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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. 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.
Conference Committee
Jim Crow Laws
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Around 100
2. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
Government Corporation
War Powers Resolution
Griswald v. Connecticut
Prior Restraint
3. 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
Marbury v. Madison
Congressional Oversight
Stare Decisis
Gideon v. Wainwright
4. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Logrolling
Government Corporation
Presidential Mandate
4th Amendment protections
5. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Executive Order
Independent Agency
Jurisdiction
Activist Judges
6. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
Critical Period
CA Prop 187
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
9
7. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
Around 100
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Shays' Rebellion
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
8. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Amicus Curiae
Miranda v. Arizona
De facto and de jure segregation
Devolution
9. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
War Powers Resolution
Buckley v. Valeo
Devolution
Prior Restraint
10. Not allowed.
Shays' Rebellion
Native American Smoking
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Last time Congress declared war
11. 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
Congressional Oversight
Bill of Rights
Daniel Shays
12. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
President's Appointment Power
Prior Restraint
Senatorial Courtesy
13. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Power to Declare War
Conference Committee
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
14. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Clear and Present Danger Test
Stare Decisis
Gideon v. Wainwright
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
15. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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16. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
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17. 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.
Pork Barrel Legislation
The Exclusionary Rule
Native American Smoking
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
18. 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
Buckley v. Valeo
Critical Period
Executive Agreements
Plessy v. Fergueson
19. Term of Senate/House
Government Corporation
Critical Period
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
6 years/2 years
20. A system in which the president submits the name of a candidate for judicial appointment to the senators from the candidate's state before formally submitting it for full senate approval.
Senatorial Courtesy
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
James Madison
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
21. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Buckley v. Valeo
James Madison
Civil Service Act of 1883
Devolution
22. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Standing
Senatorial Courtesy
Delegated Powers
Logrolling
23. % of votes to override a presidential veto
Stare Decisis
Alexander Hamilton
2/3 from Congress
Activist Judges
24. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Government Corporation
Standing
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
9
25. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Logrolling
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Miranda v. Arizona
Clear and Present Danger Test
26. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Congressional Oversight
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Presidential Mandate
Senatorial Courtesy
27. The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).
The Federalist Papers
Executive office of the President
Devolution
Administrative Rule Making
28. 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.
Constitutional Convention
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Joint Chiefs of Staff
James Madison
29. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Strict Scrutiny
Gouverneur Morris
State of the Union Address
Gideon v. Wainwright
30. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Executive Order
Daniel Shays
Prior Restraint
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
31. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Logrolling
Brown v. Board of Education
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
32. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
Griswald v. Connecticut
14th Amendment
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Civil Service Act of 1883
33. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Clear and Present Danger Test
Activist Judges
Gideon v. Wainwright
34. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
President's Inherent Powers
Redlining
Administrative Rule Making
90% or higher
35. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Amicus Curiae
Delegated Powers
4th Amendment protections
CA Prop 187
36. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
The Declaration of Independence.
9
Around 100
37. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Independent Agency
Executive Order
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Clear and Present Danger Test
38. 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.
Alexander Hamilton
Activist Judges
De facto and de jure segregation
Filibuster
39. 30 minutes.
Conference Committee
Speaker of the House
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
14th Amendment
40. 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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41. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
De facto and de jure segregation
Lawyers
Activist Judges
Presidential Mandate
42. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Stare Decisis
Miranda v. Arizona
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
The Right of Due Process
43. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Jim Crow Laws
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Power of the Federal Reserve
The Exclusionary Rule
44. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
American Government and Politics
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Conference Committee
45. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
American Government and Politics
George Washington
Administrative Rule Making
Plessy v. Fergueson
46. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Articles of Confederation
Alexander Hamilton
Dred Scot v. Standford
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
47. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Conference Committee
Executive Agreements
Congressional Oversight
Daniel Shays
48. A collection of essays expressing the political philosophy of the Founders and that were instrumental in bringing about the ratification of the Constitution.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Pork Barrel Legislation
Stare Decisis
The Federalist Papers
49. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Critical Period
Amicus Curiae
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Executive Order
50. Implemented following the successful revolt of the British colonies in North America against imperial rule - the articles served as the national government from 1781-1787.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
War Powers Resolution
Government Corporation
Articles of Confederation