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CLEP American Government
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1. The demands of and supports for a political system
Federal
Inputs
Northern and Southern
Select Committee
2. 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.
Cruel and Unusual
8th Amendment
It Failed to be Ratified
Clear and Present Danger
3. Proponents of limited government - unregulated free markets - national self-reliance - and conventional social values are best describes as
Articles of Confederation
Republicans
Raiding
Federal Appellate
4. In the 1925 Gitlow case - the Supreme Court began a process of ______________ of the Bill of Rights to the states.
CORE
Tariff
Selective Incorporation
77
5. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Political Advertising
Speaker of the House
Selective Incorporation
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
6. To an extent - the press and the government have a relationship that is _______________ and mutually dependent.
Select Committee
Probable Cause
Political Action Committee
Adversarial
7. 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
4th Amendment
Smith Act
Pre-clearance
Political ideology
8. Elections in which the majority party (according to party identification) is defeated in a temporary reversal.
3
Deviating Elections
Voting
Pentagon Papers
9. Overall spending targets set by the Congress.
1776
Budget Resolutions
Criminal Information
Closed rule
10. An ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on a sharply limited government - promoting a free market economy - a non-interventionist foreign policy - and an absence of regulation in the moral and social spheres.
4
English Bill of Rights
Libertarianism
Republicans
11. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Tammany Hall
Unlimited
Katz. v US
Secondary Group
12. These voters tend to have a high voter turnout because of their strong since of civic duty due to growing up during an era of political and civil unrest.
Mugwumps
Blacks
Baby Boomers
2nd Amendment
13. The oldest House committee still in existence.
Ways and Means Committee
Primary
Public Policy
Commission Plan
14. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
14th Amendment
Free Exercise
Straight Ticket Voting
Salient Agenda
15. 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.
Decreased
Unlimited
Quota Sampling
Situational
16. Minor criminal offenses - such as speeding.
Dynamic Conservatism
Mark Up Session
Misdemeanors
Delegate
17. The practice of victorious politicians to reward their followers with jobs. Also known as the spoils system.
Political Patronage
binding
Campaign Finance Reform
Appealed
18. The Jacksonian Era marked an important change in the process used to nominate Presidential candidates with the emergence of party _________________ - eliminating caucuses.
Recorded Vote
Conventions
Ratification
Baron de Montesquieu
19. Prompted by FDR's 4th election to the Presidency - the 22nd Amendment limited the number of Presidential terms to _____ terms.
Implied
Office of Management and Budget
Mark Up Session
2
20. 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
Government
Judicial
Regulatory Agencies
Speech Plus
21. Judicial Check on Legislative Branch. Not specifically outlined in the Constitution - but established in the case of Marbury v. Madison through the application of the Supremacy Clause in Article VI.
Mayor-Council Plan
Judicial Review
Political Culture
Administrative Law
22. The total group from which poll-takers may select a random sample in order to measure public opinion.
Fixed
Universe
Monetary Policy
Iron Triangle
23. 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
Economic Interest Groups
Republicans
Quid Pro Quo
Negative
24. In the Federalist Papers - James Madison proposed that the states under the new Constitution would retain ____________ sovereignty.
Maintaining Elections
Residual
Implied
Containment
25. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Chief Justice
Due Process
Federal
Probable Cause
26. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Probable Cause
Ways and Means Committee
Dies
Foreign Policy
27. The ______________________ were formed to unite the colonists against Britain.
Committees of Correspondence
Lower
English Bill of Rights
Permanent Registration
28. The introductory statement of the U.S. Constitution - setting forth the general principles of American government and beginning with the words - 'We the people of the United States - in order to form a more perfect union. ...'
Permanent Registration
Preamble
General Accounting Office
3
29. Formerly known as the Anti-Federalist - this party lead by Thomas Jefferson advocated states rights pressing the causes of the common people and agrarian interest. Dominated the political arena until the Civil War.
Democratic-Republicans
Plain View
Commander in Chief
Governmental Corporations
30. The Supreme Court holds _____________ jurisdiction in cases against the US - ambassadors - public ministers - and consuls.
Right of Expatriation
Original
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Mixed Economy
31. President Hoover's laissez-faire approach to the economy during the Great Depression left many poor voters disenfranchised by the Republican Party. They left to join the _______________ Party.
Committees
Party Dealignment
Democratic
Committees of Correspondence
32. Most states have ___________ legislatures.
Democracy
John F. Kennedy
Bicameral
Permanent Registration
33. Department established in 1988 by President G.H. Bush.
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34. The Supreme Court is the only judicial body that may hear disputes between _________________.
States
Original Jurisdiction
President Pro Tempore
Focus Groups
35. Practice by which voters of one party crossing over and voting in the primary of another party - effectively allowing a party to help choose its opposition's candidate.
Demands
Raiding
Substantive Due Process
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
36. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Suburbia
Republicans
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Quid Pro Quo
37. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
congressional oversight committee
Nuclear Proliferation
Flexible Construction
Third Parties
38. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
Politics
Presidential Ticket
Reynolds v. Sims
Nuclear Proliferation
39. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
Separate but Equal
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Residual
3
40. A group of independent states or nations that come together for a common purpose and whose central authority is usually limited to defense and foreign relations.
de facto
Confederation
Ticket Splitters
Instructed Delegate
41. After analyzing 1 -795 platform pledges over a 10-year period - Gerald M. Pomper concluded that almost ____________ of these promises were fulfilled
2/3
Common Sense
Executive Privilege
Concurrent
42. The philosophy that government should intervene as little as possible in economic affairs.
Laissez-Faire
Containment
Original Jurisdiction
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
43. This branch of government checks Bureaucracy through its control over the creation and elimination of agencies as well as its control over budget appropriations.
Royal Colonies
Legislative
Closed
18th Amendment
44. The concentration of economic power in the hands of a relatively few large companies.
Budget Resolution
Critical Election
Custom
Oligopoly
45. Article I of the Constitution establishes the ___________________ branch.
Selective Incorporation
Public Opinion
Open
Legislative
46. Prompted by the ____________________ - the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
House Standing Committees
Natural Rights
Vietnam War
Nationalism
47. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
Detente
Raise Public Awareness
Dred Scott Decision
Lafolette's Progressive s
48. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
25
100
Roth v. US
Sub-committee
49. ____________________ define Congressional voting districts acting within constraints set down by Congress and the Supreme Court.
State Legislatures
Speech Plus
Gross Domestic Product
Low
50. California measure designed to deny welfare and other benefits to illegal aliens. Overwhelmingly passed the popular vote - but overturned in federal court because it extending beyond the bounds of state rights to attempt to control immigration.
Proposition 187
Council of Economic Advisors
Rousseau
Commission Plan