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CLEP American Government
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First step in the Policy Making Cycle.
Bicameral
Issue Networks
Raise Public Awareness
Regulatory Federalism
2. In the area of foreign affairs - _______________ often have the advantage because
Republicans
Independent expenditures
Press Secretary
Earmarks
3. An official document - published every weekday - which lists the new and proposed regulations of executive departments and regulatory agencies.
Unicameral
Federal Register
Strategic Deterrence
14th Amendment
4. An immigrant who wished to become a citizen may be naturalized after living in the US for ___ years.
5
Bill of Attainder
Ad Hoc Structure
Issue Networks
5. A broadly based coalition that attempts to gain control of the government by winning elections in order to exercise power and reward its members.
Major Political Party
Common Law
Veteran's Affairs
Civil Cases
6. Executive office responsible for negotiating trade with foreign powers.
Raiding
Decreased
Jim Crow Laws
US Trade Representatives
7. Th joint listing of the presidential and vice presidential candidates on the same ballot as required by the twelfth amendment
Presidential Ticket
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
27th Amendment
Ad Hoc Structure
8. 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
Nuclear Proliferation
Executive
Republicans
Free Exercise Clause
9. Number of Electoral College votes required to win the Presidency.
Incumbents
National Convention
270
national quotas
10. An elected office that is predictably won by one party or the other - so the success of that party's candidate is almost taken for granted
Safe seat
Majority Rule
Non-protected Speech
Bull Moose Progressives
11. Voting based on looking back and making judgments about the way things have gone and the kind of government experienced during a political leader's time in office.
Custom
Executive Privilege
Retrospective Voting
Blacks
12. A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be ___________.
3
Appealed
Public hearing
Gender Gap
13. 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.
Take Care Clause
Welfare State
Marbury v. Madison
Political Efficacy
14. A strand of American foreign policy that was visible by the end of the 19th century; it included 'gunboat diplomacy' and other forms of military involvement by the United States in various parts of the world.
Interventionism
Incumbents
1st Amendment
Pure Speech
15. Formed as a third party on the issue of slavery by many former Whigs in the 1850's. Anti-slavery platform. Supported by farmers - laborers - and newly-freed blacks.
W.E.B. DuBoise
Free Exercise of Religion
External Efficacy
Republicans
16. The federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy)
Federal
Police Powers
Miller v. California
Agriculture
17. Protects against unreasonable search and seizure.
Pork Barrel Spending
Unitary System
4th Amendment
Political Culture
18. Presidential management model in which the Chief of Staff plays a prominent role as the head of a military style chain of command. Used successfully by Reagan and Eisenhower.
Take Care Clause
Pyramid Model
Conference Committee
Free Exercise of Religion
19. Programs are designed to give preferential access to education - employment - health care - or social welfare to groups of people - especially minorities and women - who have historically been discriminated against.
Affirmative Action
Television and Radio
Sub-committee
binding
20. Constitutional protection of the accused to not be tried for the same crime twice.
Double Jeopardy
Senate
Due Process of Law
Article IV
21. A vote in the House of Representatives in which the position of each member is noted and published in the Congressional Record.
Detente
Jim Crow Laws
Recorded Vote
Sub-government
22. An interest group organization that represents a specific group of people (Ex. NAACP - AARP)
Bicameral
Capitalism
Membership
Select Committee
23. These candidates win re-election to the House 80-90% of the time.
Incumbents
Concurrent
Civil Liberties
Local
24. Number of years a Senator must reside in the US prior to taking office
Creative Federalism
435
Legislative
9
25. The gap between the government's income and outlays.
Adversarial
Homeland Security
Deficit
Judicial Selection
26. This contraversial 2001 law allows anti-terrorism authorities to monitor e-mail and Internet traffic in order to prevent terrorist attacks. The government argues that cyberspace is public domain and that no warrants should be needed to access informa
Arraignment
Patriot Act
Independent Expenditures
Roth v. US
27. The action - or actions - taken by government to carry out a policy.
Party Purists
Implementation
Libel
Speech Plus
28. In addition to the doctrine of implied powers - Chief Justice Marshall - in his decision in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - established the key concept of:
Government
12
National Supremacy
Majority Rule
29. The 5th amendment protect against _____________.
Self-Incrimination
The Federal Reserve Board
Declining
W.E.B. DuBoise
30. The term 'Reagan Democrats' has become a generic term for
Swing Voters in the Democratic Party
Open Meeting Law
Elastic Clause
Monetary Policy
31. The kinds of cases that a court has the authority to decide.
State of the Union
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jurisdiction
Dred Scott
32. A series of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton - John Jay - and James Madison under the pseudonym Publius advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Separate but Equal
Membership
Shay's Rebellion
33. 6 In the view of Robert L. Lineberry - policy analysts focus on the _______________.
Public Opinion
Outputs
Critical Election
Free Exercise
34. The coming to power of a new coalition - replacing an old dominant coalition of the other party
Segregation
Incorporation Doctrine
Maintaining Elections
Critical Election
35. These courts only hear appeals on cases from lower courts.
Truman
Federal Appellate
General Election
Legislative
36. _____________ is responsible for monetary policy.
Feedback
Jus Soli
Absolute Position
The Federal Reserve Board
37. Cabinet positions must be ____________ by the Senate
Civil Liberties
Political System
Confirmed
Closed rule
38. Cabinet department responsible for collective bargaining and union activity. Established in 1913
Public Policy
Soft Money
Foreign Policy
Labor
39. _______________ indicates a citizens' faith and trust in government and their own belief that they can understand and influence political affairs
Political Efficacy
Freedom of Speech
2/3
Policy
40. The practice under which victorious politicians reward their followers with jobs.
Quid Pro Quo
Marbury v. Madison
Spoils System
Internationalism
41. The belief that one is effective when participating in politics - for example that the government will respond to one's demands
Probable Cause
Delegate
Selective exposure
External Efficacy
42. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
Right of Expatriation
14th Amendment
Power Structure
Rhode Island
43. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
Non-protected Speech
Housing and Urban Development
Union Shop
11th Amendment
44. 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.
Republicans
Blacks
Office Column Ballot
The Sugar Act and the Currency Act
45. Money spent by individuals or gorups not asociated with candidates to elect or defeat candidates for office
Writ of Certiorari
Habeas Corpus
Bundling
Independent expenditures
46. This controversial clause of the 9th Amendment has allowed government to expand rights to suit its needs.
Contract Clause
Freedom of Information Act
Elastic Clause
Gerrymandering
47. First civil rights organization to use non-violent tactics to promote racial equality and desegregation
Voting
Rhode Island
Delegate
CORE
48. The net balance or relationship between total income and total expenditures by the nation in its dealings with the rest of the world - including trade - loans - and investments.
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act
Woodrow Wilson
Parallel
Balance of Payments
49. How groups form and organize to pursue their goals or objectives - including how to get individuals and groups to participate and cooperate.
Violation of Law
Fixed
Balance of Trade
Collective Action
50. This 1964 case established strict standards for proving slander and libel - court must prove intent of malice on the part of the publisher.
NY Times v. Sullivan
National
Foreign Relations and the Judiciary Committees
Political Action Committees