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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
Scandal Mongering
Public hearing
Monopoly
Magna Carta
2. The practice of victorious politicians to reward their followers with jobs. Also known as the spoils system.
Conglomerates
Good Faith Exception
Political Patronage
Common Law
3. Theory that a government requires the consent of the governed.
Social Contract
National Security
Grant Clemency
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
4. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
US Trade Representatives
Declining
New Federalism
Offensive Language
5. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
14th Amendment
Winston Churchill
External Efficacy
Confirmed
6. Things government decides to do - example: taxation - crime control - national defense - education - etc.
Public Policies
Negative Advertising
Political Efficacy
Secondary Group
7. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Mixed Economy
7
Logrolling
Republicans
8. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Ratification
Sub-committee
Party Purists
Institutional
9. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Positive
Unitary System
Conference Committee
Issue network
10. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
Recall
Original Jurisdiction
Outputs
General Election
11. Defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing - pictures
Recall
State Government
Slander
Little Difference
12. Makes sure that funds are used safely and wisely. They oversee the state's financial records
Increased
Scottsboro Boys Case
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
State Auditor
13. Important during the Revolution - these bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution for the purposes of coordinating written communication outside of the colony.
Committees of Correspondence
Equity
Article VI
Misdemeanors
14. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Regulatory Federalism
Natural Rights
Negative
Secondary Group
15. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Regulatory Federalism
Royalists
Regulatory Agencies
AARP
16. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
7
Blacks
Divided Government
Joseph McCarthy
17. In charge of state's legal business. provide advice to other state official and represents the state in court if the state is involved in a lawsuit
Executive Privilege
Salient Agenda
Attorney General
Jus Soli
18. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
1964 Civil Rights Act
1776
Closed
Public Administration
19. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Convention Bounce
Jus Soli
President Pro Tempore
Lemon Test
20. What principle - contained in the Fourth Amendment - protects a citizen from unwarranted search and seizure?
Ways and Mean Committee
Probable Cause
Agriculture
Writ of Mandamus
21. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
2nd Amendment
Bill of Rights
1776
Declining
22. Electoral college system and other campaign practices make it exceedingly difficult for even popular ______________ candidates to successfully run for the presidency.
presidential line-item veto
Third Party
14th Amendment
Wallace's Progressives
23. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated
Class Action Suit
State of the Union
Outputs
Bicameral
24. 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
Chief Justice
Internationalism
District of Columbia
25. Prohibits conviction of a crime that occurred before the act became illegal
Poll Tax
Lord Acton
Ex Post Facto
Open Meeting Law
26. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
Council of Economic Advisors
Department of Treasury
Line-Item Veto
Ad Hoc Structure
27. A system in which national and state government have shared or overlapping powers. FDR's New Deal legislation established this system in the US.
Monroe Doctrine
Free Exercise Clause
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
imprisoned
28. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
a senior senator of the majority party
Monopoly
state legislatures
Categorical Grant
29. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Rousseau
Party Dealignment
Institutional
Civilian Supremacy
30. The spread of nuclear weapons to more nations.
Nuclear Proliferation
Republicans
legislative and executive
Executive
31. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Sub-government
Focus Groups
Roth v. US
32. 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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33. In the last 30 years - voter turnout among American 18- to 24-year-olds has been
Declining
Impoundment
General Accounting Office
Soft Money
34. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
High
Committees
Discharge Petition
19th Amendment
35. Number of original cabinet positions under George Washington.
Warrant
Majority and Minority Leader
Judicial Review
3
36. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Contract Clause
Increased
Royal Colonies
Filibuster
37. 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
Selective exposure
Party Purists
Spoils System
Freedom of Speech
38. Court cases that concern crimes committed against the public order.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Political Machines
Entitlement Spending
Criminal Cases
39. A federal tax on imports.
6
2
Initiative
Tariff
40. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
Enacted
6th Amendment
High
War Powers Resolution
41. Head of the Supreme Court.
Voting
Due Process
Chief Justice
Article VI
42. Plan that proposed unicameral legislature with each state having one vote.
Executive Agencies
New Jersey Plan
AARP
Privacy Act
43. 1974 Act mandating that all government files about private citizens be kept confidential.
Jim Crow Laws
Separation of Powers
Commonwealth
Privacy Act
44. Members of this party typically include Conservative Christian groups - higher socio-economic classes - middle-class white collar - and suburban voters.
Writ of Assistance
Recall
Republican
state legislatures
45. The Supreme Court has sometimes used a narrow interpretation of the Establishment Clause allowing the government to provide aid to religious groups as long as it remains ______________ and does not promote one religion at the expense of another. This
Members of Congress
Trial Balloon
Impartial
Reserved Powers
46. The power of the president - struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998 - to veto parts of appropriations bills. Most state governors have this power.
Line-Item Veto
Membership
Patriot Act
Executive
47. In Schenck v. US (1919) - The Supreme Court ruled that government may prohibit speech that creates an immediate threat of criminal action. Essentially established different standards for speech during wartime than in peacetime. Thus - establishing th
Clear and Present Danger
Executive Agencies
Absolute Position
Joint Committees
48. After a bill has passed both the House and Senate - it goes to _________________ where any differences between the house bill and the senate bill are resolved before sending to the President for signature
General Accounting Office
Conference Committee
Council-Manager Plan
Veto
49. Since 1960 - there has been a general trend of ______________ participation in elections.
Probable Cause
Public Bills
Cruel and Unusual
Declining
50. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Zenger
national quotas
Recorded Vote
Ratification