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CLEP American Government
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1. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
Agriculture
Judicial Restraint
National Security Council
Medicare
2. Laws - rules - and government programs designed to protect individual rights and specific groups - as well as to benefit society as a whole in such areas as health - worker safety - consumer protection - and the environment.
Social Regulation
89
Realigning Elections
Export Taxes
3. The state officer typically responsible for overseeing federal elections at the state level is the
Republicans
CORE
Secretary of State
Democratic
4. Between conventions - the governing body of a major political party. Members of this group are chosen in the states and formally elected by the party
State of the Union
7th Amendment
National Committee
Marshall Plan
5. Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Right to Counsel
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Electoral College
6. The Supreme Court's broad interpretation of this clause has denied direct aid from the government for religious groups - but does allow religious groups to make use of government services such as police and fire.
Majority Rule
General Accounting
Establishment Clause
Precedent
7. 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:
Demands
Social Regulation
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Standing Committees
8. Cabinet department oversees nuclear reactors.Established in 1973 in response to the Energy Crisis.
Baron de Montesquieu
Energy
Impeachment
Segregation
9. Groups whose views serve as guidelines to an individual's opinion. See also primary groups and secondary groups.
Executive
Reference Group
Rousseau
Residual
10. First Roman Catholic elected President.
9
Random Sample
Oligopoly
John F. Kennedy
11. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Violation of Law
Liberalism
Ratification
Gitlow v. New York
12. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Roth v. US
Balance of Trade
Republicans
Rousseau
13. 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.
Implied Powers
Political Patronage
New Federalism
Supremacy Clause
14. In 2002 - a federal appeals court struck down the Pledge of Allegiance on the grounds that it violated ________________.
Proposition 187
Literacy Tests
Freedom of Religion
Supports
15. In Congress - _____________ are informal organizations of individual congressional representatives with like interests or constituencies. Members work together to promote the interests of the groups they represent through legislation - policy - and p
Independent Expenditures
Rank and File
Caucuses
Negative
16. First governing document of the Plymouth Colony establishing freedom of religion.
Furman v. Georgia
Mayflower Compact
Unlimited
Omaha platform
17. This may be done by a national constitutional convention called by Congress on the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures OR By the passage of a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress
Pre-clearance
Propose an Amendment
Entitlement Spending
Private Bills
18. The oldest House committee still in existence.
Suburbia
Katz. v US
17th
Ways and Means Committee
19. Permitted court authorized wire-tapping and bugging by federal - state - and local authorities and use of such evidence in trial. Later reversed by the Supreme Court based on 4th Amendment rights.
New Deal Era
General Purpose Grants
Original Jurisdiction
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
20. The Supreme Court has sometimes used a narrow interpretation of the Establishment Clause allowing the government to provide aid to religious groups as long as it remains ______________ and does not promote one religion at the expense of another. This
Unicameral
35
Incorporation Doctrine
Impartial
21. Number of justices of the Supreme Court.
Interstate Compact
Due Process of Law
Political Party
9
22. The class of independent voters who do not vote according to party affiliation - but who typically have a broader range of concerns than single-issue voters - are known colloquially as
Raiding
Ticket Splitters
Mugwumps
Social Contract
23. Guaranteed women the right to vote.
legislative and executive
Stare Decisis
Court of Appeals
19th Amendment
24. Philosopher John Locke - in his 1690 work Civil Government (second treatise) - advised separation of government power between
Secondary Group
Hatch Act
legislative and executive
Politics
25. According to the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 - federal trials must commence within _______ days of arrest with the exception of delay for mental health testing of the defendant and illness of the defendant or key witness.
Judicial
Elite and Class Theory
Policy
100
26. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
Enacted
Antitrust Legislation
Earmarks
Intelligence
27. A course of action chosen by government officials
Public Policy
Administrative Law
Safe seat
2/3
28. Cabinet department that includes the Coast Guard - Border Patrol - FEMA - Transportation Security Administration - INS and the Secret Service. Established in 2001 in response to 9/11.
Campaign Finance Reform
Cruel and Unusual
Homeland Security
Implied
29. To an extent - the press and the government have a relationship that is _______________ and mutually dependent.
Office Column Ballot
Privacy Act
Legislative
Adversarial
30. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Office of Management and Budget
Weber
7
Feedback
31. Minor criminal offenses - such as speeding.
Poll Tax
Misdemeanors
Ratification
Separation of Powers
32. While the verbiage of the 4th Amendment is vague as to what constitutes 'reasonable'. Police departments must rely on _____________; they cannot act on unfounded suspicion.
Probable Cause
New Deal Era
Policy Making Cycle
Senate
33. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
Social Regulation
Primary
Standing Committees
Closed rule
34. Programs mandated by law and not subject to annual review by Congress or the president.
Press Secretary
Entitlement Programs
Unicameral
Unlimited
35. In this 1972 case - the Supreme Court established four guidelines for determining if a trial was appropriately speedy and fair: cause of delay - length of delay - affect on the outcome - and the defendant's claim to a speedy trial.
Bill of Attainder
Free Speech
Baker v. Wingo
Political Machines
36. 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
Bicameral
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Impeachment
Confirmed
37. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Weber
Rules Committee
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Soft money
38. High School Dropouts - Blacks - Hispanics - Recent immigrants - and People under 25 or over 75 tend to have a _________ voter turnout.
Low
Gerrymandering
Democrats
Interest groups
39. In 1992 - the television networks agreed not to release these until a majority of polling places had closed in each state
Exit Polls
16th Amendment
Rules Committee
Distribution
40. 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.
527 Organizations
Speech Plus
Common Sense
It Failed to be Ratified
41. A nation's set of fundamental beliefs about how government and politics should be conducted.
Random Sample
Political Culture
Suburbia
Freedom of Information Act
42. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
Proposition 187
Joseph McCarthy
Universe
Article VI
43. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Confirmed
Article V
Supremacy Clause
Stare Decisis
44. Number of Federal District courts across 50 states - DC and Puerto Rico.
89
Enacted
Straight Ticket Voting
Standing Committees
45. A close contest; by extension - any contest in which the focus is on who is ahead and how much rather than on substantive differences between the candidates.
Exit Polls
Appropriations
Horse race
Distribution
46. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
Proposition 187
Containment
W.E.B. DuBoise
Power Structure
47. Designed to protect the individual against the arbitrary power of the state.
Pass the fundraising threshold
Due Process of Law
Unlimited
Membership
48. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Members of Congress
Veto
Blacks
Low
49. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
20th
Public Opinion
Open
Independent Regulatory Agencies
50. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.
Lord Acton
Internationalism
Original
Globalization
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