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CLEP American Government
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1. 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.
Fiscal Policy
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Select Committee
Executive Agencies
2. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Freedom of Speech
Executive Agencies
Detente
3. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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4. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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5. These party members take active non-leadership roles such as working polls or contributing money to campaigns. Tend to compromise on important issues and are mostly concerned about winning elections.
Ticket Splitters
W.E.B. DuBoise
Party Regulars
Focus Groups
6. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Soft money
Reynolds v. Sims
Flexible Construction
Enacted
7. States that states may draw reasonable distinctions between the rights of residents and non-residents (ex. In state and out of state tuition)
Closed
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Negative
Unitary System
8. 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.
Max Weber
Committees of Correspondence
Propose an Amendment
Proposition 187
9. Which form of registration prevails in all but a few states?
Mallory Rule
Jus Soli
Northern and Southern
Permanent Registration
10. 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.
Ways and Means Committee
Gross Domestic Product
Ticket Splitters
Block Grant
11. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Murray v. Curlett
1776
Reverse Discrimination
Bicameral
12. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
Jury of Peers
Original
de facto
Straight Ticket Voting
13. A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be ___________.
Appealed
12th Amendment
Ex Post Facto
Independent Regulatory Agencies
14. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
Omaha platform
7th Amendment
Administrative Law
Misdemeanors
15. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
Commander in Chief
Pre-clearance
Bicameral
Court of Appeals
16. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Institutional
John F. Kennedy
Social Security
Roth v. US
17. According to the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 - federal trials must commence within _______ days of arrest with the exception of delay for mental health testing of the defendant and illness of the defendant or key witness.
Hatch Act
Cluster Sampling
100
Categorical Grant
18. Committees of Congress composed of both representatives and senators.
Majority and Minority Leader
Salient Agenda
Hub and Spoke Model
Joint Committees
19. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Bill of Rights
Habeas Corpus
a senior senator of the majority party
Republicans
20. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
Internal Efficacy
Enumerated Powers
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Independent
21. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
Divided Government
Realigning Elections
Charter Colonies
Exclusionary Rule
22. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
Enact a Bill of Rights
House of Representatives
Residual
Lafolette's Progressive s
23. Established in 1947 as a combined Department of War and Navy.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Public hearing
Defense
Court of Appeals
24. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Marshall Plan
Gitlow v. New York
Rules Committee
Judicial
25. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.
Public Opinion
Select Committee
Federalism
Intelligence
26. The reason that electors are chosen in each state by popular vote is ____________.
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Privacy Act
Custom
Implied Powers
27. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Quid Pro Quo
Public Opinion
Independent expenditures
Privacy Act
28. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
2
Free Exercise of Religion
Salient Agenda
Distribution
29. When neither political party is dominant.
Party Dealignment
Selective Incorporation
Common Sense
Roe v. Wade
30. The Medicaid and Food Stamp programs are examples of two very large
Social Security
Dissenting Opinion
Categorical Grants
Party Purists
31. Passed in 1883 - it created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
Political Party
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
NY Times v. Sullivan
32. Because there is no Senate Rules Committee - Senators can debate a bill for an _________________ time.
Unlimited
Bureaucracy
Civil Liberties
Hyperpluralism
33. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
16th Amendment
Straight Ticket Voting
Selective exposure
Ratification
34. Concurrent resolution - adopted by both Houses of Congress - that sets forth a Congressional budget plan for the budget year and at least four out-years.
Little Difference
Blacks
Federal Appellate
Budget Resolution
35. A political candidate who is thought to have only an outside chance of gaining the nomination.
Articles of Confederation
Dark Horse
Coast Guard
Foreign Policy
36. The only amendments to be ratified through the process of 'ratifying conventions -' not a vote in the state legislatures
2
Custom
Bill of Rights
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
37. 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.
Charter Colonies
Capitalism
Absolute Position
Shay's Rebellion
38. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
Commander in Chief
Magna Carta
Bill of Rights
Max Weber
39. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
Concurrent Powers
Private Bills
Selective Incorporation
Executive Agencies
40. 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.
Petit Jury
Majority Rule
War Powers Resolution
Agriculture
41. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Due Process
Government
Mark Up Session
Caucus
42. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Negative
Inherent Powers
Soft money
House of Representatives
43. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Veto
Probable Cause
Public hearing
Voting
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.
Murray v. Curlett
Article III
Residual
Homeland Security
45. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
presidential line-item veto
Freedom of Information Act
Unlimited
General Purpose Grants
46. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
General Purpose Grants
Legislative Veto
Interior
Energy
47. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
14th Amendment
Freedom of Speech
30
527 Organization
48. ____________ often influence political appointments in an effort to influence bureaucracy.
Deviating Elections
Political Socialization
Inputs
Interest groups
49. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Recall
Vice President
Feedback
Resolutions
50. The constitutional requirement (in article II - sec 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws
Implied Powers
Cruel and Unusual
Baron de Montesquieu
Take Care Clause
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