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CLEP American Government
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1. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
General Purpose Grants
Cruel and Unusual
Focus Groups
Truman
2. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Propose an Amendment
may not
Divided Government
de facto
3. Its the responsibility of ___________ committees of a political party to solidify the party within each state and organize primary elections
Party Column Ballot
Substantive Due Process
State
Federal Appellate
4. In 1987 - the FCC abandoned the fairness doctrine on the grounds that it unconstitutionally restricted the ______________ rights of broadcasters.
Right to Work Laws
1st Amendment
Straight Ticket Voting
Alien and Sedition Acts
5. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
1st Amendment
Warrant
President
Equality
6. The demands of and supports for a political system
Referendum
Valence issue
Inputs
Unlimited
7. The total amount of money that the United States owes to its creditors.
Seniority System
National Debt
Bowers v. Hardwick
Contract Clause
8. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Whigs
Liberalism
Proprietary Colonies
Agriculture
9. 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.
US Trade Representatives
Jus Sanguinis
Interest groups
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
10. A pluralist theory by C. Wright Mills where a small number of wealthy elite wield most of the power. Fundamental to all governments around the world - the elite rule while they make the lower classes feel like they are involved in democracy. The elit
Elite and Class Theory
Poll Tax
Negative Advertising
Privacy Act
11. 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
Establishment Clause
Senatorial Courtesy
Joseph McCarthy
Bureaucracy
12. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
Gay
Pentagon Papers
Balance of Trade
35
13. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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14. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Pre-clearance
Whigs
Federal
15. Lead by Theodore Roosevelt - this party platform focused on women's suffrage - social reform - fair business practices - and direct election of senators. The won 25% of the popular vote in 1911 - splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Wo
Self-Incrimination
Balance of Trade
Bull Moose Progressives
Transportation
16. At one time - the press generally refrained from publishing personal information that would be damaging. FDR - Eisenhower - and JFK all benefited from this reluctance to engage in _____________________. However - the American publics appetite for sen
Interest Groups
Categorical Grants
Scandal Mongering
Legislative Courts
17. A legislature with only one house.
Unicameral
Dies
Double Jeopardy
Concurrent Powers
18. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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19. 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.
Flexible Construction
US v. Ballard
Jus Sanguinis
Containment
20. A philosophy that the Supreme Court should avoid constitutional questions when possible and uphold acts of Congress unless they clearly violate a specific section of the Constitution.
Judicial Restraint
Legislative
blockbusting and redlining
Supreme Court
21. 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.
Federalist Papers
Establishment Clause
Political Machines
Gerrymandering
22. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
15
Redistributive Policy
Riders
Checks and Balances
23. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated
Freedom of Speech
Class Action Suit
Retrospective Voting
5
24. The period of time after the election of FDR until the Vietnam War was dominated by the Democratic Party and know as the __________________ Era.
1964 Civil Rights Act
New Deal Era
Low
Hold
25. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Republic
The Federal Reserve Board
Recommit the Bill to Committee
NY Times v. Sullivan
26. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Transportation
Appropriations
Substantive Due Process
2nd Amendment
27. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
8 Million
state legislatures
Transnational Relations
Authorizations
28. 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
Zenger
Writ of Assistance
Joseph McCarthy
29. In California v. Avecedo (1991) - The Supreme Court established that authorities may search ____________________ without a warrant providing reasonable suspicion.
Public Opinion
Automobiles
state legislatures
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
30. The view advocated by Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas that there are provisions of the Bill of Rights that cannot be diluted by judicial decisions.
6th Amendment
Absolute Position
Elastic Clause
Jus Soli
31. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Committees of Correspondence
Spoiler Candidate
Right of Expatriation
Roe v. Wade
32. Infamous 1735 English case established the precedent for Freedom of the Press in the US.
blockbusting and redlining
Zenger
Federalist
Monopoly
33. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: conflicts between state and national government - economic and racial discrimination - uneven enforcement of law - and dominance of local governments by special interest groups
Divided Government
Coast Guard
Woodrow Wilson
Negative
34. Congress' first step towards allocating funds
Bandwagon
Ways and Mean Committee
Presidential Veto
Authorizations
35. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
State Legislatures
Democracy
Enumerated Powers
Confederation
36. President Hoover's laissez-faire approach to the economy during the Great Depression left many poor voters disenfranchised by the Republican Party. They left to join the _______________ Party.
Democratic
31
Press Secretary
Seniority System
37. A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be ___________.
Implied Powers
7
Appealed
Republic
38. A public policy that takes something away from one person or group and gives it to another person or group.
Iron Triangle
Redistributive Policy
Majority Opinion
Delegate
39. The rules and regulations made and applied by federal regulatory agencies and commissions.
Balance of Payments
Electoral Votes
Administrative Law
Ways and Means Committee
40. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
Gitlow v. New York
School Desegregation
Cold War
Joseph McCarthy
41. 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
Great Compromise
Violation of Law
Low
Mugwumps
42. Constitutionally required address by the President typically given in a joint session of Congress.
Katz. v US
State of the Union
Public Bills
Pure Speech
43. The house armed services and foreign affairs committees each have ___ subcommittees.
7
7th Amendment
Good Faith Exception
Writ of Certiorari
44. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Monopoly
19th Amendment
Closed Shop
Gross Domestic Product
45. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
Council of Economic Advisors
Pluralist Theory
Caucuses
Oligopoly
46. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Gerrymandering
CORE
Jus Sanguinis
Electoral Votes
47. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Senate
14th
Majority Opinion
Weber
48. Head of the Supreme Court.
Ratification
Reverse Discrimination
Chief Justice
Smith Act
49. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted
Furman v. Georgia
Homeland Security
2nd Amendment
Safe seat
50. 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).
Freedom of Speech
Ways and Means Committee
8th Amendment
Independent Regulatory Agencies