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CLEP American Government
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1. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
Pyramid Model
Formula Grant
Executive Agreements
Joseph McCarthy
2. Senators are re-elected every ___ years with 1/3 of the Senate being up for election every 2 years.
Separate but Equal
5 -000
Privileges and Immunities Clause
6
3. Powers specifically outlined in the Constitution as assigned to one branch of government.
Universe
Chief Justice
Enumerated Powers
Free Exercise of Religion
4. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.
Segregation
Republicans
High
Electoral Connection
5. ________________ of the Constitution governs the relationships of the states.
Executive Agreements
Article IV
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Gender Gap
6. Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors - subject to the king's approval.
Populous
Proprietary Colonies
Political Efficacy
20th
7. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
Union Shop
Freedom of Speech
de jure
binding
8. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
Roth v. US
Local
Selective Incorporation
Privacy Act
9. A policy of avoiding foreign involvement.
Isolationism
Clear and Present Danger
5 -000
4
10. Charge of misconduct brought against a government official.
Clothespin vote
Articles of Confederation
Impeachment
Change of Venue
11. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Executive Privilege
Veto
Jus Sanguinis
Ticket Splitters
12. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
It Failed to be Ratified
Soft money
Internationalism
Roe v. Wade
13. A course of action decided upon by a government
Commander in Chief
Policy
Government
unlimited
14. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Northern and Southern
Double Jeopardy
Political Patronage
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
15. Responsibilities include: Coordinating the nation's intelligence activities and Evaluating and disseminating intelligence that affects national security
Demands
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
legislative and executive
Governmental Corporations
16. Concurrent resolution - adopted by both Houses of Congress - that sets forth a Congressional budget plan for the budget year and at least four out-years.
Budget Resolution
Privacy Act
Majority Opinion
Line-Item Veto
17. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Open rule
Party Identification
Universe
Implementation
18. Most likely to board a foreign ship suspected of drug trafficking at a U.S. port
Military-Industrial Complex
Increased competition
Conference Committee
Coast Guard
19. Broadly worded warrants used by British soldiers during colonial America to search for contraband and prevent smuggling.
Clear and Present Danger
Gerrymandering
blockbusting and redlining
Writ of Assistance
20. Devolutionary system in which the national government returns tax dollars to the state and local governments primarily in the form of block grants.
Interest Groups
Northern and Southern
Decreased
New Federalism
21. The expansion of cable and satellite tv has _________________ the president's power to influence public opinion.
AARP
Catholics
Increased
Strategic Deterrence
22. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Laissez-Faire
binding
Gross Domestic Product
Unlimited
23. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Article VI
Ex Post Facto
Implied
Ratification
24. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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25. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
Lemon Test
Democratic-Republicans
presidential line-item veto
Hold
26. Passed in 1883 - it created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage.
Bundling
14th Amendment
Pork Barrel Spending
Pendleton Civil Service Act
27. 1925 Supreme Court case overturned Baron v. Baltimore and applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Gitlow v. New York
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Public Administration
28. Article I - Section 8 - of the Constitution - which allows Congress to make all laws that are 'necessary and proper' to carry out the powers of the Constitution.
Elastic Clause
Ad Hoc Structure
Petition of Right
Equal Protection Clause
29. ___________ vote in both the House and Senate may override a Presidential veto of legislation.
Bandwagon
Negative
Unlimited
2/3
30. Programs are designed to give preferential access to education - employment - health care - or social welfare to groups of people - especially minorities and women - who have historically been discriminated against.
Cycle of Decreasing Influence
Affirmative Action
Television
Policy Making Cycle
31. This 1964 case established strict standards for proving slander and libel - court must prove intent of malice on the part of the publisher.
NY Times v. Sullivan
Negative
Public Opinion
Bill of Rights
32. A policy adopted by the United States after the Second World War that assumed that if enough nuclear weapons were deployed by the United States - an enemy would not attack for fear of being destroyed in retaliation.
President
Independent Expenditures
Recall
Strategic Deterrence
33. In the view of W. Lance Bennett - the people who hold and express opinions are constantly changing - as are the issues and conditions to which the public responds. As a result - Bennett suggests that public opinion is______________.
War Powers Resolution
Executive Privilege
Freedom of Religion
Situational
34. If 10 days remain in session and the president does not sign an act of Congress - the law is ___________.
Electoral College
Take Care Clause
Enacted
Veto
35. In Woodson v. North Carolina - the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing of capital punishment as ______________________ because it does not allow for any discretion.
Parallel
31
Chief Justice
Cruel and Unusual
36. Plan that proposed unicameral legislature with each state having one vote.
Low
The Federal Reserve Board
New Jersey Plan
Tariff
37. This customary power allows the President to grant reprieves and pardons for federal offenses.
State Auditor
Grant Clemency
Regulatory Agencies
Pentagon Papers
38. A group of high-level administrators and managers at the top of the government bureaucracy. SES members have less job tenure but are eligible for substantial cash bonuses for merit.
Party Dealignment
Secondary Group
Senatorial Courtesy
Senior Executive Service
39. 'lame duck' amendment
20th
Caucuses
12
Unicameral
40. Minor criminal offenses - such as speeding.
Oligopoly
Misdemeanors
Permanent Registration
Office Column Ballot
41. A test established by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes - Jr. - in 1919 to define the point at which speech loses the protection of the First Amendment.
Random Sample
Double Jeopardy
Clear and Present Danger
Bill of Rights
42. A place of work in which only union members may be hired.
Blanket Primary
Closed Shop
Laissez-Faire
Concurring Opinion
43. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
Equal Time
Clear and Present Danger
8 Million
14th
44. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Equality
Hold
Balance of Trade
Muckrakers
45. What occurs when government adopts a public policy that provides - or distributes - benefits to people or groups.
Public Administration
Isolationism
Mugwumps
Distribution
46. Includes expressive conduct/assembly/actions and symbolic behavior (ex. Picketing or burning the flag) Based on our country history of symbolic acts such as the Boston Tea Party - courts almost always uphold symbolic acts of speech unless they are cr
Federal
Conference Committee
Speech Plus
Freedom of Information Act
47. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Press Secretary
Marshall Plan
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Checks and Balances
48. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
Laissez-Faire
Project Grant
may not
Gay
49. This called for three-fifths of all slaves in a state were counted for purposes of apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.
Seniority System
Great Compromise
School Desegregation
Statutory Law
50. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
Flexible Construction
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Agriculture
Party Purists