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CLEP American Government
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1. The tendency of presidents to lose support over time.
New Federalism
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Ratification
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
2. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Freedom of Speech
Confirmed
Populous
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
3. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned contributions of soft money to______________.
National Political Parties
House of Representatives
2
Quid Pro Quo
4. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted
Arraignment
Safe seat
Amicus Curiae Brief
State Government
5. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
Blacks
Recorded Vote
Magna Carta
Open
6. 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.
Horse race
Deviating Elections
Coast Guard
5 -000
7. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Double Jeopardy
Soft Money
Monroe Doctrine
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
8. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Equality
Free Exercise Clause
Separate but Equal
Bicameral
9. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
7
Government Corporations
Max Weber
Formula Grant
10. A tax on voting abolished by the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964 - long used by southern states to keep blacks (and - in some cases - poor whites) from participating in elections.
blockbusting and redlining
Poll Tax
Gay
Democratic
11. The responsibility of the President to appoint federal judges when vacancies occur on the bench is referred to as
Critical Election
Judicial Selection
Legislative Veto
Military-Industrial Complex
12. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Membership
Horse race
Literacy Tests
President Pro Tempore
13. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
Creative Federalism
Divided Government
Select Committee
1st Amendment
14. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.
Veteran's Affairs
Constituencies
Pork Barrel Spending
Balance of Trade
15. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Little Difference
Free Exercise Clause
Lower
Supply Side Economics
16. Legislative opinions on a matter that do not require Presidential signature.
Political Culture
Socialism
Free Exercise
Resolutions
17. An issue on which voters distinguish rival parties by the degree to which they associate each party or candidate with conditions - goals - or symbols the electorate universally approves or disapproves of. Examples of such issues are economic prosperi
Jus Soli
Freedom of Speech
Office of Management and Budget
Valence issue
18. The separation of people by race.
Political Socialization
Gender Gap
Segregation
14th
19. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Jim Crow Laws
Veteran's Affairs
Budget Surplus
Socialism
20. ________________ of the Constitution governs the relationships of the states.
Energy
Supreme Court
Article IV
Strategic Deterrence
21. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Party Purists
Democratic-Republicans
Categorical Grant
Roth v. US
22. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.
Free Exercise
Article VI
Right to Work Laws
11th Amendment
23. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Unicameral
Maintaining Elections
Baron v. Baltimore
Antitrust Legislation
24. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
25th Amendment
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
States
Major Political Party
25. An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the publicand operate for the welfare of all.
Unicameral
Nationalism
Socialism
Independent Regulatory Agencies
26. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Hatch Act
Magna Carta
Federal Courts
Libertarianism
27. A system in which the national government sets requirements that are then implemented by state and local governments.
16th Amendment
Transnational Relations
Military-Industrial Complex
Regulatory Federalism
28. Petition that - if signed by a majority of the members of the House of Representatives - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration
Political System
Pluralist Theory
Baron v. Baltimore
Discharge Petition
29. A provision of the Federal Communications Act that requires broadcasters to provide the same amount of exposure to all legally qualified political candidates.
Democratic
Public Bills
Equal Time
12
30. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
Office of Management and Budget
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Political Advertising
Petit Jury
31. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Categorical Grant
Constitutional Initiative
Incumbents
Two Trial
32. Urban or rural areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate because of tax breaks and other incentives.
Speaker of the House
Enterprise Zones
Committees of Correspondence
Outputs
33. 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.
Enumerated Powers
National Security Council
Commonwealth
Democratic
34. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Voting
14th Amendment
5
may not
35. A provision of law in which Congress asserts the power to nullify actions of the executive branch. In 1983 the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional - but Congress continued to pass laws containing such provisions.
Negative Advertising
High
Reference Group
Legislative Veto
36. The fundamental flaw in plural theory contends that pluralism weakens the backbone of democracy with too many common interest groups attempt to wield power - often leading to standstill because of unwillingness to compromise.
The Enlightenment
Party Regulars
Council-Manager Plan
Hyperpluralism
37. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Vice President
Riders
Equity
Implied Powers
38. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Closed rule
Bandwagon
Majority Whip
Court of Appeals
39. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Standing Committees
Petition of Right
Gerrymandering
1776
40. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Discharge Petition
Low
Commonwealth
18th Amendment
41. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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42. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
Political ideology
Delegate
14th Amendment
Secondary Group
43. This article of the Constitution establishes the Executive Branch.
Riders
Double Jeopardy
Article II
Executive Agreements
44. Define US Citizenship as any person born or naturalized in the United States.
legislative and executive
Federalist
7
14th Amendment
45. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
Affirmative Action
Agriculture
Whistle-blowers
Felonies
46. Agenda that includes issues that affect the daily lives of the people.
Appropriation Bills
Gitlow v. New York
Writ of Certiorari
Salient Agenda
47. The introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution - setting forth the general principles of American government and beginning with the words - 'We the people of the United States - in order to form a more perfect union. ...'
Cruel and Unusual
House of Representatives
Preamble
Inverse
48. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Distribution
Declining
Conference Committee
49. The coming to power of a new coalition - replacing an old dominant coalition of the other party
Thurgood Marshall
2/3
Critical Election
Equal Time
50. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Woodrow Wilson
Soft Money
Reference Group
Secretary of State