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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Collective Action
Exclusionary Rule
Trustee
Riders
2. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
Federalist Papers
Power Structure
Lemon Test
Open
3. 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
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Death penalty
Soft money
Impartial
4. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
Democratic
Senate
Interior
7th Amendment
5. Government branch established in Article I of the Constitution.
Court of Appeals
Legislative
Democratic-Republicans
Reverse Discrimination
6. Authority based on an individual's outstanding traits - which attract followers
Realigning Elections
Commerce
Change of Venue
Charismatic authority
7. Senators have a __________ rate of re-election than Representatives primarily because of their larger constituency and lack of direct involvement with them.
Petit Jury
Liberalism
Lower
Substantive Due Process
8. Freedoms that protect the individual from the government.
Civil Liberties
8th Amendment
Freedom of Religion
Cruel and Unusual
9. Guarantees that any rights not explicitly outlined heretofore are reserved for the states.
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Transportation
Capitalism
10th Amendment
10. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
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Mallory Rule
Arraignment
Labor
11. The only amendments to be ratified through the process of 'ratifying conventions -' not a vote in the state legislatures
Bill of Rights
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Whigs
Privacy Act
12. The right to privacy is ___________ in the Constitution.
State of the Union
Committees
Automobiles
Implied
13. In the view of W. Lance Bennett - the people who hold and express opinions are constantly changing - as are the issues and conditions to which the public responds. As a result - Bennett suggests that public opinion is______________.
Supreme Court
Appropriation Bills
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Situational
14. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Outputs
President
Zenger
15. 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.
Espionage Act
Unlimited
Magna Carta
Implied Powers
16. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Caucus
Due Process of Law
Good Faith Exception
Marbury v. Madison
17. In Johnson v. Texas (1989) - the Supreme Court ruled that burning the flag in a manner that does not pose a threat to people or property is allowed as this type of freedom of speech.
Implied
Speech Plus
Council-Manager Plan
Charismatic authority
18. Popular until the early 20th century when they lost favor to primaries due to corruption - now used in only 12 states.
Good Faith Exception
19th Amendment
Statutory Law
Caucuses
19. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
District of Columbia
National Security
The Enlightenment
Libertarianism
20. A legislature with only one house.
Separate but Equal
Conservatism
Unicameral
Custom
21. This type of government suits a large country with a diverse population
Hatch Act
Jus Sanguinis
National
Federal
22. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Members of Congress
national quotas
Regulatory Agencies
Writ of Mandamus
23. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
Logrolling
Political Patronage
Labor
Judicial
24. Process by which citizens propose an amendment by petition.
Elite and Class Theory
Increased
Constitutional Initiative
Voting
25. Independent agencies governed by an appointed and confirmed commission. Examples include the Food and Drug Administration - Environmental Protection Agency - and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Public Opinion
Regulatory Agencies
Impeachment
Deficit
26. A course of action chosen by government officials
Public Policy
Segregation
Speaker of the House
Creative Federalism
27. Under this governing document - national government lacked authority to set up tariffs - regulate commerce - levy taxes - control international relations - establish common currency
Horse race
Articles of Confederation
National Convention
National Supremacy
28. A philosophy that the Supreme Court should avoid constitutional questions when possible and uphold acts of Congress unless they clearly violate a specific section of the Constitution.
Committees
Whistle-blowers
binding
Judicial Restraint
29. A form of city government under which a council - usually elected on a nonpartisan ticket - hires a professional city manager - who runs the city government and has power to hire and fire officials.
Budget Resolution
Bicameral
Council-Manager Plan
Muckrakers
30. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
binding
The Federal Reserve Board
Self-Incrimination
Earmarks
31. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Royal Colonies
national quotas
W.E.B. DuBoise
Universe
32. To an extent - the press and the government have a relationship that is _______________ and mutually dependent.
US v. Ballard
Political Action Committees
Adversarial
National Supremacy
33. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
Take Care Clause
Baby Boomers
Supremacy Clause
Maintaining Elections
34. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Recorded Vote
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Implied Powers
35. 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?
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Misdemeanors
Ratification
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
36. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Dissenting Opinion
Common Sense
de facto
14th
37. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
Outputs
Rhode Island
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Party Activists
38. The term 'Reagan Democrats' has become a generic term for
Incorporation Doctrine
Intelligence
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Pure Speech
39. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Proprietary Colonies
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Rousseau
State Government
40. Elects the President if no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes.
Miller v. California
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1964 Civil Rights Act
House of Representatives
41. A power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action (if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period after the president receives the bill). Some court rulings have suggested that a president may exercise a pocket veto only when Congress adjour
Bureaucracy
Pocket Veto
Conference Committee
Pluralist Theory
42. In this 1972 case - the Supreme Court established four guidelines for determining if a trial was appropriately speedy and fair: cause of delay - length of delay - affect on the outcome - and the defendant's claim to a speedy trial.
Bowers v. Hardwick
National
Baker v. Wingo
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43. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Senate
Ad Hoc Structure
Dies
Soft money
44. Article I of the Constitution establishes the ___________________ branch.
Export Taxes
Fiscal Federalism
The Enlightenment
Legislative
45. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Pocket Veto
Pork Barrel Spending
Mayor-Council Plan
Executive Agencies
46. 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.
Monroe Doctrine
Mugwumps
Mayflower Compact
Horse race
47. In order to win support for ratification of the Constitution - the Federalists had to promise that the first order of business under a new government would be to _______________.
Charismatic authority
John Locke
Enact a Bill of Rights
Politics
48. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Public hearing
Party Purists
Selective Incorporation
49. Executive check on Legislative Branch.
2nd Amendment
Categorical Grant
Freedom of Speech
Veto
50. The right of the Supreme Court - under the Constitution - to hear certain kinds of cases directly - such as cases involving foreign diplomats - or cases in which one of the 50 states is a party.
Independent
Original Jurisdiction
New Federalism
Separate but Equal