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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Free Rider
Filibuster
Foreign Policy
Great Compromise
2. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Veto
Preamble
House of Representatives
6
3. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - founded in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover to help combat the Great Depression - was the predecessor of which federal agencies?
a senior senator of the majority party
Categorical Grants
Independent Expenditures
Small Business Administration (SBA)
4. In Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969) - the Supreme Court established precedents for ___________________ in schools and government institutions.
Warrant
Globalization
Freedom of Speech
Legislative
5. Under this governing document - national government lacked authority to set up tariffs - regulate commerce - levy taxes - control international relations - establish common currency
Articles of Confederation
Thomas Hobbes
Party Identification
Free Exercise Clause
6. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
District of Columbia
Department of Treasury
Ticket Splitters
Department of State
7. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
Executive Agencies
Alien and Sedition Acts
6th Amendment
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
8. In the year 2000 - the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to ban _____________ members.
Whips
Civil Cases
Bicameral
Gay
9. 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.
Establishment Clause
Flexible Construction
Bill of Rights
Freedom of Speech
10. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
State of the Union
Civil Cases
Horse race
Roth v. US
11. In 2002 - a federal appeals court struck down the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that it violated ________________.
Freedom of Religion
Selective Incorporation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Article II
12. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: conflicts between state and national government - economic and racial discrimination - uneven enforcement of law - and dominance of local governments by special interest groups
Negative
Grant Clemency
Offensive Language
Collective Action
13. Presidential management model requiring the President to have strong leadership skills and a keen eye for detail. FDR and JFK were well known for this style of leadership.
Hub and Spoke Model
Writ of Certiorari
Article II
Union Shop
14. Between conventions - the governing body of a major political party. Members of this group are chosen in the states and formally elected by the party
Civilian Supremacy
National Committee
7
House of Representatives
15. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Interest Groups
Liberalism
Government
Enact a Bill of Rights
16. The binding decisions that the government makes whether in the form of laws -regulations - or judicial decisions
Isolationism
Bill of Attainder
Outputs
Issue Networks
17. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
Balancing Test
Hold
Ways and Mean Committee
Literacy Tests
18. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Negative
Republicans
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Senate
19. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Secretary of State
8th Amendment
Republic
25
20. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
Select Committee
270
Budget Resolution
Article III
21. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Libel
Free Exercise
17th
Outputs
22. The period of time after the election of FDR until the Vietnam War was dominated by the Democratic Party and know as the __________________ Era.
Article II
New Deal Era
2
Pendleton Civil Service Act
23. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Free Speech
Gerrymandering
Civil Cases
Commonwealth
24. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Senate
Primary
Institutional
Party of Economic Protest
25. 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.
Party Regulars
Government Corporations
Select Committee
Defense
26. The way things should be by law
Categorical Grants
Socialism
Public Administration
de jure
27. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Jim Crow Laws
Ratification
Distribution
Jurisdiction
28. This Supreme Court case infamously decided that a slave was not a citizen but property to be 'used in subservience to the interests - the convenience - or the will of his owner'
Military-Industrial Complex
Dred Scott
Administrative Law
Enumerated Powers
29. Bills passed by Congress to pay for the spending it has authorized.
Senate
Isolationism
Demands
Appropriation Bills
30. 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.
Feedback
Writ of Mandamus
Membership
National Security Council
31. Independent organizations - but more often the political arms of corporations - labor unions - or interest groups - established to contribute to candidates or to work for general political goals.
Political Action Committees
Gitlow v. New York
Implied Powers
527 Organization
32. Lead by Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. Dedicated to defending federal authority and high tariffs. Gained supports of merchants - bankers - industrialists and planters.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Whigs
5 -000
Amicus Curiae Brief
33. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
Balance of Trade
Implied Powers
Blacks
Article IV
34. After hearings are complete - a congressional subcommittee will usually determine a bill's future in final deliberations known as
Probable Cause
Council of Economic Advisors
Lower
Mark Up Session
35. The principle - established by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland - that the Constitution must be interpreted flexibly to meet changing conditions.
Lose
Self-Incrimination
Flexible Construction
Export Taxes
36. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Albany Plan
Unlimited
Bandwagon
20th
37. An economic philosophy that advocates both tax and budget cuts to increase incentives to produce in order to expand the total supply of the nation's goods and services.
Deficit
Writ of Mandamus
Cruel and Unusual
Supply Side Economics
38. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Safe seat
15
2
Low
39. When the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party - usually the result of winning a critical election.
Party Realignment
Balance of Payments
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Party Dealignment
40. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
Double Jeopardy
2nd Amendment
binding
Freedom of Religion
41. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.
Enact a Bill of Rights
Medicare
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Democracy
42. Included are Ways and Means - Veteran's Affairs - Transportation and Infrastructure - Standards of Official Conduct - Small Business - Science - Judiciary - Rules - Resources - Oversight of Government Reform - House Administration - Homeland Security
Freedom of Religion
Alien and Sedition Acts
House Standing Committees
state legislatures
43. 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.
19th Amendment
Shield Laws
a senior senator of the majority party
congressional oversight committee
44. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.
Speaker of the House
Political Party
25
Pork Barrel Spending
45. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
Mixed Economy
Federalist
Democratic
10th Amendment
46. Finding that enough evidence exists to warrant a criminal trial.
Soft Money
Grand Jury Indictment
Outputs
Precedent
47. These courts only hear appeals on cases from lower courts.
Misdemeanors
Raiding
Federal Appellate
national quotas
48. According to one survey - what percentage of Americans belongs to groups that sometimes take a stand on public issues
31
Scottsboro Boys Case
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Office Column Ballot
49. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Nuclear Proliferation
Government
9
50. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.
Office of Management and Budget
US v. Ballard
Bowers v. Hardwick
The Federalist #10