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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Procedure typically requiring 3/5 vote of the entire Senate to end a filibuster.
Cloture
Equity
Referendum
National Convention
2. 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.
Homeland Security
Sub-committee
Federal District
Joseph McCarthy
3. In Johnson v. Texas (1989) - the Supreme Court ruled that burning the flag in a manner that does not pose a threat to people or property is allowed as this type of freedom of speech.
Exit Polls
Civilian Supremacy
Speech Plus
Common Sense
4. 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.
Dark Horse
Foreign Policy
100
15
5. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Reserved Powers
de facto
Issue Networks
Jurisdiction
6. The average voter turnout between 1960 and 2004 was __________ percent
Project Grant
Free Exercise Clause
55
Low
7. Germany - Switzerland - and India are examples of countries with a _______________ system of government.
National Chair
Proposition 187
Federal
Quota Sampling
8. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Article IV
Non-protected Speech
Confirmed
Elite
9. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Oligopoly
Judicial Activism
10. 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 -
55
Senate Standing Committees
15
Appropriation Bills
11. First Executive Branch
Common Sense
Baron de Montesquieu
Department of State
Dissenting Opinion
12. In a political campaign - the surest way of reaching the largest number of voters is usually _____________.
Woodrow Wilson
Television
Equality
Legislative
13. Held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
National
General Election
Selective Incorporation
Third Parties
14. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Whistle-blowers
Project Grant
General Purpose Grants
Royal Colonies
15. Which of the following factors is likely to be the weakest indicator of an individual's political beliefs and opinions? Age - Race - Intelligence - or Religion
2/3
Raiding
Affirmative Action
Intelligence
16. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Public Administration
Interstate Compact
Interest Groups
Republic
17. Committees that pull members from both the house and the senate who meet to discuss major policy issues such as economy and taxation.
Joint Committee
30
Omaha platform
Internal Efficacy
18. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Royalists
Recall
District of Columbia
Senate
19. This 1689 English Document made the monarch
Blacks
Great or Connecticut Compromise
English Bill of Rights
1964 Civil Rights Act
20. The fundamental rights of a free society that are protected by the Bill of Rights against the power of the government - such as freedom of speech - religion - press - and assembly.
Probable Cause
Civil Liberties
Issue Networks
Equal Protection Clause
21. A system of voter registration in which voters must register only once in their district.
Homeland Security
Permanent Registration
1st Amendment
Political Socialization
22. A place of work in which only union members may be hired.
Horse race
Closed Shop
Separate but Equal
Social Regulation
23. 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
Conservatism
Convention Bounce
Impeachment
14
24. Special courts assigned to deal with specific legislative issues such as taxes - military appeals - and international trade.
Democratic
Veto
Political Machines
Legislative Courts
25. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Republicans
10th Amendment
Popular Sovereignty
Absolute Position
26. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
Intelligence
Speaker of the House
Gender Gap
Closed
27. Control of a market by a single company.
Supports
1st Amendment
Department of Treasury
Monopoly
28. Form of government in which the people are sovereign but their power is exercised by their elected representatives.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Scandal Mongering
Inherent Powers
Republic
29. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
12th Amendment
Bill of Attainder
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Campaign Finance Reform
30. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
270
Blacks
Democratic
War Powers Resolution
31. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.
55
Pork Barrel Spending
Low
Declining
32. 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
Concurrent
Campaign Finance Reform
Public Policy
33. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Party of Economic Protest
Little Difference
2/3
Recorded Vote
34. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
100
Homeland Security
Incorporation Doctrine
Thomas Hobbes
35. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Military-Industrial Complex
Selective Incorporation
Recommit the Bill to Committee
State Legislatures
36. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
3
State
Rousseau
Due Process
37. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Cruel and Unusual
Judicial Selection
Original Jurisdiction
Federalist
38. The concept that political power rests with the people who can create - alter - and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government
Enumerated Powers
Popular Sovereignty
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Cruel and Unusual
39. A philosophy that Supreme Court justices and other judges should boldly apply the Constitution to social and political questions.
Judicial Activism
Electoral College
States
Voting
40. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
Majority Whip
Writ of Mandamus
Recall
Formula Grant
41. These party members tend to be ideologues who put issues ahead of winning elections and withhold support from candidates who do not share their stance on issues. Very active in special interest groups and caucuses within the party. Willing to break a
Party Purists
Self-Incrimination
Article III
Violation of Law
42. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Supreme Court
Gerrymandering
2
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
43. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Riders
Maintaining Elections
Gerrymandering
Deviating Elections
44. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
Budget Surplus
Campaign Finance Reform
8th Amendment
25th Amendment
45. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Libertarianism
Political Action Committees
Governmental Corporations
Weber
46. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Discharge Petition
Class Action Suit
Agriculture
Distribution
47. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
national quotas
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Violation of Law
Clean bill
48. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
States
Truman
Iron Triangle
House of Representatives
49. In Woodson v. North Carolina - the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing of capital punishment as ______________________ because it does not allow for any discretion.
Cruel and Unusual
Monopoly
25
Trial Balloon
50. 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
Discharge Petition
Bicameral
Federalism
Residual