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CLEP American Government
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1. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
Stare Decisis
Implied Powers
Thomas Hobbes
Recommit the Bill to Committee
2. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Trustee
Open Meeting Law
Court of Appeals
Bundling
3. 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.
14th Amendment
Party Regulars
Trustee
Coordinated Spending
4. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.
Popular Sovereignty
Medicare
Supports
10th Amendment
5. Committees of Congress composed of both representatives and senators.
Joint Committees
Marshall Plan
Muckrakers
Elite
6. The Supreme Court's broad interpretation of this clause has denied direct aid from the government for religious groups - but does allow religious groups to make use of government services such as police and fire.
US Trade Representatives
Lower
Populous
Establishment Clause
7. In addition to a quick and speedy trial - the 6th Amendment also guarantees ________________.
English Bill of Rights
Balance of Payments
Thurgood Marshall
Right to Counsel
8. The drawing of the lines of congressional districts - or of any other political district - in order to favor one political party or group over another.
Gerrymandering
Interstate Compact
Selective Incorporation
Confederation
9. A power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action (if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period after the president receives the bill). Some court rulings have suggested that a president may exercise a pocket veto only when Congress adjour
Supreme Court
Pocket Veto
Social Security
Committees
10. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Negative
Redistributive Policy
Double Jeopardy
Safe seat
11. Passed in 1883 - it created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Delegated Powers
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Ad Hoc Structure
12. Requires the Electoral College to vote for President and Vice President separately.
12th Amendment
Valence issue
Shay's Rebellion
Majority Whip
13. In the Federalist Papers - James Madison proposed that the states under the new Constitution would retain ____________ sovereignty.
4th Amendment
Proposition 187
Residual
Patriot Act
14. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
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Free Exercise Clause
7th Amendment
Confederation
15. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.
Free Exercise of Religion
Office of Management and Budget
Majority Rule
Lemon Test
16. Executive Check on the Legislative Branch.
Smith Act
Presidential Veto
State Auditor
Jus Sanguinis
17. Voters tendency to identify with a party that shares their views on important issues ignoring the party's stance on issues they deem less important. to be life-long unless there is a major change in the party's platform. 2. Influenced by ra
Checks and Balances
Party Identification
General Accounting Office
Supply Side Economics
18. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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19. At one time - the press generally refrained from publishing personal information that would be damaging. FDR - Eisenhower - and JFK all benefited from this reluctance to engage in _____________________. However - the American publics appetite for sen
Scandal Mongering
National Security
Enumerated Powers
English Bill of Rights
20. Plan that proposed unicameral legislature with each state having one vote.
Positive
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
New Jersey Plan
Cruel and Unusual
21. 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
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Capitalism
Patriot Act
Political Machines
22. Communication with legislators or other government officials to try to influence their decisions.
11th Amendment
Lobbying
Supreme Court
Secretary of State
23. Committees that pull members from both the house and the senate who meet to discuss major policy issues such as economy and taxation.
Budget Resolution
Joint Committee
Whips
Free Exercise Clause
24. First Executive Branch
Department of State
Self-Incrimination
Independent expenditures
Governmental Corporations
25. After hearings are complete - a congressional subcommittee will usually determine a bill's future in final deliberations known as
Slander
Mark Up Session
Fast Track Authority
Caucus
26. Its the responsibility of ___________ committees of a political party to solidify the party within each state and organize primary elections
State
Veteran's Affairs
Trial Balloon
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
27. Political leaders typically try to both lead and follow ____________.
Public Opinion
17th
Liberalism
Power Structure
28. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Strategic Deterrence
Federal Register
Power Structure
John F. Kennedy
29. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Monopoly
Interest groups
Senate
Regulatory Federalism
30. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Earl Warren
Voting
Antitrust Legislation
Roth v. US
31. Leader of the House of Representatives - elected by the majority party. 2nd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Judicial
Supreme Court
Speaker of the House
Supply Side Economics
32. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Unitary System
Dynamic Conservatism
National
Joseph McCarthy
33. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Incumbents
Electoral Votes
Federalism
Political Patronage
34. Petition that - if signed by a majority of the members of the House of Representatives - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration
Judicial
Discharge Petition
Closed rule
a senior senator of the majority party
35. Article I of the Constitution establishes the ___________________ branch.
Categorical Grant
Balancing Test
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Legislative
36. In the view of W. Lance Bennett - the people who hold and express opinions are constantly changing - as are the issues and conditions to which the public responds. As a result - Bennett suggests that public opinion is______________.
Situational
Isolationism
Ticket Splitters
Probable Cause
37. The reason that electors are chosen in each state by popular vote is ____________.
John F. Kennedy
Custom
Confederation
Supreme Court
38. A term popularized by sociologist Floyd Hunter to describe the community leaders who he said determined policy in Atlanta - Georgia. More broadly - the term is used to describe 'power elites' generally.
Declining
Popular Sovereignty
Power Structure
Prior Restraint
39. Permitted court authorized wire-tapping and bugging by federal - state - and local authorities and use of such evidence in trial. Later reversed by the Supreme Court based on 4th Amendment rights.
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Selective Incorporation
Free Exercise Clause
Universe
40. Which committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
Block Grant
Catholics
Bureaucracy
Appropriations
41. Literally meaning 'right of blood' - confers citizenship to a child from the parents.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Jus Sanguinis
Probable Cause
Writ of Certiorari
42. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Probable Cause
Misdemeanors
Antitrust Legislation
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43. This contraversial legal technicality intended to protect civil liberties has allowed criminals to remain free when the courts refuse to admit evidence that may have been obtained illegally.
Appropriation Bills
Supply Side Economics
Exclusionary Rule
Unicameral
44. This may be done by a national constitutional convention called by Congress on the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures OR By the passage of a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress
Recall
Albany Plan
Quota Sampling
Propose an Amendment
45. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Inverse
Declining
Northern and Southern
General Accounting Office
46. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
Government
Appropriation Bills
Distribution
Freedom of Speech
47. In 1998 - the Supreme Court struck down the________________ law - declaring it unconstitutional - because Congress did not have the constitutional authority to hand that power to the President.
presidential line-item veto
State Government
Strategic Deterrence
John F. Kennedy
48. 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.
Freedom of Speech
Democrats
Court of Appeals
Marbury v. Madison
49. A system in which national and state government have shared or overlapping powers. FDR's New Deal legislation established this system in the US.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Democrats
Internationalism
50. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Collective Action
1st Amendment
may not
Decreased