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CLEP American Government
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1. A court decision in an earlier case with facts and legal issues similar to a dispute currently before a court.
Precedent
Natural Rights
Lafolette's Progressive s
Great Compromise
2. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Eminent Domain
9
Political System
Distribution
3. The separation of people by race.
Mark Up Session
Segregation
Right of Expatriation
Bundling
4. ____________________ define Congressional voting districts acting within constraints set down by Congress and the Supreme Court.
14th Amendment
State Legislatures
Membership
Ratification
5. 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.
Committees
Speech Plus
Commonwealth
Take Care Clause
6. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
Hold
Warrant
Jury of Peers
Rhode Island
7. A public assistance program established in 1965 to help pay hospital - doctor - and medical bills for people with low incomes.
Freedom of Religion
Party Column Ballot
Selective exposure
Medicaid
8. 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.
Constituencies
Random Sample
Referendum
Populous
9. A written opinion by some of the judges of a court which agrees with the majority of the court but might arrive there in a different manner.
Public hearing
Horse race
Politics
Concurring Opinion
10. Love of country and a desire for independence; it can also mean an excessive form of patriotism exploited by political leaders.
New Deal Era
Discharge Petition
Nationalism
Globalization
11. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Interest Groups
State Government
Conventions
Ways and Means Committee
12. The Supreme Court practice of applying most of the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states under the 14th Amendment.
Selective Incorporation
Transnational Relations
Positive
Television
13. A political group organized under section 527 of the IRS code that may accept and spend unlimited amounts of money on election activities so long as they are not spent on broadcast ads run in the last 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a gene
527 Organization
Federal
Article III
AARP
14. The president - the vice president - the heads of the major executive departments of the government - and certain other senior officials who may hold 'cabinet rank.'
Katz. v US
Cabinet
Executive Privilege
House Standing Committees
15. In _______________ cases such as Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) - the Supreme Court has upheld that while Affirmative action policies are legal - race and gender cannot be the only determining factors.
Federalist Papers
Jim Crow Laws
Politics
Reverse Discrimination
16. Law enacted by Congress - or by state legislatures or local legislative bodies.
a senior senator of the majority party
Party Column Ballot
Statutory Law
Military-Industrial Complex
17. In the Federalist Papers - James Madison proposed that the states under the new Constitution would retain ____________ sovereignty.
Ex Post Facto
Libertarianism
31
Residual
18. Number of original cabinet positions under George Washington.
Cruel and Unusual
Riders
Demands
3
19. Members of this party typically include women who support liberal policies on abortion and equal pay - Jews - Catholics - Blacks and other minorities - Blue-collar working class - urban - labor unions - and intelligensia
Impeachment
Democrats
Welfare State
Baron de Montesquieu
20. President Hoover's laissez-faire approach to the economy during the Great Depression left many poor voters disenfranchised by the Republican Party. They left to join the _______________ Party.
Democratic
House Standing Committees
Free Rider
Criminal Information
21. While the voting rights act of 1965 did direct the Attorney General to investigate the constitutionality of poll taxes and prohibit literacy tests - it did not expressly prohibit _____________.
Gerrymandering
Federal
Politics
Lafolette's Progressive s
22. 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.
Ex Post Facto
Arraignment
Baron de Montesquieu
Senate
23. Political strategists believe that presidential elections will normally be won or lost in _______________states.
14th Amendment
35
Populous
Third Parties
24. The binding decisions that the government makes whether in the form of laws -regulations - or judicial decisions
Rhode Island
Public Bills
Outputs
8 Million
25. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Rhode Island
Delegate
Incumbents
Political Party
26. _____________ was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City politics and helping immigrants (most notably the Irish) rise up in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
Furman v. Georgia
Delegate
Senatorial Courtesy
Tammany Hall
27. Prohibits conviction of a crime that occurred before the act became illegal
Automobiles
Clear and Present Danger
Writ of Assistance
Ex Post Facto
28. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
Selective Incorporation
Wallace's Progressives
2nd Amendment
Public hearing
29. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Collective Action
Select Committee
Interventionism
Poll Tax
30. The power of some municipalities to modify their charters and run their affairs without approval by the state legislature.
Home Rule
Gross Domestic Product
General Accounting Office
Bull Moose Progressives
31. Age Requirement for the Senate
Original Jurisdiction
Exit Polls
Ways and Mean Committee
30
32. Lead by Theodore Roosevelt - this party platform focused on women's suffrage - social reform - fair business practices - and direct election of senators. The won 25% of the popular vote in 1911 - splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Wo
Bull Moose Progressives
Political System
Foreign Policy
Membership
33. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Populous
Pluralist Theory
John F. Kennedy
Impeachment
34. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Conventions
Logrolling
Petition of Right
Whigs
35. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Electoral College
Gitlow v. New York
Senate
36. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Judicial
Politics
Veto
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
37. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
Select Committee
Random Sample
Murray v. Curlett
Maintaining Elections
38. Which form of registration prevails in all but a few states?
Joseph McCarthy
Whigs
Permanent Registration
Article III
39. In charge of all state funds. Supervises the collection of taxes and payment of state's bill
Jim Crow Laws
State Treasurer
Bipartisanship
Political ideology
40. To negotiate a complex and politically sensitive trade treaty - a President will often
Fast Track Authority
Catholics
Rousseau
Inverse
41. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Majority Opinion
2/3
Judicial Review
Criminal Information
42. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Exclusionary Rule
Right to Work Laws
Whips
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
43. Congress' first step towards allocating funds
Lower
Authorizations
Outputs
Sub-committee
44. Groups named for the section of the Internal Revenue Service code under which they must report their expenditures. The tax-exempt groups were created to exploit a loophole in the law regulating campaign finance.
527 Organizations
Caucus
Contract Clause
Voting
45. Established the Federal Reserve Bank - responsible for conducting the nation's monetary policy - maintaining the stability of the financial system - supervising and regulating banking institutions - and protecting the credit rights of consumers - and
Freedom of Speech
Fiscal Federalism
Woodrow Wilson
Ways and Mean Committee
46. Article VI - Paragraph 2 - of the Constitution - which declares that the Constitution - and the laws and treaties of the United States made under it - are 'the supreme Law of the Land' and prevail over any conflicting state constitutions or laws.
Free Exercise
Amicus Curiae Brief
Supremacy Clause
8 Million
47. The belief that all people possess certain basic rights that may not be abridged by government.
Natural Rights
Separate but Equal
Elite
1964 Civil Rights Act
48. Largest interest group in the US.
Public Policies
Office Column Ballot
AARP
Articles of Confederation
49. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
2/3
Political Culture
Political Efficacy
Jus Soli
50. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
New Federalism
Major Political Party
Enumerated Powers
Jus Soli
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