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CLEP American Government
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1. The chair and the heads of the three armed services - and - when Marine Corps matters are under consideration - the commandant of the marines. By law - they advise the president and the secretary of defense and are the chiefs of their respective mili
Reynolds v. Sims
Trustee
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Creative Federalism
2. Court cases that involve relations between individuals and organizations - such as a divorce action - or a suit for damages arising from an automobile accident or for violation of a business contract.
Implied
Civil Cases
Majority Rule
Committee of the Whole
3. 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
Ratification
Instructed Delegate
Common Sense
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
4. An opinion of one or more judges expressing disagreement with the majority opinion of the court which gives rise to its judgment.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Unlimited
Dissenting Opinion
Conference Committee
5. 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).
Inherent Powers
Political Culture
Writ of Certiorari
Independent Regulatory Agencies
6. Laws must be reasonable. The Supreme Court has abandoned this concept in regards to business matters citing that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate economic matters. The court has continued to apply this to matters of civil liberties an
Republicans
Alien and Sedition Acts
Republican
Substantive Due Process
7. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
Majority and Minority Leader
Articles of Confederation
binding
Checks and Balances
8. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
Jus Sanguinis
Inherent Powers
Quota Sampling
Maintaining Elections
9. Dissenting Democrats focused on foreign affairs. Aligned with the US Communist Party.
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10. A study of Bennington College students in the 1930s illustrated that the influence of the family on political attitudes tends to ______________ as they grow older and come into contact with other groups.
Supply Side Economics
Nuclear Proliferation
Smith Act
Diminish
11. A controversial law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001 - after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspe
Civil Liberties
Virginia Plan
Gender Gap
Patriot Act
12. Leader of the House of Representatives - elected by the majority party. 2nd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Due Process of Law
Diminish
Speaker of the House
Gross Domestic Product
13. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Veto
Statutory Law
Legislative
Articles of Confederation
14. An annual meeting held in the spring in many New England towns - at which the townspeople come together to elect a board of selectmen and to discuss local policy questions. It has become a symbol of participatory democracy.
Democratic
Gideon v. Wainwright
27th Amendment
Town Meeting
15. The oldest House committee still in existence.
Issue Networks
Ways and Means Committee
Commission Plan
Federalist
16. According to this nineteenth-century British peer and historian - 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.'
Gender Gap
Lord Acton
Vietnam War
Raise Public Awareness
17. 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.
Political Culture
Internationalism
Miranda Rights
Writ of Certiorari
18. A federal law passed by Congress in 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers. The law prevents federal employees while on duty from taking an active part in party politics or campaigns and also bars federal employees from running for
State Legislatures
Hatch Act
Hyperpluralism
Presidential Veto
19. A method available in most states that allows voters - in effect - to 'veto' a bill passed by the legislature or to accept or reject a proposal - such as a bond issue - made by a government agency.
Nuclear Proliferation
Concurrent
Referendum
Lemon Test
20. Presides over the Senate in the absence of the Vice President. Position awarded to the longest serving Senator from the majority party. 3rd in line of succession for the Presidency.
General Purpose Grants
Democrats
77
President Pro Tempore
21. PACs may donate a ______________ amount of indirect or in-kind donations to a campaign. (Ex. placing ads to support their candidate)
Democracy
Unlimited
Articles of Confederation
Random Sample
22. The House appropriations committee has ___ subcommittees.
12
Reverse Discrimination
Police Powers
Writ of Certiorari
23. Powers not specifically granted to the federal government or denied to the states belong to the states and the people
14th
Reserved Powers
Initiative
Clear and Present Danger
24. 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.
Bundling
Agriculture
Social Security
Monetary Policy
25. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
US v. Ballard
Petit Jury
Bill of Attainder
Lose
26. Each Senate committee may have ________ subcommittees.
Whigs
unlimited
5 -000
Rousseau
27. Special courts assigned to deal with specific legislative issues such as taxes - military appeals - and international trade.
Hub and Spoke Model
Legislative Courts
Bicameral
Foreign Policy
28. Included are Agriculture - Nutrition - and Forestry; Appropriations; Armed Services; Banking - Housing and Urban Affairs; Commerce - Science and Transportation; Energy and Natural Resources; Environment and Public Works; Finance; Health - Education -
House of Representatives
Senate Standing Committees
Fixed
Government Corporations
29. A compulsory national insurance program - financed by taxes on employers and employees. The insurance falls into four categories: old-age and survivors insurance - disability insurance - Medicare - and unemployment insurance.
Reference Group
Segregation
Social Security
Office Column Ballot
30. A procedure that in certain circumstances permits voters to remove elected state or local officials from office before their terms have expired.
Administrative Procedure Act
3
Appealed
Recall
31. Germany - Switzerland - and India are examples of countries with a _______________ system of government.
Death penalty
President
Block Grant
Federal
32. 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
Public Administration
1964 Civil Rights Act
527 Organization
Federal
33. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
Poll Tax
270
Electoral College
Political System
34. 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
national quotas
Party Dealignment
Bill of Attainder
35. Clause in the 14th Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The 5th Amendment also imposes this limitation on the national government.
Public Administration
Selective exposure
Equal Protection Clause
Interest Groups
36. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Delegate
Roth v. US
Valence issue
Concurring Opinion
37. A term popularized by sociologist Floyd Hunter to describe the community leaders who he said determined policy in Atlanta - Georgia. More broadly - the term is used to describe 'power elites' generally.
Standing Committees
Power Structure
Impoundment
Mark Up Session
38. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Natural Rights
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Military-Industrial Complex
Affirmative Action
39. Theory that a government requires the consent of the governed.
Authorizations
Spoils System
Social Contract
Feedback
40. The ___________ aspects of Federalism include: conflicts between state and national government - economic and racial discrimination - uneven enforcement of law - and dominance of local governments by special interest groups
Negative
Good Faith Exception
35
Television and Radio
41. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
Interventionism
Redistributive Policy
Proportional Representation
Legislative Veto
42. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Deficit
Miranda Rights
2
Public Opinion
43. Established national income tax.
Medicaid
Iron Triangle
16th Amendment
Poll Tax
44. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
527 Organizations
Bull Moose Progressives
Marbury v. Madison
Federal Courts
45. Form of government in which the people are sovereign but their power is exercised by their elected representatives.
Oligopoly
Commerce
Campaign Finance Reform
Republic
46. Legislature bills that affect all citizens.
Plain View
Commander in Chief
Electoral College
Public Bills
47. Age requirement for President
Open Meeting Law
35
Constitutional Initiative
Government Corporations
48. The Democrats control over politics during the 20th century ended with this President's unpopular handling of the Vietnam War.
Charter Colonies
Government Corporations
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ways and Mean Committee
49. Minimum number of voters per state in the Electoral College.
Jim Crow Laws
3
state legislatures
Television and Radio
50. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Straight Ticket Voting
Republicans
Federalism
527 Organization
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