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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. These courts only hear appeals on cases from lower courts.
Federal Appellate
Impoundment
Equity
Tammany Hall
2. The attitudes and actions of people that sustain and buttress the political system at all levels and allows the political system to continue to work.
Interventionism
Supports
Fiscal Policy
de facto
3. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.
Capitalism
state legislatures
Blacks
Freedom of Information Act
4. 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.
Jus Soli
Medicare
Implied Powers
Electoral College
5. 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 _________________.
Free Speech
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Rules Committee
Charter Colonies
6. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Press Secretary
Commission Plan
Republicans
Cruel and Unusual
7. Article II of the Constitution establishes the ______________ branch.
Politics
Political Efficacy
W.E.B. DuBoise
Executive
8. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
Mugwumps
Open
Issue network
Precedent
9. Court cases that involve relations between individuals and organizations - such as a divorce action - or a suit for damages arising from an automobile accident or for violation of a business contract.
Civil Cases
Inputs
Federal
Majority and Minority Leader
10. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
Supply Side Economics
Divided Government
Demands
Random Sample
11. The Medicaid and Food Stamp programs are examples of two very large
Regulatory Federalism
presidential line-item veto
Categorical Grants
Agriculture
12. 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.
Diminish
Separate but Equal
Unlimited
Article IV
13. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Caucus
4
1st Amendment
Suburbia
14. In the 1962 case of Robinson v. California - the Supreme Court ruled that incarcerating a drug addict is ______________________ because drug addiction is an illness.
Confirmed
Cruel and Unusual
Ad Hoc Structure
Pass the fundraising threshold
15. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
House of Representatives
Reverse Discrimination
National Security Council
Federal
16. 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.
Espionage Act
State of the Union
Plurality
Cloture
17. 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
Positive
89
Caucuses
Writ of Certiorari
18. A law passed by Congress in 1973 in an effort to set a time limit on the use of combat forces abroad by a president.
Habeas Corpus
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Felonies
War Powers Resolution
19. This 1932 case established that a case can be too speedy and under-counseled - providing defendants in a capital case the right to a reasonable amount of time to establish a defense.
State
Impeachment
Negative Advertising
Scottsboro Boys Case
20. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
Confirmed
Selective Incorporation
Democracy
Budget Surplus
21. Which committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
Veto
Appropriations
Interest groups
Presidential Veto
22. Number of original cabinet positions under George Washington.
Selective Incorporation
3
Writ of Mandamus
Miller v. California
23. Voters in a political district - or supporters of an elected official; or interest groups or client groups that are either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions.
Constituencies
Automobiles
Universe
Sub-committee
24. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Grand Jury Indictment
Offensive Language
Quota Sampling
25. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
25th Amendment
General Accounting Office
Roe v. Wade
Impeachment
26. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Joint Committees
Laissez-Faire
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Secretary of State
27. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Regulatory Federalism
Double Jeopardy
Inputs
Unitary System
28. The President's role in the armed forces which during the 20th century has allowed Presidents to circumvent Congress' refusal to declare war.
Equality
Majority Opinion
Republicans
Commander in Chief
29. Laws on Schools - Marriage - and owning property;Licensee Lawyers - Doctors - and Teachers.
270
Membership
Jim Crow Laws
State Government
30. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Sub-government
Resolutions
Governmental Corporations
Dissenting Opinion
31. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Political ideology
Project Grant
Right of Expatriation
State Auditor
32. Government regulation of the economy through its control over the supply of money and the cost and availability of credit. Controlled by the Federal Reserve Board.
Enumerated Powers
Conference Committee
Soft Money
Monetary Policy
33. A political candidate who is thought to have only an outside chance of gaining the nomination.
Valence issue
Dark Horse
Eminent Domain
Judicial Review
34. The power of some municipalities to modify their charters and run their affairs without approval by the state legislature.
2
High
Caucuses
Home Rule
35. ________________ of the Constitution dictates how the Constitution shall be amended.
Article V
Clear and Present Danger
Committees of Correspondence
Senate
36. 1976 Law requiring all governmental agency meetings to be open to the public unless classified information will be discussed.
Political Efficacy
Open Meeting Law
Espionage Act
President Pro Tempore
37. An individual who does not join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
100
Free Rider
Free Exercise Clause
Earmarks
38. The principle that the government - as provided in the Fifth Amendment - can take property for 'public use' with 'just compensation' to the owners.
Eminent Domain
Lobbying
Standing Committees
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
39. Designed to protect the individual against the arbitrary power of the state.
Republican
Antitrust Legislation
It Failed to be Ratified
Due Process of Law
40. State legislation designed to outlaw the union shop - passed by 21 states acting under Section 14B of the federal Taft-Hartley Act.
Right to Work Laws
State
Nationalism
Great or Connecticut Compromise
41. Senators have a __________ rate of re-election than Representatives primarily because of their larger constituency and lack of direct involvement with them.
Lower
Supreme Court
Chief Justice
National
42. Agencies that were at one time semi-autonomous but that through legislation have been placed under presidential control since 1945.
Substantive Due Process
Government Corporations
6th Amendment
Redistributive Policy
43. Executive Check on the Legislative Branch.
Presidential Veto
Natural Rights
Outputs
Adversarial
44. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
7
Presidential Ticket
Legislative Veto
Regulatory Federalism
45. Which office serves as a watchdog into waste or fraud in the bureaucracy and conducts investigations at the request of congressional committees
Feedback
General Accounting
Council of Economic Advisors
Northern and Southern
46. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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47. 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.
Royalists
Veto
Proportional Representation
Political Party
48. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Thomas Hobbes
Universe
Random Sample
Power Structure
49. The issuance of this document by a judge requires probably cause and must be worded so as to allow for the search and seizure of specific evidence.
Social Security
Warrant
Legislative
7
50. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Balance of Trade
Senate
Fixed
Confirmed