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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
Filibuster
CA Prop 187
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Articles of Confederation
2. 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
Pork Barrel Legislation
Regulatory Agency
Last time Congress declared war
3. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
Devolution
Habeas Corpus
Griswald v. Connecticut
2/3 from Congress
4. 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
Prior Restraint
Jim Crow Laws
Stare Decisis
Constitutional Convention
5. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Critical Period
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Class Action Suit
6. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Native American Smoking
War Powers Resolution
Around 100
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
7. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
CA Prop 187
Class Action Suit
The Exclusionary Rule
Standing
8. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
George Washington
8th Amendment
Miranda v. Arizona
Government Corporation
9. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
CA Prop 187
De facto and de jure segregation
War Powers Resolution
The Right of Due Process
10. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
CA Prop 187
Brown v. Board of Education
Buckley v. Valeo
The Right of Due Process
11. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Power to Declare War
Miranda v. Arizona
Administrative Rule Making
Delegated Powers
12. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Around 100
CA Prop 187
Logrolling
Redlining
13. % of votes to override a presidential veto
Pork Barrel Legislation
Stare Decisis
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
2/3 from Congress
14. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Delegated Powers
Gouverneur Morris
Power to Declare War
CA Prop 187
15. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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16. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Logrolling
2/3 from Congress
Power to Declare War
Brown v. Board of Education
17. 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
Strict Scrutiny
Dred Scot v. Standford
Critical Period
Conference Committee
18. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
George Washington
President's Appointment Power
Miranda v. Arizona
19. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Regulatory Agency
Civil Service Act of 1883
Thomas Jefferson
CA Prop 187
20. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Redlining
Administrative Rule Making
Alexander Hamilton
Presidential Mandate
21. 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.
Regulatory Agency
Amicus Curiae
Speaker of the House
The Declaration of Independence.
22. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Plessy v. Fergueson
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Logrolling
23. 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.
Redlining
Strict Scrutiny
Critical Period
Articles of Confederation
24. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
James Madison
14th Amendment
Congressional Oversight
War Powers Resolution
25. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Articles of Confederation
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Shays' Rebellion
Clear and Present Danger Test
26. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
The Declaration of Independence.
Conference Committee
9
Amicus Curiae
27. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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28. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Shays' Rebellion
Stare Decisis
Brown v. Board of Education
Prior Restraint
29. 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.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Plessy v. Fergueson
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Activist Judges
30. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
14th Amendment
The Exclusionary Rule
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
The Right of Due Process
31. Number of Supreme Court Justices
President's Appointment Power
American Government and Politics
Last time Congress declared war
9
32. The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).
Power to Declare War
Devolution
Redlining
Amicus Curiae
33. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
Strict Scrutiny
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Stare Decisis
Filibuster
34. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Activist Judges
Independent Agency
35. 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.
Marbury v. Madison
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Lawyers
George Washington
36. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Civil Service Act of 1883
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Executive Order
37. 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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38. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Stare Decisis
Senatorial Courtesy
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Miranda v. Arizona
39. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Bill of Rights
Strict Scrutiny
Government Corporation
Class Action Suit
40. 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.
American Government and Politics
De facto and de jure segregation
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Conference Committee
41. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Shays' Rebellion
The Federalist Papers
Lawrence v. Texas
State of the Union Address
42. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
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43. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Constitutional Convention
Gideon v. Wainwright
Gouverneur Morris
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
44. 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
Independent Agency
Griswald v. Connecticut
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
45. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
George Washington
Senatorial Courtesy
De facto and de jure segregation
46. 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
Executive office of the President
Speaker of the House
Power of the Federal Reserve
47. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Gideon v. Wainwright
Government Corporation
Jurisdiction
Miranda v. Arizona
48. % of House that get reelected
Filibuster
Activist Judges
Constitutional Convention
90% or higher
49. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
90% or higher
The Right of Due Process
Delegated Powers
Executive office of the President
50. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Strict Scrutiny
Native American Smoking
Independent Agency