federalism
21. The vagueness of this phrase has allowed juries to exclude specific genders or races in order to affect the outcome of the verdict.
Jury of Peers
Implied
Gerrymandering
Policy Making Cycle
22. The name commonly given to a private group - regardless of size - organized to elect political candidates. An organization becomes one by receiving contributions or making expenditures in excess of $1 -000 for the purpose of influencing a federal ele
National
Permanent Registration
Political Action Committee
Inverse
23. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
14th Amendment
Gerrymandering
9
Residual
24. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
Coordinated Spending
435
Issue network
Committees of Correspondence
25. Independent organizations - but more often the political arms of corporations - labor unions - or interest groups - established to contribute to candidates or to work for general political goals.
Bipartisanship
Political Action Committees
25th Amendment
Salient Agenda
26. Something given in exchange for something else; swap
Implied Powers
Clear and Present Danger
Quid Pro Quo
Double Jeopardy
27. 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.
Issue network
state legislatures
Electoral College
Freedom of Speech
28. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Federal Courts
Feedback
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Criminal Information
29. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Creative Federalism
Open
Home Rule
30. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
State Legislatures
Unlimited
Periodic Registration
Regulatory Agencies
31. 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.
Writ of Certiorari
Closed
Hyperpluralism
Conventions
32. _____________ is responsible for monetary policy.
Freedom of Religion
The Federal Reserve Board
Third Parties
Positive
33. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Natural Rights
Republicans
14th
Equality
34. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Independent Expenditures
Jim Crow Laws
Charter Colonies
Voting
35. A system of _______________ - as in Italy - encourages the existence of many parties by allotting seats to competing candidates according to the percentage of votes they win.
Interest Groups
Free Exercise Clause
Diminish
Proportional Representation
36. 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
Public Policy
Safe seat
Rules Committee
Due Process of Law
37. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
Pure Speech
US v. Ballard
8th Amendment
Committees
38. A study of Bennington College students in the 1930s illustrated that the influence of the family on political attitudes tends to ______________ as they grow older and come into contact with other groups.
a senior senator of the majority party
Diminish
Open rule
W.E.B. DuBoise
39. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Conservatism
state legislatures
State Auditor
Members of Congress
40. The 5th amendment protect against _____________.
Party Activists
Self-Incrimination
Senatorial Courtesy
Interest groups
41. Law enacted in 1939 to prohibit civil servants from taking activists roles in partisan campaigns .This act prohibited federal employees from making political contributions - working for a particualr party -or campaining for a particualr canidate
Hatch Act
Jury of Peers
John F. Kennedy
Cluster Sampling
42. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Pyramid Model
Voting
Secondary Group
Earmarks
43. Spending determined by the number of qualified recipients and their legally determined need is called
Town Meeting
Entitlement Spending
Inputs
Recommit the Bill to Committee
44. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Contract Clause
Cloture
Soft money
35
45. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Rousseau
Civil Cases
Due Process of Law
Party of Economic Protest
46. Prohibits citizens of one state or foreign country from suing another state.
Articles of Confederation
Proposition 187
Private Bills
11th Amendment
47. A system of voter registration in which voters must register only once in their district.
Permanent Registration
Conference Committee
Low
War Powers Resolution
48. In the area of foreign affairs - _______________ often have the advantage because
5
Rank and File
Republicans
Concurring Opinion
49. 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
John Locke
Political ideology
Commonwealth
50. By far - the largest amount of federal aid to state and local governments comes in the form of:
Categorical Grants
Max Weber
Republicans
Federal Register