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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Bill of Rights
Standing
The Exclusionary Rule
Around 100
2. 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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3. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
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4. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Buckley v. Valeo
Regulatory Agency
Joint Chiefs of Staff
5. 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.
9
Power of the Federal Reserve
Logrolling
De facto and de jure segregation
6. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Administrative Rule Making
Activist Judges
Brown v. Board of Education
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
7. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Habeas Corpus
Regulatory Agency
Prior Restraint
Activist Judges
8. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Last time Congress declared war
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Bill of Rights
9. Gave equal right to black people covering voting - employment - public accommodation - and educations.
Devolution
Conference Committee
Civil Rights Act of 1964
90% or higher
10. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Executive Agreements
Alexander Hamilton
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
The Declaration of Independence.
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
Around 100
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
The Federalist Papers
American Government and Politics
12. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
The Exclusionary Rule
Congressional Oversight
Government Corporation
Lawrence v. Texas
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
90% or higher
Standing
Senatorial Courtesy
Critical Period
14. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
14th Amendment
George Washington
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Clear and Present Danger Test
15. An effort by a gov't agency to block the publication of material it deems libelous or harmful in some other way; censorship.
Prior Restraint
Conference Committee
Presidential Mandate
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
16. 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.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
De facto and de jure segregation
The Federalist Papers
Lawrence v. Texas
17. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Power to Declare War
Native American Smoking
Delegated Powers
4th Amendment protections
18. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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19. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
CA Prop 187
State of the Union Address
Administrative Rule Making
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
20. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
The Right of Due Process
Class Action Suit
James Madison
State of the Union Address
21. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Bill of Rights
Independent Agency
Daniel Shays
22. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
The Federalist Papers
Native American Smoking
14th Amendment
Jurisdiction
23. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Miranda v. Arizona
Thomas Jefferson
Congressional Oversight
24. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Lawyers
25. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Standing
Delegated Powers
Executive Agreements
The Declaration of Independence.
26. Most common job of Senators
Buckley v. Valeo
Daniel Shays
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Lawyers
27. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Senatorial Courtesy
American Government and Politics
Redlining
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
28. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
14th Amendment
Amicus Curiae
Power of the Federal Reserve
Executive office of the President
29. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
Independent Agency
Articles of Confederation
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Executive office of the President
30. 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.
Filibuster
Redlining
Speaker of the House
Clear and Present Danger Test
31. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Around 100
Dred Scot v. Standford
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
32. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Delegated Powers
Filibuster
Last time Congress declared war
33. 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
Habeas Corpus
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Amicus Curiae
34. 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
De facto and de jure segregation
The Exclusionary Rule
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Constitutional Convention
35. Makes gov't have heavy burden of proof to regulate & restrict speech.
Gideon v. Wainwright
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
De facto and de jure segregation
Strict Scrutiny
36. Not allowed.
Jim Crow Laws
Executive office of the President
Native American Smoking
14th Amendment
37. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Critical Period
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Alexander Hamilton
Gouverneur Morris
38. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
CA Prop 187
President's Inherent Powers
War Powers Resolution
Buckley v. Valeo
39. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Standing
Gouverneur Morris
Devolution
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
40. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
Native American Smoking
4th Amendment protections
14th Amendment
6 years/2 years
41. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Habeas Corpus
Articles of Confederation
Brown v. Board of Education
Administrative Rule Making
42. % of votes to override a presidential veto
2/3 from Congress
The Exclusionary Rule
Critical Period
State of the Union Address
43. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
90% or higher
2/3 from Congress
Stare Decisis
Griswald v. Connecticut
44. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Amicus Curiae
Stare Decisis
Strict Scrutiny
Power of the Federal Reserve
45. 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.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Alexander Hamilton
Brown v. Board of Education
Articles of Confederation
46. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Presidential Mandate
Jurisdiction
Brown v. Board of Education
47. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
Regulatory Agency
Around 100
Shays' Rebellion
Stare Decisis
48. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Strict Scrutiny
8th Amendment
Gideon v. Wainwright
Plessy v. Fergueson
49. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
The Right of Due Process
Amicus Curiae
Speaker of the House
Stare Decisis
50. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Administrative Rule Making
Miranda v. Arizona
Logrolling
Gideon v. Wainwright