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CLEP American Government
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1. A powerful alliance of mutual benefit among an agency or unit of the government - an interest group - and a committee or subcommittee of Congress. Also called a triangle or a subgovernment.
Baron v. Baltimore
Iron Triangle
Rules Committee
legislative and executive
2. Prompted by FDR's 4th election to the Presidency - the 22nd Amendment limited the number of Presidential terms to _____ terms.
Policy
Majority Rule
2
Lyndon B. Johnson
3. Things government decides to do - example: taxation - crime control - national defense - education - etc.
Slander
State Treasurer
20th
Public Policies
4. The concept that all people are of equal worth - even if not of equal ability.
Wallace's Progressives
Literacy Tests
Random Sample
Equality
5. The expansion of cable and satellite tv has _________________ the president's power to influence public opinion.
Lower
7
Focus Groups
Increased
6. Disapproval of a bill by a chief executive - such as the president or a governor.
Soft money
Veto
Due Process
4
7. _____________ is responsible for monetary policy.
States
Tariff
The Federal Reserve Board
Implied Powers
8. 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.
Recall
1st Amendment
Council-Manager Plan
Selective Incorporation
9. The 1892 platform of the Populist party repudiating laissez-faire and demanding economic and political reform
Omaha platform
Interest Groups
Concurring Opinion
Iron Triangle
10. The permanent committees of a legislature that consider bills and conduct hearings and investigations.
Bureaucracy
Magna Carta
Standing Committees
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
11. Members of this party typically include Conservative Christian groups - higher socio-economic classes - middle-class white collar - and suburban voters.
12th Amendment
Legislative
Political Advertising
Republican
12. An offical who is expected to represent the views of his or her constituents even when personally holding different views; one interpretation of the role of the legislator
Policy
Article VI
Enumerated Powers
Delegate
13. Cabinet department responsible for insuring mortgages and providing housing subsidies. Established in 1965
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Housing and Urban Development
Due Process of Law
Supreme Court
14. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
General Accounting Office
Electoral Votes
Realigning Elections
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
15. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Independent expenditures
Jus Soli
Political Action Committees
Blacks
16. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
October 1st
Interest groups
Trustee
435
17. It the job of _________ committees of a political party to hold voter registration drives - recruit new party members and final candidates for city and county positions.
Local
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Conventions
Family
18. Capital punishment is also known as the _________________.
Separation of Powers
Social Security
Social Regulation
Death penalty
19. David R. Mayhew has suggested that this influences congressional behavior. The ________________ is the relationship between members of Congress and their constituents.
Electoral Connection
8th Amendment
Tammany Hall
17th
20. Programs of government - universities - and businesses designed to favor minorities and remedy past discrimination.
8th Amendment
Third Parties
Legislative
Affirmative Action
21. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.
Cabinet
Rousseau
Speaker of the House
Republic
22. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Writ of Mandamus
1776
Detente
Quota Sampling
23. Signed the executive order banning segregation in the armed forces.
Truman
Death penalty
Selective Incorporation
Appealed
24. 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.
Libel
Socialism
Probable Cause
Gideon v. Wainwright
25. The FCC's equal time policy applies to _____________.
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Concurring Opinion
Political Advertising
Civil Cases
26. Colonies in which freely elected legislatures chose the governor and the king could not veto laws.
Charter Colonies
Select Committee
Inverse
1776
27. Established the Federal Reserve Bank - responsible for conducting the nation's monetary policy - maintaining the stability of the financial system - supervising and regulating banking institutions - and protecting the credit rights of consumers - and
de jure
Woodrow Wilson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Electoral College
28. Term limit for House of Representatives.
Trustee
Federal
Unlimited
Impoundment
29. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Democrats
2nd Amendment
Delegate
Federal Register
30. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Committee of the Whole
Negative
House of Representatives
Procedural Due Process
31. Article VI - Paragraph 2 - of the Constitution - which declares that the Constitution - and the laws and treaties of the United States made under it - are 'the supreme Law of the Land' and prevail over any conflicting state constitutions or laws.
Public hearing
House of Representatives
Supremacy Clause
Ways and Means Committee
32. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
Negative
25
a senior senator of the majority party
Interest Groups
33. In charge of all state funds. Supervises the collection of taxes and payment of state's bill
18th Amendment
Earmarks
Mark Up Session
State Treasurer
34. A declaration by the President in 1823 that warned European powers to keep out of the Western Hemisphere and pledged that the United States would not intervene in the internal affairs of Europe.
Antitrust Legislation
Export Taxes
Political ideology
Monroe Doctrine
35. Judges in Legislative Courts serve _______ terms and do not require impeachment.
Fixed
House of Representatives
Civil Liberties
John Locke
36. American politics is dominated by a small ___________ who is responsible for most of the important policy decisions
Elite
Hyperpluralism
Caucus
imprisoned
37. An unwritten custom by which individual senators who belong to the same political party as the president exercise an informal veto power over presidential appointments in their states.
Joseph McCarthy
Enact a Bill of Rights
Senatorial Courtesy
Deficit
38. The possible tendency of some voters or convention delegates to support the candidate who is leading in the polls and seems likely to win.
Ad Hoc Structure
Bandwagon
Decreased
Committees of Correspondence
39. 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.
Article II
89
Public Opinion
Raiding
40. This contraversial 2001 law allows anti-terrorism authorities to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The government argues that cyberspace is public domain and that no warrants should be needed to access informa
Party Identification
President Pro Tempore
Patriot Act
Party Activists
41. Lead by Theodore Roosevelt - this party platform focused on women's suffrage - social reform - fair business practices - and direct election of senators. The won 25% of the popular vote in 1911 - splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Wo
Patriot Act
Government
Bull Moose Progressives
Safe seat
42. This 1967 Supreme Court case prohibited illegal eavesdropping and extending the zone of privacy to include the home - office - person - and immediate public arena.
Appropriations
2
Katz. v US
Categorical Grant
43. ______________________is responsible for the management of the federal debt and the printing of currency. It is the major fiscal policy agency.
Department of Treasury
Court of Appeals
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
55
44. A procedural rule in the House of Representatives that prohibits any amendment to bills or provides that only memebers of the committee reporting the bill may offer amendments
Nationalism
Fixed
Closed rule
Seniority System
45. Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman (1979) upheld that bussing programs were an acceptable way to enforce ______________________.
School Desegregation
Petit Jury
Electoral Votes
State Auditor
46. At one time - the press generally refrained from publishing personal information that would be damaging. FDR - Eisenhower - and JFK all benefited from this reluctance to engage in _____________________. However - the American publics appetite for sen
Catholics
Espionage Act
Political System
Scandal Mongering
47. A jury of 6 to 12 persons who determine guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action
Policy Making Cycle
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Petit Jury
2/3
48. Petition that - if signed by a majority of the members of the House of Representatives - will pry a bill from committee and bring it to the floor for consideration
Liberalism
Office of Management and Budget
Discharge Petition
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
49. Most states have ___________ legislatures.
Enact a Bill of Rights
Bicameral
CORE
congressional oversight committee
50. Redefined Presidential succession and disability.
Political Machines
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
25th Amendment
Antitrust Legislation
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