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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
Strict Scrutiny
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Government Corporation
Regulatory Agency
2. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Administrative Rule Making
George Washington
6 years/2 years
Activist Judges
3. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Articles of Confederation
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Logrolling
The Exclusionary Rule
4. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
War Powers Resolution
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Activist Judges
Buckley v. Valeo
5. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Presidential Mandate
Plessy v. Fergueson
Pork Barrel Legislation
6. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
American Government and Politics
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Executive Order
7. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
Griswald v. Connecticut
4th Amendment protections
Conference Committee
Power to Declare War
8. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Executive Agreements
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Buckley v. Valeo
Filibuster
9. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
President's Appointment Power
Buckley v. Valeo
Thomas Jefferson
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
10. 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
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Marbury v. Madison
Stare Decisis
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
11. Court found detainess held both at US and Guantanamo bay had the right to challenge their detention before a judge or other neutral decision maker.
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
9
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
12. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
The Exclusionary Rule
Conference Committee
Gouverneur Morris
90% or higher
13. 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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14. de jure - 'by law'. Legally enforced practices - such as school segregation in the South before the 1960s. De facto - 'by fact'. Practices that occur even when there is no legal enforcement - such as school segregation in much of the US today.
De facto and de jure segregation
Shays' Rebellion
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Prior Restraint
15. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Logrolling
President's Appointment Power
Power of the Federal Reserve
Stare Decisis
16. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Independent Agency
State of the Union Address
6 years/2 years
Civil Rights Act of 1964
17. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
Pork Barrel Legislation
CA Prop 187
Redlining
Power of the Federal Reserve
18. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Class Action Suit
CA Prop 187
War Powers Resolution
19. A collection of essays expressing the political philosophy of the Founders and that were instrumental in bringing about the ratification of the Constitution.
4th Amendment protections
90% or higher
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
The Federalist Papers
20. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
9
14th Amendment
90% or higher
Stare Decisis
21. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Brown v. Board of Education
Daniel Shays
Thomas Jefferson
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
22. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Presidential Mandate
8th Amendment
Senatorial Courtesy
23. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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24. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
Jurisdiction
Civil Service Act of 1883
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Gideon v. Wainwright
25. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Delegated Powers
9
James Madison
Last time Congress declared war
26. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
8th Amendment
Daniel Shays
The Declaration of Independence.
27. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Miranda v. Arizona
Government Corporation
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Conference Committee
28. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Shays' Rebellion
Devolution
Brown v. Board of Education
29. Most common job of Senators
The Exclusionary Rule
14th Amendment
Lawyers
De facto and de jure segregation
30. 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
Devolution
Jurisdiction
Constitutional Convention
CA Prop 187
31. 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
Devolution
Amicus Curiae
32. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
President's Appointment Power
Standing
4th Amendment protections
Speaker of the House
33. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
The Right of Due Process
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Executive Agreements
Around 100
34. The chief presiding officer of the HoR. The speaker is the most important party and House leader - can influence lefislative agenda - fate of individual pieces of legislation - and members positions with the House.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Speaker of the House
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Regulatory Agency
35. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Daniel Shays
Government Corporation
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
36. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Buckley v. Valeo
Jim Crow Laws
Class Action Suit
37. 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
President's Appointment Power
State of the Union Address
Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
38. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
War Powers Resolution
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Jim Crow Laws
39. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Buckley v. Valeo
Strict Scrutiny
Regulatory Agency
40. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
De facto and de jure segregation
Daniel Shays
Habeas Corpus
8th Amendment
41. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Miranda v. Arizona
Devolution
Presidential Mandate
42. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Government Corporation
90% or higher
Redlining
The Exclusionary Rule
43. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
Articles of Confederation
Devolution
Executive office of the President
Lawrence v. Texas
44. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
Native American Smoking
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
8th Amendment
Power of the Federal Reserve
45. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Civil Service Act of 1883
Class Action Suit
Speaker of the House
The Declaration of Independence.
46. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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47. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Presidential Mandate
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Marbury v. Madison
George Washington
48. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Civil Service Act of 1883
The Federalist Papers
Logrolling
49. % of votes to override a presidential veto
Griswald v. Connecticut
Shays' Rebellion
2/3 from Congress
Speaker of the House
50. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Power to Declare War
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'