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CLEP American Government
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1. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
Retrospective Voting
Sub-committee
Closed Shop
Selective Incorporation
2. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Murray v. Curlett
The Federalist #10
Third Party
Political ideology
3. A system in which the national government provides grants-in-aid to states using conditions to elicit control.
Fiscal Federalism
Declining
Periodic Registration
Balancing Test
4. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
national quotas
Ways and Mean Committee
Scottsboro Boys Case
Convention Bounce
5. Number of years a President must reside in the US prior to taking office
4th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
Shay's Rebellion
14
6. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Redistributive Policy
Federal Courts
Northern and Southern
Regulatory Federalism
7. Which branch has the power to stop an executive order?
Public Opinion
Monetary Policy
Medicare
Judicial
8. (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.
Writ of Certiorari
Cold War
Clear and Present Danger
Supreme Court
9. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
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Concurrent Powers
Zenger
Standing Committees
10. In addition to the doctrine of implied powers - Chief Justice Marshall - in his decision in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - established the key concept of:
Deficit
Elite and Class Theory
National Supremacy
Equal Protection Clause
11. Literally meaning 'right of soil' - confers citizenship by place of birth.
Military-Industrial Complex
Jus Soli
Equality
Enacted
12. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Conventions
Realigning Elections
New Federalism
Equality
13. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
Patriot Act
7th Amendment
Bill of Attainder
9
14. 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.
Declining
Writ of Certiorari
Lose
Trial Balloon
15. Concept of the British statesman Edmund Burke that legislators should act according to their own consciences.
Trustee
Containment
Commander in Chief
Exclusionary Rule
16. In his classic study of community power in New Haven - Connecticut - political scientist Robert A. Dahl concluded that the city was a __________ system dominated by many different sets of leaders
Pluralist
Elastic Clause
Political Machines
State Auditor
17. 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
Delegate
9
Universe
National Chair
18. There are 11 circuit ____________________ who have no original jurisdiction.
Establishment Clause
Balance of Payments
Ways and Means Committee
Court of Appeals
19. Established national income tax.
Cruel and Unusual
Administrative Procedure Act
Universe
16th Amendment
20. The action - or actions - taken by government to carry out a policy.
Dred Scott Decision
President
Impeachment
Implementation
21. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
Rousseau
Ratification
270
Inverse
22. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Royal Colonies
Senate Standing Committees
Civil Cases
Attorney General
23. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
Recall
Implied
Murray v. Curlett
15
24. Federal aid that states and localities may use mostly as they wish.
Poll Tax
General Purpose Grants
Majority and Minority Leader
Restrictive Covenant
25. The claim by presidents of an inherent right to withhold information from Congress and the judiciary.
Executive Privilege
Television and Radio
Press Secretary
Libertarianism
26. Makes sure that funds are used safely and wisely. They oversee the state's financial records
State Auditor
Implied
6
Sub-committee
27. The term 'Reagan Democrats' has become a generic term for
8th Amendment
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Dred Scott Decision
3
28. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
Appropriations
2nd Amendment
8 Million
Bureaucracy
29. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Ways and Mean Committee
Northern and Southern
Recorded Vote
Committees of Correspondence
30. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Affirmative Action
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Incorporation Doctrine
Federal Register
31. A legislator who automatically mirrors the will of the majority of his or her constituents.
Pass the fundraising threshold
Federal
Instructed Delegate
Internationalism
32. 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.
Senate Standing Committees
Outputs
National Security
Authorizations
33. 1946 Act requiring bureaucratic agencies to appeal to the affected parties before adopting new policies. Legislative check on Bureaucracy.
Administrative Procedure Act
Balancing Test
15
National Chair
34. The expansion of cable and satellite tv has _________________ the president's power to influence public opinion.
Party Identification
Increased
Marshall Plan
Executive
35. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
Charter Colonies
Checks and Balances
Negative
Criminal Information
36. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Interest Groups
Outputs
Separate but Equal
37. Considered the most sacred right in American history. Colonists felt oppressed by the tyranny of the crown but were unable to speak up about it for fear of repercussion.
Writ of Certiorari
US v. Ballard
Senate Standing Committees
Freedom of Speech
38. In charge of state's legal business. provide advice to other state official and represents the state in court if the state is involved in a lawsuit
State of the Union
Attorney General
Enact a Bill of Rights
Logrolling
39. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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40. This act prohibited Discrimination because of race - color - sex - religion - or national origin by employers or labor unions; The adoption by voting registrars of different standards for black and white applicants; and Racial or religious discrimina
1964 Civil Rights Act
Custom
8th Amendment
Roth v. US
41. These courts only hear appeals on cases from lower courts.
Federal Appellate
Lord Acton
Straight Ticket Voting
3
42. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Deficit
Policy Making Cycle
Third Parties
Federal Register
43. A legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Marshall Plan
Criminal Cases
Whip
44. The net balance or relationship between total income and total expenditures by the nation in its dealings with the rest of the world - including trade - loans - and investments.
Free Exercise of Religion
Presidential Veto
Iron Triangle
Balance of Payments
45. 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.
Committees of Correspondence
Free Speech
Substantive Due Process
Ratification
46. Southern whites prevented blacks from ____________ through use of poll taxes - literacy tests and intimidation tactics after the Civil War.
Wallace's Progressives
Balancing Test
Voting
Cluster Sampling
47. In an election with more than 2 options - the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number - but less that half of the votes.
Plurality
Soft money
Party Identification
Capitalism
48. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
Take Care Clause
Catholics
Periodic Registration
Party of Economic Protest
49. A pluralist theory by C. Wright Mills where a small number of wealthy elite wield most of the power. Fundamental to all governments around the world - the elite rule while they make the lower classes feel like they are involved in democracy. The elit
Elite and Class Theory
Ad Hoc Structure
Bundling
Federalist Papers
50. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
Soft money
Elite
High
Liberalism