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CLEP American Government
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1. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Patriot Act
New Federalism
Poll Tax
2. Practice by which voters of one party crossing over and voting in the primary of another party - effectively allowing a party to help choose its opposition's candidate.
Pork-Barrel Legislation
President
National Convention
Raiding
3. Prohibits the use of cruel or unusual punishment.
Rhode Island
Suburbia
8th Amendment
Recall
4. 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.
Commission Plan
de facto
Strategic Deterrence
Mayor-Council Plan
5. 1966 Act allowing citizens to inspect all government records with the exception of classified military or intelligence documents - trade secrets or private personnel files.
Soft Money
Equity
Freedom of Information Act
Judicial Restraint
6. When the minority party becomes stronger than the majority party - usually the result of winning a critical election.
Recall
Party Realignment
Democracy
Nuclear Proliferation
7. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Standing Committees
Fiscal Policy
Lafolette's Progressive s
Globalization
8. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Rhode Island
Instructed Delegate
Secretary of State
Military-Industrial Complex
9. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
435
Convention Bounce
Ad Hoc Structure
Pork-Barrel Legislation
10. A powerful alliance of mutual benefit among an agency or unit of the government - an interest group - and a committee or subcommittee of Congress. Also called a triangle or iron triangle.
state legislatures
Baron de Montesquieu
Sub-government
Internationalism
11. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Preamble
Grand Jury Indictment
Elastic Clause
Office of Management and Budget
12. ____________________ define Congressional voting districts acting within constraints set down by Congress and the Supreme Court.
Implied Powers
State Legislatures
The Federalist #10
Politics
13. The foreign policy of the United States during the period after the Second World War - designed to contain the expansion of Soviet power.
Lafolette's Progressive s
National Supremacy
Civil Cases
Containment
14. Age requirement for President
35
Blanket Primary
Pork Barrel Spending
Majority and Minority Leader
15. This house committee is responsible for Supervising the authority of the federal government to borrow money - Raising the revenue required to finance the federal government by levying taxes - Overseeing Social Security and other social insurance prog
Ways and Means Committee
6th Amendment
Article V
Periodic Registration
16. 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
Selective Incorporation
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Party Identification
Mayor-Council Plan
17. It the job of _________ committees of a political party to hold voter registration drives - recruit new party members and final candidates for city and county positions.
Public Opinion
2/3
National Supremacy
Local
18. Congress defined the steps for the creation and admission of new states. It forbade slavery while the region remained a territory although citizens could legalize it. First congress would appoint a territorial governor and judges. Second as soon as 5
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Democrats
2nd Amendment
Transportation
19. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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20. Federal grants in which the recipient has little discretion over how the money is spent. The national government sets narrowly defined rules for use of funds and often requires the states or local governments to provide matching funds. These grants a
Freedom of Religion
Implied Powers
Political Socialization
Categorical Grant
21. A study of Bennington College students in the 1930s illustrated that the influence of the family on political attitudes tends to ______________ as they grow older and come into contact with other groups.
Diminish
Civil Liberties
Trustee
Roe v. Wade
22. A broad concept that may be defined in many ways - but the term is generally used to refer to the basic protection and defense of the nation.
National Security
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Closed
Regulatory Federalism
23. Cabinet department that includes the FAA and the National Hwy Traffic Safety Administration. Established in 1966.
Tariff
Majority and Minority Leader
Third Parties
Transportation
24. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Equality
Poll Tax
Membership
Impeachment
25. Cabinet department oversees nuclear reactors.Established in 1973 in response to the Energy Crisis.
Rules Committee
Energy
Speaker of the House
Veto
26. 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.
Blanket Primary
Original Jurisdiction
4th Amendment
Democratic
27. The head of a national political party
Judicial
Earmarks
National Chair
Enact a Bill of Rights
28. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Open rule
Katz. v US
Retrospective Voting
Medicare
29. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
Charter Colonies
Closed rule
Governmental Corporations
State Legislatures
30. Guaranteed women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
1st Amendment
Speaker of the House
Baron v. Baltimore
31. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
House of Representatives
Gerrymandering
6th Amendment
October 1st
32. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Establishment Clause
Police Powers
Substantive Due Process
Caucuses
33. The single biggest item in campaign spending at the presidential level is ___________________.
Television and Radio
Conglomerates
binding
Fast Track Authority
34. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Poll Tax
Redistributive Policy
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Detente
35. First governing document of the Plymouth Colony establishing freedom of religion.
Selective Incorporation
Mayflower Compact
Incumbents
Pork Barrel Spending
36. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Hub and Spoke Model
Blacks
Supply Side Economics
Major Political Party
37. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Enact a Bill of Rights
Blacks
Political Party
Hub and Spoke Model
38. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
Selective exposure
Chief Justice
11th Amendment
39. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Flexible Construction
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Judicial
Senatorial Courtesy
40. A 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union limiting the number of defensive missiles each country could build. In 2001 President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the treaty.
CORE
Custom
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Committees of Correspondence
41. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Change of Venue
Executive Agencies
blockbusting and redlining
Incumbents
42. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.
Murray v. Curlett
Family
Senate
Third Parties
43. The spread of nuclear weapons to new nations
Pass the fundraising threshold
Medicaid
Vice President
Nuclear Proliferation
44. Defamation by written or printed words - pictures - or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
Pluralist
Committees of Correspondence
House Standing Committees
Libel
45. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
Pork Barrel Spending
State Treasurer
Selective Incorporation
Scandal Mongering
46. A federal tax on imports.
Tariff
Impeachment
Marbury v. Madison
Catholics
47. Committees that pull members from both the house and the senate who meet to discuss major policy issues such as economy and taxation.
Joint Committee
Television
Public hearing
Socialism
48. Important during the Revolution - these bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution for the purposes of coordinating written communication outside of the colony.
20th
Committees of Correspondence
binding
US Trade Representatives
49. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
Distribution
Select Committee
Good Faith Exception
Coast Guard
50. A ruling by the Supreme Court in 1857
Alien and Sedition Acts
Dred Scott Decision
Supreme Court
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