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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Habeas Corpus
Stare Decisis
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
2. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Brown v. Board of Education
Constitutional Convention
Jim Crow Laws
Strict Scrutiny
3. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Lawrence v. Texas
Critical Period
Presidential Mandate
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
4. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Stare Decisis
De facto and de jure segregation
Power to Declare War
CA Prop 187
5. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Jurisdiction
Independent Agency
Clear and Present Danger Test
6. 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.
Filibuster
Alexander Hamilton
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Regulatory Agency
7. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Power of the Federal Reserve
Shays' Rebellion
Executive Order
8. WWll - 1941
State of the Union Address
Last time Congress declared war
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Congressional Oversight
9. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Power to Declare War
Congressional Oversight
4th Amendment protections
George Washington
10. 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.
American Government and Politics
Daniel Shays
Articles of Confederation
James Madison
11. Most common job of Senators
9
Lawyers
Delegated Powers
Around 100
12. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
9
Executive Order
Filibuster
8th Amendment
13. 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
Clear and Present Danger Test
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Jim Crow Laws
Critical Period
14. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Speaker of the House
American Government and Politics
Thomas Jefferson
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
15. 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
Articles of Confederation
Jurisdiction
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
16. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
Habeas Corpus
6 years/2 years
Presidential Mandate
James Madison
17. 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.
Executive office of the President
8th Amendment
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
6 years/2 years
18. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Amicus Curiae
Lawrence v. Texas
Redlining
Native American Smoking
19. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Presidential Mandate
Bill of Rights
Gideon v. Wainwright
4th Amendment protections
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.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Daniel Shays
Senatorial Courtesy
Articles of Confederation
21. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
Jurisdiction
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Standing
22. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Filibuster
Pork Barrel Legislation
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Federalist Papers
23. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
90% or higher
War Powers Resolution
Pork Barrel Legislation
Speaker of the House
24. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
War Powers Resolution
Speaker of the House
Dred Scot v. Standford
Presidential Mandate
25. 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.
Native American Smoking
Redlining
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Conference Committee
26. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Alexander Hamilton
CA Prop 187
27. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
Presidential Mandate
Thomas Jefferson
4th Amendment protections
Plessy v. Fergueson
28. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence.
Activist Judges
Bill of Rights
29. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Class Action Suit
Shays' Rebellion
Speaker of the House
30. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Executive Agreements
Constitutional Convention
Stare Decisis
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
31. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
The Federalist Papers
Devolution
Amicus Curiae
Government Corporation
32. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
33. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
Around 100
6 years/2 years
Executive office of the President
The Federalist Papers
34. 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
6 years/2 years
Congressional Oversight
Miranda v. Arizona
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
35. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Amicus Curiae
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Congressional Oversight
Presidential Mandate
36. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Around 100
Devolution
37. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
38. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Thomas Jefferson
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Brown v. Board of Education
Alexander Hamilton
39. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Speaker of the House
Independent Agency
9
8th Amendment
40. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Executive Agreements
Strict Scrutiny
James Madison
George Washington
41. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Habeas Corpus
Delegated Powers
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
42. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Thomas Jefferson
Administrative Rule Making
Marbury v. Madison
43. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
Logrolling
Executive Order
Strict Scrutiny
Presidential Mandate
44. 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
Plessy v. Fergueson
Jurisdiction
Marbury v. Madison
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
45. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
James Madison
Standing
90% or higher
9
46. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Miranda v. Arizona
Redlining
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Clear and Present Danger Test
47. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
The Declaration of Independence.
Independent Agency
Lawyers
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
48. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Activist Judges
Independent Agency
Clear and Present Danger Test
Alexander Hamilton
49. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
Jurisdiction
James Madison
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
14th Amendment
50. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
Independent Agency
Lawyers
Logrolling
Griswald v. Connecticut