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CLEP American Government
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1. 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
Ratification
Political Machines
Freedom of Speech
Social Contract
2. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Proprietary Colonies
Enumerated Powers
Transportation
Jim Crow Laws
3. Spending determined by the number of qualified recipients and their legally determined need is called
Scandal Mongering
Earl Warren
Entitlement Spending
Independent expenditures
4. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Jus Soli
Judicial Selection
Budget Resolutions
House of Representatives
5. Presides over the Senate without voting privileges except in the case of a tie.
4th Amendment
Positive
Vice President
Straight Ticket Voting
6. Protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
Speaker of the House
Due Process
National Security Council
4th Amendment
7. A system - until modified and reformed in the 1970s - that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.
Select Committee
Local
Seniority System
State Legislatures
8. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Unicameral
Zenger
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Checks and Balances
9. Repealed by the 21st Amendment - this Amendment prohibited alcohol.
18th Amendment
Diminish
Independent
Joint Committee
10. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Chief Justice
Commonwealth
War Powers Resolution
President
11. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Executive Agreements
Patriot Act
Raiding
Jury of Peers
12. A word that comes from two Greek roots - demos - 'the populace -' and kratia - 'rule'
Supports
Democracy
Issue Networks
Veteran's Affairs
13. The President's role in the armed forces which during the 20th century has allowed Presidents to circumvent Congress' refusal to declare war.
Democrats
Executive
Commander in Chief
8 Million
14. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Alien and Sedition Acts
Selective Incorporation
25
Federal Courts
15. Author of The Spirit of the Laws advocating balance of power in politics with liberty is dependant upon a separation of the judicial - legislative - and executive branches of government.
Jus Soli
Baron de Montesquieu
Republican
Majority Opinion
16. Form of government in which the people are sovereign but their power is exercised by their elected representatives.
External Efficacy
Republic
18th Amendment
35
17. A primary in which any registered voter is able to vote for candidates from more than one party. A voter - for example - may vote for a Democrat for U.S. senator and for a Republican for governor. In 2000 - the Supreme Court struck down the blanket p
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Blanket Primary
12th Amendment
Reverse Discrimination
18. The party-column ballot - or Indiana ballot - encourages _______________.
Straight Ticket Voting
Demands
Dies
Campaign Finance Reform
19. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
Internal Efficacy
Thurgood Marshall
14th Amendment
October 1st
20. Government agencies that exercise quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative powers and are administratively independent of both the president and Congress (although politically independent of neither).
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Freedom of Speech
Jury of Peers
Implied
21. 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.
Automobiles
527 Organizations
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Gay
22. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Concurrent
Implied Powers
Vice President
23. 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 -
Writ of Assistance
Dies
Senate Standing Committees
Proprietary Colonies
24. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
presidential line-item veto
State
Housing and Urban Development
Gideon v. Wainwright
25. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
Mallory Rule
State Legislatures
Rousseau
Article II
26. Cabinet department oversees nuclear reactors.Established in 1973 in response to the Energy Crisis.
Enacted
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Criminal Information
Energy
27. A form of city government under which a council - usually elected on a nonpartisan ticket - hires a professional city manager - who runs the city government and has power to hire and fire officials.
16th Amendment
Council-Manager Plan
Committees
Mugwumps
28. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
Senate
Formula Grant
Closed
Social Security
29. Which historical figure described democracy as 'the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time?'
Recall
Winston Churchill
Exit Polls
Committees
30. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
War Powers Resolution
Antitrust Legislation
Police Powers
state legislatures
31. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Interior
Statutory Law
Party of Economic Protest
Inverse
32. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Raise Public Awareness
House Standing Committees
1776
Nuclear Proliferation
33. Impact elections by siphoning off votes from major parties spoiling a party's chance in a close race.
Patriot Act
Ad Hoc Structure
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Third Parties
34. A compulsory national insurance program - financed by taxes on employers and employees. The insurance falls into four categories: old-age and survivors insurance - disability insurance - Medicare - and unemployment insurance.
presidential line-item veto
Social Security
Legislative Veto
Public Opinion
35. A federal tax on imports.
Closed Shop
Suburbia
Literacy Tests
Tariff
36. A course of action decided upon by a government
Civil War Amendments
Political Efficacy
Policy
US Trade Representatives
37. Plan that proposed bicameral legislature where states were to have representation based on size in both houses.
Party Dealignment
Elite and Class Theory
Little Difference
Virginia Plan
38. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
Political Socialization
Independent Expenditures
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Sub-government
39. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Third Party
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Export Taxes
40. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Impoundment
2nd Amendment
Fixed
Criminal Cases
41. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Regulatory Agencies
Unlimited
CORE
Democrats
42. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Concurrent
12
Creative Federalism
Free Exercise Clause
43. These voters are registered as a party member but only participate by voting in primary and general elections. Tend to vote straight-party ticket and follow the leads of local party officials.
Political Action Committees
Rank and File
Campaign Contributions
Authorizations
44. A philosophy that the Supreme Court should avoid constitutional questions when possible and uphold acts of Congress unless they clearly violate a specific section of the Constitution.
Judicial Restraint
Inverse
Regulatory Federalism
14th Amendment
45. Voter turnout is usually ____________ when there is a binding referendum on the ballot.
Bicameral
binding
state legislatures
18th Amendment
46. The principle - established by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland - that the Constitution must be interpreted flexibly to meet changing conditions.
Third Party
Flexible Construction
Closed Shop
Enact a Bill of Rights
47. Guaranteed women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Homeland Security
Federal Courts
35
48. In addition to the doctrine of implied powers - Chief Justice Marshall - in his decision in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - established the key concept of:
National Supremacy
Realigning Elections
Primary
State Auditor
49. 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 _________________.
Globalization
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Free Speech
Elite
50. Head of the Supreme Court.
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Capitalism
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