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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Process by which citizens propose an amendment by petition.
Concurring Opinion
Constitutional Initiative
Self-Incrimination
Office of Management and Budget
2. Decides which bills will be considered.
State
Dissenting Opinion
Committees
Segregation
3. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Restrictive Covenant
Categorical Grants
Roe v. Wade
Declining
4. Representatives serve ____ year terms
2
Soft money
Speech Plus
Exit Polls
5. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Hatch Act
Reference Group
Electoral College
Spoiler Candidate
6. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
Third Parties
House of Representatives
Wallace's Progressives
Political Socialization
7. 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.
Trustee
Right to Counsel
Bundling
Raise Public Awareness
8. Capital punishment is also known as the _________________.
Implied Powers
Death penalty
Medicaid
Union Shop
9. Test whereby the Supreme Court established criteria by which state may provide aid to religious groups.
Pre-clearance
Petition of Right
Lemon Test
Joint Committees
10. 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 _______________.
Enact a Bill of Rights
9
Permanent Registration
National Political Parties
11. Cabinet department responsible for regulating and promoting trade and maintaining the census Established in 1913..
Commerce
Liberalism
Speaker of the House
55
12. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Recorded Vote
Pyramid Model
Thomas Hobbes
Ex Post Facto
13. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Restrictive Covenant
Clear and Present Danger
States
Majority Opinion
14. The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the practice of _______________ allowing more diversity among immigrants.
Establishment Clause
Veto
national quotas
Probable Cause
15. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
Fast Track Authority
Executive
Party Identification
Administrative Procedure Act
16. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Blanket Primary
Royalists
Homeland Security
Federal
17. Prompted by FDR's 4th election to the Presidency - the 22nd Amendment limited the number of Presidential terms to _____ terms.
2
Eminent Domain
Selective Incorporation
Tariff
18. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Senate
Tariff
14
Earl Warren
19. The issuance of this document by a judge requires probably cause and must be worded so as to allow for the search and seizure of specific evidence.
7th Amendment
Caucuses
Unicameral
Warrant
20. This influential English document refuted divine right of monarchy and made monarchs subject to laws and responsible for crimes
Membership
5 -000
Petition of Right
US Trade Representatives
21. A political candidate who is thought to have only an outside chance of gaining the nomination.
10th Amendment
State Auditor
Dark Horse
Common Law
22. Article I of the Constitution establishes the ___________________ branch.
Recorded Vote
Truman
Legislative
Party Realignment
23. Federal grants in which the recipient has a lot of discretion over how the money is spent. These grants are issued in support of general government functions such as education and law enforcement.
Free Exercise of Religion
Public Policy
Cold War
Block Grant
24. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Campaign Contributions
Military-Industrial Complex
19th Amendment
Bull Moose Progressives
25. Each Senate committee may have ________ subcommittees.
Enacted
unlimited
Budget Surplus
Republican
26. Clause of the Constitution (Article 1 - Section 10) intended to prohibit state governments from modifying contracts made between individuals; interpreted as prohibiting state governments from taking actions that adversely affect property rights.
Speech Plus
Contract Clause
Redistributive Policy
Northern and Southern
27. In the year 2000 - the Supreme Court ruled that the Boy Scouts of America had a constitutional right to ban _____________ members.
Membership
Gay
Safe seat
55
28. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Spoiler Candidate
US Trade Representatives
Supreme Court
Committees of Correspondence
29. Because there is no Senate Rules Committee - Senators can debate a bill for an _________________ time.
Unlimited
Bill of Attainder
Public Opinion
Blacks
30. Prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Union Shop
Blacks
Lyndon B. Johnson
31. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Incorporation Doctrine
National Committee
Propose an Amendment
32. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Conventions
Freedom of Speech
Woodrow Wilson
Populous
33. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
1st Amendment
Divided Government
State Government
Soft money
34. A federal law passed by Congress in 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers. The law prevents federal employees while on duty from taking an active part in party politics or campaigns and also bars federal employees from running for
Hatch Act
Civilian Supremacy
Major Political Party
Capitalism
35. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
NY Times v. Sullivan
Public Bills
Coordinated Spending
Decreased
36. Appointed by Eisenhower - this Supreme court justice who played an important role in the court's stance on the advancement of civil rights.
14th Amendment
Earl Warren
Project Grant
Supremacy Clause
37. A system in which national and state governments are competitors with distinct powers. This system was prominent in the US from the during the 19th century until 1937.
Budget Resolution
55
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Republicans
38. 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
Executive
Impartial
Smith Act
Veto
39. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Export Taxes
Political Action Committees
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Senate
40. The foreign policy of the United States during the period after the Second World War - designed to contain the expansion of Soviet power.
Republicans
Resolutions
Truman
Containment
41. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office
National Political Parties
7
2/3
Dark Horse
42. A technique polling organizations use in which several people from the same neighborhood are interviewed.
Independent
77
Furman v. Georgia
Cluster Sampling
43. Minor criminal offenses - such as speeding.
Misdemeanors
Resolutions
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Inverse
44. In the 1990 case OR State Employment Division v. Smith 1990 - the Supreme court allowed the state to fire employees who use peyote during native American religious ceremonies because it is in violation of drug laws. In this case - which clause of the
Free Exercise Clause
Flexible Construction
Blacks
Fiscal Federalism
45. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over lawsuits filed against the agency.
Democratic
Judicial
Interest groups
9
46. Age Requirement for the Senate
Fast Track Authority
Northern and Southern
30
7
47. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
Speech Plus
Rules Committee
Federal District
Bill of Attainder
48. Article II of the Constitution establishes the ______________ branch.
Petition of Right
Baron v. Baltimore
AARP
Executive
49. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Little Difference
Statutory Law
7th Amendment
Coordinated Spending
50. Between 1909 and 2002 - the number of daily newspapers in the United States______________.
Salient Agenda
Criminal Cases
Press Secretary
Decreased