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CLEP American Government
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1. A system in which national and state governments are competitors with distinct powers. This system was prominent in the US from the during the 19th century until 1937.
Public Opinion
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Civilian Supremacy
Shay's Rebellion
2. Each Senate committee may have ________ subcommittees.
unlimited
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Political Efficacy
Executive Privilege
3. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
Joseph McCarthy
Joint Committees
Whigs
Declining
4. Form of government in which the people are sovereign but their power is exercised by their elected representatives.
Republic
Fiscal Federalism
Legislative Courts
Deficit
5. In 2002 - a federal appeals court struck down the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that it violated ________________.
Periodic Registration
Freedom of Religion
Committees
14th
6. Programs are designed to give preferential access to education - employment - health care - or social welfare to groups of people - especially minorities and women - who have historically been discriminated against.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Affirmative Action
527 Organization
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
7. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
3
Enact a Bill of Rights
Concurrent Powers
Whip
8. In addition to a quick and speedy trial - the 6th Amendment also guarantees ________________.
Speaker of the House
Right to Counsel
Coast Guard
Cluster Sampling
9. The philosophy that government should intervene as little as possible in economic affairs.
Affirmative Action
External Efficacy
Laissez-Faire
Caucus
10. Finding that enough evidence exists to warrant a criminal trial.
Grand Jury Indictment
Independent
Resolutions
Social Regulation
11. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Ratification
Fast Track Authority
Right to Counsel
20th
12. In a 1943 case - the Supreme Court upheld the right to refuse to salute the American flag on the basis of the constitutional guarantee of _________________.
Free Speech
Line-Item Veto
Office Column Ballot
Containment
13. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Equity
Albany Plan
Veto
14. In _______________ cases such as Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) - the Supreme Court has upheld that while Affirmative action policies are legal - race and gender cannot be the only determining factors.
Concurrent
Maintaining Elections
Caucuses
Reverse Discrimination
15. Independent agencies governed by an appointed and confirmed commission. Examples include the Food and Drug Administration - Environmental Protection Agency - and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Little Difference
Riders
Regulatory Agencies
Periodic Registration
16. A group of independent states or nations that come together for a common purpose and whose central authority is usually limited to defense and foreign relations.
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Budget Surplus
Mixed Economy
Confederation
17. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Party of Economic Protest
blockbusting and redlining
6
Roth v. US
18. If 10 days do not remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the bill __________.
Class Action Suit
Dies
Unlimited
Political Culture
19. 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.
Issue network
Republicans
Federalist Papers
Appropriation Bills
20. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
Closed rule
Gay
7
2nd Amendment
21. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
Filibuster
270
Charter Colonies
Rhode Island
22. Impact elections by siphoning off votes from major parties spoiling a party's chance in a close race.
Third Parties
Free Rider
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Party Column Ballot
23. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
Impoundment
Referendum
Preamble
Affirmative Action
24. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Party Regulars
Government
Independent expenditures
Civil Liberties
25. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Bill of Attainder
Majority and Minority Leader
2
Concurring Opinion
26. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
Unicameral
Bundling
Press Secretary
Due Process of Law
27. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
Public Opinion
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
High
2
28. Established by President Hoover - It is the _______________ job to keep the press informed and orchestrate press conferences
Transnational Relations
Press Secretary
Third Party
Isolationism
29. Lobbyists for special interest groups have found ____________________ to be the most direct and effective method to secure their objectives in Congress.
Dies
Campaign Contributions
Woodrow Wilson
Political System
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
Council-Manager Plan
Delegate
Joint Committees
31. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Independent Expenditures
Majority Whip
Senate
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
32. It is possible either to describe people - government - politics - and power as isolated - static elements - or to look at them as interacting elements in a_______________.
Suburbia
Political System
Public Opinion
Sub-committee
33. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
14
Marshall Plan
Virginia Plan
Select Committee
34. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Antitrust Legislation
Creative Federalism
Legislative Veto
Interest Groups
35. A system in which the national government provides grants-in-aid to states using conditions to elicit control.
Valence issue
6th Amendment
Fiscal Federalism
Collective Action
36. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Straight Ticket Voting
Authorizations
Defense
Secondary Group
37. Organization of individuals with similar policy goals who enter the political process to influence legislation that affects the organizations interests
Socialism
Northern and Southern
School Desegregation
Interest Groups
38. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
2/3
Supreme Court
Party of Economic Protest
Standing Committees
39. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Jus Sanguinis
Federal Register
Civil Liberties
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
40. Charge of misconduct brought against a government official.
Realigning Elections
6th Amendment
Impeachment
Pork Barrel Spending
41. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Elite
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
2
Misdemeanors
42. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
Violation of Law
20
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Welfare State
43. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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44. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
Articles of Confederation
Roth v. US
Affirmative Action
Monroe Doctrine
45. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
School Desegregation
National Debt
Regulatory Agencies
Enumerated Powers
46. 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.
Republicans
Marbury v. Madison
Poll Tax
Automobiles
47. This house committee is responsible for Supervising the authority of the federal government to borrow money - Raising the revenue required to finance the federal government by levying taxes - Overseeing Social Security and other social insurance prog
Ways and Means Committee
Supports
Federal Register
Fast Track Authority
48. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
Article V
Cold War
Jim Crow Laws
17th
49. Age requirement for President
Economic Interest Groups
General Accounting
Republican
35
50. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Concurrent
Salient Agenda
Confirmed
Unicameral