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CLEP American Government
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1. Most house committees are limited to _____ subcommittees.
5
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Low
National Supremacy
2. A technique polling organizations use in which several people from the same neighborhood are interviewed.
Negative
19th Amendment
Legislative Courts
Cluster Sampling
3. In charge of state's legal business. provide advice to other state official and represents the state in court if the state is involved in a lawsuit
Federalist Papers
Attorney General
Public Policies
Lower
4. When neither political party is dominant.
Party Dealignment
Socialism
Wallace's Progressives
Hyperpluralism
5. A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
Rank and File
Welfare State
Contract Clause
Literacy Tests
6. Held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November.
Supply Side Economics
General Election
Lyndon B. Johnson
Balance of Trade
7. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
18th Amendment
Legislative
Democracy
Major Political Party
8. The provisions of the Constitution that divide power among three constitutionally equal and independent branches of government
Probable Cause
Selective Incorporation
Original
Checks and Balances
9. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
Coordinated Spending
Mugwumps
Selective Incorporation
Majority Rule
10. Responsible for assigning bills to committee in the Senate.
US v. Ballard
6
Majority and Minority Leader
Budget Resolutions
11. Decides which bills will be considered.
Legislative
Supremacy Clause
Due Process of Law
Committees
12. Executive Check on the Legislative Branch.
Critical Election
Absolute Position
Socialism
Presidential Veto
13. A Latin phrase meaning 'stand by past decisions -' a principle that judges often use in deciding cases. Ruling based on precedents.
Stare Decisis
Take Care Clause
8th Amendment
Violation of Law
14. This powerful House committee is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor.
Deviating Elections
Commander in Chief
Rules Committee
Legislative Courts
15. Representing - characterized by - or including members from two parties or factions
Bipartisanship
Defense
Judicial Selection
Governmental Corporations
16. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the concept of privacy included the right to a legal abortion?
Criminal Information
Roe v. Wade
Policy Making Cycle
Equal Protection Clause
17. Powers of government exercised independently by both the federal and state governments - such as the power to tax.
Concurrent Powers
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Automobiles
Governmental Corporations
18. Plan that proposed bicameral legislature where states were to have representation based on size in both houses.
Virginia Plan
Plurality
Supreme Court
Republican
19. Term limit for House of Representatives.
31
Plurality
Unlimited
Issue Networks
20. During Presidential election years or when the nation is divided on policy agenda - particularly regarding salient issues - voter turnout is _____________
High
Clear and Present Danger
Issue network
Petition of Right
21. Approximately 33% of American voters identify themselves as _______________ party.
National Security
Independent
de facto
John F. Kennedy
22. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
Strategic Deterrence
Republicans
John Locke
25th Amendment
23. Tips the balance between two leading candidates by attracting a minority of voters who otherwise might have voted for one of the leading candidates.
7th Amendment
Spoiler Candidate
Substantive Due Process
Periodic Registration
24. In his classic study of community power in New Haven - Connecticut - political scientist Robert A. Dahl concluded that the city was a __________ system dominated by many different sets of leaders
Two Trial
Whip
Pluralist
US Trade Representatives
25. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Majority Whip
Valence issue
Max Weber
26. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
Political Culture
Caucus
Political Action Committee
27. An issue on which voters distinguish rival parties by the degree to which they associate each party or candidate with conditions - goals - or symbols the electorate universally approves or disapproves of. Examples of such issues are economic prosperi
Ratification
Seniority System
5
Valence issue
28. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Federal District
Regulatory Federalism
States
Incumbents
29. 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.
Chief Justice
Commonwealth
Probable Cause
Regulatory Federalism
30. The framers of the Constitution created the Senate to function as a check on the ________________.
Lafolette's Progressive s
Civil Cases
House of Representatives
25
31. Amendment that delegated the election of Senators to popular vote.
Free Speech
17th
Majority Whip
Freedom of Religion
32. Direct oral or written speech directed at a specific individual or group
Filibuster
Little Difference
Mugwumps
Pure Speech
33. In lieu of an indictment - the state prosecutor may file a _______________ charging the person with a crime.
Criminal Information
Zenger
Baron v. Baltimore
Isolationism
34. A provision in a deed to real property prohibiting its sale to a person of a particular race or religion. Judicial enforcement is unconstitutional.
Pork-Barrel Legislation
270
Low
Restrictive Covenant
35. Important during the Revolution - these bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution for the purposes of coordinating written communication outside of the colony.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Confederation
Party Purists
Committees of Correspondence
36. 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
Propose an Amendment
Governmental Corporations
Incumbents
Department of State
37. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Whip
National Convention
Contract Clause
Incorporation Doctrine
38. The median income of women is ___________ percent of men.
Unitary System
Commonwealth
77
Ex Post Facto
39. A group of writers - journalists - and critics who exposed corporate malfeasance and political corruption in the first decade of the 20th century.
17th
Muckrakers
Categorical Grants
Primary
40. This 1st amendment clause prohibits the government from making any law prohibiting the exercise of any religion
Exclusionary Rule
Free Exercise Clause
Agriculture
Strategic Deterrence
41. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
Appropriations
Private Bills
Project Grant
Presidential Ticket
42. In Schenck v. US (1919) - The Supreme Court ruled that government may prohibit speech that creates an immediate threat of criminal action. Essentially established different standards for speech during wartime than in peacetime. Thus - establishing th
Clear and Present Danger
20
Shay's Rebellion
Party Purists
43. The attitudes and actions of people that sustain and buttress the political system at all levels and allows the political system to continue to work.
Supports
Freedom of Information Act
5 -000
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
44. A form of city government under which a council - usually elected on a nonpartisan ticket - hires a professional city manager - who runs the city government and has power to hire and fire officials.
Supply Side Economics
Council-Manager Plan
Balance of Payments
Writ of Certiorari
45. Once the Supreme Court justices have agreed to hear an appeal - they issue a _________________.
National Security Council
Writ of Certiorari
Charismatic authority
2
46. 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.
Ratification
Electoral College
2
Clear and Present Danger
47. ____________________ define Congressional voting districts acting within constraints set down by Congress and the Supreme Court.
State Legislatures
Creative Federalism
Liberalism
Membership
48. In WV State BOE v Barnette (1943) - the Supreme Court ruled that compelling citizens to salute the flag violates the principles of a free society - upholding which 1st Amendment rights?
Inputs
Free Exercise of Religion
Cruel and Unusual
17th
49. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Public Policies
Separate but Equal
Straight Ticket Voting
8th Amendment
50. A coherent set of beliefs about politics - public policy - and public purpose. It helps give meaning to political event - personalities - and policies.
Declining
Free Exercise Clause
Political ideology
Espionage Act