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CLEP American Government
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1. The term most political scientists prefer to describe the bureaucratic process
Judicial Selection
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
State Auditor
Public Administration
2. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Due Process
Select Committee
School Desegregation
20th
3. A system in which the national government provides grants-in-aid to states using conditions to elicit control.
Republican
Fiscal Federalism
Max Weber
New Federalism
4. First Roman Catholic elected President.
Warrant
Majority Rule
John F. Kennedy
Freedom of Religion
5. 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.
Export Taxes
Baron de Montesquieu
Lose
Civil Cases
6. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Reverse Discrimination
Good Faith Exception
Literacy Tests
Straight Ticket Voting
7. A term popularized by sociologist Floyd Hunter to describe the community leaders who he said determined policy in Atlanta - Georgia. More broadly - the term is used to describe 'power elites' generally.
Power Structure
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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8. Requires reporting of financial information by companies with publicly traded securities
Quid Pro Quo
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
National Political Parties
Party Realignment
9. During the period from 1976 to 1824 - This party was lead by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They wanted a stronger national government that would rectify the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation. Their supporters held a stronghold in New
Writ of Certiorari
Dark Horse
Federalist
Discharge Petition
10. Political party lead by Andrew Jackson from 1828 to 1856. Campaigned against strong central government and fought to end elitism.
Presidential Ticket
Dissenting Opinion
Cold War
Democrats
11. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Home Rule
Inputs
Bandwagon
Thomas Hobbes
12. Voting based on looking back and making judgments about the way things have gone and the kind of government experienced during a political leader's time in office.
Concurrent
Appropriations
Establishment Clause
Retrospective Voting
13. A course of action decided upon by a government
Policy
Convention Bounce
Redistributive Policy
Rules Committee
14. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Administrative Law
Welfare State
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Conglomerates
15. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
Trial Balloon
Supreme Court
Welfare State
10th Amendment
16. Legislative branch incorporating two houses.
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Bicameral
Arraignment
Safe seat
17. The class of independent voters who do not vote according to party affiliation - but who typically have a broader range of concerns than single-issue voters - are known colloquially as
Spoiler Candidate
Ratification
Mugwumps
Contract Clause
18. Senators have a __________ rate of re-election than Representatives primarily because of their larger constituency and lack of direct involvement with them.
Lower
Cloture
Quid Pro Quo
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19. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
Charter Colonies
Plurality
Rousseau
Housing and Urban Development
20. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Criminal Information
Standing Committees
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Collective Action
21. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
Delegated Powers
Federal
Eminent Domain
National
22. The amount of money available when the government's income is greater than what it spends in a fiscal year.
Logrolling
Budget Surplus
Freedom of Information Act
Conglomerates
23. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Discharge Petition
Homeland Security
Mixed Economy
Institutional
24. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
legislative and executive
Scottsboro Boys Case
Interventionism
National Security Council
25. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
October 1st
Free Exercise of Religion
Selective exposure
Administrative Procedure Act
26. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
Grant Clemency
Collective Action
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12
27. Constitutional Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
Article III
Literacy Tests
Procedural Due Process
Electoral Votes
28. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
Violation of Law
Selective Incorporation
Criminal Information
Laissez-Faire
29. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Spoils System
Judicial
Convention Bounce
Democratic
30. A plan to provide billions of dollars of American aid to Western Europe to speed its economic and social recovery after the Second World War.
Regulatory Federalism
National Supremacy
Marshall Plan
Tammany Hall
31. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Independent Expenditures
527 Organizations
Members of Congress
Policy Making Cycle
32. In charge of all state funds. Supervises the collection of taxes and payment of state's bill
Whips
Felonies
State Treasurer
Party Dealignment
33. Which historical figure described democracy as 'the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time?'
270
Winston Churchill
Republican
General Accounting Office
34. The fundamental rights of a free society that are protected by the Bill of Rights against the power of the government - such as freedom of speech - religion - press - and assembly.
Civil Liberties
Increased competition
Liberalism
Freedom of Speech
35. 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
Third Party
House Standing Committees
Agriculture
Miller v. California
36. Programs are designed to give preferential access to education - employment - health care - or social welfare to groups of people - especially minorities and women - who have historically been discriminated against.
Rules Committee
Affirmative Action
Establishment Clause
Two Trial
37. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
District of Columbia
Impartial
Stare Decisis
may not
38. Information sent out in order to observe the reaction of an audience. Used by politicians who deliberately leak information on a policy change under consideration.
Judicial Selection
Secondary Group
Categorical Grants
Trial Balloon
39. Permitted court authorized wire-tapping and bugging by federal - state - and local authorities and use of such evidence in trial. Later reversed by the Supreme Court based on 4th Amendment rights.
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
20
Freedom of Speech
Party Identification
40. This type of government suits a large country with a diverse population
Federal
Ratification
Divided Government
Executive Privilege
41. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases
States
Third Parties
national quotas
Selective exposure
42. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Flexible Construction
Free Exercise of Religion
527 Organization
Unicameral
43. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
National Debt
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
National Security Council
Lyndon B. Johnson
44. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Commonwealth
Natural Rights
Supreme Court
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45. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
Realigning Elections
Politics
Regulatory Agencies
Conservatism
46. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Coast Guard
Governmental Corporations
Federal Appellate
47. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.
Permanent Registration
Isolationism
Right to Counsel
Membership
48. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Articles of Confederation
Statutory Law
Jurisdiction
Impoundment
49. A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals and present them to a candidate or political party as a 'bundle -' thus increasing the PAC's influence.
Suburbia
Decreased
Bundling
Institutional
50. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Custom
Separate but Equal
Committees
7th Amendment