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CLEP American Government
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1. 19th century case establishing that the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government - upheld until the 20th century. Ruling allowed stated to engage in activities such as establishing state churches and denying public office to people of ce
16th Amendment
Supply Side Economics
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Baron v. Baltimore
2. Article VII of the Constitution outlines the process of ____________________.
Right of Expatriation
Permanent Registration
Ratification
Local
3. Which historical figure described democracy as 'the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time?'
Caucuses
Winston Churchill
Universe
Interest groups
4. PACs may donate a ______________ amount of indirect or in-kind donations to a campaign. (Ex. placing ads to support their candidate)
Unlimited
Instructed Delegate
Pentagon Papers
Joint Committees
5. Process by which citizens propose an amendment by petition.
Constitutional Initiative
Constituencies
Senate
Executive
6. Independent organizations - but more often the political arms of corporations - labor unions - or interest groups - established to contribute to candidates or to work for general political goals.
Non-protected Speech
AARP
Agriculture
Political Action Committees
7. The relationship between the total cost of foreign goods imported to this country and sales of U.S. products overseas.
Separate but Equal
Civil Liberties
Balance of Trade
National Security
8. Belief in the value of strong government to provide economic secruity and protection for civil rights - combined with a belief in personal freedom from government intervention in social conduct
Liberalism
Legislative Veto
Bicameral
Issue Networks
9. In charge of all state funds. Supervises the collection of taxes and payment of state's bill
Judicial Selection
Federal District
Decreased
State Treasurer
10. Between conventions - the governing body of a major political party. Members of this group are chosen in the states and formally elected by the party
Speaker of the House
Entitlement Spending
National Committee
Appropriations
11. Programs are designed to give preferential access to education - employment - health care - or social welfare to groups of people - especially minorities and women - who have historically been discriminated against.
Affirmative Action
Conglomerates
Ad Hoc Structure
Legislative Courts
12. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
2nd Amendment
Political Culture
Clear and Present Danger
Third Parties
13. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Social Contract
Probable Cause
Ratification
Impoundment
14. The right to privacy is ___________ in the Constitution.
Party Regulars
Implied
Free Exercise Clause
Negative
15. Congress' first step towards allocating funds
Private Bills
Authorizations
Bill of Rights
Capitalism
16. A controversial law overwhelmingly passed by Congress in October 2001 - after the terrorist attacks of September 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It greatly expanded the power of federal law enforcement authorities to move against suspe
Flexible Construction
Writ of Certiorari
Inputs
Patriot Act
17. Spending determined by the number of qualified recipients and their legally determined need is called
Absolute Position
Entitlement Spending
Realigning Elections
Capitalism
18. The strongest factor contributing to an individual's political socialization tends to be
Family
Closed
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Categorical Grant
19. In Sweatt v. Painter (1950) - The Supreme Court upheld that ___________________ was inherently not the case as is applied to the University of Texas Law School.
Nuclear Proliferation
Separate but Equal
Recorded Vote
Delegate
20. Limitations on this freedom including prohibition of defamation and obscenity - limitation on commercial speech - and restriction of inciting words that may cause immediate danger.
Misdemeanors
Earmarks
State of the Union
Freedom of Speech
21. Several Presidents have been elected without winning the popular vote. As a result - In 1970 and 1979 - Amendments were proposed to disband the ______________ - neither passed.
Government
Electoral College
7
Royalists
22. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Double Jeopardy
Conference Committee
Confirmed
Political Socialization
23. During the period from 1976 to 1824 - This party was lead by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. They wanted a stronger national government that would rectify the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation. Their supporters held a stronghold in New
Mixed Economy
Federalist
General Purpose Grants
Pre-clearance
24. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Separate but Equal
Appealed
Pure Speech
Delegated Powers
25. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.
Exclusionary Rule
Television
Select Committee
Bureaucracy
26. 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
Coast Guard
Office Column Ballot
Woodrow Wilson
Cloture
27. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
Periodic Registration
Democratic-Republicans
Earl Warren
Incumbents
28. 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.
Regulatory Agencies
Concurring Opinion
Absolute Position
House of Representatives
29. A system in which national and state governments are competitors with distinct powers. This system was prominent in the US from the during the 19th century until 1937.
Standing Committees
Council-Manager Plan
Dual / Layer Cake Federalism
binding
30. 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.
Exclusionary Rule
Transnational Relations
Confederation
Dark Horse
31. Early civil rights leader established the Niagara Movement and helped to establish the NAACP.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Delegated Powers
Warrant
Legislative
32. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Literacy Tests
School Desegregation
de facto
Supreme Court
33. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Republicans
Executive Agreements
Muckrakers
Seniority System
34. An act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Constitutionally prohibited.
Bill of Attainder
Initiative
Libel
Government Corporations
35. Plan that proposed bicameral legislature where states were to have representation based on size in both houses.
Bill of Rights
Vice President
Virginia Plan
Concurrent
36. Powerful standing committee that puts bills on the legislative calendar and establishes the processes by which the bill will be discussed on the floor.
Government
5 -000
Rules Committee
Open rule
37. First Executive Branch
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Reverse Discrimination
Department of State
Cabinet
38. Committees of Congress composed of both representatives and senators.
Joint Committees
Low
Whip
Ratification
39. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
Shay's Rebellion
8th Amendment
Deficit
Miller v. California
40. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Implementation
Gender Gap
Free Rider
Secondary Group
41. In the view of W. Lance Bennett - the people who hold and express opinions are constantly changing - as are the issues and conditions to which the public responds. As a result - Bennett suggests that public opinion is______________.
Northern and Southern
Dark Horse
Salient Agenda
Situational
42. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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43. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
Republicans
Senate
527 Organization
Pendleton Civil Service Act
44. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Membership
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Cluster Sampling
Original
45. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
1776
Establishment Clause
Civilian Supremacy
Universe
46. In this 1972 case - the Supreme Court established four guidelines for determining if a trial was appropriately speedy and fair: cause of delay - length of delay - affect on the outcome - and the defendant's claim to a speedy trial.
Baker v. Wingo
de facto
It Failed to be Ratified
Referendum
47. An economic philosophy that advocates both tax and budget cuts to increase incentives to produce in order to expand the total supply of the nation's goods and services.
Exclusionary Rule
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Supply Side Economics
Caucus
48. ____________________ define Congressional voting districts acting within constraints set down by Congress and the Supreme Court.
Oligopoly
Deviating Elections
Lyndon B. Johnson
State Legislatures
49. Approximately 33% of American voters identify themselves as _______________ party.
Independent
Federalism
Veto
Diminish
50. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 restructured the number of ______________ in both the House and Senate.
President
Committees
Suburbia
Third Parties
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