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CLEP American Government
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1. 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
Mugwumps
Delegated Powers
Elastic Clause
1964 Civil Rights Act
2. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Periodic Registration
Seniority System
Instructed Delegate
Common Law
3. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Party Regulars
Class Action Suit
may not
Internationalism
4. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Whip
Economic Interest Groups
Democratic
Proposition 187
5. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Enlightenment
Administrative Procedure Act
It Failed to be Ratified
6. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
Major Political Party
Presidential Ticket
Laissez-Faire
Commander in Chief
7. 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.
Rank and File
Riders
Proposition 187
Distribution
8. Members of this party typically include women who support liberal policies on abortion and equal pay - Jews - Catholics - Blacks and other minorities - Blue-collar working class - urban - labor unions - and intelligensia
Democrats
Bill of Attainder
de facto
Balance of Trade
9. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
Convention Bounce
Gender Gap
Concurrent Powers
8 Million
10. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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11. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Gender Gap
CORE
7th Amendment
Bull Moose Progressives
12. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
Commerce
Caucuses
National Security Council
Ex Post Facto
13. Define US Citizenship as any person born or naturalized in the United States.
Death penalty
14th Amendment
Criminal Information
President
14. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the practice of _______________ allowing more diversity among immigrants.
national quotas
8 Million
Majority Rule
Scottsboro Boys Case
15. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
John Locke
Monopoly
Cabinet
9
16. 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.
Supports
Bill of Attainder
8th Amendment
Riders
17. In Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969) - the Supreme Court established precedents for ___________________ in schools and government institutions.
Freedom of Speech
Proprietary Colonies
Slander
Bicameral
18. Concept of the British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
Trustee
High
Inverse
Propose an Amendment
19. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
Chief Justice
Categorical Grant
Horse race
National
20. The power of some municipalities to modify their charters and run their affairs without approval by the state legislature.
Ad Hoc Structure
Home Rule
Clothespin vote
Party Realignment
21. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Deviating Elections
Free Exercise
Non-protected Speech
Third Parties
22. A legislature with only one house.
Confederation
Public hearing
Television and Radio
Unicameral
23. A law passed by Congress in 1973 in an effort to set a time limit on the use of combat forces abroad by a president.
Monopoly
War Powers Resolution
Conventions
2/3
24. Which office serves as a watchdog into waste or fraud in the bureaucracy and conducts investigations at the request of congressional committees
Defense
General Accounting
Constitutional Initiative
Riders
25. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
4th Amendment
Select Committee
8 Million
26. The Medicaid and Food Stamp programs are examples of two very large
State Auditor
Categorical Grants
Socialism
Democrats
27. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
Power Structure
Rhode Island
Legislative
Caucus
28. Legislature bills that affect only a small group of citizens.
Declining
Article VI
Supreme Court
Private Bills
29. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Project Grant
Article III
Senate
Articles of Confederation
30. This 1964 case established strict standards for proving slander and libel - court must prove intent of malice on the part of the publisher.
Department of State
Federal Register
Equal Protection Clause
NY Times v. Sullivan
31. The way things actually are.
Gender Gap
de facto
Inherent Powers
Implied
32. The gap between the government's income and outlays.
Joint Committee
Deficit
Voting
Spoiler Candidate
33. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has less discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Speech Plus
Baby Boomers
Formula Grant
President
34. This term refers to the gain in the polls that a candidate often enjoys after a national convention
Television
legislative and executive
Convention Bounce
Natural Rights
35. The introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution - setting forth the general principles of American government and beginning with the words - 'We the people of the United States - in order to form a more perfect union. ...'
Preamble
Low
Town Meeting
New Deal Era
36. Which historical figure described democracy as 'the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time?'
Office of Management and Budget
100
Winston Churchill
Roth v. US
37. Federal grants in which the recipient has a lot of discretion over how the money is spent. These grants are issued in support of general government functions such as education and law enforcement.
Federal District
Electoral Connection
Offensive Language
Block Grant
38. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
Joint Committees
Closed
Authorizations
Political ideology
39. Requires the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President separately.
Office of Management and Budget
Press Secretary
Bicameral
12th Amendment
40. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Transnational Relations
Democratic
3
Libel
41. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Free Exercise
Right to Work Laws
NY Times v. Sullivan
Caucus
42. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
External Efficacy
Spoils System
Habeas Corpus
Ways and Mean Committee
43. The agency that provides Congress with evaluations of public policies is the
Third Parties
Constitutional Initiative
4
General Accounting Office
44. Defamation by written or printed words - pictures - or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Libel
Supply Side Economics
National Chair
45. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
9
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Eminent Domain
2
46. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
Appropriations
Senatorial Courtesy
Political Culture
Lemon Test
47. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
1776
blockbusting and redlining
Deviating Elections
Freedom of Information Act
48. Bills passed by Congress to pay for the spending it has authorized.
General Purpose Grants
Appropriation Bills
Weber
Ratification
49. Lead by Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. Dedicated to defending federal authority and high tariffs. Gained supports of merchants - bankers - industrialists and planters.
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Whigs
New Federalism
Legislative Veto
50. A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
National Political Parties
Welfare State
Elastic Clause
Article V