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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
Jim Crow Laws
8th Amendment
Around 100
Buckley v. Valeo
2. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
4th Amendment protections
Lawrence v. Texas
The Declaration of Independence.
Logrolling
3. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Activist Judges
2/3 from Congress
Executive office of the President
Presidential Mandate
4. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Daniel Shays
Jurisdiction
Jim Crow Laws
Gideon v. Wainwright
5. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Class Action Suit
Lawrence v. Texas
Executive Agreements
Pork Barrel Legislation
6. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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7. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
Redlining
Senatorial Courtesy
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Lawyers
8. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
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9. Ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the 4th amendment.
Gouverneur Morris
Pork Barrel Legislation
Congressional Oversight
The Exclusionary Rule
10. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Independent Agency
Articles of Confederation
President's Appointment Power
11. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Devolution
Dred Scot v. Standford
Plessy v. Fergueson
Native American Smoking
12. Most common job of Senators
Administrative Rule Making
Miranda v. Arizona
Civil Service Act of 1883
Lawyers
13. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.
Power of the Federal Reserve
Brown v. Board of Education
Executive Agreements
Delegated Powers
14. 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.
Regulatory Agency
Clear and Present Danger Test
Filibuster
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
15. 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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16. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
Power of the Federal Reserve
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
17. WWll - 1941
Habeas Corpus
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Last time Congress declared war
18. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Critical Period
Gouverneur Morris
Filibuster
Bill of Rights
19. % of votes to override a presidential veto
War Powers Resolution
Jim Crow Laws
2/3 from Congress
Power of the Federal Reserve
20. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Power of the Federal Reserve
Logrolling
President's Inherent Powers
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
21. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Executive Order
Executive office of the President
Brown v. Board of Education
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
22. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
James Madison
Government Corporation
Amicus Curiae
Shays' Rebellion
23. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Government Corporation
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Delegated Powers
Pork Barrel Legislation
24. Number of Supreme Court Justices
6 years/2 years
9
American Government and Politics
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
25. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
Power of the Federal Reserve
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
War Powers Resolution
American Government and Politics
26. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Activist Judges
Amicus Curiae
27. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Daniel Shays
8th Amendment
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
28. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Gouverneur Morris
Thomas Jefferson
Filibuster
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
29. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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30. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
Redlining
Gouverneur Morris
Executive Order
Jurisdiction
31. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
14th Amendment
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
CA Prop 187
32. 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
Government Corporation
The Declaration of Independence.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
33. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
8th Amendment
Standing
State of the Union Address
Executive Agreements
34. 30 minutes.
Class Action Suit
14th Amendment
Articles of Confederation
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
35. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Gouverneur Morris
Alexander Hamilton
Constitutional Convention
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
36. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Regulatory Agency
The Right of Due Process
Executive Agreements
Brown v. Board of Education
37. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Devolution
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
George Washington
Strict Scrutiny
38. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Speaker of the House
Shays' Rebellion
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
39. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
The Federalist Papers
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
American Government and Politics
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
40. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Power of the Federal Reserve
Administrative Rule Making
Critical Period
Lawrence v. Texas
41. % of House that get reelected
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Class Action Suit
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
90% or higher
42. Term of Senate/House
The Declaration of Independence.
Marbury v. Madison
6 years/2 years
Executive office of the President
43. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
8th Amendment
Buckley v. Valeo
American Government and Politics
Devolution
44. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.
CA Prop 187
Independent Agency
Marbury v. Madison
The Federalist Papers
45. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Lawrence v. Texas
The Right of Due Process
Plessy v. Fergueson
90% or higher
46. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Senatorial Courtesy
Speaker of the House
90% or higher
Pork Barrel Legislation
47. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
Jim Crow Laws
Congressional Oversight
The Exclusionary Rule
Shays' Rebellion
48. 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.
De facto and de jure segregation
Independent Agency
Daniel Shays
American Government and Politics
49. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Redlining
Congressional Oversight
Thomas Jefferson
American Government and Politics
50. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Thomas Jefferson
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Civil Rights Act of 1964