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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Wallace's Progressives
Democrats
Majority and Minority Leader
Equity
2. Prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment.
Fiscal Policy
1st Amendment
Implied Powers
8th Amendment
3. In WV State BOE v Barnette (1943) - the Supreme Court ruled that compelling citizens to salute the flag violates the principles of a free society - upholding which 1st Amendment rights?
Recall
Realigning Elections
Free Exercise of Religion
Executive Privilege
4. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
Article II
Miranda Rights
2/3
Slander
5. Number of Senators elected at large per state -
Republicans
Majority Rule
Governmental Corporations
2
6. In the 1964 case of ____________ - the Supreme Court: established 'one person - one vote' -
Due Process
Reynolds v. Sims
Interstate Compact
Elite and Class Theory
7. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
State Auditor
Gitlow v. New York
Maintaining Elections
Coast Guard
8. 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.
Civil Cases
Libertarianism
Pentagon Papers
Mixed Economy
9. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
General Purpose Grants
Pork Barrel Spending
Fixed
Bill of Attainder
10. A ruling by the Supreme Court in 1857
9
Wallace's Progressives
Dred Scott Decision
Unicameral
11. Presidential management model in which corporate CEO tactics are used employing committees - task forces - and special advisors. Successfully utilized by Clinton and G W Bush.
Privacy Act
House Standing Committees
Federal Register
Ad Hoc Structure
12. Compromise between the large states and small states that established the bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Also included 3/5 compromise on the status of slaves in representation.
Committees of Correspondence
Marbury v. Madison
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Monopoly
13. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Political Patronage
Voting
Executive
Custom
14. The median income of women is ___________ percent of men.
Warrant
Little Difference
Political Patronage
77
15. This may be done by a national constitutional convention called by Congress on the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures OR By the passage of a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress
Deviating Elections
2
Vice President
Propose an Amendment
16. 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
House of Representatives
Valence issue
Family
Select Committee
17. Belief in the value of strong government to provide economic secruity and protection for civil rights - combined with a belief in personal freedom from government intervention in social conduct
Supreme Court
Liberalism
Establishment Clause
Woodrow Wilson
18. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
Precedent
Vice President
Stare Decisis
Confederation
19. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
Pluralist
Freedom of Speech
Baby Boomers
Baron v. Baltimore
20. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
Senate
House of Representatives
Shield Laws
Blanket Primary
21. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Exclusionary Rule
Membership
Habeas Corpus
Senate Standing Committees
22. The formal source of all authority in each major political party. It nominates the party candidates for president and vice president - writes a platform - settles disputes - writes rules - and elects the members of the national committee.
House of Representatives
15
National Convention
Concurrent
23. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Judicial
1776
Democrats
Democratic
24. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Senate
Committee of the Whole
Lemon Test
Selective exposure
25. The number of ______________ a state receives is based on the number Representatives and Senators that the state has in Congress
Electoral Votes
Royalists
Due Process of Law
Confederation
26. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Redistributive Policy
Substantive Due Process
Fixed
Bill of Rights
27. The Supreme Court's broad interpretation of this clause has denied direct aid from the government for religious groups - but does allow religious groups to make use of government services such as police and fire.
Open rule
Establishment Clause
Administrative Procedure Act
Politics
28. ________________ of the Constitution dictates how the Constitution shall be amended.
Zenger
Redistributive Policy
Fiscal Policy
Article V
29. Formerly known as the Anti-Federalist - this party lead by Thomas Jefferson advocated states rights pressing the causes of the common people and agrarian interest. Dominated the political arena until the Civil War.
Party Purists
Whip
Democratic-Republicans
Policy Making Cycle
30. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
Republicans
Enumerated Powers
Scottsboro Boys Case
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
31. Which two British Acts - passed in 1764 - caused American colonists for the first time to organize protests against the injustices of British rule - and sparked the rallying cry 'no taxation without representation'?
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Democracy
Impeachment
Conventions
32. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Caucus
Senate
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Spoiler Candidate
33. 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.
1776
Coordinated Spending
Supports
Blanket Primary
34. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
8th Amendment
Checks and Balances
6th Amendment
National Political Parties
35. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Agriculture
77
Delegate
Party Dealignment
36. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Warrant
Gerrymandering
Collective Action
Pendleton Civil Service Act
37. The view advocated by Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas that there are provisions of the Bill of Rights that cannot be diluted by judicial decisions.
Third Party
Truman
Raiding
Absolute Position
38. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Random Sample
Political Efficacy
Free Exercise Clause
Bicameral
39. Powers not specifically granted to the federal government or denied to the states belong to the states and the people
Contract Clause
89
Feedback
Reserved Powers
40. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Administrative Law
Major Political Party
Non-protected Speech
Flexible Construction
41. Number of current cabinet positions under GW Bush.
15
Plain View
25th Amendment
Unicameral
42. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
House of Representatives
Mugwumps
Members of Congress
presidential line-item veto
43. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Confederation
Balance of Trade
War Powers Resolution
Thomas Hobbes
44. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Due Process of Law
Liberalism
Secondary Group
Committee of the Whole
45. These party members are highly involved in the electoral process. Donate funds to party and candidates - demand a voice in state party agendas and tend to have a strong belief in their party's ideology.
Impartial
Party Activists
Supply Side Economics
Political Machines
46. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
Scottsboro Boys Case
Delegated Powers
Northern and Southern
435
47. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
Secondary Group
Office of Management and Budget
3
imprisoned
48. Plan that proposed bicameral legislature where states were to have representation based on size in both houses.
Virginia Plan
Baby Boomers
Weber
High
49. This term refers to the gain in the polls that a candidate often enjoys after a national convention
Convention Bounce
Bandwagon
Department of State
Safe seat
50. Which historical figure described democracy as 'the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time?'
Winston Churchill
Exit Polls
Appealed
Probable Cause