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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.
Separate but Equal
Writ of Certiorari
Office of Management and Budget
Ad Hoc Structure
2. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
Sub-committee
Affirmative Action
Legislative Courts
6th Amendment
3. The Supreme Court has sometimes used a narrow interpretation of the Establishment Clause allowing the government to provide aid to religious groups as long as it remains ______________ and does not promote one religion at the expense of another. This
Gender Gap
Pocket Veto
Impartial
Monetary Policy
4. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Office of Management and Budget
Iron Triangle
Line-Item Veto
Marshall Plan
5. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
Pluralist
Contract Clause
Constituencies
12
6. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
Poll Tax
Republicans
Senior Executive Service
2/3
7. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.
Closed rule
Jury of Peers
Coast Guard
Department of Treasury
8. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
12
Positive
W.E.B. DuBoise
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
9. 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.
Formula Grant
Instructed Delegate
Speech Plus
Negative
10. Which office serves as a watchdog into waste or fraud in the bureaucracy and conducts investigations at the request of congressional committees
25
General Accounting
Concurrent Powers
Adversarial
11. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
Periodic Registration
Political Action Committee
Conventions
Social Regulation
12. Plan that proposed bicameral legislature where states were to have representation based on size in both houses.
Energy
Conventions
89
Virginia Plan
13. 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
Vice President
Hatch Act
Department of Treasury
Max Weber
14. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases
National Convention
Selective exposure
20th
Select Committee
15. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Low
Federal
General Purpose Grants
Truman
16. The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate and so votes for the less objectionable of the two - putting a clothespin over his nose to keep out the unpleasant stench
Right to Work Laws
Feedback
Administrative Law
Clothespin vote
17. The average voter turnout between 1960 and 2004 was __________ percent
Articles of Confederation
Agriculture
55
Demands
18. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
Unlimited
Public hearing
Majority and Minority Leader
100
19. Number of original cabinet positions under George Washington.
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Earl Warren
3
20. Decides which bills will be considered.
Executive Privilege
Soft Money
Committees
State Government
21. A public policy that takes something away from one person or group and gives it to another person or group.
Department of Treasury
Redistributive Policy
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Elite and Class Theory
22. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Implied
Jurisdiction
Writ of Mandamus
Common Sense
23. Laws must be administered in a fair manner.
Procedural Due Process
John Locke
Patriot Act
Libertarianism
24. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Original Jurisdiction
Electoral College
Increased competition
Pure Speech
25. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Article VI
Republicans
The Enlightenment
Veto
26. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Jury of Peers
Unlimited
de facto
Committee of the Whole
27. A system in which the national government sets requirements that are then implemented by state and local governments.
Executive Privilege
Affirmative Action
Libel
Regulatory Federalism
28. The demands of and supports for a political system
Inputs
a senior senator of the majority party
Intelligence
Judicial
29. Agenda that includes issues that affect the daily lives of the people.
Salient Agenda
Royal Colonies
8th Amendment
Commission Plan
30. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Class Action Suit
Self-Incrimination
John F. Kennedy
Senate
31. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Enacted
Blacks
Freedom of Information Act
imprisoned
32. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Substantive Due Process
Elite
Tammany Hall
Probable Cause
33. 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.
Party of Economic Protest
Executive
Pyramid Model
Feedback
34. Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Export Taxes
Regulatory Agencies
Unlimited
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
35. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Department of State
Dred Scott Decision
Supreme Court
House of Representatives
36. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Shay's Rebellion
Straight Ticket Voting
New Deal Era
Civil War Amendments
37. Executive office responsible for negotiating trade with foreign powers.
Convention Bounce
US Trade Representatives
Freedom of Information Act
Political Action Committee
38. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Committee of the Whole
Housing and Urban Development
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Elastic Clause
39. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
Fixed
270
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Monroe Doctrine
40. In the view of W. Lance Bennett - the people who hold and express opinions are constantly changing - as are the issues and conditions to which the public responds. As a result - Bennett suggests that public opinion is______________.
Situational
Concurring Opinion
Whips
Prior Restraint
41. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
Concurring Opinion
17th
Increased competition
2
42. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.
Grand Jury Indictment
Felonies
Blanket Primary
Independent Expenditures
43. Executive Check on the Legislative Branch.
Presidential Veto
Medicare
Thomas Hobbes
Federalist
44. Capital punishment is also known as the _________________.
Republic
Equal Time
Custom
Death penalty
45. States that arrestees must be informed of their right to remain silent - that anything they say can be held against them in a court - that they have a right to an attorney and that an attorney will be appointed to them if they cannot afford one.
Miranda Rights
Economic Interest Groups
Hold
Home Rule
46. Defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing - pictures
Political Machines
Lemon Test
Slander
19th Amendment
47. Government agencies that exercise quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative powers and are administratively independent of both the president and Congress (although politically independent of neither).
Power Structure
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Labor
48. Number of justices of the Supreme Court.
9
Commission Plan
Open
Procedural Due Process
49. A technique polling organizations use in which several people from the same neighborhood are interviewed.
Delegated Powers
Open rule
Welfare State
Cluster Sampling
50. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Blacks
Line-Item Veto
Right to Work Laws
Vietnam War