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CLEP American Government
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1. 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.
Warrant
Secondary Group
Appealed
Due Process of Law
2. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
Public hearing
National Supremacy
Republicans
Party Activists
3. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated
Free Exercise
US Trade Representatives
Fiscal Federalism
Class Action Suit
4. This author was highly influential on Thomas Jefferson - rejecting divine right - proposing that government is a social contract requiring the consent of the govern and establishing the concept of self-evident rights of life - liberty - and property.
Party Dealignment
State Auditor
Shay's Rebellion
John Locke
5. The median income of women is ___________ percent of men.
30
Voting
Transportation
77
6. The belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics
Internal Efficacy
Muckrakers
Office of Management and Budget
Vietnam War
7. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Free Exercise Clause
Separate but Equal
Party Realignment
Establishment Clause
8. An immigrant who wished to become a citizen may be naturalized after living in the US for ___ years.
Exclusionary Rule
Probable Cause
Party Dealignment
5
9. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
8th Amendment
Veto
Majority Rule
7
10. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Ratification
77
Exit Polls
Rules Committee
11. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Secondary Group
Political Efficacy
Department of Treasury
Unicameral
12. Head of the Supreme Court.
Unlimited
US v. Ballard
Cabinet
Chief Justice
13. The case of Gregg v. Georgia set the precedent for a ________________ system in which guilt and sentencing and tried separately.
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Government
Two Trial
Great or Connecticut Compromise
14. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.
Segregation
Majority and Minority Leader
Office of Management and Budget
Republicans
15. Germany - Switzerland - and India are examples of countries with a _______________ system of government.
Federal
Executive Agencies
Federalism
Enumerated Powers
16. Also known as the Indiana ballot - lists the candidates of each party in a row or column - beside or under the party emblem. In most cases - the voter can make one mark at the top of the column - or pull one lever - and thus vote for all the party's
Bicameral
Freedom of Speech
Unlimited
Party Column Ballot
17. The principle of civilian control of the military - based on the clear constitutional power of the president as supreme commander of the armed forces.
Civilian Supremacy
Misdemeanors
Democratic-Republicans
AARP
18. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
Implementation
Magna Carta
Presidential Ticket
Closed rule
19. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
Bandwagon
Prior Restraint
Sub-committee
Free Exercise Clause
20. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
English Bill of Rights
Entitlement Programs
Straight Ticket Voting
55
21. Presidential management model in which the Chief of Staff plays a prominent role as the head of a military style chain of command. Used successfully by Reagan and Eisenhower.
Pyramid Model
Unicameral
Separation of Powers
Cluster Sampling
22. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Entitlement Programs
17th
Residual
Political Efficacy
23. 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.
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Social Regulation
Federal
Max Weber
24. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Smith Act
Declining
Precedent
Executive Agreements
25. In the mid-term elections following a President's inauguration - his party tends to ___________ seats in Congress.
Labor
Lose
Affirmative Action
Literacy Tests
26. Number of Federal District courts across 50 states - DC and Puerto Rico.
89
The Federal Reserve Board
Jim Crow Laws
State Auditor
27. During the 1800's and early 1900's - some state and local party committees became ________________ dominating party activities. Committee members would promise new recruits money - jobs - and other benefits for joining and voting the straight party t
The Enlightenment
Political Machines
Interest groups
Common Law
28. This customary power allows the President to grant reprieves and pardons for federal offenses.
Roe v. Wade
Grant Clemency
Ticket Splitters
Political Culture
29. 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.
Council-Manager Plan
Petit Jury
Closed Shop
Shield Laws
30. Held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
Majority Opinion
Mark Up Session
General Election
President Pro Tempore
31. Author of The Spirit of the Laws advocating balance of power in politics with liberty is dependant upon a separation of the judicial - legislative - and executive branches of government.
Union Shop
Court of Appeals
Baron de Montesquieu
Cloture
32. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
Internal Efficacy
Focus Groups
Charismatic authority
Whigs
33. Members of this party typically include Conservative Christian groups - higher socio-economic classes - middle-class white collar - and suburban voters.
Republican
Joint Committee
Violation of Law
Reverse Discrimination
34. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was somewhat undermined by racist practices in the real estate market such as _____________ and ______________ - which continued illegally in many areas following passage of the Act.
blockbusting and redlining
Bicameral
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Dynamic Conservatism
35. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Due Process of Law
Filibuster
Civilian Supremacy
Trustee
36. Presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. Position awarded to the longest serving Senator from the majority party. 3rd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Budget Resolution
Max Weber
Court of Appeals
President Pro Tempore
37. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution - for example - the authority to print money.
Magna Carta
10th Amendment
Delegated Powers
Impoundment
38. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.
Republican
State Legislatures
Senate
Slander
39. 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
27th Amendment
Hatch Act
Shay's Rebellion
Focus Groups
40. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
Appropriations
Catholics
2/3
Affirmative Action
41. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
Coordinated Spending
Select Committee
Maintaining Elections
Closed
42. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
Warrant
blockbusting and redlining
17th
Electoral Votes
43. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Economic Interest Groups
Preamble
Confederation
Office of Management and Budget
44. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
9
Affirmative Action
Press Secretary
Select Committee
45. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Realigning Elections
National Debt
W.E.B. DuBoise
The Enlightenment
46. Because there is no Senate Rules Committee - Senators can debate a bill for an _________________ time.
Office Column Ballot
Judicial Selection
Separate but Equal
Unlimited
47. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Bundling
Writ of Assistance
Voting
Hyperpluralism
48. A system in which national and state governments are competitors with distinct powers. This system was prominent in the US from the during the 19th century until 1937.
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Interest groups
W.E.B. DuBoise
Vice President
49. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as
Unitary System
Valence issue
Socialism
The Enlightenment
50. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Common Law
Convention Bounce
Retrospective Voting
6th Amendment