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CLEP American Government
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1. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
Free Exercise of Religion
Fiscal Policy
Permanent Registration
Export Taxes
2. Between conventions - the governing body of a major political party. Members of this group are chosen in the states and formally elected by the party
Standing Committees
National Committee
Increased competition
Public Opinion
3. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
Federalist Papers
Probable Cause
Bandwagon
Political Advertising
4. A controversial law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001 - after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspe
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
State of the Union
Separate but Equal
Patriot Act
5. A nation's set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.
Press Secretary
Hatch Act
Political Culture
Regulatory Federalism
6. Term limit for House of Representatives.
Budget Resolutions
Unlimited
Legislative
Bundling
7. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
CORE
Increased
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Retrospective Voting
8. Approximately 33% of American voters identify themselves as _______________ party.
Establishment Clause
Proportional Representation
Independent
Party Identification
9. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
Freedom of Religion
Appropriation Bills
25
Line-Item Veto
10. Constitutionally empowered to appoint judges - ambassadors - and other high officials - Constitutionally empowered to make treaties with foreign countries.
Impoundment
Free Exercise of Religion
President
25th Amendment
11. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Caucus
Inherent Powers
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
New Federalism
12. The Equal Rights Amendment was defeated in 1982 because ____________________________.
Supply Side Economics
National Convention
Supreme Court
It Failed to be Ratified
13. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
Party Column Ballot
Omaha platform
Lemon Test
Common Law
14. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
Third Parties
Freedom of Speech
Two Trial
Political Socialization
15. Which of the following factors is likely to be the weakest indicator of an individual's political beliefs and opinions? Age - Race - Intelligence - or Religion
Smith Act
Quota Sampling
Baron de Montesquieu
Intelligence
16. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Offensive Language
Critical Election
Original
Issue network
17. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Fiscal Policy
270
Jus Soli
Budget Surplus
18. The introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution - setting forth the general principles of American government and beginning with the words - 'We the people of the United States - in order to form a more perfect union. ...'
Initiative
Implementation
Preamble
New Jersey Plan
19. A primary in which any registered voter is able to vote for candidates from more than one party. A voter - for example - may vote for a Democrat for U.S. senator and for a Republican for governor. In 2000 - the Supreme Court struck down the blanket p
Raiding
527 Organizations
Blanket Primary
Judicial Review
20. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Republican
Declining
External Efficacy
7
21. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
Ticket Splitters
Liberalism
Pre-clearance
Political Socialization
22. Representatives serve ____ year terms
2
Free Exercise
Lord Acton
Royalists
23. A course of action decided upon by a government
Grand Jury Indictment
Policy
New Jersey Plan
Gay
24. An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words - one means by which a political party nominate candidates for the following general election.s
Politics
Elastic Clause
Primary
Cabinet
25. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
Monopoly
Cloture
Flexible Construction
Party Activists
26. The net balance or relationship between total income and total expenditures by the nation in its dealings with the rest of the world - including trade - loans - and investments.
Democrats
Discharge Petition
Federal Appellate
Balance of Payments
27. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
National Convention
Arraignment
General Accounting Office
Positive
28. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
Hold
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dies
Vietnam War
29. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.
Little Difference
Original Jurisdiction
Select Committee
Probable Cause
30. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has less discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Wallace's Progressives
Bowers v. Hardwick
Common Law
Formula Grant
31. Constitutional Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
CORE
Article III
Petit Jury
Interior
32. A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
Deviating Elections
Permanent Registration
Welfare State
Riders
33. Most likely to board a foreign ship suspected of drug trafficking at a U.S. port
Recall
Articles of Confederation
Majority Rule
Coast Guard
34. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
Impeachment
Exit Polls
17th
Riders
35. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Lord Acton
House of Representatives
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Standing Committees
36. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
Implied Powers
Separation of Powers
Tammany Hall
Federalist
37. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Antitrust Legislation
Independent
may not
Discharge Petition
38. Prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Outputs
Implied Powers
Separate but Equal
39. A broad concept that may be defined in many ways - but the term is generally used to refer to the basic protection and defense of the nation.
General Accounting
Baron v. Baltimore
Democrats
National Security
40. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Instructed Delegate
Members of Congress
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
6
41. The fundamental flaw in plural theory contends that pluralism weakens the backbone of democracy with too many common interest groups attempt to wield power - often leading to standstill because of unwillingness to compromise.
527 Organizations
House of Representatives
Exclusionary Rule
Hyperpluralism
42. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
Federal Courts
Party Regulars
Majority Whip
National Debt
43. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Separate but Equal
Privacy Act
31
Foreign Policy
44. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
Negative Advertising
Republicans
Winston Churchill
12
45. 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.
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Positive
Lower
Party Regulars
46. New Jersey v. TLO (1985) established that school authorities may search students without _____________ as long as they are reasonable.
Plurality
Defense
Civil Liberties
Probable Cause
47. The philosophy that government should intervene as little as possible in economic affairs.
2
Executive Agencies
Laissez-Faire
Espionage Act
48. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
9
High
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Murray v. Curlett
49. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
High
Fixed
Roth v. US
Speaker of the House
50. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.
Retrospective Voting
Bandwagon
Regulatory Federalism
Speaker of the House
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