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CLEP American Government

Subjects : clep, civics
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This contraversial 2001 law allows anti-terrorism authorities to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The government argues that cyberspace is public domain and that no warrants should be needed to access informa






2. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.






3. The number of ______________ a state receives is based on the number Representatives and Senators that the state has in Congress






4. Which form of registration prevails in all but a few states?






5. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies






6. Something given in exchange for something else; swap






7. Direct oral or written speech directed at a specific individual or group






8. Lead by Theodore Roosevelt - this party platform focused on women's suffrage - social reform - fair business practices - and direct election of senators. The won 25% of the popular vote in 1911 - splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Wo






9. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.

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10. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.






11. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.






12. Approximately 33% of American voters identify themselves as _______________ party.






13. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.






14. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as






15. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.






16. Because there is no Senate Rules Committee - Senators can debate a bill for an _________________ time.






17. The 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act - the 1965 Highway Beautification Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act are all examples of ____________________.






18. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?






19. Presidential management model in which corporate CEO tactics are used employing committees - task forces - and special advisors. Successfully utilized by Clinton and G W Bush.






20. 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:






21. Executive office responsible for helping the President write the federal budget and monitoring federal spending.






22. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.






23. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has less discretion over how the recipient spends the money.






24. These party members take active non-leadership roles such as working polls or contributing money to campaigns. Tend to compromise on important issues and are mostly concerned about winning elections.






25. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.






26. A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.






27. The average voter turnout between 1960 and 2004 was __________ percent






28. At one time - the press generally refrained from publishing personal information that would be damaging. FDR - Eisenhower - and JFK all benefited from this reluctance to engage in _____________________. However - the American publics appetite for sen






29. 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.






30. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.






31. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.






32. In Reynolds v. US (1879) - the Supreme Court denied this right to Reynolds because his religion's practice of polygamy violated federal law.






33. A world economy characterized by the free movement of goods - capital - labor - and information across national borders.






34. A series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison under the pseudonym Publius advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.






35. A legislature with only one house.






36. An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.






37. A small group of voters chosen by a political campaign for their demographic similarities who are brought together to gauge how the group they represent feels about the candidate.






38. Serious crimes - such as murder - arson - or rape.






39. The expansion of cable and satellite tv has _________________ the president's power to influence public opinion.






40. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.






41. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.






42. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.






43. The process by which individuals screen out messages that do not conform to their own biases






44. Legislative house whose membership was intended to represent the state.






45. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.






46. Once the Supreme Court justices have agreed to hear an appeal - they issue a _________________.






47. Number of years a Representative must reside in the US prior to taking office






48. The structure and set of regulations in place to control activity - usually in large organizations and government. it is represented by standardized procedure (rule-following) that dictates the execution of most or all processes within the body - for






49. Political strategists believe that presidential elections will normally be won or lost in _______________states.






50. 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