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CLEP American Government
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1. Theory that a government requires the consent of the governed.
Negative
Social Contract
Electoral Votes
Unlimited
2. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
Separation of Powers
25
Inherent Powers
Ratification
3. President requires their approval to appoint judges - ambassadors and other high officials.
Senate
Interest groups
Equality
Felonies
4. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.
Implementation
Felonies
Interventionism
state legislatures
5. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
may not
Democratic-Republicans
President
Commander in Chief
6. The pursuit and exercise of power.
General Election
Politics
Seniority System
State Government
7. In Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - The Supreme Court upheld that ___________________ was inherently not the case as is applied to the University of Texas Law School.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Separate but Equal
Free Exercise Clause
Felonies
8. The doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group
US v. Ballard
Baby Boomers
Majority Rule
Bundling
9. A provision of law in which Congress asserts the power to nullify actions of the executive branch. In 1983 the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional - but Congress continued to pass laws containing such provisions.
Unlimited
Recorded Vote
16th Amendment
Legislative Veto
10. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over lawsuits filed against the agency.
Judicial
General Accounting Office
Monroe Doctrine
Nuclear Proliferation
11. Method by which federal court judges may lose their position.
Impeachment
Senate Standing Committees
Fiscal Policy
Due Process of Law
12. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Categorical Grants
Impeachment
Hatch Act
Majority Opinion
13. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Caucuses
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Royal Colonies
Majority Whip
14. A form of city government under which a board of city commissioners is popularly elected (often on a nonpartisan ballot). The commissioners make policy as a city council - but they also run city departments as administrators.
CORE
Increased
Commission Plan
Interstate Compact
15. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Libertarianism
Institutional
Caucus
Containment
16. A compulsory national insurance program - financed by taxes on employers and employees. The insurance falls into four categories: old-age and survivors insurance - disability insurance - Medicare - and unemployment insurance.
Permanent Registration
Social Security
Republic
Article V
17. States that states may draw reasonable distinctions between the rights of residents and non-residents (ex. In state and out of state tuition)
Political Culture
Line-Item Veto
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Ticket Splitters
18. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
Federal Appellate
Budget Surplus
Incorporation Doctrine
25th Amendment
19. A method of amending state constitutions under which proposed constitutional amendments can be placed on the ballot if enough signatures are obtained on a petition. Almost half the states also employ the initiative on the ballot to allow voters to en
Felonies
Categorical Grant
Furman v. Georgia
Initiative
20. This 1973 ruling gave local communities the authority to determine obscenity - established three part test for obscene material. To qualify as obscene - speech must be considered obscene by the 'average' person - depict or describe material that is a
Miller v. California
55
Dissenting Opinion
Rousseau
21. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Incorporation Doctrine
Shay's Rebellion
Authorizations
Defense
22. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
Charismatic authority
Political System
Random Sample
Recommit the Bill to Committee
23. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
National Political Parties
Lemon Test
Virginia Plan
Petit Jury
24. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.
General Accounting Office
Closed
Senate
Due Process
25. In Schenck v. US (1919) - The Supreme Court ruled that government may prohibit speech that creates an immediate threat of criminal action. Essentially established different standards for speech during wartime than in peacetime. Thus - establishing th
Clear and Present Danger
3
435
Magna Carta
26. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
Appropriations
Soft money
Freedom of Information Act
Standing Committees
27. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
imprisoned
Antitrust Legislation
Categorical Grants
Violation of Law
28. This Supreme Court case infamously decided that a slave was not a citizen but property to be 'used in subservience to the interests - the convenience - or the will of his owner'
Dred Scott
Enumerated Powers
Flexible Construction
Periodic Registration
29. The 5th amendment protect against _____________.
Pork Barrel Spending
Military-Industrial Complex
2nd Amendment
Self-Incrimination
30. Guarantees that citizens cannot be compelled by the government to act in a way that is contrary to their religious beliefs. (ex. Conscientious objection to military service required by the draft is the execution of ______________)
Lobbying
2nd Amendment
Double Jeopardy
Free Exercise Clause
31. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Selective Incorporation
Universe
Democratic
House of Representatives
32. A law passed in 1966 that requires federal executive branch and regulatory agencies to make information available to journalists - scholars - and the public unless it falls into one of several confidential categories.
Open rule
Freedom of Information Act
Office of Management and Budget
9
33. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
New Federalism
General Election
14
Joint Committees
34. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
Precedent
Pure Speech
Trial Balloon
7th Amendment
35. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Selective Incorporation
Clear and Present Danger
Press Secretary
36. Head of the Supreme Court.
30
Chief Justice
Monetary Policy
Bill of Rights
37. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Petition of Right
Muckrakers
11th Amendment
Fixed
38. 1940 Act Prohibiting any person from advocating overthrowing the government through violence or force.
Criminal Information
Smith Act
State Government
Political Action Committee
39. 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.
20
Closed
Enumerated Powers
Scottsboro Boys Case
40. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Voting
Electoral Connection
Dynamic Conservatism
41. A relaxation of international tensions.
Open
Detente
Party Activists
Independent
42. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
Formula Grant
Nationalism
President
Free Exercise
43. _____________ was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics and helping immigrants (most notably the Irish) rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
Recommit the Bill to Committee
National Convention
Blanket Primary
Tammany Hall
44. The average voter turnout between 1960 and 2004 was __________ percent
55
Council of Economic Advisors
Elastic Clause
Civil Liberties
45. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Governmental Corporations
Dred Scott Decision
State Auditor
Judicial Activism
46. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Republicans
Negative
Universe
527 Organization
47. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Common Law
Appropriation Bills
Northern and Southern
Department of State
48. 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.
Council of Economic Advisors
Transportation
Civil Cases
Segregation
49. Between 1909 and 2002 - the number of daily newspapers in the United States______________.
House Standing Committees
Decreased
14th Amendment
Majority Rule
50. This was amended in 1985 to prohibit vote dilution without requiring the proof of discriminatory purpose demanded by the original Act.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Hold
Regulatory Agencies
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