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CLEP American Government

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1. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.






2. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.






3. ________________ of the Constitution governs the relationships of the states.






4. 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.






5. Voters tendency to identify with a party that shares their views on important issues ignoring the party's stance on issues they deem less important. to be life-long unless there is a major change in the party's platform. 2. Influenced by ra






6. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.






7. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.






8. Government agencies that exercise quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative powers and are administratively independent of both the president and Congress (although politically independent of neither).






9. Which form of registration prevails in all but a few states?






10. 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______________.






11. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.






12. Powers of government that are specifically granted to the three branches of the federal government under the Constitution.






13. A system in which the power to govern is shared between national and state governments






14. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.






15. The average voter turnout between 1960 and 2004 was __________ percent






16. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.






17. A political candidate who is thought to have only an outside chance of gaining the nomination.






18. Government regulation of the economy through its control over taxes and government spending. Controlled by the Department of Treasury.






19. An extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion






20. 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.






21. A policy adopted by the United States after the Second World War that assumed that if enough nuclear weapons were deployed by the United States - an enemy would not attack for fear of being destroyed in retaliation.






22. American politics is dominated by a small ___________ who is responsible for most of the important policy decisions






23. Most likely to board a foreign ship suspected of drug trafficking at a U.S. port






24. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.






25. A meeting of party leaders to select candidates - elect convention delegates - etc






26. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.






27. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.






28. After a bill has passed both the House and Senate - it goes to _________________ where any differences between the house bill and the senate bill are resolved before sending to the President for signature






29. In Schenck v. US (1919) - The Supreme Court ruled that government may prohibit speech that creates an immediate threat of criminal action. Essentially established different standards for speech during wartime than in peacetime. Thus - establishing th






30. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.






31. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.






32. A series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison under the pseudonym Publius advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.






33. Special courts assigned to deal with specific legislative issues such as taxes - military appeals - and international trade.






34. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 restructured the number of ______________ in both the House and Senate.






35. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes






36. Baby boomers - women - and voters with higher levels of education tend to have a ____________ voter turnout.






37. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.






38. Process by which citizens propose an amendment by petition.






39. The gap between the government's income and outlays.






40. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.






41. The appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents - such as those in marginal seats or campaign contributors.






42. When the President's own party gains power and influence - it more puts pressure on the President to conform to the will of the party - leading to________________ between the President and the party to define their public identities






43. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.






44. 1976 Law requiring all governmental agency meetings to be open to the public unless classified information will be discussed.






45. Decides which bills will be considered.






46. 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






47. A system - until modified and reformed in the 1970s - that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.






48. Tax legislation must originate in this house.






49. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.






50. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.







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