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CLEP American Government
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1. The executive office established in response to intelligence lapses during WWI. Oversees American foreign policy and includes the President - Vice President - Secretary of State - Secretary of Defense and is lead by the National Security Advisor.
House of Representatives
National Security Council
Dred Scott Decision
Miller v. California
2. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Entitlement Programs
14
Commission Plan
Common Law
3. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Secondary Group
Free Exercise of Religion
States
Unitary System
4. This called for three-fifths of all slaves in a state were counted for purposes of apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.
Great Compromise
Coast Guard
Cruel and Unusual
Civil Liberties
5. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendment to bills or provides that only memebers of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments
Closed rule
Selective Incorporation
Administrative Procedure Act
Original Jurisdiction
6. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion
Jus Soli
Writ of Mandamus
Committees
Plurality
7. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
Impeachment
Mallory Rule
Preamble
Bicameral
8. During the 1800's and early 1900's - some state and local party committees became ________________ dominating party activities. Committee members would promise new recruits money - jobs - and other benefits for joining and voting the straight party t
Political Machines
Iron Triangle
Suburbia
6th Amendment
9. Political leaders typically try to both lead and follow ____________.
Republic
Public Opinion
Transportation
Incumbents
10. 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.
14th Amendment
Lose
Democratic
Baby Boomers
11. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Selective Incorporation
Blacks
Coordinated Spending
Major Political Party
12. A law passed in 1966 that requires federal executive branch and regulatory agencies to make information available to journalists - scholars - and the public unless it falls into one of several confidential categories.
State Treasurer
Discharge Petition
Freedom of Information Act
Permanent Registration
13. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
States
Thomas Hobbes
Republicans
Public Opinion
14. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Pork Barrel Spending
New Federalism
Random Sample
7
15. 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.
Rules Committee
Unitary System
Furman v. Georgia
435
16. The issue of slavery split the Democratic Party into what two factions?
Free Exercise Clause
may not
Unitary System
Northern and Southern
17. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Little Difference
Outputs
States
1st Amendment
18. State legislation designed to outlaw the union shop - passed by 21 states acting under Section 14B of the federal Taft-Hartley Act.
Shay's Rebellion
Recall
Reference Group
Right to Work Laws
19. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
Categorical Grants
General Purpose Grants
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Unicameral
20. Which form of registration prevails in all but a few states?
States
2
Permanent Registration
Sub-committee
21. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: diversity/diffusion of power - more access points for political participation - fostering of experimentation and innovation - and allowing local governments to manage local problems effectively
Majority and Minority Leader
Free Exercise Clause
Positive
Recorded Vote
22. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Straight Ticket Voting
Scottsboro Boys Case
Appropriation Bills
Senate
23. American politics is dominated by a small ___________ who is responsible for most of the important policy decisions
New Federalism
presidential line-item veto
Elite
Tammany Hall
24. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
John F. Kennedy
Free Speech
Equality
Inverse
25. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Commonwealth
Slander
Dred Scott
Dynamic Conservatism
26. Agencies that were at one time semi-autonomous but that through legislation have been placed under presidential control since 1945.
Senate
Government Corporations
Virginia Plan
Referendum
27. States that arrestees must be informed of their right to remain silent - that anything they say can be held against them in a court - that they have a right to an attorney and that an attorney will be appointed to them if they cannot afford one.
Republic
Miranda Rights
Hatch Act
Great or Connecticut Compromise
28. A system in which the national government sets requirements that are then implemented by state and local governments.
State Legislatures
Regulatory Federalism
State Auditor
Electoral College
29. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
National Committee
Budget Surplus
Republicans
Attorney General
30. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
Department of Treasury
Earl Warren
Jurisdiction
House of Representatives
31. Until the law was changed in 2002 - the term described unregulated campaign funds not subject to the limits of federal law because they went to party committees and not directly to candidates. The 2002 law banned contributions of soft money to nation
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Petition of Right
Soft Money
Recorded Vote
32. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
unlimited
Double Jeopardy
Democratic
Senate Standing Committees
33. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
31
Senate
Block Grant
Labor
34. 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.
Home Rule
Constituencies
Supports
Local
35. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Spoils System
Fiscal Federalism
Proposition 187
Voting
36. Powers of government that are specifically granted to the three branches of the federal government under the Constitution.
Elite
Political ideology
Exclusionary Rule
Enumerated Powers
37. The way things actually are.
de facto
Pork Barrel Spending
Civil War Amendments
Equal Time
38. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Freedom of Speech
Inherent Powers
Original
Gross Domestic Product
39. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases
Selective exposure
W.E.B. DuBoise
Issue network
Closed
40. The Supreme Court holds _____________ jurisdiction in cases against the US - ambassadors - public ministers - and consuls.
State of the Union
8th Amendment
Offensive Language
Original
41. In Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969) - the Supreme Court established precedents for ___________________ in schools and government institutions.
Raiding
Conference Committee
Freedom of Speech
Medicaid
42. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Judicial
Civil Cases
Antitrust Legislation
Party Column Ballot
43. Powers not specifically granted to the federal government or denied to the states belong to the states and the people
Republican
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Fiscal Policy
Reserved Powers
44. 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
Writ of Certiorari
Social Security
Concurrent
45. 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.
Party of Economic Protest
Chief Justice
Legislative
Marbury v. Madison
46. An economy in which most economic decisions result from the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets - but in which the government plays a significant role in the allocation of resources.
Mixed Economy
Federal Courts
Policy Making Cycle
Roe v. Wade
47. Presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. Position awarded to the longest serving Senator from the majority party. 3rd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Monopoly
Woodrow Wilson
President Pro Tempore
11th Amendment
48. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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49. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
Detente
Interior
Pass the fundraising threshold
unlimited
50. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
Rhode Island
President Pro Tempore
Distribution
Department of Treasury
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