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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Presidential management model requiring the President to have strong leadership skills and a keen eye for detail. FDR and JFK were well known for this style of leadership.
Legislative
Free Exercise Clause
Hub and Spoke Model
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
2. Designed to protect the individual against the arbitrary power of the state.
Party Purists
Libel
Lord Acton
Due Process of Law
3. The right to privacy is ___________ in the Constitution.
Majority and Minority Leader
Patriot Act
Implied
Federal Register
4. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Closed rule
Rousseau
Fixed
14
5. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
Implied Powers
Intelligence
Electoral College
Katz. v US
6. People may vote in a party's primary only if they are registered members of that party. Independents cannot participate. Note that because some political parties name themselves independent - the term 'non-partisan' often replaces 'independent' when
Closed
English Bill of Rights
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
de jure
7. This may be done by a national constitutional convention called by Congress on the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures OR By the passage of a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress
Permanent Registration
Selective exposure
Majority and Minority Leader
Propose an Amendment
8. A word that comes from two Greek roots - demos - 'the populace -' and kratia - 'rule'
The Federal Reserve Board
20th
Trustee
Democracy
9. 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
Department of State
Bicameral
Sub-committee
10. Tips the balance between two leading candidates by attracting a minority of voters who otherwise might have voted for one of the leading candidates.
Spoiler Candidate
Bill of Attainder
National Security
Precedent
11. Compromise between the large states and small states that established the bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Also included 3/5 compromise on the status of slaves in representation.
Equity
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Open Meeting Law
Vietnam War
12. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
Union Shop
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Exit Polls
Internal Efficacy
13. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
Fiscal Federalism
Winston Churchill
Administrative Procedure Act
Interest groups
14. 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
Senate
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Initiative
Civil Liberties
15. Most Americans support ______________ primarily as part of their criticism of PACs
Fixed
Supply Side Economics
Interest Groups
Campaign Finance Reform
16. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
CORE
Social Contract
Political System
Enterprise Zones
17. 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.
7
Pyramid Model
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
18. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Cluster Sampling
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Supports
19. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Speaker of the House
Dynamic Conservatism
Power Structure
Deviating Elections
20. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
Straight Ticket Voting
High
Pluralist Theory
Literacy Tests
21. Agenda that includes issues that affect the daily lives of the people.
National Security
Monetary Policy
Federal Courts
Salient Agenda
22. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Due Process of Law
Adversarial
Supreme Court
Increased
23. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
State Government
Enumerated Powers
Logrolling
Deficit
24. These parties often emerge as off-shoots of major parties or as single-issue parties. They typically act as critic/innovator bringing attention to issues and influencing the platforms of the major parties.
Home Rule
Interstate Compact
Third Parties
Cruel and Unusual
25. Executive check on Legislative Branch.
Veto
Nuclear Proliferation
Regulatory Federalism
Joint Committees
26. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Bowers v. Hardwick
House of Representatives
Tammany Hall
General Accounting Office
27. Article II of the Constitution establishes the ______________ branch.
Committees
Permanent Registration
Executive
Roe v. Wade
28. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Redistributive Policy
Inputs
Council of Economic Advisors
Virginia Plan
29. The separation of people by race.
Unlimited
Segregation
The Federalist #10
Inherent Powers
30. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Article VI
Housing and Urban Development
Senate
Declining
31. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Original
Petition of Right
Dark Horse
Internal Efficacy
32. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
5
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Independent Expenditures
Unicameral
33. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
High
3
Inherent Powers
Safe seat
34. Prohibits conviction of a crime that occurred before the act became illegal
Federal
Open rule
17th
Ex Post Facto
35. When the President's own party gains power and influence - it more puts pressure on the President to conform to the will of the party - leading to________________ between the President and the party to define their public identities
Increased competition
Categorical Grant
Hyperpluralism
Change of Venue
36. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Interest groups
Pass the fundraising threshold
Enacted
Negative
37. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Common Law
Budget Resolution
Negative Advertising
Open Meeting Law
38. The class of independent voters who do not vote according to party affiliation - but who typically have a broader range of concerns than single-issue voters - are known colloquially as
Hub and Spoke Model
Mugwumps
Government Corporations
President
39. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Good Faith Exception
Enacted
de jure
Supports
40. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
Charter Colonies
presidential line-item veto
Presidential Ticket
Nuclear Proliferation
41. Powers not specifically granted to the federal government or denied to the states belong to the states and the people
270
Oligopoly
Reserved Powers
Joint Committee
42. The responsibility of the President to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur on the bench is referred to as
Interest Groups
Medicaid
100
Judicial Selection
43. When the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party - usually the result of winning a critical election.
Electoral College
Referendum
Equal Protection Clause
Party Realignment
44. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
Distribution
Bandwagon
Government
Independent expenditures
45. This 1972 Supreme Court case struck down all state laws allowing the death penalty stating that they allowed for too much discretion on the part of the judge and jury resulting in lack of consistent administration of the penalty.
Winston Churchill
Eminent Domain
Furman v. Georgia
Chief Justice
46. Something given in exchange for something else; swap
Interstate Compact
17th
Quid Pro Quo
Unlimited
47. Literally - a 'friend of the court' brief - filed by an individual or organization to present arguements in addition to those presented by the immediate parties to a case
Amicus Curiae Brief
Lobbying
Constituencies
8th Amendment
48. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Office of Management and Budget
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Party of Economic Protest
Whistle-blowers
49. The 1803 case in which the Supreme Court - by declaring a portion of an act of Congress unconstitutional - first firmly set forth and established the power of judicial review.
Federal
Electoral Connection
Administrative Law
Marbury v. Madison
50. A tax on voting abolished by the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964 - long used by southern states to keep blacks (and - in some cases - poor whites) from participating in elections.
Poll Tax
Secondary Group
Cold War
Project Grant