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CLEP American Government
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1. Established in 1947 as a combined Department of War and Navy.
Republicans
Select Committee
Lower
Defense
2. After analyzing 1 -795 platform pledges over a 10-year period - Gerald M. Pomper concluded that almost ____________ of these promises were fulfilled
2
2/3
Rank and File
Internal Efficacy
3. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Institutional
Television and Radio
Major Political Party
Political Patronage
4. Also known as the Indiana ballot - lists the candidates of each party in a row or column - beside or under the party emblem. In most cases - the voter can make one mark at the top of the column - or pull one lever - and thus vote for all the party's
Suburbia
Export Taxes
Party Column Ballot
Smith Act
5. This House committee is responsible for all taxes - tariffs - and other revenue raising measures in addition to social security - child support - Medicare - foster care - and unemployment.
Ways and Mean Committee
Committees of Correspondence
Electoral Votes
Administrative Procedure Act
6. 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
Absolute Position
Council-Manager Plan
Closed rule
Ways and Means Committee
7. The uprising of farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes that revealed the failure of the Articles of Confederation.
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8. States that arrestees must be informed of their right to remain silent - that anything they say can be held against them in a court - that they have a right to an attorney and that an attorney will be appointed to them if they cannot afford one.
Miranda Rights
Gerrymandering
4th Amendment
Baby Boomers
9. In his historic decision in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Chief Justice Marshall established the principle of _____________.
Blacks
Flexible Construction
Republicans
Negative Advertising
10. A joint committee of Congress established to help negotiate discrepancies and gain consensus between legislation passed in each house before sending the bill to the President.
4
Legislative
Cruel and Unusual
Conference Committee
11. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Enterprise Zones
Earl Warren
Non-protected Speech
Selective exposure
12. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Public Opinion
Third Parties
Town Meeting
Agriculture
13. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
Jurisdiction
89
Baker v. Wingo
Interior
14. Wisconsin Republican who exploited public concern for political gain during the 1950's through freewheeling investigations of alleged Communists.
3
Third Parties
Joseph McCarthy
Procedural Due Process
15. Committees that pull members from both the house and the senate who meet to discuss major policy issues such as economy and taxation.
Joint Committee
Labor
Focus Groups
Hatch Act
16. In California v. Avecedo (1991) - The Supreme Court established that authorities may search ____________________ without a warrant providing reasonable suspicion.
Suburbia
Clear and Present Danger
Automobiles
Interstate Compact
17. The sum of the goals - decisions - and actions that govern a nation's relations with the rest of the world.
Federalist
The Enlightenment
Foreign Policy
5 -000
18. The executive office established in response to intelligence lapses during WWI. Oversees American foreign policy and includes the President - Vice President - Secretary of State - Secretary of Defense and is lead by the National Security Advisor.
Rousseau
20th
Restrictive Covenant
National Security Council
19. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
Republicans
Felonies
Smith Act
Literacy Tests
20. 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.
Federalism
Committee of the Whole
Establishment Clause
Libertarianism
21. A system of _______________ - as in Italy - encourages the existence of many parties by allotting seats to competing candidates according to the percentage of votes they win.
Town Meeting
Proportional Representation
Court of Appeals
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
22. The practice that allows senators to delay or even kill floor action on legislation - a nomination - or other matters by asking their party leaders not to schedule them.
Hold
Senate
14th
Unicameral
23. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Interstate Compact
19th Amendment
Federal Courts
Article V
24. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Supreme Court
Murray v. Curlett
Negative
Rousseau
25. Gave authority over atomic energy from military to civilians.
Committees
Little Difference
Atomic Energy Act of 1946
Committees
26. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to states.
14th
Earl Warren
Flexible Construction
Legislative Veto
27. This event was an important factor in creating the climate for a new Constitution.
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28. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Independent expenditures
55
Republicans
New Federalism
29. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Valence issue
Creative Federalism
Interest Groups
Catholics
30. A judicial opinion agreed to by a majority of the members of a court. A majority opinion sets forth the decision of the court and an explanation of the rationale behind the court's decision.
Sub-government
Redistributive Policy
Legislative Courts
Majority Opinion
31. Term limit for House of Representatives.
Probable Cause
Electoral College
Unlimited
Judicial Activism
32. After hearings are complete - a congressional subcommittee will usually determine a bill's future in final deliberations known as
General Accounting
Rhode Island
Mark Up Session
Veto
33. After the Vietnam war - American politics entered an era of __________________ during which neither party maintained control over the government.
Party Activists
Impartial
Divided Government
Slander
34. The individuals - institutions - and processes that make the rules for society and possess the power to enforce them.
Fiscal Policy
Safe seat
State Auditor
Government
35. Committees created by Congress to conduct special investigations. Although normally temporary - some become - in effect - permanent.
Executive Agencies
Select Committee
Contract Clause
Free Exercise Clause
36. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Unlimited
CORE
Common Law
Double Jeopardy
37. A term popularized by sociologist Floyd Hunter to describe the community leaders who he said determined policy in Atlanta - Georgia. More broadly - the term is used to describe 'power elites' generally.
Social Contract
Caucus
18th Amendment
Power Structure
38. The Constitution requires that state governments - like the federal government - must be _____________ in form - with final authority resting with the people.
Bundling
Democratic
Open Meeting Law
25
39. Members of the ______________ committee of a political party work to maintain influence during non election years through congressional campaign committees.
Committees of Correspondence
National
Federal District
7
40. An opinion of one or more judges expressing disagreement with the majority opinion of the court which gives rise to its judgment.
Habeas Corpus
imprisoned
8th Amendment
Dissenting Opinion
41. First proposed in 1789 - this amendment passed in 1992 prohibits Congress from raising their own pay. Pay raises may not take affect until the beginning of the next term.
Fast Track Authority
27th Amendment
Social Security
Writ of Mandamus
42. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
Grand Jury Indictment
Logrolling
Flexible Construction
Implementation
43. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
9
Raise Public Awareness
Press Secretary
Gitlow v. New York
44. The response of the rest of society to actions by the authorities.
Article V
Feedback
Public Opinion
27th Amendment
45. This rule established by US v. Leon (1984) angered civil liberties groups by allowing exception to the Exclusionary Rule in instances where probably cause may not fully exist.
English Bill of Rights
Good Faith Exception
Murray v. Curlett
Reserved Powers
46. Walter DeVries and Lance Tarrance have concluded that in many elections the outcome is determined by ______________.
Independent
Political Patronage
Ticket Splitters
Suburbia
47. This 1932 case established that a case can be too speedy and under-counseled - providing defendants in a capital case the right to a reasonable amount of time to establish a defense.
Legislative Veto
Scottsboro Boys Case
Sub-government
Political Patronage
48. When the President's own party gains power and influence - it more puts pressure on the President to conform to the will of the party - leading to________________ between the President and the party to define their public identities
Increased competition
Republic
Elastic Clause
John F. Kennedy
49. In states using primaries - the most common form of primary election is the ___________ primary.
Closed
Fiscal Policy
Majority and Minority Leader
Clear and Present Danger
50. Laws must be administered in a fair manner.
Block Grant
Party Activists
27th Amendment
Procedural Due Process
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