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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Substantive Due Process
Jus Soli
Marshall Plan
Electoral College
2. A writ designed to protect against illegal imprisonment by requiring that a person who is detained be brought before a judge for investigation.
Writ of Certiorari
Social Regulation
Campaign Finance Reform
17th
3. In 1978 - the Supreme Court - in the 'seven dirty words' case - ruled that the government has the right to prohibit the broadcasting of _______________.
Foreign Policy
Balance of Payments
Offensive Language
Valence issue
4. Prohibits citizens of one state or foreign country from suing another state.
Petition of Right
11th Amendment
Rank and File
Tariff
5. Requests from people or groups for health care for the aged - loans for college students - equal opportunity for minorities - and higher subsidies for farmers are examples of:
Detente
Demands
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Rank and File
6. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Government Corporations
State Treasurer
Populous
Republicans
7. Cabinet department responsible for the management of public lands - wildlife - natural resources - and Native American affairs. Established in 1849
Interior
Executive Agreements
Increased competition
Committees of Correspondence
8. The 23rd Amendment guaranteed voting rights to whom?
Logrolling
legislative and executive
Electoral College
District of Columbia
9. ________________ of the Constitution governs the relationships of the states.
The Federal Reserve Board
Article IV
Dies
Weber
10. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Articles of Confederation
Periodic Registration
Regulatory Federalism
Criminal Information
11. 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.
Union Shop
Supremacy Clause
Exit Polls
Military-Industrial Complex
12. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Great Compromise
Roth v. US
Formula Grant
Libel
13. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
Commander in Chief
Policy
Dies
Rhode Island
14. A relaxation of international tensions.
Implied Powers
House Standing Committees
Thurgood Marshall
Detente
15. The 1892 platform of the Populist party repudiating laissez-faire and demanding economic and political reform
Suburbia
Omaha platform
State Government
Elastic Clause
16. An offical who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of the legislator
Vietnam War
CORE
Elastic Clause
Delegate
17. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Increased competition
Demands
Republicans
Interior
18. An ideology that advocates limits on government power to address economic and social problems - relying instead on economic markets and individual initiative to address problems like health care and education - while promoting government involvement
Concurrent
Committees of Correspondence
Conservatism
Due Process of Law
19. An individual who does not join a group representing his or her interests yet receives the benefit of the group's influence.
Free Rider
Politics
Misdemeanors
Distribution
20. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over budget and appointments of leadership.
National Security
14
CORE
Executive
21. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Mark Up Session
Redistributive Policy
Fiscal Policy
Alien and Sedition Acts
22. After hearings are complete - a congressional subcommittee will usually determine a bill's future in final deliberations known as
Mark Up Session
15
Raise Public Awareness
Regulatory Federalism
23. Tax legislation must originate in this house.
House of Representatives
Interior
Party Purists
Cabinet
24. The policy established after the Second World War that America must take an active leadership role in world affairs
Writ of Mandamus
Council-Manager Plan
Internationalism
Speech Plus
25. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Pre-clearance
Project Grant
Rules Committee
Speaker of the House
26. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Death penalty
527 Organization
Cold War
Ratification
27. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
Pentagon Papers
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Writ of Certiorari
Free Rider
28. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Checks and Balances
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Governmental Corporations
Regulatory Federalism
29. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Ratification
Trial Balloon
John Locke
Reynolds v. Sims
30. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Procedural Due Process
Concurrent
Impartial
435
31. Washington v. Chrisman (1982) established the _________________ - allowing police officers to seize evidence without a warrant if the evidence is in obvious sight.
Plain View
Deviating Elections
Regulatory Federalism
30
32. 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).
Positive
19th Amendment
Blanket Primary
Independent Regulatory Agencies
33. The Medicaid and Food Stamp programs are examples of two very large
Categorical Grants
Raiding
Impeachment
Political Action Committees
34. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Separate but Equal
blockbusting and redlining
Interior
1776
35. The belief that one can understand politics and therefore participate in politics
Democratic-Republicans
Internal Efficacy
NY Times v. Sullivan
Open Meeting Law
36. Form of obstruction in the Senate where an attempt is made to infinitely extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay the progress or completely prevent a vote on the proposal taking place.
Increased competition
Filibuster
Government Corporations
House Standing Committees
37. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
Maintaining Elections
Line-Item Veto
Conference Committee
Ticket Splitters
38. Political party lead by Andrew Jackson from 1828 to 1856. Campaigned against strong central government and fought to end elitism.
de jure
Secretary of State
Democrats
Conglomerates
39. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
State Auditor
Eminent Domain
Civil Liberties
Government
40. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.
2
Hatch Act
Office of Management and Budget
Campaign Finance Reform
41. Established by President Hoover - It is the _______________ job to keep the press informed and orchestrate press conferences
Cruel and Unusual
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
Baby Boomers
Press Secretary
42. Which powers of the national government flow from its enumerated powers and from the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution?
US Trade Representatives
Government Corporations
Implied Powers
Spoils System
43. Literally meaning 'right of blood' - confers citizenship to a child from the parents.
Democratic
Initiative
Jus Sanguinis
Civil Liberties
44. Laws passed by state legislatures that are designed to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their news sources.
General Purpose Grants
Freedom of Information Act
Decreased
Shield Laws
45. 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.
Local
House Standing Committees
Article II
Third Parties
46. Head of the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice
Public Opinion
National Supremacy
Liberalism
47. A law passed in 1966 that requires federal executive branch and regulatory agencies to make information available to journalists - scholars - and the public unless it falls into one of several confidential categories.
Freedom of Information Act
Committees of Correspondence
Supply Side Economics
Raiding
48. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Incorporation Doctrine
Grant Clemency
Raiding
General Accounting
49. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Pork Barrel Spending
State Legislatures
Little Difference
Baron de Montesquieu
50. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Issue network
Republicans
Republican
19th Amendment