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CLEP American Government
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1. Information sent out in order to observe the reaction of an audience. Used by politicians who deliberately leak information on a policy change under consideration.
national quotas
National
Transnational Relations
Trial Balloon
2. Several Presidents have been elected without winning the popular vote. As a result - In 1970 and 1979 - Amendments were proposed to disband the ______________ - neither passed.
Electoral College
Monetary Policy
Containment
Reserved Powers
3. The elected position of President pro tempore of the Senate is almost always held by
Offensive Language
a senior senator of the majority party
Diminish
Common Sense
4. In this case - a gay man from Georgia charged with committing sodomy in his own home with a consenting adult. The court ruled that the Constitution does not explicitly grant the right for homosexuals to practice their lifestyle and that laws against
House of Representatives
Bowers v. Hardwick
Executive Agencies
Party Realignment
5. 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.
Categorical Grants
Civil Cases
Deviating Elections
Common Law
6. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Selective Incorporation
Regulatory Agencies
Judicial
10th Amendment
7. The principle - established by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland - that the Constitution must be interpreted flexibly to meet changing conditions.
Article III
Flexible Construction
House Standing Committees
Prior Restraint
8. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
The Federal Reserve Board
7
John Locke
17th
9. Something given in exchange for something else; swap
Separate but Equal
Block Grant
Vice President
Quid Pro Quo
10. 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
Freedom of Religion
Random Sample
12
Clothespin vote
11. The attitudes and actions of people that sustain and buttress the political system at all levels and allows the political system to continue to work.
Offensive Language
89
Supports
Caucuses
12. Eisenhower's philosophy of being liberal in all things human and being conservative with all things fiscal. Appealed to both Republicans and Democrats.
Open rule
Speech Plus
Dynamic Conservatism
Cold War
13. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
2/3
31
Independent Regulatory Agencies
CORE
14. The spread of nuclear weapons to more nations.
Nuclear Proliferation
Civil Cases
Implied Powers
Federalist
15. In the 1962 case of Robinson v. California - the Supreme Court ruled that incarcerating a drug addict is ______________________ because drug addiction is an illness.
It Failed to be Ratified
Selective Incorporation
Cruel and Unusual
Judicial Selection
16. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
Gross Domestic Product
Budget Surplus
Public Policies
270
17. 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.
State of the Union
Roe v. Wade
Council-Manager Plan
2/3
18. 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.
Office of Management and Budget
Confirmed
Veteran's Affairs
Marbury v. Madison
19. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Speaker of the House
Court of Appeals
Secretary of State
20. The structure and set of regulations in place to control activity - usually in large organizations and government. it is represented by standardized procedure (rule-following) that dictates the execution of most or all processes within the body - for
Bureaucracy
de facto
Restrictive Covenant
Democratic-Republicans
21. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
435
Random Sample
Proprietary Colonies
Alien and Sedition Acts
22. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Political System
It Failed to be Ratified
Right of Expatriation
Family
23. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Executive Agencies
Rousseau
Politics
Incumbents
24. The most important committees - always assembled and delegated with the responsibility of handling all bills under their concern. Includes the Ways and Means - Appropriations - Budget - Rules and Agriculture Committees.
Freedom of Speech
Standing Committees
Take Care Clause
Commerce
25. Political commercials that strongly attack a rival candidate.
Committees
Commonwealth
Negative Advertising
Mixed Economy
26. A series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison under the pseudonym Publius advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Civil Cases
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Federalist Papers
National Security Council
27. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Legislative
Lyndon B. Johnson
Select Committee
Shield Laws
28. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Enumerated Powers
Legislative
Democratic
Double Jeopardy
29. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
14th
Focus Groups
English Bill of Rights
Lafolette's Progressive s
30. 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.
Party of Economic Protest
Ways and Means Committee
Committees of Correspondence
Balance of Payments
31. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
15
Right of Expatriation
14th Amendment
AARP
32. Elects the President if no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes.
Federal District
House of Representatives
2
Affirmative Action
33. The proceeding before a judge in which the formal charges of an indictment or information are read to an accused person - who may plead guilty or not guilty.
Divided Government
Standing Committees
Arraignment
Charter Colonies
34. A relaxation of international tensions.
Campaign Finance Reform
Export Taxes
Privacy Act
Detente
35. 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.
Furman v. Georgia
Poll Tax
Impartial
Article VI
36. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Presidential Ticket
Electoral Connection
Caucus
Distribution
37. Concept of government by the people in which everyone is free to vote - but normally whoever gets the most votes wins the election and represents all the people - including those who voted for the losing candidate.
Substantive Due Process
Mark Up Session
Majority Rule
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
38. Executive Check on the Legislative Branch.
Elastic Clause
Roth v. US
Medicare
Presidential Veto
39. This event was an important factor in creating the climate for a new Constitution.
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40. Head of the Supreme Court.
Appropriations
Chief Justice
5
Nationalism
41. An immigrant who wished to become a citizen may be naturalized after living in the US for ___ years.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
5
binding
Weber
42. 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
New Jersey Plan
Political ideology
Situational
Impartial
43. Grants that an accused may not be held in custody without charge - literally 'You shall have the body'.
Issue network
19th Amendment
Whips
Habeas Corpus
44. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
3
The Enlightenment
Raiding
Declining
45. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
General Election
Exit Polls
Legislative Veto
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
46. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
Constitutional Initiative
State of the Union
3
5
47. 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.
Proprietary Colonies
Social Regulation
2
Supply Side Economics
48. The term 'Reagan Democrats' has become a generic term for
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
National Security
Confirmed
Judicial
49. 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.
Great Compromise
Concurrent
Senior Executive Service
Good Faith Exception
50. To negotiate a complex and politically sensitive trade treaty - a President will often
Committees of Correspondence
Fast Track Authority
Elastic Clause
Social Regulation
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