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CLEP American Government
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1. Presides over any impeachment trial.
27th Amendment
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Jim Crow Laws
Patriot Act
2. The right to privacy is ___________ in the Constitution.
3
Implied
Concurrent Powers
Party Column Ballot
3. An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the publicand operate for the welfare of all.
Categorical Grants
Socialism
Closed Shop
Jim Crow Laws
4. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Unicameral
Article V
Bundling
Vice President
5. The head of a national political party
Arraignment
Political System
27th Amendment
National Chair
6. 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.
unlimited
National
Scottsboro Boys Case
6
7. These voters are registered as a party member but only participate by voting in primary and general elections. Tend to vote straight-party ticket and follow the leads of local party officials.
Rank and File
9
10th Amendment
Council-Manager Plan
8. This author of Leviathon posited that government is necessary because people are generally in a state of conflict.
Thomas Hobbes
Omaha platform
State Auditor
Small Business Administration (SBA)
9. The 1896 case of Plessy v. Fergusan established the racial segregation policy of __________________.
Royal Colonies
Separate but Equal
Bundling
Committees of Correspondence
10. Act of exchanging favors for mutual gain
Vice President
Logrolling
Natural Rights
100
11. Legislative house responsible for impeachment trials.
General Accounting Office
Exit Polls
Senate
14th Amendment
12. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
9
Tariff
Incumbents
Royal Colonies
13. The only instance in which the government can prohibit religious activities
States
Violation of Law
Liberalism
Enacted
14. The most important committees - always assembled and delegated with the responsibility of handling all bills under their concern. Includes the Ways and Means - Appropriations - Budget - Rules and Agriculture Committees.
Stare Decisis
Foreign Policy
Standing Committees
Reference Group
15. A law passed by Congress in 1973 in an effort to set a time limit on the use of combat forces abroad by a president.
Democratic-Republicans
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Decreased
War Powers Resolution
16. Which committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the Senate?
national quotas
Appropriations
Civil Liberties
Article IV
17. The Supreme Court has ruled that Congress_________________ take away a person's citizenship unless it is freely renounced.
may not
Espionage Act
Democratic-Republicans
Party Identification
18. The philosophy that government should intervene as little as possible in economic affairs.
Laissez-Faire
Oligopoly
Lose
Thomas Hobbes
19. Number of Federal District courts across 50 states - DC and Puerto Rico.
2nd Amendment
89
Critical Election
Marshall Plan
20. Important during the Revolution - these bodies organized by the local governments of the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution for the purposes of coordinating written communication outside of the colony.
District of Columbia
Lower
Espionage Act
Committees of Correspondence
21. The Supreme Court holds _____________ jurisdiction in cases against the US - ambassadors - public ministers - and consuls.
Original
Right to Work Laws
Checks and Balances
Implied
22. Proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 as an attempt to form a union of the colonies. Later used to help form the Articles of Confederation.
Department of State
Article IV
Supremacy Clause
Albany Plan
23. Law intended to promote free competition in the market place by outlawing monopolies
House of Representatives
1964 Civil Rights Act
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Antitrust Legislation
24. The Medicaid and Food Stamp programs are examples of two very large
Party Dealignment
Liberalism
14
Categorical Grants
25. 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
Bill of Attainder
Party Column Ballot
Incumbents
Independent Expenditures
26. An annual meeting held in the spring in many New England towns - at which the townspeople come together to elect a board of selectmen and to discuss local policy questions. It has become a symbol of participatory democracy.
Eminent Domain
Pure Speech
Town Meeting
Freedom of Religion
27. 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
Clear and Present Danger
Closed rule
Seniority System
Bull Moose Progressives
28. Voters in a political district - or supporters of an elected official; or interest groups or client groups that are either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions.
Constituencies
Dred Scott
Periodic Registration
Bipartisanship
29. Theory that a government requires the consent of the governed.
Political Action Committee
Social Contract
270
Foreign Policy
30. These party members tend to be ideologues who put issues ahead of winning elections and withhold support from candidates who do not share their stance on issues. Very active in special interest groups and caucuses within the party. Willing to break a
Right to Work Laws
Marbury v. Madison
Jurisdiction
Party Purists
31. Elections that may lead to a basic shift in the party identification of the electorate.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Pure Speech
Federal
Realigning Elections
32. Senators are re-elected every ___ years with 1/3 of the Senate being up for election every 2 years.
Realigning Elections
Recall
6
Office of Management and Budget
33. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Political Efficacy
Precedent
Democrats
Rhode Island
34. This category of interest groups has been the strongest and most effective in lobbying Washington
Lose
Hub and Spoke Model
Economic Interest Groups
Executive
35. Prohibits conviction of a crime that occurred before the act became illegal
Discharge Petition
Intelligence
Speech Plus
Ex Post Facto
36. The expansion of cable and satellite tv has _________________ the president's power to influence public opinion.
Republicans
Outputs
Self-Incrimination
Increased
37. A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
Lord Acton
5 -000
Welfare State
Council of Economic Advisors
38. 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
9
Joint Committees
Enumerated Powers
Patriot Act
39. This 1963 case extended the right to counsel to all felony cases.
Affirmative Action
Detente
War Powers Resolution
Gideon v. Wainwright
40. Lead by Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. Dedicated to defending federal authority and high tariffs. Gained supports of merchants - bankers - industrialists and planters.
Equal Time
Recorded Vote
Television
Whigs
41. Constitutional Article that establishes the Judicial Branch.
Procedural Due Process
Dred Scott Decision
Administrative Law
Article III
42. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Jim Crow Laws
Executive
Weber
Party Dealignment
43. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Majority Whip
Balance of Trade
Suburbia
2/3
44. A term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his own view of the relationship between Washington and the states.
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Republic
Creative Federalism
Veto
45. A system of voter registration in which voters must register every year or at other stated intervals.
Political System
Eminent Domain
national quotas
Periodic Registration
46. This influential English document signed by King John in 1215 limited the absolute power of the monarchy - established due process - and limited arbitrary seizure of property.
Mugwumps
Party of Economic Protest
Magna Carta
Negative
47. The vote cast by a person who does not like either candidate and so votes for the less objectionable of the two - putting a clothespin over his nose to keep out the unpleasant stench
Republicans
Ticket Splitters
Clothespin vote
5 -000
48. This clause of the 1st amendment establishes a 'wall of separation' between church and state.
Speech Plus
Executive Agencies
Unicameral
Establishment Clause
49. 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
Poll Tax
Diminish
527 Organization
Woodrow Wilson
50. This 1972 Supreme Court case struck down all state laws allowing the death penalty stating that they allowed for too much discretion on the part of the judge and jury resulting in lack of consistent administration of the penalty.
Commander in Chief
Furman v. Georgia
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Majority Rule
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