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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Class Action Suit
9
Power of the Federal Reserve
14th Amendment
2. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Executive Agreements
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Standing
9
3. 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
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
The Exclusionary Rule
Administrative Rule Making
Constitutional Convention
4. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
14th Amendment
Buckley v. Valeo
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
War Powers Resolution
5. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
2/3 from Congress
Alexander Hamilton
Presidential Mandate
Plessy v. Fergueson
6. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Miranda v. Arizona
Lawrence v. Texas
Brown v. Board of Education
Jim Crow Laws
7. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Class Action Suit
2/3 from Congress
State of the Union Address
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
8. % of votes to override a presidential veto
Class Action Suit
2/3 from Congress
Presidential Mandate
Government Corporation
9. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
George Washington
Administrative Rule Making
Power to Declare War
Critical Period
10. A rule that gov't action toward religion is permissible if it is secular in purpose. Separation of law and religion.
11. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Native American Smoking
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Bill of Rights
Executive Order
12. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Brown v. Board of Education
Alexander Hamilton
Senatorial Courtesy
Buckley v. Valeo
13. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Miranda v. Arizona
Around 100
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
14. WWll - 1941
Last time Congress declared war
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Miranda v. Arizona
15. 13th - abolished slavery. 14th - guaranteed equal protection and due process. 15th - guarenteed voting rights for African American men.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
President's Appointment Power
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Delegated Powers
16. 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.
The Federalist Papers
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
De facto and de jure segregation
Gideon v. Wainwright
17. 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
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Dred Scot v. Standford
CA Prop 187
Marbury v. Madison
18. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
CA Prop 187
Miranda v. Arizona
Regulatory Agency
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
19. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
The Exclusionary Rule
Stare Decisis
War Powers Resolution
Amicus Curiae
20. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
Marbury v. Madison
James Madison
Power of the Federal Reserve
Executive Agreements
21. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Amicus Curiae
James Madison
Civil Service Act of 1883
Executive office of the President
22. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
9
Redlining
Daniel Shays
23. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
24. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Logrolling
Lawrence v. Texas
The Exclusionary Rule
Delegated Powers
25. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
Alexander Hamilton
President's Inherent Powers
Griswald v. Connecticut
Native American Smoking
26. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
Independent Agency
Joint Chiefs of Staff
4th Amendment protections
The Exclusionary Rule
27. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
28. Most common job of Senators
Executive Order
Joint Chiefs of Staff
George Washington
Lawyers
29. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Buckley v. Valeo
The Right of Due Process
Executive Agreements
Constitutional Convention
30. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Administrative Rule Making
Alexander Hamilton
Class Action Suit
Stare Decisis
31. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Independent Agency
Lawyers
Activist Judges
George Washington
32. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Dred Scot v. Standford
Shays' Rebellion
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Habeas Corpus
33. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
Jim Crow Laws
Executive office of the President
Devolution
Logrolling
34. Congress because they're tied to the people.
35. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
Dred Scot v. Standford
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Gideon v. Wainwright
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
36. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
Griswald v. Connecticut
Strict Scrutiny
14th Amendment
9
37. 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
State of the Union Address
Critical Period
4th Amendment protections
Government Corporation
38. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Executive Order
The Federalist Papers
Filibuster
The Declaration of Independence.
39. Persuade people - power within his branch - and going public.
The Federalist Papers
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Lawrence v. Texas
Last time Congress declared war
40. 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
War Powers Resolution
Buckley v. Valeo
Standing
41. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Pork Barrel Legislation
Speaker of the House
42. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Brown v. Board of Education
Power of the Federal Reserve
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
43. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
Lawyers
Critical Period
Daniel Shays
Filibuster
44. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Standing
Brown v. Board of Education
President's Inherent Powers
Congressional Oversight
45. 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.
Plessy v. Fergueson
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Brown v. Board of Education
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
46. 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.
Daniel Shays
Class Action Suit
Conference Committee
Standing
47. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
14th Amendment
8th Amendment
American Government and Politics
Jurisdiction
48. 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
Filibuster
Shays' Rebellion
Strict Scrutiny
49. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Prior Restraint
Devolution
Jim Crow Laws
Thomas Jefferson
50. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Government Corporation
Daniel Shays
90% or higher
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld