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CLEP American Government
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1. Electoral college system and other campaign practices make it exceedingly difficult for even popular ______________ candidates to successfully run for the presidency.
Freedom of Speech
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Judicial
Third Party
2. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
6th Amendment
Fixed
Majority and Minority Leader
Murray v. Curlett
3. 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.
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Joint Committees
Good Faith Exception
Due Process
4. 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
Unlimited
Procedural Due Process
Non-protected Speech
Amicus Curiae Brief
5. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
CORE
Redistributive Policy
Public hearing
Writ of Certiorari
6. Cabinet department that includes the FAA and the National Hwy Traffic Safety Administration. Established in 1966.
Transportation
Pork Barrel Spending
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Shay's Rebellion
7. A technique polling organizations use in which several people from the same neighborhood are interviewed.
Republicans
Jim Crow Laws
National Political Parties
Cluster Sampling
8. According to the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 - federal trials must commence within _______ days of arrest with the exception of delay for mental health testing of the defendant and illness of the defendant or key witness.
Libel
100
Increased competition
Logrolling
9. This clause of the 1st amendment establishes a 'wall of separation' between church and state.
Bill of Rights
Republican
Establishment Clause
Chief Justice
10. Senators have a __________ rate of re-election than Representatives primarily because of their larger constituency and lack of direct involvement with them.
Bipartisanship
1st Amendment
Lower
Public hearing
11. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was somewhat undermined by racist practices in the real estate market such as _____________ and ______________ - which continued illegally in many areas following passage of the Act.
Authorizations
Freedom of Religion
blockbusting and redlining
3
12. 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.
17th
Strategic Deterrence
Blacks
Segregation
13. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Transnational Relations
Political Machines
National
national quotas
14. The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
Nuclear Proliferation
Elite
Federalist Papers
Public Policies
15. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
Fiscal Federalism
Natural Rights
Earl Warren
Incorporation Doctrine
16. In Congress - _____________ are informal organizations of individual congressional representatives with like interests or constituencies. Members work together to promote the interests of the groups they represent through legislation - policy - and p
Democratic
Television
Catholics
Caucuses
17. Courts of original jurisdiction in federal crimes - civil suits under federal law - civil suits between citizens of different states where the amount in question exceeds $50 -000 - bankruptcy proceedings - cases involving some federal administrative
Spoils System
Social Regulation
Town Meeting
Federal District
18. Designed to protect the individual against the arbitrary power of the state.
Good Faith Exception
Legislative Courts
Due Process of Law
Rules Committee
19. Popular until the early 20th century when they lost favor to primaries due to corruption - now used in only 12 states.
Trustee
Lobbying
Caucuses
Thomas Hobbes
20. Requests from people or groups for health care for the aged - loans for college students - equal opportunity for minorities - and higher subsidies for farmers are examples of:
Veteran's Affairs
New Federalism
Demands
a senior senator of the majority party
21. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Mallory Rule
Project Grant
Office Column Ballot
Lord Acton
22. The Supreme Court's broad interpretation of this clause has denied direct aid from the government for religious groups - but does allow religious groups to make use of government services such as police and fire.
Whigs
Blanket Primary
Poll Tax
Establishment Clause
23. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Mayflower Compact
Custom
Universe
Pocket Veto
24. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.
Article VI
Senate
Medicare
Internal Efficacy
25. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Public Opinion
Legislative
14th Amendment
26. Largest interest group in the US.
AARP
Petition of Right
Automobiles
Article V
27. Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 as an attempt to form a union of the colonies. Later used to help form the Articles of Confederation.
Albany Plan
Ratification
4
Recommit the Bill to Committee
28. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
Clear and Present Danger
Internal Efficacy
National Convention
Magna Carta
29. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Redistributive Policy
Civilian Supremacy
Free Exercise
Impoundment
30. This 1973 ruling gave local communities the authority to determine obscenity - established three part test for obscene material. To qualify as obscene - speech must be considered obscene by the 'average' person - depict or describe material that is a
Miller v. California
Unicameral
Agriculture
Cruel and Unusual
31. 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
Economic Interest Groups
5
Conventions
Primary
32. Literally meaning 'right of blood' - confers citizenship to a child from the parents.
Jus Sanguinis
Scottsboro Boys Case
Committees of Correspondence
Whistle-blowers
33. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Budget Resolution
Foreign Policy
Freedom of Religion
Positive
34. In Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - The Supreme Court upheld that ___________________ was inherently not the case as is applied to the University of Texas Law School.
Separate but Equal
Petit Jury
Whigs
Socialism
35. Article VI - Paragraph 2 - of the Constitution - which declares that the Constitution - and the laws and treaties of the United States made under it - are 'the supreme Law of the Land' and prevail over any conflicting state constitutions or laws.
Supremacy Clause
Inherent Powers
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Whigs
36. A system in which the national government provides grants-in-aid to states using conditions to elicit control.
Democrats
Impeachment
Dred Scott Decision
Fiscal Federalism
37. Law enacted in 1939 to prohibit civil servants from taking activists roles in partisan campaigns .This act prohibited federal employees from making political contributions - working for a particualr party -or campaining for a particualr canidate
Judicial Selection
Right to Counsel
Hatch Act
Bipartisanship
38. Communication with legislators or other government officials to try to influence their decisions.
11th Amendment
Writ of Mandamus
Monopoly
Lobbying
39. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
Republican
Bicameral
Take Care Clause
Concurrent Powers
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______________.
7
Lower
Situational
Articles of Confederation
41. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Standing Committees
Majority Opinion
Exclusionary Rule
Populous
42. After analyzing 1 -795 platform pledges over a 10-year period - Gerald M. Pomper concluded that almost ____________ of these promises were fulfilled
2/3
Valence issue
Libertarianism
National
43. This called for three-fifths of all slaves in a state were counted for purposes of apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.
Legislative
Great Compromise
Private Bills
Social Contract
44. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
National Convention
Seniority System
Republicans
Small Business Administration (SBA)
45. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Majority Whip
Party Regulars
General Accounting Office
Criminal Cases
46. Lobbyists for special interest groups have found ____________________ to be the most direct and effective method to secure their objectives in Congress.
Campaign Contributions
Statutory Law
Blacks
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47. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Judicial
Executive Agencies
Redistributive Policy
Dred Scott
48. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Incorporation Doctrine
John F. Kennedy
Republican
Police Powers
49. 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).
Initiative
Free Speech
Social Security
Independent Regulatory Agencies
50. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Public Opinion
Federal Register
Regulatory Federalism
25th Amendment
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