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CLEP American Government
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1. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
Supreme Court
Freedom of Speech
Whistle-blowers
Campaign Contributions
2. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Concurrent
Veto
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Furman v. Georgia
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?
Free Exercise of Religion
Lyndon B. Johnson
Universe
Non-protected Speech
4. Individual contributions to PACs are limited to ______________ dollars per candidate per election with primaries - general and special elections counting separately.
Public Opinion
Nuclear Proliferation
Mayor-Council Plan
5 -000
5. These party members take active non-leadership roles such as working polls or contributing money to campaigns. Tend to compromise on important issues and are mostly concerned about winning elections.
Monopoly
Police Powers
a senior senator of the majority party
Party Regulars
6. The individuals - institutions - and processes that make the rules for society and possess the power to enforce them.
Deviating Elections
2/3
Government
Entitlement Spending
7. Concept of the British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
Federal District
Trustee
Elastic Clause
Lower
8. A coherent set of beliefs about politics - public policy - and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political event - personalities - and policies.
Political ideology
National Security
Gitlow v. New York
Feedback
9. States that states may draw reasonable distinctions between the rights of residents and non-residents (ex. In state and out of state tuition)
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Right to Counsel
Bowers v. Hardwick
Independent Expenditures
10. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
NY Times v. Sullivan
Elastic Clause
Thomas Hobbes
Equity
11. This 1973 ruling gave local communities the authority to determine obscenity - established three part test for obscene material. To qualify as obscene - speech must be considered obscene by the 'average' person - depict or describe material that is a
Winston Churchill
national quotas
Miller v. California
Freedom of Information Act
12. 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
Inputs
Vietnam War
Free Exercise Clause
Family
13. A relaxation of international tensions.
Pentagon Papers
Federal Register
New Deal Era
Detente
14. President requires their approval to appoint judges - ambassadors and other high officials.
1964 Civil Rights Act
Enact a Bill of Rights
President
Senate
15. New Jersey v. TLO (1985) established that school authorities may search students without _____________ as long as they are reasonable.
Senate
Probable Cause
Presidential Veto
270
16. The issuance of this document by a judge requires probably cause and must be worded so as to allow for the search and seizure of specific evidence.
Article V
Judicial Selection
Warrant
Clear and Present Danger
17. ________________ of the Constitution dictates how the Constitution shall be amended.
National Security
Article V
Free Exercise Clause
Gay
18. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
Export Taxes
25
Misdemeanors
Conservatism
19. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Inverse
Commonwealth
Permanent Registration
Thomas Hobbes
20. 1944 case established that as as long as a person accepted their beliefs in good faith that it is not the government's authority to determine whether those beliefs are valid.
US v. Ballard
Affirmative Action
Quota Sampling
Agriculture
21. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
Coordinated Spending
Judicial Selection
14th Amendment
Weber
22. The way things actually are.
de facto
Hub and Spoke Model
Conglomerates
Filibuster
23. There are 11 circuit ____________________ who have no original jurisdiction.
Standing Committees
Lower
Court of Appeals
Common Sense
24. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
Republicans
School Desegregation
Katz. v US
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
25. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Legislative Courts
Supreme Court
14
High
26. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Murray v. Curlett
Standing Committees
Federal Appellate
Ticket Splitters
27. The Medicaid and Food Stamp programs are examples of two very large
Electoral College
Categorical Grants
Government
Habeas Corpus
28. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Procedural Due Process
Judicial
Republicans
Balance of Trade
29. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over the creation and elimination of agencies as well as its control over budget appropriations.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Positive
Safe seat
Legislative
30. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
Good Faith Exception
Common Law
Writ of Assistance
Local
31. It is possible either to describe people - government - politics - and power as isolated - static elements - or to look at them as interacting elements in a_______________.
Trial Balloon
Gross Domestic Product
Chief Justice
Political System
32. The spread of nuclear weapons to more nations.
Nuclear Proliferation
Clear and Present Danger
Baron de Montesquieu
Majority and Minority Leader
33. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
Cabinet
Balance of Trade
Political Socialization
Supremacy Clause
34. The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate and so votes for the less objectionable of the two - putting a clothespin over his nose to keep out the unpleasant stench
Original Jurisdiction
Clothespin vote
Impoundment
Issue network
35. Age requirement for President
35
Due Process of Law
Legislative Veto
Free Exercise of Religion
36. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
Conglomerates
Liberalism
Proportional Representation
Monroe Doctrine
37. The primary purpose of _______________consolidate the nation's disability laws and provide for strong federal enforcement of a strengthened disability rights mandate
Poll Tax
Social Security
Office Column Ballot
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
38. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
External Efficacy
Distribution
may not
Implied
39. 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
Gerrymandering
Primary
435
Deviating Elections
40. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.
Felonies
Periodic Registration
Party Regulars
US Trade Representatives
41. Lobbyists for special interest groups have found ____________________ to be the most direct and effective method to secure their objectives in Congress.
Segregation
Substantive Due Process
Republicans
Campaign Contributions
42. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
National Supremacy
Gideon v. Wainwright
Unitary System
Plain View
43. It the job of _________ committees of a political party to hold voter registration drives - recruit new party members and final candidates for city and county positions.
Conference Committee
Local
Article V
20
44. 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.
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
congressional oversight committee
Third Parties
National Convention
45. 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.
Raiding
National Convention
55
Housing and Urban Development
46. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
Violation of Law
9
Good Faith Exception
Pure Speech
47. 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.
Quota Sampling
Unicameral
Articles of Confederation
Political System
48. Laws must be administered in a fair manner.
Procedural Due Process
5
Miller v. California
Export Taxes
49. Committees of Congress composed of both representatives and senators.
Fixed
Joint Committees
It Failed to be Ratified
House of Representatives
50. The period of time after the election of FDR until the Vietnam War was dominated by the Democratic Party and know as the __________________ Era.
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
Civil Liberties
Hub and Spoke Model
New Deal Era