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CLEP American Government
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1. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Max Weber
Secretary of State
Soft money
Interior
2. When neither political party is dominant.
Article IV
Party Dealignment
35
US v. Ballard
3. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Judicial
Plain View
14th
Hold
4. 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.
Budget Resolution
Homeland Security
Ways and Mean Committee
Major Political Party
5. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
3
Shield Laws
Social Contract
Civilian Supremacy
6. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
It Failed to be Ratified
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Independent Expenditures
Petit Jury
7. Head of the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice
Valence issue
Whip
Soft money
8. A federal tax on imports.
Tariff
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Free Exercise of Religion
Caucuses
9. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
Affirmative Action
17th
Democracy
It Failed to be Ratified
10. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Non-protected Speech
Judicial
Suburbia
Implied
11. 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
John Locke
1964 Civil Rights Act
Judicial Activism
Party Identification
12. Court cases that involve relations between individuals and organizations - such as a divorce action - or a suit for damages arising from an automobile accident or for violation of a business contract.
Parallel
Tammany Hall
Civil Cases
Small Business Administration (SBA)
13. 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.
Council-Manager Plan
Articles of Confederation
High
1964 Civil Rights Act
14. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Restrictive Covenant
Categorical Grants
Low
Pork Barrel Spending
15. Senators are re-elected every ___ years with 1/3 of the Senate being up for election every 2 years.
Judicial Review
Selective Incorporation
6
Selective Incorporation
16. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Conventions
Executive Agreements
Espionage Act
Reverse Discrimination
17. Prompted by the ____________________ - the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
National Committee
President Pro Tempore
Residual
Vietnam War
18. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
Charter Colonies
Military-Industrial Complex
Quid Pro Quo
Federal
19. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Democrats
Liberalism
Globalization
Cabinet
20. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Miller v. California
Equity
Implied
Low
21. 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.
Baron de Montesquieu
Free Exercise Clause
Pre-clearance
Gideon v. Wainwright
22. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
14th
Whip
Stare Decisis
Categorical Grants
23. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Baby Boomers
Electoral College
Warrant
Blacks
24. These parties often emerge as off-shoots of major parties or as single-issue parties. They typically act as critic/innovator bringing attention to issues and influencing the platforms of the major parties.
Unlimited
Iron Triangle
Third Parties
Joint Committee
25. Form of obstruction in the Senate where an attempt is made to infinitely extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay the progress or completely prevent a vote on the proposal taking place.
Segregation
Equal Protection Clause
Filibuster
Supply Side Economics
26. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
Custom
Agriculture
Instructed Delegate
Nuclear Proliferation
27. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Increased competition
Federal
State Treasurer
Right of Expatriation
28. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Speaker of the House
Caucus
Private Bills
Judicial Selection
29. An issue on which voters distinguish rival parties by the degree to which they associate each party or candidate with conditions - goals - or symbols the electorate universally approves or disapproves of. Examples of such issues are economic prosperi
Habeas Corpus
Free Exercise of Religion
Referendum
Valence issue
30. 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?
Elastic Clause
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Equity
Negative Advertising
31. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
Unitary System
Enumerated Powers
8th Amendment
Cruel and Unusual
32. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBoise
New Federalism
Interest Groups
State Auditor
33. This powerful House committee is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor.
Royalists
Jurisdiction
Good Faith Exception
Rules Committee
34. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.
Probable Cause
Implied Powers
Select Committee
Ex Post Facto
35. Method by which federal court judges may lose their position.
Max Weber
Monopoly
Impeachment
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
36. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Little Difference
6
Violation of Law
Internal Efficacy
37. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
10th Amendment
25th Amendment
Socialism
Caucuses
38. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Inputs
Republicans
Rules Committee
Jim Crow Laws
39. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
6th Amendment
Periodic Registration
Legislative Veto
Whigs
40. This contraversial 2001 law allows anti-terrorism authorities to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The government argues that cyberspace is public domain and that no warrants should be needed to access informa
Libertarianism
Military-Industrial Complex
Collective Action
Patriot Act
41. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Private Bills
1st Amendment
Elite
Oligopoly
42. Between conventions - the governing body of a major political party. Members of this group are chosen in the states and formally elected by the party
National Committee
Political Action Committees
Office of Management and Budget
Senate
43. The attitudes and actions of people that sustain and buttress the political system at all levels and allows the political system to continue to work.
Spoiler Candidate
Supports
Republican
Republic
44. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
CORE
Quota Sampling
Political System
Whip
45. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
Containment
Pluralist Theory
High
Majority Whip
46. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
1st Amendment
Interest Groups
Thurgood Marshall
National Security Council
47. Presidential management model in which the Chief of Staff plays a prominent role as the head of a military style chain of command. Used successfully by Reagan and Eisenhower.
Pyramid Model
Recorded Vote
Federal Appellate
Discharge Petition
48. ___________ vote in both the House and Senate may override a Presidential veto of legislation.
Baby Boomers
Automobiles
2/3
Self-Incrimination
49. 1974 Act mandating that all government files about private citizens be kept confidential.
Joint Committees
Judicial Review
Petit Jury
Privacy Act
50. A course of action decided upon by a government
Budget Resolutions
Policy
National Supremacy
may not