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CLEP American Government
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1. These two Senate standing committees have existed - largely unchanged - since 1816.
Ad Hoc Structure
New Federalism
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
General Accounting Office
2. 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.
Free Speech
AARP
House of Representatives
Seniority System
3. Laws on Schools - Marriage - and owning property;Licensee Lawyers - Doctors - and Teachers.
Inputs
imprisoned
State Government
Rhode Island
4. In Woodson v. North Carolina - the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing of capital punishment as ______________________ because it does not allow for any discretion.
Decreased
Cabinet
Instructed Delegate
Cruel and Unusual
5. The overall public has a ___________ view of PACS in terms of bought votes and adding to the cost of running for office
Negative
Politics
Entitlement Spending
State
6. 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.
Democratic
Nuclear Proliferation
National
Coast Guard
7. 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.
Plain View
Two Trial
Freedom of Information Act
Committees of Correspondence
8. A term often used to describe the economic and political ties between the military establishment and the defense-aerospace industry.
Majority Rule
Strategic Deterrence
Military-Industrial Complex
Jus Soli
9. The 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act - the 1965 Highway Beautification Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act are all examples of ____________________.
Regulatory Federalism
Decreased
Democracy
Unicameral
10. Most modern political scientists believe there is ________________ between politics and government.
Little Difference
Habeas Corpus
Catholics
Federal
11. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned contributions of soft money to______________.
Regulatory Federalism
National Political Parties
Government
Globalization
12. Voting based on looking back and making judgments about the way things have gone and the kind of government experienced during a political leader's time in office.
presidential line-item veto
12
Retrospective Voting
55
13. When the population's overall feeling of political efficacy is low - voter turnout is _______.
Select Committee
Low
Commander in Chief
Plurality
14. 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 -
9
New Jersey Plan
Senate Standing Committees
Establishment Clause
15. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Due Process
9
Gross Domestic Product
1776
16. Most states have ___________ legislatures.
Council of Economic Advisors
Bicameral
Selective Incorporation
7
17. A power of the president to kill a bill by taking no action (if Congress adjourns during the 10-day period after the president receives the bill). Some court rulings have suggested that a president may exercise a pocket veto only when Congress adjour
Pocket Veto
Globalization
Grand Jury Indictment
Lord Acton
18. Total number of Representatives apportioned to the states based on population and reapportioned with the census every 10 years
435
20
Criminal Information
Joint Chiefs of Staff
19. An economy in which most economic decisions result from the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets - but in which the government plays a significant role in the allocation of resources.
Soft money
Mixed Economy
Line-Item Veto
Libertarianism
20. Legislative house whose members were intended to represent the people.
House of Representatives
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Closed
21. Units of government under the president - within the executive branch - that are not part of a cabinet department.
Executive Agencies
Parallel
Affirmative Action
Regulatory Federalism
22. 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
Labor
Public Administration
Federal Appellate
23. Senators have a __________ rate of re-election than Representatives primarily because of their larger constituency and lack of direct involvement with them.
Declining
a senior senator of the majority party
Independent
Lower
24. Leader of the House of Representatives - elected by the majority party. 2nd in line of succession for the Presidency.
Balancing Test
Enumerated Powers
Speaker of the House
Fast Track Authority
25. The 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that prompted King George III's Prohibitory Act and the sending of mercenaries to the colonies.
Libertarianism
Supply Side Economics
3
Common Sense
26. American politics is dominated by a small ___________ who is responsible for most of the important policy decisions
Elite
Parallel
External Efficacy
Gross Domestic Product
27. A federal law passed by Congress in 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers. The law prevents federal employees while on duty from taking an active part in party politics or campaigns and also bars federal employees from running for
Pure Speech
Free Rider
Collective Action
Hatch Act
28. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
Unicameral
Scandal Mongering
New Jersey Plan
8 Million
29. Lobbyists for special interest groups have found ____________________ to be the most direct and effective method to secure their objectives in Congress.
Balance of Trade
state legislatures
Campaign Contributions
25
30. In Johnson v. Texas (1989) - the Supreme Court ruled that burning the flag in a manner that does not pose a threat to people or property is allowed as this type of freedom of speech.
Speech Plus
Democrats
Common Sense
Mixed Economy
31. A system in which the national government sets requirements that are then implemented by state and local governments.
Redistributive Policy
Electoral Votes
Civil War Amendments
Regulatory Federalism
32. Which office serves as a watchdog into waste or fraud in the bureaucracy and conducts investigations at the request of congressional committees
Pork Barrel Spending
Scottsboro Boys Case
General Accounting
Jury of Peers
33. After analyzing 1 -795 platform pledges over a 10-year period - Gerald M. Pomper concluded that almost ____________ of these promises were fulfilled
Foreign Policy
2/3
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Town Meeting
34. Which two British Acts - passed in 1764 - caused American colonists for the first time to organize protests against the injustices of British rule - and sparked the rallying cry 'no taxation without representation'?
Supreme Court
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
Cabinet
Petit Jury
35. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
Export Taxes
1776
Writ of Assistance
NY Times v. Sullivan
36. A compulsory national insurance program - financed by taxes on employers and employees. The insurance falls into four categories: old-age and survivors insurance - disability insurance - Medicare - and unemployment insurance.
Party Purists
Proposition 187
Town Meeting
Social Security
37. During the 1800's and early 1900's - some state and local party committees became ________________ dominating party activities. Committee members would promise new recruits money - jobs - and other benefits for joining and voting the straight party t
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Social Regulation
Political Machines
Budget Resolution
38. Courts of original jurisdiction in federal crimes - civil suits under federal law - civil suits between citizens of different states where the amount in question exceeds $50 -000 - bankruptcy proceedings - cases involving some federal administrative
National Political Parties
Police Powers
Federal District
English Bill of Rights
39. The view advocated by Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas that there are provisions of the Bill of Rights that cannot be diluted by judicial decisions.
National Security
Gideon v. Wainwright
Common Law
Absolute Position
40. Federal and State Courts function in a _____________manner so that federal courts may receive appeals from state courts.
Parallel
National
Energy
Dred Scott Decision
41. Head of the Supreme Court.
Government
Authorizations
17th
Chief Justice
42. Executive office responsible for negotiating trade with foreign powers.
US Trade Representatives
Pluralist
Republicans
Pass the fundraising threshold
43. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
Containment
Committees of Correspondence
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Rhode Island
44. 1974 Act mandating that all government files about private citizens be kept confidential.
Populous
Privacy Act
Parallel
President Pro Tempore
45. 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.
Electoral College
Monroe Doctrine
Bill of Attainder
Ways and Means Committee
46. 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.
Foreign Policy
Majority and Minority Leader
Strategic Deterrence
Speech Plus
47. To an extent - the press and the government have a relationship that is _______________ and mutually dependent.
Select Committee
Suburbia
Adversarial
Concurrent
48. Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors - subject to the king's approval.
8th Amendment
Proprietary Colonies
Omaha platform
Rules Committee
49. Form of obstruction in the Senate where an attempt is made to infinitely extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay the progress or completely prevent a vote on the proposal taking place.
Independent Expenditures
Bipartisanship
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Filibuster
50. 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
2nd Amendment
Clear and Present Danger
Thurgood Marshall
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