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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Assigns bills to the appropriate House committee.
Class Action Suit
Welfare State
Speaker of the House
Due Process
2. 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
Executive
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Violation of Law
Pocket Veto
3. This 1964 case established strict standards for proving slander and libel - court must prove intent of malice on the part of the publisher.
8 Million
NY Times v. Sullivan
Jury of Peers
Attorney General
4. Today the South is is a two-party battleground - in which the ______________ often have the upper hand
National Convention
Republicans
Criminal Cases
Gitlow v. New York
5. Government employees who publicly expose evidence of official waste or corruption that they have learned about in the course of their duties.
Mayflower Compact
Negative
Whistle-blowers
Incumbents
6. A place of work in which only union members may be hired.
unlimited
Closed Shop
Probable Cause
Quid Pro Quo
7. Largest interest group in the US.
AARP
Iron Triangle
Open Meeting Law
Valence issue
8. First African American appointed to the Supreme Court
Clothespin vote
Supply Side Economics
Regulatory Agencies
Thurgood Marshall
9. According to the Constitution - the electors in the Electoral College shall be appointed in a manner to be determined by the
Selective exposure
Clothespin vote
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
state legislatures
10. Most likely to board a foreign ship suspected of drug trafficking at a U.S. port
14th
Articles of Confederation
Coast Guard
Declining
11. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned contributions of soft money to______________.
7
congressional oversight committee
Blanket Primary
National Political Parties
12. Agencies that were at one time semi-autonomous but that through legislation have been placed under presidential control since 1945.
Parallel
Government Corporations
Baker v. Wingo
Right to Counsel
13. An election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election. In other words - one means by which a political party nominate candidates for the following general election.s
Establishment Clause
New Federalism
Primary
Vietnam War
14. Year of the 2nd Continental Congress.
Alien and Sedition Acts
6th Amendment
1776
Monroe Doctrine
15. Government regulation of the economy through its control over taxes and government spending. Controlled by the Department of Treasury.
Fiscal Policy
House of Representatives
Medicaid
Ex Post Facto
16. The fundamental flaw in plural theory contends that pluralism weakens the backbone of democracy with too many common interest groups attempt to wield power - often leading to standstill because of unwillingness to compromise.
Hyperpluralism
Plain View
Civil Cases
Monroe Doctrine
17. Special spending projects that are set aside on behalf of individual members of Congress for their constituents.
unlimited
Earmarks
Declining
Separate but Equal
18. In the 1990 case OR State Employment Division v. Smith 1990 - the Supreme court allowed the state to fire employees who use peyote during native American religious ceremonies because it is in violation of drug laws. In this case - which clause of the
Discharge Petition
Free Exercise Clause
Medicare
5 -000
19. The issue of slavery split the Democratic Party into what two factions?
Permanent Registration
Majority Rule
Northern and Southern
Miranda Rights
20. The action - or actions - taken by government to carry out a policy.
Party Dealignment
Governmental Corporations
Categorical Grants
Implementation
21. Colonies controlled by the British king through governors appointed by him and through the king's veto power over colonial laws.
Royal Colonies
Liberalism
Seniority System
Free Speech
22. In this essay - James Madison recognized that reconciling the competing interests of various groups was what legislation was all about
Amicus Curiae Brief
The Federalist #10
Gender Gap
Quid Pro Quo
23. The yearly value of goods and services produced within a country.
Bundling
Family
Gross Domestic Product
Enact a Bill of Rights
24. Presides over any impeachment trial.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
State Treasurer
Party Dealignment
Mark Up Session
25. In order to win support for ratification of the Constitution - the Federalists had to promise that the first order of business under a new government would be to _______________.
Enact a Bill of Rights
Judicial
Housing and Urban Development
1776
26. International agreements between the president and foreign heads of state that - unlike treaties - do not require Senate approval.
Commonwealth
Fiscal Federalism
Closed Shop
Executive Agreements
27. The body composed of electors from the 50 states who formally have the power to elect the president and vice president of the United States. Each state has a number of electors and electoral votes equal to its number of senators and representatives i
Electoral College
30
Reference Group
Woodrow Wilson
28. The right to renounce one's citizenship.
Elastic Clause
Right of Expatriation
Globalization
Vietnam War
29. This group of voters historically supported Republicans - a party founded on an anti-slavery platform. During the 1930's they began supporting the New Deal policies of the Democratic party.
Third Parties
Pork-Barrel Legislation
Baby Boomers
Blacks
30. Libel - obscenity - fighting words - and commercial speech - which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.
Closed
Safe seat
Non-protected Speech
October 1st
31. The European political philosophers whose writings influenced the concepts of liberty and government contained in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution belonged to the intellectual and cultural movement known as
Miranda Rights
The Enlightenment
Low
Great or Connecticut Compromise
32. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
Free Exercise Clause
Collective Action
Spoils System
Double Jeopardy
33. Responsible for determining which bills will be considered on the House floor - and when they will be considered.
1964 Civil Rights Act
Feedback
Majority Whip
Television
34. ________________ of the Constitution governs the relationships of the states.
Executive
3
Article IV
8th Amendment
35. This customary power allows the President to grant reprieves and pardons for federal offenses.
Electoral College
Grant Clemency
Miller v. California
Rank and File
36. The pursuit and exercise of power.
Supreme Court
Politics
Salient Agenda
Local
37. The Articles of Confederation established a ________________ legislature.
Negative
Supreme Court
Plurality
Unicameral
38. Most Americans support ______________ primarily as part of their criticism of PACs
Campaign Finance Reform
Social Contract
House of Representatives
Magna Carta
39. Under this governing document - national government lacked authority to set up tariffs - regulate commerce - levy taxes - control international relations - establish common currency
Articles of Confederation
Transportation
Alien and Sedition Acts
19th Amendment
40. Capital punishment is also known as the _________________.
Death penalty
National
Veto
Pluralist
41. 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.
Double Jeopardy
Speech Plus
Ad Hoc Structure
Woodrow Wilson
42. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Concurring Opinion
Caucus
Riders
43. Inherent powers of state governments to pass laws to protect health - safety - and welfare; the national government has no directly granted police powers but accomplishes the same goals through other delegated powers.
Police Powers
Critical Election
Negative
8 Million
44. The vagueness of this phrase has allowed juries to exclude specific genders or races in order to affect the outcome of the verdict.
Brown v. Board of Education Topeka - Kansas
Closed
Jury of Peers
Realigning Elections
45. The principle - established by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1819 in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland - that the Constitution must be interpreted flexibly to meet changing conditions.
Trustee
Flexible Construction
Suburbia
Article V
46. The power of some municipalities to modify their charters and run their affairs without approval by the state legislature.
Political Culture
Supreme Court
Home Rule
Iron Triangle
47. The pursuit and exercise of power
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Baker v. Wingo
Demands
Politics
48. The structure and set of regulations in place to control activity - usually in large organizations and government. it is represented by standardized procedure (rule-following) that dictates the execution of most or all processes within the body - for
Ad Hoc Structure
2nd Amendment
Bureaucracy
Declining
49. A plan to provide billions of dollars of American aid to Western Europe to speed its economic and social recovery after the Second World War.
State Government
Marshall Plan
Incumbents
Jus Soli
50. Independent agencies governed by an appointed and confirmed commission. Examples include the Food and Drug Administration - Environmental Protection Agency - and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Recall
Regulatory Agencies
Housing and Urban Development
Delegated Powers