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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Daniel Shays
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
8th Amendment
Activist Judges
2. The 1780s in the United States - maked by internal conflict. The economy deteriorated as individual states printed their own currencies - taxed the products of their neighbors - and ignored foreign trade agreements. Inflation soared - small farmers l
Conference Committee
Critical Period
Dred Scot v. Standford
Gouverneur Morris
3. WWll - 1941
Last time Congress declared war
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Jurisdiction
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
4. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
De facto and de jure segregation
Executive Agreements
5. % of House that get reelected
Strict Scrutiny
Bill of Rights
Shays' Rebellion
90% or higher
6. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
President's Inherent Powers
State of the Union Address
Brown v. Board of Education
Critical Period
7. Gave equal right to black people covering voting - employment - public accommodation - and educations.
Class Action Suit
90% or higher
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Congressional Oversight
8. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
James Madison
The Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
Buckley v. Valeo
9. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
War Powers Resolution
Jurisdiction
Alexander Hamilton
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
10. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Class Action Suit
Congressional Oversight
Standing
11. A survey of the origins and development of the political system in the United States from the colonial days to modern times with an emphasis on the Constitution - various political structures such as the legislative - executive - and judicial branche
Activist Judges
Conference Committee
Last time Congress declared war
American Government and Politics
12. High-ranking military officers who represent the Navy - Army - Air Force and Marines. They assist the civilian leaders of the Department of Defense-advise the president on security matters.
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Plessy v. Fergueson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Regulatory Agency
13. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Daniel Shays
Amicus Curiae
James Madison
14. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Jim Crow Laws
Delegated Powers
Dred Scot v. Standford
Administrative Rule Making
15. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Presidential Mandate
Civil Service Act of 1883
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Constitutional Convention
16. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Presidential Mandate
90% or higher
Articles of Confederation
Logrolling
17. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
George Washington
Habeas Corpus
Gideon v. Wainwright
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
18. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Lawrence v. Texas
Executive Agreements
State of the Union Address
Jim Crow Laws
19. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Articles of Confederation
Lawrence v. Texas
Prior Restraint
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
20. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Shays' Rebellion
Around 100
Senatorial Courtesy
21. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Strict Scrutiny
Brown v. Board of Education
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Devolution
22. 30 minutes.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Clear and Present Danger Test
Shays' Rebellion
Joint Chiefs of Staff
23. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
Dred Scot v. Standford
Government Corporation
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
24. A rule that gov't action toward religion is permissible if it is secular in purpose. Separation of law and religion.
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25. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
Daniel Shays
Executive Order
Prior Restraint
The Right of Due Process
26. A series of meetings to reform the Articles of Confederation convened in Philadelphia in 1787 in response to the economic and social disorder and the dangers of foreign intervention. The result was an entirely new plan of government - the Constitutio
Constitutional Convention
Government Corporation
American Government and Politics
The Declaration of Independence.
27. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
14th Amendment
8th Amendment
Habeas Corpus
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
28. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
90% or higher
Executive Order
CA Prop 187
Civil Rights Act of 1964
29. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Congressional Oversight
Power to Declare War
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Speaker of the House
30. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Shays' Rebellion
The Federalist Papers
Prior Restraint
Executive Agreements
31. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Executive Order
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
32. Most common job of Senators
Power of the Federal Reserve
Miranda v. Arizona
Lawyers
Devolution
33. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Buckley v. Valeo
Gouverneur Morris
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Amicus Curiae
34. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
90% or higher
Stare Decisis
9
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
35. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Brown v. Board of Education
8th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
Congressional Oversight
36. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Delegated Powers
Executive office of the President
37. Temp. committees whose members are appointed by SotH and officer of the Senate. They are charged with reaching compromise on legislation once it has been passed by the House. Determine what laws are passed.
Presidential Mandate
Alexander Hamilton
Conference Committee
Griswald v. Connecticut
38. Delegate - member of Congress acts on the express preference of his constituents. Trustee - member is more loosely tied to constituents and makes the decisions she thinks best.
Lawrence v. Texas
Activist Judges
Jim Crow Laws
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
39. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Prior Restraint
Independent Agency
Activist Judges
Strict Scrutiny
40. An inability to regulate interstate and foreign trade - lack of a chief executive and a national court system - and its rule that amendments must be approved by unanimous consent.
Logrolling
Critical Period
Lawrence v. Texas
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
41. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
90% or higher
Gouverneur Morris
George Washington
42. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Clear and Present Danger Test
9
8th Amendment
Presidential Mandate
43. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
State of the Union Address
George Washington
Prior Restraint
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
44. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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45. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
2/3 from Congress
Jurisdiction
The Declaration of Independence.
46. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Service Act of 1883
Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
47. The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress
Lawyers
Marbury v. Madison
Buckley v. Valeo
President's Inherent Powers
48. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Standing
Executive office of the President
CA Prop 187
49. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Logrolling
Prior Restraint
The Exclusionary Rule
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
50. Civil liberties are rights that individuals have against government. Among our civil liberties are the right to free expression - the right to worship (or not) as we choose - and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Only the
Government Corporation
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Buckley v. Valeo
Executive Order