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CLEP American Government
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1. Between 1909 and 2002 - the number of daily newspapers in the United States______________.
Capitalism
8 Million
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Decreased
2. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
Economic Interest Groups
5
Closed
Independent Expenditures
3. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
Petition of Right
Winston Churchill
Truman
Electoral Connection
4. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Block Grant
Concurrent Powers
New Federalism
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
5. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Joint Committees
Conservatism
Supply Side Economics
Globalization
6. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Sub-government
Distribution
National Convention
Public Opinion
7. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Majority Rule
Sub-government
Free Exercise of Religion
Gross Domestic Product
8. The strongest factor contributing to an individual's political socialization tends to be
Substantive Due Process
Common Sense
Family
Categorical Grants
9. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Implied
Implied Powers
5
Intelligence
10. 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.
Reference Group
25
Trial Balloon
Supremacy Clause
11. ____________ often influence political appointments in an effort to influence bureaucracy.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Office of Management and Budget
Interest groups
Libertarianism
12. 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
Vietnam War
Supremacy Clause
1964 Civil Rights Act
13. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 restructured the number of ______________ in both the House and Senate.
Committees
House of Representatives
Majority Opinion
Federal Register
14. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
Fixed
Petit Jury
Major Political Party
Bicameral
15. The name commonly given to a private group - regardless of size - organized to elect political candidates. An organization becomes one by receiving contributions or making expenditures in excess of $1 -000 for the purpose of influencing a federal ele
Closed Shop
Political Action Committee
Northern and Southern
Speaker of the House
16. 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.
Catholics
Freedom of Information Act
Third Parties
Recorded Vote
17. Grants that an accused may not be held in custody without charge - literally 'You shall have the body'.
Habeas Corpus
Unlimited
Implied Powers
New Federalism
18. A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation.
Issue Networks
Appropriations
Critical Election
Speaker of the House
19. 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.
Article III
Original
Ways and Mean Committee
Poll Tax
20. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Unicameral
Electoral College
Lyndon B. Johnson
Random Sample
21. Unwritten law based on custom and tradition.
Whip
Common Law
de jure
89
22. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Due Process of Law
John F. Kennedy
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Voting
23. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Commonwealth
Fiscal Policy
Concurring Opinion
Logrolling
24. Presides over the Senate without voting privileges except in the case of a tie.
Television
Vice President
14th Amendment
Proportional Representation
25. A word that comes from two Greek roots - demos - 'the populace -' and kratia - 'rule'
Democracy
Membership
Clean bill
Cruel and Unusual
26. The power of the president - struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998 - to veto parts of appropriations bills. Most state governors have this power.
Line-Item Veto
Ratification
blockbusting and redlining
Public Policy
27. The practice of victorious politicians to reward their followers with jobs. Also known as the spoils system.
Political Patronage
CORE
Presidential Ticket
Executive Agreements
28. 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.
Affirmative Action
Baker v. Wingo
Probable Cause
Statutory Law
29. Its the responsibility of ___________ committees of a political party to solidify the party within each state and organize primary elections
Agriculture
Katz. v US
State
Blacks
30. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
Raise Public Awareness
Party Regulars
Federal District
2/3
31. An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the publicand operate for the welfare of all.
6th Amendment
Socialism
Entitlement Programs
Supports
32. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Marbury v. Madison
Absolute Position
Double Jeopardy
Affirmative Action
33. The Democrats control over politics during the 20th century ended with this President's unpopular handling of the Vietnam War.
Commission Plan
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
34. Included are Agriculture - Nutrition - and Forestry; Appropriations; Armed Services; Banking - Housing and Urban Affairs; Commerce - Science and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Environment and Public Works; Finance; Health - Education -
Senate Standing Committees
Universe
presidential line-item veto
Baron de Montesquieu
35. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Criminal Information
John Locke
Hyperpluralism
Elite
36. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
High
Safe seat
Elite and Class Theory
Logrolling
37. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
Regulatory Agencies
Mallory Rule
Original
Joint Committee
38. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Dynamic Conservatism
Negative Advertising
Welfare State
Roe v. Wade
39. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Selective Incorporation
Office of Management and Budget
Third Parties
Recorded Vote
40. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
Vietnam War
Shield Laws
Cruel and Unusual
Baby Boomers
41. The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
Gideon v. Wainwright
Nuclear Proliferation
5
18th Amendment
42. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
5
Bowers v. Hardwick
Spoils System
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
43. In 1987 - the FCC abandoned the fairness doctrine on the grounds that it unconstitutionally restricted the ______________ rights of broadcasters.
2
Commerce
1st Amendment
Speech Plus
44. This customary power allows the President to grant reprieves and pardons for federal offenses.
10th Amendment
Salient Agenda
Situational
Grant Clemency
45. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Recall
Party of Economic Protest
Articles of Confederation
Committees
46. The pursuit and exercise of power
Ticket Splitters
Open Meeting Law
10th Amendment
Politics
47. Leader of the House of Representatives - elected by the majority party. 2nd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Muckrakers
Reverse Discrimination
Royal Colonies
Speaker of the House
48. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.
Article VI
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Senate
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
49. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
District of Columbia
Lemon Test
Dred Scott Decision
Separation of Powers
50. Concept of government by the people in which everyone is free to vote - but normally whoever gets the most votes wins the election and represents all the people - including those who voted for the losing candidate.
Party of Economic Protest
Establishment Clause
Joseph McCarthy
Majority Rule