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CLEP American Government
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1. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Hyperpluralism
Negative
Mayor-Council Plan
Jus Sanguinis
2. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
Executive Privilege
House of Representatives
Concurrent Powers
Bull Moose Progressives
3. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
15
Violation of Law
Adversarial
Federalist
4. Number of current cabinet positions under GW Bush.
15
Clean bill
Right of Expatriation
Rules Committee
5. Which two British Acts - passed in 1764 - caused American colonists for the first time to organize protests against the injustices of British rule - and sparked the rallying cry 'no taxation without representation'?
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Standing Committees
Speaker of the House
Arraignment
6. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Democrats
Senate
Voting
Council of Economic Advisors
7. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
Impeachment
Rank and File
Exit Polls
Issue network
8. While both Asian and Hispanic immigrants experience various types of discrimination - Hispanic immigrants are more likely to experience economic discrimination. This explains why most Hispanics identify with the ____________ party - while Asians do n
Enumerated Powers
Democratic
Voting
Unicameral
9. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
Constitutional Initiative
General Election
Spoils System
Containment
10. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Dissenting Opinion
Enumerated Powers
Republicans
Bull Moose Progressives
11. Also known as the Massachusetts ballot - groups candidates according to the office for which they are running
20th
Furman v. Georgia
Ratification
Office Column Ballot
12. Private groups that attempt to influence the government to respond to the shared attitudes of their members.
Restrictive Covenant
Party of Economic Protest
Interest Groups
Press Secretary
13. Article II of the Constitution establishes the ______________ branch.
Appropriation Bills
Lower
House of Representatives
Executive
14. Included are Agriculture - Nutrition - and Forestry; Appropriations; Armed Services; Banking - Housing and Urban Affairs; Commerce - Science and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Environment and Public Works; Finance; Health - Education -
Secondary Group
The Enlightenment
Senate Standing Committees
Categorical Grants
15. Prompted by FDR's 4th election to the Presidency - the 22nd Amendment limited the number of Presidential terms to _____ terms.
2
Habeas Corpus
Public Policies
Bowers v. Hardwick
16. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Change of Venue
Socialism
Incumbents
Flexible Construction
17. Funds spent for or against a candidate by committees not formally connected to the candidate's campaign and without coordination with the campaign.
Independent Expenditures
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Veteran's Affairs
National Convention
18. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
House of Representatives
Constitutional Initiative
Caucuses
Double Jeopardy
19. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
Institutional
Quota Sampling
Electoral College
Administrative Procedure Act
20. Communication with legislators or other government officials to try to influence their decisions.
Lobbying
Enacted
may not
legislative and executive
21. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Universe
Constituencies
Populous
Homeland Security
22. An economy in which most economic decisions result from the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets - but in which the government plays a significant role in the allocation of resources.
Mixed Economy
Electoral College
25th Amendment
Committees of Correspondence
23. A legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes.
Monroe Doctrine
Joseph McCarthy
Whip
Arraignment
24. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over the creation and elimination of agencies as well as its control over budget appropriations.
Inverse
Legislative
Negative Advertising
Divided Government
25. This called for three-fifths of all slaves in a state were counted for purposes of apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.
Libel
Great Compromise
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Freedom of Information Act
26. The strongest factor contributing to an individual's political socialization tends to be
Department of Treasury
Agriculture
Family
Miller v. California
27. Individual contributions to PACs are limited to ______________ dollars per candidate per election with primaries - general and special elections counting separately.
General Purpose Grants
Establishment Clause
5 -000
Trial Balloon
28. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Segregation
Residual
Political System
Secondary Group
29. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
Enumerated Powers
Universe
Executive
House of Representatives
30. In 1998 - the Supreme Court struck down the________________ law - declaring it unconstitutional - because Congress did not have the constitutional authority to hand that power to the President.
Laissez-Faire
Freedom of Information Act
presidential line-item veto
Inverse
31. 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.
Free Exercise Clause
Precedent
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Blacks
32. Article VI - Paragraph 2 - of the Constitution - which declares that the Constitution - and the laws and treaties of the United States made under it - are 'the supreme Law of the Land' and prevail over any conflicting state constitutions or laws.
8th Amendment
Energy
Supremacy Clause
Television and Radio
33. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
Max Weber
Legislative
Nuclear Proliferation
Establishment Clause
34. This clause of the 1st amendment establishes a 'wall of separation' between church and state.
Blanket Primary
Political Culture
Establishment Clause
CORE
35. In the Federalist Papers - James Madison proposed that the states under the new Constitution would retain ____________ sovereignty.
Residual
Good Faith Exception
Conference Committee
Political Efficacy
36. The fundamental rights of a free society that are protected by the Bill of Rights against the power of the government - such as freedom of speech - religion - press - and assembly.
Issue Networks
Transnational Relations
Public Administration
Civil Liberties
37. 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
Bicameral
Electoral College
Jurisdiction
Rules Committee
38. If 10 days do not remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the bill __________.
Social Security
Dies
Labor
Baron de Montesquieu
39. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Political Action Committee
Due Process
Electoral Votes
Original
40. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
Senatorial Courtesy
100
Due Process of Law
Administrative Procedure Act
41. Largest interest group in the US.
Closed Shop
AARP
Formula Grant
National Political Parties
42. An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the publicand operate for the welfare of all.
Supreme Court
Republican
Socialism
Ticket Splitters
43. The ______________________ were formed to unite the colonists against Britain.
Executive
Ways and Means Committee
Committees of Correspondence
19th Amendment
44. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Murray v. Curlett
Political ideology
state legislatures
45. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
Bureaucracy
state legislatures
Recall
Plain View
46. 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?
Closed Shop
Closed
Commander in Chief
Small Business Administration (SBA)
47. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Equity
Executive Privilege
Libertarianism
Article V
48. A group of independent states or nations that come together for a common purpose and whose central authority is usually limited to defense and foreign relations.
Select Committee
Committees
5 -000
Confederation
49. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
Senior Executive Service
Pluralist Theory
14th
Majority Rule
50. A place of work in which only union members may be hired.
Closed Shop
Furman v. Georgia
Major Political Party
Constituencies