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CLEP American Government
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1. The ______________________ were formed to unite the colonists against Britain.
States
Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Committees of Correspondence
2. State legislation designed to outlaw the union shop - passed by 21 states acting under Section 14B of the federal Taft-Hartley Act.
Right to Work Laws
Elite and Class Theory
Republicans
Custom
3. Which committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
Hatch Act
Salient Agenda
Appropriations
House of Representatives
4. The executive office established in response to intelligence lapses during WWI. Oversees American foreign policy and includes the President - Vice President - Secretary of State - Secretary of Defense and is lead by the National Security Advisor.
Flexible Construction
Secretary of State
National Security Council
Ways and Means Committee
5. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Redistributive Policy
Weber
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Raiding
6. 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
Misdemeanors
Valence issue
Senatorial Courtesy
Outputs
7. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
Instructed Delegate
Independent Expenditures
Writ of Assistance
Precedent
8. In order to win support for ratification of the Constitution - the Federalists had to promise that the first order of business under a new government would be to _______________.
20th
6
Enact a Bill of Rights
Independent expenditures
9. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Democracy
Executive
Republic
New Federalism
10. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc
Conference Committee
Caucus
Proportional Representation
Judicial Restraint
11. Federal and State Courts function in a _____________manner so that federal courts may receive appeals from state courts.
Soft money
Katz. v US
Parallel
Pass the fundraising threshold
12. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
Public Opinion
Social Security
state legislatures
Policy Making Cycle
13. 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.
Trustee
binding
Diminish
presidential line-item veto
14. Senators have a __________ rate of re-election than Representatives primarily because of their larger constituency and lack of direct involvement with them.
Lower
Caucus
Reverse Discrimination
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15. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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16. Washington v. Chrisman (1982) established the _________________ - allowing police officers to seize evidence without a warrant if the evidence is in obvious sight.
Plain View
Preamble
5
Libel
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.
Political System
Libertarianism
Private Bills
Dred Scott Decision
18. In Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - The Supreme Court upheld that ___________________ was inherently not the case as is applied to the University of Texas Law School.
Stare Decisis
Separate but Equal
Party Activists
Hub and Spoke Model
19. 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.
Filibuster
Impartial
Seniority System
Gerrymandering
20. The constitutional requirement (in article II - sec 3) that presidents take care that the laws are faithfully executed - even if they disagree with the purpose of those laws
Jim Crow Laws
Tammany Hall
Bundling
Take Care Clause
21. According to V. O. Key - Jr. - the Populist Party of the 1890s is an example of a ____________________.
Little Difference
Woodrow Wilson
Party of Economic Protest
Agriculture
22. Form of government in which the people are sovereign but their power is exercised by their elected representatives.
Political Patronage
Entitlement Programs
Republic
Third Parties
23. The 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that prompted King George III's Prohibitory Act and the sending of mercenaries to the colonies.
Department of Treasury
9
Police Powers
Common Sense
24. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Agriculture
Executive Agencies
Supreme Court
Political Advertising
25. Presidential staff agency that serves as a clearinghouse for budgetary requests and management improvements for government agencies.
Unitary System
John Locke
Office of Management and Budget
Criminal Cases
26. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Weber
Chief Justice
Free Rider
Suburbia
27. ____________ often influence political appointments in an effort to influence bureaucracy.
Policy Making Cycle
General Accounting Office
Interest groups
7th Amendment
28. In the 1990 case OR State Employment Division v. Smith 1990 - the Supreme court allowed the state to fire employees who use peyote during native American religious ceremonies because it is in violation of drug laws. In this case - which clause of the
Non-protected Speech
Republican
Free Exercise Clause
Grand Jury Indictment
29. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Fiscal Policy
Article III
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Foreign Policy
30. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 restructured the number of ______________ in both the House and Senate.
Committees
Commission Plan
Social Contract
Residual
31. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the practice of _______________ allowing more diversity among immigrants.
4th Amendment
7
Confirmed
national quotas
32. Age Requirement for the Senate
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Lyndon B. Johnson
School Desegregation
33. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Due Process
Smith Act
Social Security
Balancing Test
34. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Recorded Vote
Mallory Rule
Party Dealignment
35. First Executive Branch
Common Law
Department of State
Pluralist
Deviating Elections
36. First proposed in 1789 - this amendment passed in 1992 prohibits Congress from raising their own pay. Pay raises may not take affect until the beginning of the next term.
Separate but Equal
Fiscal Policy
Senior Executive Service
27th Amendment
37. A legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes.
Issue network
Secondary Group
Whip
Administrative Procedure Act
38. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Project Grant
Pyramid Model
Hold
Caucus
39. The case of Gregg v. Georgia set the precedent for a ________________ system in which guilt and sentencing and tried separately.
Preamble
Two Trial
Federal
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40. Defamation by written or printed words - pictures - or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
Cruel and Unusual
Deviating Elections
Writ of Mandamus
Libel
41. Each Senate committee may have ________ subcommittees.
8th Amendment
Fiscal Policy
unlimited
Free Exercise of Religion
42. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Civil Liberties
Legislative Courts
Marbury v. Madison
Low
43. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
Cloture
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Maintaining Elections
Party Activists
44. Presides over the Senate without voting privileges except in the case of a tie.
Vice President
Unicameral
Bicameral
Federal
45. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Interest Groups
Government
4th Amendment
Royalists
46. In addition to overseeing the activities of one or more federal agencies - a ___________________may also serve as the authorizing committee for federal agencies' programs and operations.
Republicans
Budget Resolutions
congressional oversight committee
Television and Radio
47. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Medicare
Nuclear Proliferation
Enumerated Powers
Ratification
48. Voters in a political district - or supporters of an elected official; or interest groups or client groups that are either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions.
Omaha platform
Constituencies
Statutory Law
Petition of Right
49. 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.
Common Law
Bowers v. Hardwick
Civil Liberties
Probable Cause
50. An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words - one means by which a political party nominate candidates for the following general election.s
Bill of Rights
Primary
Labor
Propose an Amendment