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CLEP American Government
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1. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
Good Faith Exception
National Security
Proportional Representation
W.E.B. DuBoise
2. Article I - Section 8 - of the Constitution - which allows Congress to make all laws that are 'necessary and proper' to carry out the powers of the Constitution.
Cluster Sampling
20
Tariff
Elastic Clause
3. Communication with legislators or other government officials to try to influence their decisions.
Smith Act
Categorical Grants
Pluralist Theory
Lobbying
4. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
100
Town Meeting
Thomas Hobbes
Privacy Act
5. Voter turnout is usually ____________ when there is a binding referendum on the ballot.
Raise Public Awareness
Horse race
25th Amendment
binding
6. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
Lemon Test
Export Taxes
Omaha platform
Whip
7. 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.
7th Amendment
Public Policy
Trustee
Federalist Papers
8. The fundamental rights of a free society that are protected by the Bill of Rights against the power of the government - such as freedom of speech - religion - press - and assembly.
Soft Money
Civil Liberties
Court of Appeals
Government
9. 1944 case established that as as long as a person accepted their beliefs in good faith that it is not the government's authority to determine whether those beliefs are valid.
18th Amendment
Procedural Due Process
Republicans
US v. Ballard
10. A 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union limiting the number of defensive missiles each country could build. In 2001 President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the treaty.
Common Sense
Baron de Montesquieu
Federalist Papers
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
11. The pursuit and exercise of power.
27th Amendment
Universe
Unlimited
Politics
12. 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
Institutional
Self-Incrimination
Closed
527 Organizations
13. A system in which the power to govern is shared between national and state governments
Federalism
House of Representatives
Public Policy
US v. Ballard
14. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
External Efficacy
Plurality
Lord Acton
Vice President
15. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
Precedent
Valence issue
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Majority Opinion
16. The 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that prompted King George III's Prohibitory Act and the sending of mercenaries to the colonies.
Export Taxes
Strategic Deterrence
Common Sense
Administrative Law
17. 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
Medicaid
Class Action Suit
Clear and Present Danger
Political Efficacy
18. A public assistance program established in 1965 to help pay hospital - doctor - and medical bills for people with low incomes.
Monetary Policy
Medicaid
Random Sample
Offensive Language
19. A political candidate who is thought to have only an outside chance of gaining the nomination.
Dark Horse
Intelligence
Closed
Interstate Compact
20. Government regulation of the economy through its control over taxes and government spending. Controlled by the Department of Treasury.
Mugwumps
Committees
Secondary Group
Fiscal Policy
21. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
1776
Maintaining Elections
Confederation
Major Political Party
22. Infamous 1735 English case established the precedent for Freedom of the Press in the US.
Zenger
Warrant
Article VI
10th Amendment
23. California measure designed to deny welfare and other benefits to illegal aliens. Overwhelmingly passed the popular vote - but overturned in federal court because it extending beyond the bounds of state rights to attempt to control immigration.
5
Proposition 187
Gideon v. Wainwright
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
24. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Due Process
Thurgood Marshall
Safe seat
Reserved Powers
25. In charge of state's legal business. provide advice to other state official and represents the state in court if the state is involved in a lawsuit
Transnational Relations
Attorney General
Probable Cause
Clear and Present Danger
26. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Outputs
Ex Post Facto
Lower
Omaha platform
27. 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
Primary
Demands
10th Amendment
Pre-clearance
28. Head of the Supreme Court.
Jim Crow Laws
Reference Group
Chief Justice
Medicare
29. A term popularized by sociologist Floyd Hunter to describe the community leaders who he said determined policy in Atlanta - Georgia. More broadly - the term is used to describe 'power elites' generally.
Power Structure
Social Contract
blockbusting and redlining
Article VI
30. 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.
Committees of Correspondence
Closed
Senior Executive Service
Hatch Act
31. Includes expressive conduct/assembly/actions and symbolic behavior (ex. Picketing or burning the flag) Based on our country history of symbolic acts such as the Boston Tea Party - courts almost always uphold symbolic acts of speech unless they are cr
Habeas Corpus
Speech Plus
Right of Expatriation
Conservatism
32. Cabinet department that includes the Coast Guard - Border Patrol - FEMA - Transportation Security Administration - INS and the Secret Service. Established in 2001 in response to 9/11.
Homeland Security
Low
Hatch Act
Budget Resolution
33. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Implied Powers
Patriot Act
18th Amendment
Interest Groups
34. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
House Standing Committees
Elite and Class Theory
Executive Agreements
Recall
35. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Budget Surplus
Deviating Elections
Family
Bandwagon
36. Groups whose views serve as guidelines to an individual's opinion. See also primary groups and secondary groups.
Reference Group
Murray v. Curlett
CORE
Freedom of Information Act
37. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
3
Weber
Fiscal Policy
Conventions
38. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Bowers v. Hardwick
2nd Amendment
Institutional
Dred Scott
39. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Supremacy Clause
Homeland Security
Amicus Curiae Brief
Gross Domestic Product
40. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Political System
Electoral College
Whistle-blowers
Establishment Clause
41. Special courts assigned to deal with specific legislative issues such as taxes - military appeals - and international trade.
Legislative Courts
Reverse Discrimination
Public Policy
Clean bill
42. Constitutionally required address by the President typically given in a joint session of Congress.
State of the Union
Inputs
Voting
Executive
43. The separation of people by race.
Interstate Compact
Party Regulars
Equal Time
Segregation
44. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.
Adversarial
Select Committee
Open
Pork Barrel Spending
45. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Incumbents
Blacks
Spoils System
Democrats
46. 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.
Democratic-Republicans
Earl Warren
Third Party
Standing Committees
47. In this 1972 case - the Supreme Court established four guidelines for determining if a trial was appropriately speedy and fair: cause of delay - length of delay - affect on the outcome - and the defendant's claim to a speedy trial.
Baker v. Wingo
Thomas Hobbes
Interventionism
Public Opinion
48. While these voters have traditionally supported the Democrats - some have begun to support Republicans in light of the Democrats liberal policies on abortion.
Press Secretary
Incorporation Doctrine
Literacy Tests
Catholics
49. Theory of democracy in which competition among common interest groups promote ideas to influence politics
Pluralist Theory
Balance of Trade
Legislative
Establishment Clause
50. Article II of the Constitution establishes the ______________ branch.
Initiative
Executive
Attorney General
Police Powers