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CLEP American Government
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1. A method available in most states that allows voters - in effect - to 'veto' a bill passed by the legislature or to accept or reject a proposal - such as a bond issue - made by a government agency.
Referendum
Grant Clemency
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Valence issue
2. 1963 ruling prohibiting prayer in public schools.
Freedom of Information Act
Murray v. Curlett
Great or Connecticut Compromise
Public hearing
3. Guarantees the right to bare arms.
2nd Amendment
Government
5 -000
Caucus
4. Literally meaning 'right of blood' - confers citizenship to a child from the parents.
Espionage Act
Dissenting Opinion
Interest Groups
Jus Sanguinis
5. This amendment includes the due process clause - the equal protection clause - and gave rights to former slaves.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Open rule
Dred Scott Decision
14th Amendment
6. 1944 case established that as as long as a person accepted their beliefs in good faith that it is not the government's authority to determine whether those beliefs are valid.
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Judicial
US v. Ballard
Equity
7. 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
Negative Advertising
Negative
Voting
Party Purists
8. While both Asian and Hispanic immigrants experience various types of discrimination - Hispanic immigrants are more likely to experience economic discrimination. This explains why most Hispanics identify with the ____________ party - while Asians do n
Violation of Law
Free Exercise Clause
Roe v. Wade
Democratic
9. Spending by the national committees of the political parties to support the election of congressional candidates is known as
Habeas Corpus
State Auditor
Negative Advertising
Coordinated Spending
10. A relaxation of international tensions.
Detente
Murray v. Curlett
School Desegregation
8th Amendment
11. After the bill reaches the house floor - if opponents have many changes - they may vote to ______________________.
US v. Ballard
Council of Economic Advisors
Recommit the Bill to Committee
Free Exercise of Religion
12. An economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the publicand operate for the welfare of all.
Separation of Powers
Deficit
Socialism
Police Powers
13. A place of work in which any person may be hired provided that he or she joins the union within a specified time.
District of Columbia
Dred Scott
Union Shop
Membership
14. Powers of the national government that flow from its enumerated powers and the 'elastic clause' of the Constitution.
Committee of the Whole
Implied Powers
Interest Groups
Balancing Test
15. Tests of a voter's ability to read and write - which were often used to keep recent immigrants and blacks from voting.
National Security
Literacy Tests
Ways and Means Committee
National Chair
16. A technique polling organizations use in which several people from the same neighborhood are interviewed.
Intelligence
Jim Crow Laws
Libel
Cluster Sampling
17. 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 _______________.
Miller v. California
Liberalism
Enact a Bill of Rights
Take Care Clause
18. A decision of the Supreme Court cannot be ___________.
Majority Rule
Negative
Appealed
Wallace's Progressives
19. The response of the rest of society to actions by the authorities.
Royalists
Balance of Payments
Feedback
Caucus
20. The estimated number of illegal aliens living in the US.
8 Million
Selective exposure
Gay
Trustee
21. The expression of attitudes about government and politics.
Warrant
Republicans
Negative
Public Opinion
22. 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
blockbusting and redlining
Commerce
Free Exercise Clause
Separate but Equal
23. Representatives serve ____ year terms
Logrolling
Elite
2
Homeland Security
24. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution - for example - the authority to print money.
Free Exercise of Religion
Libel
President Pro Tempore
Delegated Powers
25. Define US Citizenship as any person born or naturalized in the United States.
Restrictive Covenant
14th Amendment
Discharge Petition
Issue Networks
26. A group of writers - journalists - and critics who exposed corporate malfeasance and political corruption in the first decade of the 20th century.
Judicial
Muckrakers
Ways and Means Committee
Gross Domestic Product
27. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) - founded in 1932 by President Herbert Hoover to help combat the Great Depression - was the predecessor of which federal agencies?
Instructed Delegate
Cooperative / Marble Cake Federalism
National Convention
Small Business Administration (SBA)
28. These dissenting Republicans won 17% of the popular vote in 1924 on a platform for public control of national resources and railways - tax reductions - and changes to the staff of the executive department
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29. The main mechanism used by modern political parties to nominate their candidate for President.
Caucus
Monroe Doctrine
Politics
Miller v. California
30. Loose - competitive relationships among policy experts - interest groups - congressional committees - and federal agencies. Many observers argue that these have replaced iron triangles.
435
Majority Rule
Redistributive Policy
Issue network
31. Elections that reflect the basic party identification of the voters.
States
Selective Incorporation
Great Compromise
Maintaining Elections
32. ___________ vote in both the House and Senate may override a Presidential veto of legislation.
14th
Public Bills
270
2/3
33. Although camera are allowed in most trial courts - they are banned from ______________.
Federal Courts
Right of Expatriation
Political Culture
President
34. The number of ______________ a state receives is based on the number Representatives and Senators that the state has in Congress
Electoral Votes
Unlimited
Jus Sanguinis
Procedural Due Process
35. He United States Constitution was opposed by which group?
Royalists
Convention Bounce
Democrats
Vice President
36. Multi-interest and often multinational corporations that - under one corporate roof - may manufacture a wide variety of products.
Writ of Mandamus
Soft money
Shay's Rebellion
Conglomerates
37. Colonies in which the proprietors (who had obtained their patents from the king) named the governors - subject to the king's approval.
Conservatism
Hatch Act
binding
Proprietary Colonies
38. The rules and regulations made and applied by federal regulatory agencies and commissions.
Transnational Relations
Confirmed
Administrative Law
Securities and Exchange Commission or Securities Act of 1933
39. Guarantees the right to a speedy and public trial.
Creative Federalism
Issue network
6th Amendment
Raise Public Awareness
40. 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.
Initiative
Libertarianism
Pure Speech
NY Times v. Sullivan
41. Defamation by written or printed words - pictures - or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures.
Mugwumps
General Election
Shay's Rebellion
Libel
42. Organizations or groups - such as labor unions or fraternal - professional - or religious groups - that may influence an individual's opinion.
Nuclear Proliferation
Secondary Group
Selective Incorporation
Democratic
43. 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
High
Patriot Act
State of the Union
100
44. As part of the negotiations concerning the Constitution - the South fought for and won an agreement forbidding the imposition of _______________.
CORE
8 Million
Export Taxes
16th Amendment
45. 14th Amendment is often used to support the right to ____________.
Due Process
Gitlow v. New York
Rank and File
Article V
46. 1976 Law requiring all governmental agency meetings to be open to the public unless classified information will be discussed.
Open Meeting Law
Flexible Construction
Equal Time
Pure Speech
47. The practice of victorious politicians to reward their followers with jobs. Also known as the spoils system.
Random Sample
Lafolette's Progressive s
Political Patronage
Council of Economic Advisors
48. The 15th Amendment - also know as _________________ - was intended to help recently freed blacks from unconstitutional state laws designed to circumvent federal laws.
Outputs
Judicial
Politics
Incorporation Doctrine
49. The 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine that prompted King George III's Prohibitory Act and the sending of mercenaries to the colonies.
Court of Appeals
Segregation
Raiding
Common Sense
50. Age requirement for President
Thurgood Marshall
Impoundment
US Trade Representatives
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