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CLEP American Government
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1. In the mid-term elections following a President's inauguration - his party tends to ___________ seats in Congress.
Defense
Lose
Republicans
15
2. A centralized system of government - such as that of France - where most of the important policy decisions are made by a central government.
Enact a Bill of Rights
Unitary System
presidential line-item veto
77
3. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Political Patronage
Smith Act
Closed
Voting
4. 3 person executive panel responsible for helping the President develop an economic plan for the nation.
Economic Interest Groups
Council of Economic Advisors
Committees of Correspondence
Appropriation Bills
5. Powers not specifically granted to the federal government or denied to the states belong to the states and the people
Implementation
Ways and Mean Committee
Reserved Powers
Membership
6. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
Strategic Deterrence
Max Weber
Jim Crow Laws
Thomas Hobbes
7. Corporations formed by the government to act as a business to produce a product or service. Often monopolies with varying degrees of independence.
Dred Scott Decision
17th
Governmental Corporations
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
8. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
435
Democrats
Statutory Law
Freedom of Speech
9. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Mark Up Session
Supreme Court
Thomas Hobbes
Albany Plan
10. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Majority and Minority Leader
National Security Council
Free Exercise Clause
Royal Colonies
11. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
Tammany Hall
14
Veteran's Affairs
House of Representatives
12. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
Medicaid
270
Soft money
Thurgood Marshall
13. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Mugwumps
Federal Appellate
Slander
Elastic Clause
14. (1781-1789) The written framework for the government of the original 13 states before the Constitution was adopted. Under this - the national government was weak and dominated by the states. There was a unicameral legislature - but no national execut
Equity
General Purpose Grants
Articles of Confederation
Writ of Mandamus
15. 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.
Supremacy Clause
Sub-government
Statutory Law
John Locke
16. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
binding
Literacy Tests
14th
Ad Hoc Structure
17. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
Reference Group
Unicameral
Public Policies
2/3
18. Government regulation of the economy through its control over the supply of money and the cost and availability of credit. Controlled by the Federal Reserve Board.
Marshall Plan
Unlimited
Monetary Policy
legislative and executive
19. 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).
Dark Horse
States
Joint Committee
Independent Regulatory Agencies
20. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
Presidential Ticket
State Treasurer
Dynamic Conservatism
Republicans
21. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
Fast Track Authority
Cabinet
Government Corporations
Commonwealth
22. Raise Public Awareness - Create Policy Agenda - Prioritize Agenda - Enact Policy - Public Evaluation
Policy Making Cycle
Bicameral
Antitrust Legislation
Diminish
23. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
Horse race
Deviating Elections
Internal Efficacy
Ways and Mean Committee
24. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Negative
527 Organization
Writ of Certiorari
25. Groups named for the section of the Internal Revenue Service code under which they must report their expenditures. The tax-exempt groups were created to exploit a loophole in the law regulating campaign finance.
Increased competition
Ratification
Interventionism
527 Organizations
26. States that arrestees must be informed of their right to remain silent - that anything they say can be held against them in a court - that they have a right to an attorney and that an attorney will be appointed to them if they cannot afford one.
President
Miranda Rights
Baker v. Wingo
Periodic Registration
27. Includes the 13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments. Abolished slavery and guaranteed due process and equal protection to all citizens.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Civil War Amendments
Patriot Act
Republicans
28. Which of the following factors is likely to be the weakest indicator of an individual's political beliefs and opinions? Age - Race - Intelligence - or Religion
4th Amendment
Resolutions
Monroe Doctrine
Intelligence
29. First proposed in 1789 - this amendment passed in 1992 prohibits Congress from raising their own pay. Pay raises may not take affect until the beginning of the next term.
Redistributive Policy
2/3
Detente
27th Amendment
30. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Precedent
Marshall Plan
Focus Groups
Judicial
31. Political theorist proposed the separation of church and state.
Rousseau
Unlimited
Cabinet
Supremacy Clause
32. After a bill is assigned to a committee - the next step is typically a ______________.
Public hearing
Pre-clearance
Commander in Chief
Free Exercise of Religion
33. Bills passed by Congress to pay for the spending it has authorized.
Federal Appellate
Mallory Rule
Regulatory Agencies
Appropriation Bills
34. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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35. James Madison proposed to deal with the threat of political factions by ______________________.
Separation of Powers
Clear and Present Danger
Closed rule
Muckrakers
36. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Governmental Corporations
Low
Bandwagon
15
37. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
US v. Ballard
Furman v. Georgia
Politics
CORE
38. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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39. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
8th Amendment
Select Committee
Patriot Act
may not
40. Information sent out in order to observe the reaction of an audience. Used by politicians who deliberately leak information on a policy change under consideration.
External Efficacy
Discharge Petition
Trial Balloon
Nuclear Proliferation
41. Control of a market by a single company.
Policy Making Cycle
Monopoly
Commander in Chief
Major Political Party
42. 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
15
Unicameral
Increased
Political Machines
43. An opinion of one or more judges expressing disagreement with the majority opinion of the court which gives rise to its judgment.
Vice President
State Treasurer
Dissenting Opinion
Policy
44. Groups whose views serve as guidelines to an individual's opinion. See also primary groups and secondary groups.
October 1st
Monopoly
Reference Group
Whip
45. This contraversial legal technicality intended to protect civil liberties has allowed criminals to remain free when the courts refuse to admit evidence that may have been obtained illegally.
High
Tariff
Exclusionary Rule
Selective Incorporation
46. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
House of Representatives
Select Committee
Instructed Delegate
Pure Speech
47. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments provide for _____________.
General Election
Federalist
Absolute Position
Due Process of Law
48. 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.
Supreme Court
Right of Expatriation
Council-Manager Plan
Globalization
49. Leader of the House of Representatives - elected by the majority party. 2nd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Speaker of the House
Implementation
Scottsboro Boys Case
Pluralist Theory
50. In 1872 - Susan B Anthony was arrested in Rochester - New York for
Voting
Sub-committee
Major Political Party
The Enlightenment