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CLEP American Government
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1. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Judicial
Retrospective Voting
Enacted
Bicameral
2. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Democracy
Committees of Correspondence
8 Million
John F. Kennedy
3. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
State Auditor
Interior
Nuclear Proliferation
Baby Boomers
4. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Public Administration
Pentagon Papers
General Accounting Office
Enact a Bill of Rights
5. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Redistributive Policy
Enumerated Powers
Federalist Papers
Whips
6. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Riders
Segregation
Senior Executive Service
1776
7. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion
Writ of Mandamus
Judicial Review
Closed
Gerrymandering
8. Established in 1947 as a combined Department of War and Navy.
Critical Election
2nd Amendment
October 1st
Defense
9. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
Homeland Security
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Judicial Selection
New Deal Era
10. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Economic Interest Groups
Hub and Spoke Model
de jure
Low
11. Literally meaning 'right of blood' - confers citizenship to a child from the parents.
Divided Government
Jus Sanguinis
Conventions
Commission Plan
12. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
Lemon Test
CORE
Implied Powers
Electoral Votes
13. An offical who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of the legislator
Discharge Petition
Common Sense
The Federal Reserve Board
Delegate
14. Lead by Theodore Roosevelt - this party platform focused on women's suffrage - social reform - fair business practices - and direct election of senators. The won 25% of the popular vote in 1911 - splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Wo
Referendum
Bull Moose Progressives
Conservatism
Entitlement Spending
15. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Commonwealth
Senate
Free Exercise Clause
Gerrymandering
16. The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in 1982 because ____________________________.
It Failed to be Ratified
National Security Council
Formula Grant
Television and Radio
17. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Discharge Petition
CORE
Attorney General
Diminish
18. 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.
Redistributive Policy
Government
Standing Committees
US v. Ballard
19. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Globalization
Original Jurisdiction
Major Political Party
Political Machines
20. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Equal Protection Clause
Senatorial Courtesy
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Committees
21. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
Redistributive Policy
National Committee
Local
3
22. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
Baker v. Wingo
US v. Ballard
Concurrent Powers
Article IV
23. Once the Supreme Court justices have agreed to hear an appeal - they issue a _________________.
Democrats
Joint Committee
Incorporation Doctrine
Writ of Certiorari
24. To negotiate a complex and politically sensitive trade treaty - a President will often
binding
Democratic
Enumerated Powers
Fast Track Authority
25. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Thomas Hobbes
Interest Groups
Civil War Amendments
Arraignment
26. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Office of Management and Budget
Whip
Katz. v US
Bundling
27. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
Conglomerates
Establishment Clause
Earmarks
Gender Gap
28. An individual who does not join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Free Rider
Select Committee
Dred Scott Decision
Poll Tax
29. Impact elections by siphoning off votes from major parties spoiling a party's chance in a close race.
National Supremacy
may not
Gerrymandering
Third Parties
30. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Privacy Act
Fixed
Resolutions
Muckrakers
31. 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
Diminish
Nuclear Proliferation
Custom
32. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has less discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Formula Grant
Issue network
Housing and Urban Development
House of Representatives
33. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
Confederation
Valence issue
Administrative Procedure Act
5
34. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
Rank and File
Fiscal Policy
Pentagon Papers
8 Million
35. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Resolutions
Department of State
Cabinet
Earl Warren
36. The pursuit and exercise of power
Interventionism
Politics
Plain View
Unlimited
37. The proceeding before a judge in which the formal charges of an indictment or information are read to an accused person - who may plead guilty or not guilty.
Arraignment
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Lyndon B. Johnson
Separate but Equal
38. Things government decides to do - example: taxation - crime control - national defense - education - etc.
Ways and Means Committee
Public Policies
Royal Colonies
Enumerated Powers
39. A group of writers - journalists - and critics who exposed corporate malfeasance and political corruption in the first decade of the 20th century.
Equal Time
Government Corporations
Salient Agenda
Muckrakers
40. Prohibits conviction of a crime that occurred before the act became illegal
Selective Incorporation
Hub and Spoke Model
Ex Post Facto
Vietnam War
41. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
General Accounting
Gender Gap
Governmental Corporations
Commerce
42. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
Chief Justice
Miranda Rights
Social Regulation
Bicameral
43. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Concurrent
Veto
Situational
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
44. Individual contributions to PACs are limited to ______________ dollars per candidate per election with primaries - general and special elections counting separately.
Albany Plan
Mallory Rule
Political Culture
5 -000
45. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Implementation
Distribution
Increased competition
Equality
46. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
Voting
Freedom of Speech
Parallel
7
47. Control of a market by a single company.
Legislative
Legislative Courts
6th Amendment
Monopoly
48. In Johnson v. Texas (1989) - the Supreme Court ruled that burning the flag in a manner that does not pose a threat to people or property is allowed as this type of freedom of speech.
Nuclear Proliferation
Speech Plus
Jus Soli
Judicial Restraint
49. 1940 Act Prohibiting any person from advocating overthrowing the government through violence or force.
Poll Tax
Smith Act
Administrative Law
Defense
50. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Initiative
Third Party
Voting
77