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CLEP American Government
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1. Members of this party typically include women who support liberal policies on abortion and equal pay - Jews - Catholics - Blacks and other minorities - Blue-collar working class - urban - labor unions - and intelligensia
Separate but Equal
Confirmed
Committees
Democrats
2. There is an _____________ relationship between Presidential approval ratings and unemployment.
Supply Side Economics
Inverse
Segregation
Antitrust Legislation
3. Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated
Federalist Papers
Party Activists
Class Action Suit
Exclusionary Rule
4. Age requirement for President
7
35
Committees
Mayflower Compact
5. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Amicus Curiae Brief
Equal Protection Clause
Republicans
Electoral College
6. The right to privacy is ___________ in the Constitution.
Implied
Procedural Due Process
Mayflower Compact
Bureaucracy
7. The ruling in this case provided that the government must prove a threat to national security in order to impose prior restraint.
Poll Tax
Lemon Test
Focus Groups
Pentagon Papers
8. A law passed in 1966 that requires federal executive branch and regulatory agencies to make information available to journalists - scholars - and the public unless it falls into one of several confidential categories.
Whistle-blowers
Political Advertising
Freedom of Information Act
Conference Committee
9. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was somewhat undermined by racist practices in the real estate market such as _____________ and ______________ - which continued illegally in many areas following passage of the Act.
Increased
blockbusting and redlining
Baron v. Baltimore
Omaha platform
10. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Automobiles
Adversarial
Equality
Party Dealignment
11. 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
Bipartisanship
The Federal Reserve Board
Writ of Mandamus
The Enlightenment
12. Elects the President if no candidate receives 270 Electoral College votes.
Republicans
4
House of Representatives
Chief Justice
13. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Electoral College
Bandwagon
Bipartisanship
Iron Triangle
14. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Elastic Clause
Great Compromise
Divided Government
Open rule
15. Contacts - coalitions - and interactions across national boundaries
Riders
Virginia Plan
Transnational Relations
Prior Restraint
16. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
Rank and File
Bandwagon
14th Amendment
Party Regulars
17. People may vote in a party's primary only if they are registered members of that party. Independents cannot participate. Note that because some political parties name themselves independent - the term 'non-partisan' often replaces 'independent' when
Closed
Preamble
Free Exercise of Religion
October 1st
18. The 1st Amendment states that government cannot issue ______________ - censoring publications before they are published.
Safe seat
Double Jeopardy
Prior Restraint
Alien and Sedition Acts
19. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
congressional oversight committee
Bicameral
Decreased
Rhode Island
20. A White House council created under the National Security Act of 1947 to advise the president and help coordinate American military and foreign policy.
Senate
National Security Council
State Auditor
Filibuster
21. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
Civil Cases
Low
Issue network
Membership
22. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
25th Amendment
Unitary System
Redistributive Policy
National Supremacy
23. Bills that benefit legislators' home districts - or powerful corporate contributors - with sometimes wasteful or unnecessary public works or other projects.
Violation of Law
Family
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Marshall Plan
24. Theory that a government requires the consent of the governed.
Due Process of Law
Social Contract
Gideon v. Wainwright
Unicameral
25. Prohibits conviction of a crime that occurred before the act became illegal
Ex Post Facto
Common Law
National Committee
527 Organizations
26. 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.
Bundling
Ways and Mean Committee
Scottsboro Boys Case
Ad Hoc Structure
27. 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
Substantive Due Process
Good Faith Exception
Confederation
Rhode Island
28. Number of current cabinet positions under GW Bush.
Legislative
15
20
Adversarial
29. Laws that were designed to segregate black and white Americans and give legal recognition to discrimination.
Jim Crow Laws
Divided Government
Critical Election
Conference Committee
30. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Federal Register
Federalist Papers
Judicial Activism
Realigning Elections
31. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Gideon v. Wainwright
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Raiding
32. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Writ of Certiorari
Republicans
National Political Parties
Pyramid Model
33. Committees appointed for investigative or crisis situations.
Magna Carta
Select Committee
Joseph McCarthy
Feedback
34. Representatives serve ____ year terms
2
Ticket Splitters
Magna Carta
2/3
35. In 1943 - The Supreme Court upheld the Jehovah's Witnesses right to refrain from saluting the American flag based on their right to _____________.
Office Column Ballot
Power Structure
Free Exercise of Religion
Bowers v. Hardwick
36. The Supremacy Clause appears in ________________ of the Constitution.
5 -000
Pre-clearance
General Purpose Grants
Article VI
37. The principle of civilian control of the military - based on the clear constitutional power of the president as supreme commander of the armed forces.
Civilian Supremacy
General Purpose Grants
Electoral College
Proposition 187
38. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 required states in the covered jurisdiction to attain _________________ from the Attorney General before making changes to voting standards - practice - or procedure
High
Pre-clearance
National Security
Defense
39. The power to tax is an example of _______________ powers.
Freedom of Speech
Woodrow Wilson
Miranda Rights
Concurrent
40. Type of interest group represented in Washington by another individual or organization. (Ex. Ford Motor Company pays a lobbyist in Washington to represent them.)
Ratification
Hatch Act
Institutional
Establishment Clause
41. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over lawsuits filed against the agency.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Redistributive Policy
Soft money
Judicial
42. The pursuit and exercise of power
Authorizations
Politics
Permanent Registration
Bipartisanship
43. 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 -
14
Senate Standing Committees
Shield Laws
Commonwealth
44. This powerful House committee is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor.
Selective exposure
Rules Committee
Republican
527 Organization
45. A system - until modified and reformed in the 1970s - that automatically resulted in the selection as committee chair of those members of the majority party in Congress who had the longest continuous service on a committee.
Murray v. Curlett
Seniority System
Conventions
Pre-clearance
46. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
17th
Shay's Rebellion
Rhode Island
may not
47. A philosophy that the Supreme Court should avoid constitutional questions when possible and uphold acts of Congress unless they clearly violate a specific section of the Constitution.
Instructed Delegate
Judicial Restraint
House of Representatives
House of Representatives
48. The Constitution requires that state governments - like the federal government - must be _____________ in form - with final authority resting with the people.
435
Roth v. US
Concurrent Powers
Democratic
49. The binding decisions that the government makes whether in the form of laws -regulations - or judicial decisions
Administrative Procedure Act
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Negative Advertising
Outputs
50. The formal source of all authority in each major political party. It nominates the party candidates for president and vice president - writes a platform - settles disputes - writes rules - and elects the members of the national committee.
Implementation
National Convention
Social Security
Poll Tax
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