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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Senate Standing Committees
Implied Powers
Jim Crow Laws
Third Parties
2. Author of The Spirit of the Laws advocating balance of power in politics with liberty is dependant upon a separation of the judicial - legislative - and executive branches of government.
Dynamic Conservatism
Gitlow v. New York
Baron de Montesquieu
Judicial
3. A policy that takes something away from one person and gives it to someone else -
Civil War Amendments
Low
Redistributive Policy
2
4. Assistants to the Majority and Minority Leaders of both the House and Senate.
Civilian Supremacy
Lower
14th Amendment
Whips
5. 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.
Low
Contract Clause
Pocket Veto
27th Amendment
6. This 1689 English Document made the monarch
Enumerated Powers
English Bill of Rights
Party Column Ballot
Ratification
7. Population migration patterns since the second World War have increased the power of _____________.
Suburbia
Civil Cases
Equal Protection Clause
Pendleton Civil Service Act
8. A system of voter registration in which voters must register only once in their district.
Dred Scott Decision
Permanent Registration
Isolationism
Implied
9. Guaranteed women the right to vote.
Great Compromise
Entitlement Spending
Quid Pro Quo
19th Amendment
10. In this case - a gay man from Georgia charged with committing sodomy in his own home with a consenting adult. The court ruled that the Constitution does not explicitly grant the right for homosexuals to practice their lifestyle and that laws against
Free Exercise of Religion
House of Representatives
Secretary of State
Bowers v. Hardwick
11. Age Requirement for House of Representatives.
Secretary of State
Political Action Committee
Smith Act
25
12. This customary power allows the President to grant reprieves and pardons for federal offenses.
New Jersey Plan
Joseph McCarthy
Hatch Act
Grant Clemency
13. Overturning unjust laws is the responsibility of _________________.
6
Articles of Confederation
a senior senator of the majority party
Supreme Court
14. Guarantees that an accused in innocent until proven guilty.
Supports
Smith Act
Monetary Policy
8th Amendment
15. A legislative leader of each party who is responsible for rounding up party members for important votes.
Whip
Court of Appeals
Public Policies
Deficit
16. The oldest House committee still in existence.
Monopoly
Project Grant
Ways and Means Committee
House of Representatives
17. Cabinet department responsible for managing school lunch programs and food safety. Established in 1862.
Agriculture
Wallace's Progressives
14th Amendment
Valence issue
18. The absent colony at the 2nd Continental Congress.
Patriot Act
Baby Boomers
Great Compromise
Rhode Island
19. Smith v. Allwight (1994) was the first vase in which the Supreme Court upheld the voting rights of _____________ in state primary elections.
Conservatism
Recall
General Accounting
Blacks
20. Provisions tacked on to a piece of legislation that are not relevant to the bill.
Freedom of Speech
Riders
Interest Groups
Public Policies
21. The period of time after the election of FDR until the Vietnam War was dominated by the Democratic Party and know as the __________________ Era.
New Deal Era
Attorney General
Magna Carta
Judicial Selection
22. _____________ are expected to specialize in a few policy areas rather than claim expertise in the whole range of legislative concerns
Article III
Members of Congress
Article IV
presidential line-item veto
23. Economists generally agree that the major responsibility for promoting prosperity and full employment falls on ________________.
9
Fiscal Policy
Government
Maintaining Elections
24. A legal principle of fair dealing - which may provide preventive measures and legal remedies that are unavailable under existing common law and statutory law.
Voting
Equity
Spoiler Candidate
Automobiles
25. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
Raise Public Awareness
Selective Incorporation
Party Regulars
Senior Executive Service
26. First Executive Branch
Department of State
House of Representatives
Impartial
Separate but Equal
27. This body of government has final authority on the meaning of the Constitution.
Writ of Certiorari
National Security Council
Standing Committees
Supreme Court
28. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Elastic Clause
October 1st
Council-Manager Plan
Political ideology
29. Form of obstruction in the Senate where an attempt is made to infinitely extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay the progress or completely prevent a vote on the proposal taking place.
congressional oversight committee
Class Action Suit
Labor
Filibuster
30. A method of polling - considered less reliable than a random sample - in which interviewers are instructed to question members of a particular group in proportion to their percentage in the population as a whole.
Quota Sampling
Equal Time
Administrative Law
National Supremacy
31. 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.
Policy
Tariff
Select Committee
Hyperpluralism
32. 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
Freedom of Information Act
Exit Polls
presidential line-item veto
Closed rule
33. The Supreme Court's broad interpretation of this clause has denied direct aid from the government for religious groups - but does allow religious groups to make use of government services such as police and fire.
Establishment Clause
Joint Committee
Constitutional Initiative
blockbusting and redlining
34. Once the Supreme Court justices have agreed to hear an appeal - they issue a _________________.
Department of State
Executive
Writ of Certiorari
Divided Government
35. In a 1943 case - the Supreme Court upheld the right to refuse to salute the American flag on the basis of the constitutional guarantee of _________________.
Increased
Free Speech
Senate Standing Committees
Segregation
36. 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.
Elastic Clause
Transnational Relations
War Powers Resolution
3
37. The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act banned contributions of soft money to______________.
Press Secretary
Speaker of the House
National Political Parties
Joint Chiefs of Staff
38. States that states may draw reasonable distinctions between the rights of residents and non-residents (ex. In state and out of state tuition)
Privileges and Immunities Clause
Voting Rights Act of 1965
14
Earl Warren
39. This 1957 judgement prohibited pornography material as utterly without redeeming social significance - later reversed in Miller v. California
Bicameral
Rousseau
Roth v. US
Probable Cause
40. A federal law passed by Congress in 1939 to restrict political activities by federal workers. The law prevents federal employees while on duty from taking an active part in party politics or campaigns and also bars federal employees from running for
Hatch Act
Committee of the Whole
Coordinated Spending
Smith Act
41. Includes expressive conduct/assembly/actions and symbolic behavior (ex. Picketing or burning the flag) Based on our country history of symbolic acts such as the Boston Tea Party - courts almost always uphold symbolic acts of speech unless they are cr
Whip
2
School Desegregation
Speech Plus
42. Beginning with the election of Abraham Lincoln - the period between 1860 and the Great Depression was dominated by this political party.
Convention Bounce
19th Amendment
Republicans
Random Sample
43. Groups whose views serve as guidelines to an individual's opinion. See also primary groups and secondary groups.
Clothespin vote
Gay
Reference Group
Violation of Law
44. 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
Free Rider
Quid Pro Quo
Clear and Present Danger
Patriot Act
45. In which case did the Supreme Court rule that the 1964 Civil Rights Act does not prohibit private affirmative action programs?
Veteran's Affairs
Line-Item Veto
Weber
National Debt
46. Federal laws limit the amount of ___________ that can be donated directly to campaign coffers.
Bundling
Petition of Right
Soft money
Federal Register
47. An economy in which most economic decisions result from the interaction of buyers and sellers in markets - but in which the government plays a significant role in the allocation of resources.
National Chair
Television and Radio
Mixed Economy
Feedback
48. A registered voter may vote in any party primary regardless of his own party affiliation. When voters do not register with a party before the primary - it is called a pick-a-party primary because the voter can select which party's primary he or she w
Television
Open
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Ways and Means Committee
49. Method by which federal court judges may lose their position.
Articles of Confederation
National Security Council
Impeachment
House Standing Committees
50. A legislature with only one house.
The Federal Reserve Board
Unicameral
Political Action Committees
Independent expenditures