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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing - pictures
Inputs
2/3
Slander
Libertarianism
2. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Cabinet
Katz. v US
Furman v. Georgia
Creative Federalism
3. Requires that a suspect in a federal case be arraigned without unnecessary delay.
Mallory Rule
Joint Committees
Welfare State
Gerrymandering
4. In presidential campaigns - federal matching funds are provided to candidates who ______________.
Free Exercise Clause
Judicial Restraint
Pass the fundraising threshold
Block Grant
5. People may vote in a party's primary only if they are registered members of that party. Independents cannot participate. Note that because some political parties name themselves independent - the term 'non-partisan' often replaces 'independent' when
Republican
Agriculture
Situational
Closed
6. 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
Members of Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Vice President
Writ of Assistance
7. German sociologist theorized that the engine of government needs bureaucracies to provide expertise in a way that short-term elected or appointed official cannot.
Soft money
Thurgood Marshall
Max Weber
Transportation
8. 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
Suburbia
Public Bills
Discharge Petition
General Election
9. Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors - subject to the king's approval.
Proprietary Colonies
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Right of Expatriation
Poll Tax
10. The 24th amendment banned _____________ - making it harder for states to discriminate against poor and minority voters.
Legislative Veto
Members of Congress
8th Amendment
Poll Tax
11. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Redistributive Policy
State Auditor
Poll Tax
Executive Agreements
12. 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
Writ of Certiorari
Divided Government
Attorney General
Social Regulation
13. Ruling by the Supreme Court in 1954 that racial segregation in public schools violates the Fourteenth Amendment's requirement of equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Baby Boomers
Interior
Political Efficacy
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
14. Federal categorical grants in which the granting agency has much discretion over how the recipient spends the money.
Chief Justice
Judicial Review
Felonies
Project Grant
15. Electoral college system and other campaign practices make it exceedingly difficult for even popular ______________ candidates to successfully run for the presidency.
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Budget Resolutions
Third Party
Pure Speech
16. Formal approval or consent given to a constitution - constitutional amendment - or treaty before it goes into effect.
Supreme Court
Libertarianism
Ratification
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17. The case of Gregg v. Georgia set the precedent for a ________________ system in which guilt and sentencing and tried separately.
Non-protected Speech
Northern and Southern
Two Trial
Deficit
18. 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.
Gross Domestic Product
Democratic
Catholics
Article III
19. Guarantees the right to a civil trial by jury.
Petition of Right
7th Amendment
Intelligence
Due Process of Law
20. Government regulation of the economy through its control over taxes and government spending. Controlled by the Department of Treasury.
Judicial Review
Fiscal Policy
Republican
Pendleton Civil Service Act
21. The elected position of President pro tempore of the Senate is almost always held by
Shay's Rebellion
a senior senator of the majority party
Delegated Powers
Deviating Elections
22. This called for three-fifths of all slaves in a state were counted for purposes of apportioning representation in the House of Representatives.
Bundling
Regulatory Federalism
Great Compromise
Great or Connecticut Compromise
23. Legislature bills that affect all citizens.
Issue network
Proprietary Colonies
Public Bills
Ratification
24. Agencies that were at one time semi-autonomous but that through legislation have been placed under presidential control since 1945.
Government Corporations
Capitalism
Conference Committee
Pork-Barrel Legislation
25. Baby boomers - women - and voters with higher levels of education tend to have a ____________ voter turnout.
Unlimited
High
Public hearing
Elite
26. 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.
Articles of Confederation
Internal Efficacy
Clear and Present Danger
Low
27. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
8 Million
School Desegregation
Sub-committee
Libel
28. Prohibits conviction of a crime that occurred before the act became illegal
Miranda Rights
Ex Post Facto
Baker v. Wingo
Literacy Tests
29. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
Caucus
Caucus
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Supreme Court
30. A study of Bennington College students in the 1930s illustrated that the influence of the family on political attitudes tends to ______________ as they grow older and come into contact with other groups.
Cold War
Confirmed
Clean bill
Diminish
31. Clause in the 14th Amendment that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The 5th Amendment also imposes this limitation on the national government.
Equal Protection Clause
Soft Money
Democrats
Major Political Party
32. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
Coordinated Spending
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Supreme Court
Veteran's Affairs
33. Voters tendency to identify with a party that shares their views on important issues ignoring the party's stance on issues they deem less important. to be life-long unless there is a major change in the party's platform. 2. Influenced by ra
Party Identification
Incumbents
Enacted
Conference Committee
34. In the area of foreign affairs - _______________ often have the advantage because
Inputs
Republicans
Free Speech
Line-Item Veto
35. Permitted court authorized wire-tapping and bugging by federal - state - and local authorities and use of such evidence in trial. Later reversed by the Supreme Court based on 4th Amendment rights.
Magna Carta
John F. Kennedy
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
7th Amendment
36. The only amendments to be ratified through the process of 'ratifying conventions -' not a vote in the state legislatures
Bill of Rights
Logrolling
Mayflower Compact
Free Exercise Clause
37. ______________ refers to the differences in political attitudes and voting behavior between men and women
Republicans
Pentagon Papers
Gender Gap
Social Security
38. The 1803 case in which the Supreme Court - by declaring a portion of an act of Congress unconstitutional - first firmly set forth and established the power of judicial review.
Violation of Law
Marbury v. Madison
Executive
State of the Union
39. A group of people - chosen by poll-takers - that is representative of the universe that is being polled.
Referendum
Rules Committee
Stare Decisis
Random Sample
40. 1798 Act that criminalized speech that was derisive to the government. Later ruled unconstitutional - Andrew Jackson issued blanket pardon in 1801
Elite
Alien and Sedition Acts
Grant Clemency
State Legislatures
41. Urban or rural areas in which businesses are encouraged to locate because of tax breaks and other incentives.
Political Party
Enterprise Zones
Democratic
Plurality
42. The power of the president - struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998 - to veto parts of appropriations bills. Most state governors have this power.
Enact a Bill of Rights
Judicial Restraint
Blacks
Line-Item Veto
43. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
25
Senate
Caucus
Capitalism
44. ________ of voters identify with one political party in advance of the campaign.
2
de facto
Hold
2/3
45. A tax on voting abolished by the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964 - long used by southern states to keep blacks (and - in some cases - poor whites) from participating in elections.
AARP
Democratic
Poll Tax
Creative Federalism
46. When neither political party is dominant.
Strategic Deterrence
Free Exercise Clause
Espionage Act
Party Dealignment
47. 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.
Separate but Equal
Smith Act
Balance of Trade
Absolute Position
48. Article I of the Constitution establishes the ___________________ branch.
Trustee
Legislative
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
49. Puerto Rico has ____________ status.
14th
Unitary System
Commonwealth
Electoral Votes
50. The 1892 platform of the Populist party repudiating laissez-faire and demanding economic and political reform
Majority Rule
Omaha platform
8 Million
Oligopoly