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CLEP American Government
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1. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
Social Regulation
Coordinated Spending
Federal Courts
Local
2. During the 1800's and early 1900's - some state and local party committees became ________________ dominating party activities. Committee members would promise new recruits money - jobs - and other benefits for joining and voting the straight party t
President
Political Machines
Committees of Correspondence
Majority Whip
3. Law enacted by Congress - or by state legislatures or local legislative bodies.
Campaign Finance Reform
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Federalist
Statutory Law
4. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Pluralist Theory
Republicans
Civil Liberties
5. Walter DeVries and Lance Tarrance have concluded that in many elections the outcome is determined by ______________.
Political Action Committees
Defense
Ticket Splitters
Commission Plan
6. 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
Appropriation Bills
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Custom
House of Representatives
7. Compromise between the large states and small states that established the bicameral Legislature consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives. Also included 3/5 compromise on the status of slaves in representation.
Shield Laws
Freedom of Speech
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Inputs
8. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Article III
Marshall Plan
Non-protected Speech
Literacy Tests
9. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Freedom of Religion
Membership
Interest Groups
District of Columbia
10. The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate and so votes for the less objectionable of the two - putting a clothespin over his nose to keep out the unpleasant stench
Clothespin vote
Bowers v. Hardwick
Writ of Assistance
8th Amendment
11. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
Interior
20th
Death penalty
Rousseau
12. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Campaign Finance Reform
Chief Justice
Rousseau
Tariff
13. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.
Senate
Caucus
Outputs
Mugwumps
14. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
Vice President
Unitary System
Dies
School Desegregation
15. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Issue network
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Export Taxes
National Supremacy
16. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
Civil War Amendments
Government
Majority Opinion
Proportional Representation
17. The 19th Century __________ party platform was opposed to the spread of slavery - promoted preservation of the union - supported the abolition of slavery - and promoted post civil was reconstruction.
Interstate Compact
Republican
Literacy Tests
Marbury v. Madison
18. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Federal Courts
Authorizations
16th Amendment
Scandal Mongering
19. The separation of people by race.
Hatch Act
Plurality
Segregation
National Security
20. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
Third Party
Concurrent Powers
Selective Incorporation
Class Action Suit
21. The process through which an individual acquires a set of political attitudes and forms opinions about political and social issues.
Political Socialization
Due Process of Law
Unlimited
Balancing Test
22. Overall spending targets set by the Congress.
Caucus
Federal Courts
Budget Resolutions
Good Faith Exception
23. If significant amendments are made to a bill during committee - the bill is sometimes given a new number as a _______________.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Petition of Right
Balance of Payments
Clean bill
24. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Democrats
Ways and Mean Committee
Joseph McCarthy
Royal Colonies
25. (1945-1991) The period after the Second World War marked by rivalry and tension between the two nuclear superpowers - the United States and the communist government of the Soviet Union. The Cold War ended when the Soviet government collapsed in 1991.
Valence issue
Democracy
Cold War
Affirmative Action
26. Political party lead by Andrew Jackson from 1828 to 1856. Campaigned against strong central government and fought to end elitism.
a senior senator of the majority party
5 -000
Concurrent
Democrats
27. Bills passed by Congress to pay for the spending it has authorized.
Nationalism
Appropriation Bills
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Libertarianism
28. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
2
Ratification
External Efficacy
Statutory Law
29. American politics is dominated by a small ___________ who is responsible for most of the important policy decisions
Elite
89
Mayor-Council Plan
Reynolds v. Sims
30. A method available in most states that allows voters - in effect - to 'veto' a bill passed by the legislature or to accept or reject a proposal - such as a bond issue - made by a government agency.
Supports
Rank and File
Referendum
Free Exercise Clause
31. A law passed by Congress in 1973 in an effort to set a time limit on the use of combat forces abroad by a president.
Interest Groups
Non-protected Speech
War Powers Resolution
89
32. 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.
Katz. v US
Iron Triangle
Council-Manager Plan
Scandal Mongering
33. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
Federalist
Two Trial
Checks and Balances
6th Amendment
34. The 5th amendment protect against _____________.
Exit Polls
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Mallory Rule
Self-Incrimination
35. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Procedural Due Process
Outputs
Internationalism
7
36. The strongest factor contributing to an individual's political socialization tends to be
District of Columbia
Concurrent
Enact a Bill of Rights
Family
37. The formal source of all authority in each major political party. It nominates the party candidates for president and vice president - writes a platform - settles disputes - writes rules - and elects the members of the national committee.
Furman v. Georgia
Cluster Sampling
Katz. v US
National Convention
38. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)
Supports
Random Sample
Agriculture
1964 Civil Rights Act
39. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Committees of Correspondence
Constituencies
Veto
Katz. v US
40. In the area of foreign affairs - _______________ often have the advantage because
Freedom of Information Act
Republicans
3
High
41. The principle that the government - as provided in the Fifth Amendment - can take property for 'public use' with 'just compensation' to the owners.
Eminent Domain
Custom
Majority Rule
6
42. An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words - one means by which a political party nominate candidates for the following general election.s
Electoral Connection
Supports
Social Security
Primary
43. 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
Libertarianism
Ways and Means Committee
National
Containment
44. A device that allows the House of Representatives to conduct its business with fewer restrictions on debate and a quorum of only 100 members.
Legislative Courts
Confederation
Speaker of the House
Committee of the Whole
45. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Balance of Trade
Majority Whip
Bicameral
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
46. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.
Governmental Corporations
Coast Guard
Felonies
Majority Rule
47. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
Maintaining Elections
Supply Side Economics
Truman
Coordinated Spending
48. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Distribution
15
Free Exercise of Religion
49. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.
Dies
Freedom of Speech
Democracy
Republicans
50. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
Bowers v. Hardwick
Primary
Salient Agenda
Truman