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CLEP American Government
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1. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Collective Action
Categorical Grants
Legislative
Ratification
2. Minor criminal offenses - such as speeding.
General Election
7
Inverse
Misdemeanors
3. 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.
National Debt
Joint Committee
Majority Rule
18th Amendment
4. The President's role in the armed forces which during the 20th century has allowed Presidents to circumvent Congress' refusal to declare war.
Declining
Police Powers
Public Policy
Commander in Chief
5. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.
blockbusting and redlining
Block Grant
Equal Time
Republicans
6. The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
Nuclear Proliferation
Majority Opinion
Public hearing
Plain View
7. A powerful alliance of mutual benefit among an agency or unit of the government - an interest group - and a committee or subcommittee of Congress. Also called a triangle or a subgovernment.
Monetary Policy
Secondary Group
Iron Triangle
Electoral Votes
8. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Housing and Urban Development
Grand Jury Indictment
Parallel
Due Process
9. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Presidential Veto
Economic Interest Groups
Unicameral
10. A jury of 6 to 12 persons who determine guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action
Raiding
Petit Jury
Common Law
Supremacy Clause
11. 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 -
Impeachment
Committees of Correspondence
Power Structure
Senate Standing Committees
12. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Fixed
Outputs
Raiding
Unitary System
13. James Madison proposed to deal with the threat of political factions by ______________________.
Council-Manager Plan
Issue Networks
Separation of Powers
12
14. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
2/3
Separate but Equal
State Legislatures
Independent expenditures
15. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Original Jurisdiction
Decreased
Universe
General Election
16. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over the creation and elimination of agencies as well as its control over budget appropriations.
Electoral Votes
Legislative
Small Business Administration (SBA)
8th Amendment
17. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on a sharply limited government - promoting a free market economy - a non-interventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in the moral and social spheres.
Public hearing
Implied
Libertarianism
Right to Counsel
18. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Public Policy
General Accounting
Substantive Due Process
Oligopoly
19. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Public Policy
Project Grant
Increased competition
Natural Rights
20. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - founded in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover to help combat the Great Depression - was the predecessor of which federal agencies?
Exit Polls
National Security Council
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Spoiler Candidate
21. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Outputs
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Prior Restraint
Pork-Barrel Legislation
22. 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.
Bundling
US Trade Representatives
Blanket Primary
Party Identification
23. This act prohibited Discrimination because of race - color - sex - religion - or national origin by employers or labor unions; The adoption by voting registrars of different standards for black and white applicants; and Racial or religious discrimina
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
1964 Civil Rights Act
Baker v. Wingo
Prior Restraint
24. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
Civil Cases
Equal Time
Commander in Chief
Max Weber
25. A form of city government under which a board of city commissioners is popularly elected (often on a nonpartisan ballot). The commissioners make policy as a city council - but they also run city departments as administrators.
Commission Plan
Party Regulars
Freedom of Speech
Unlimited
26. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement is unconstitutional.
Pre-clearance
Restrictive Covenant
Nuclear Proliferation
Hatch Act
27. This event was an important factor in creating the climate for a new Constitution.
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28. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
Majority Rule
Joseph McCarthy
Offensive Language
Tammany Hall
29. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Judicial
Checks and Balances
It Failed to be Ratified
Government Corporations
30. Plan that proposed bicameral legislature where states were to have representation based on size in both houses.
Gay
Virginia Plan
Public Bills
Independent Expenditures
31. Voting based on looking back and making judgments about the way things have gone and the kind of government experienced during a political leader's time in office.
Redistributive Policy
Reserved Powers
Retrospective Voting
New Deal Era
32. The belief that one is effective when participating in politics - for example that the government will respond to one's demands
External Efficacy
2
Raise Public Awareness
Gerrymandering
33. 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
Stare Decisis
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
10th Amendment
Political Action Committee
34. Individual contributions to PACs are limited to ______________ dollars per candidate per election with primaries - general and special elections counting separately.
Campaign Contributions
Conventions
5 -000
Non-protected Speech
35. This powerful House committee is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor.
Rousseau
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rules Committee
Standing Committees
36. Baby boomers - women - and voters with higher levels of education tend to have a ____________ voter turnout.
Interventionism
unlimited
High
Privacy Act
37. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Rousseau
Katz. v US
Exit Polls
Political Patronage
38. Prohibits citizens of one state or foreign country from suing another state.
Earl Warren
11th Amendment
Members of Congress
Blanket Primary
39. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Social Contract
35
Open Meeting Law
Royalists
40. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Katz. v US
Articles of Confederation
Housing and Urban Development
Hatch Act
41. An ideology that advocates limits on government power to address economic and social problems - relying instead on economic markets and individual initiative to address problems like health care and education - while promoting government involvement
Shay's Rebellion
Miller v. California
state legislatures
Conservatism
42. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
Exit Polls
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Speech Plus
Lyndon B. Johnson
43. In the mid-term elections following a President's inauguration - his party tends to ___________ seats in Congress.
Negative Advertising
Lose
Deficit
Department of State
44. A relaxation of international tensions.
Impeachment
Habeas Corpus
Detente
Federal
45. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
10th Amendment
14th
Supremacy Clause
Family
46. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases
Libel
Dynamic Conservatism
Exit Polls
Selective exposure
47. An economic philosophy that advocates both tax and budget cuts to increase incentives to produce in order to expand the total supply of the nation's goods and services.
Blacks
Supply Side Economics
Interest Groups
Soft money
48. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Members of Congress
Murray v. Curlett
Judicial Activism
Council of Economic Advisors
49. 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.
Supreme Court
National Chair
100
Attorney General
50. Executive check on Legislative Branch.
Cluster Sampling
Veto
Closed Shop
Transportation