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CLEP Political Science Us
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Thomas Jefferson
Executive Agreements
Standing
Shays' Rebellion
2. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Congressional Oversight
The Declaration of Independence.
14th Amendment
3. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
2/3 from Congress
Congressional Oversight
Bill of Rights
American Government and Politics
4. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Critical Period
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Right of Due Process
State of the Union Address
5. % of House that get reelected
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
90% or higher
14th Amendment
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
6. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Power to Declare War
Logrolling
Activist Judges
Conference Committee
7. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
2/3 from Congress
Strict Scrutiny
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
8th Amendment
8. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
Constitutional Convention
4th Amendment protections
Civil Service Act of 1883
2/3 from Congress
9. A government agency that operates like a business corporation - created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
Around 100
The Declaration of Independence.
90% or higher
Government Corporation
10. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Devolution
President's Appointment Power
Bill of Rights
Delegated Powers
11. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.
Pork Barrel Legislation
Independent Agency
Devolution
Amicus Curiae
12. 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
Jim Crow Laws
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
13. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Shays' Rebellion
Miranda v. Arizona
The Declaration of Independence.
Constitutional Convention
14. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
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15. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
Habeas Corpus
Pork Barrel Legislation
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Jurisdiction
16. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
90% or higher
Habeas Corpus
17. 30 minutes.
Last time Congress declared war
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Critical Period
Executive Order
18. WWll - 1941
Dred Scot v. Standford
Lawrence v. Texas
Last time Congress declared war
Jurisdiction
19. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.
Redlining
The Federalist Papers
6 years/2 years
James Madison
20. 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
Habeas Corpus
Critical Period
Griswald v. Connecticut
Civil Rights Act of 1964
21. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Delegated Powers
Daniel Shays
Power of the Federal Reserve
22. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
Bill of Rights
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Habeas Corpus
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
23. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Jurisdiction
Regulatory Agency
Plessy v. Fergueson
Standing
24. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.
Alexander Hamilton
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Strict Scrutiny
Bill of Rights
25. Number of Supreme Court Justices
90% or higher
Administrative Rule Making
9
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
26. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Gouverneur Morris
Presidential Mandate
Class Action Suit
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
27. Congress because they're tied to the people.
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28. Not allowed.
Speaker of the House
2/3 from Congress
Native American Smoking
Independent Agency
29. 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.
2/3 from Congress
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
90% or higher
30. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
8th Amendment
The Exclusionary Rule
Strict Scrutiny
Lawrence v. Texas
31. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Standing
Gouverneur Morris
Jurisdiction
Miranda v. Arizona
32. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Speaker of the House
Daniel Shays
Dred Scot v. Standford
Alexander Hamilton
33. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
90% or higher
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Delegated Powers
Habeas Corpus
34. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
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35. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Gideon v. Wainwright
George Washington
The Federalist Papers
Congressional Oversight
36. 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.
Speaker of the House
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Power to Declare War
Dred Scot v. Standford
37. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Power of the Federal Reserve
Marbury v. Madison
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Activist Judges
38. 1978 supreme court decision holding that a state university could not admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Congressional Oversight
Civil Service Act of 1883
Government Corporation
39. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
Filibuster
Thomas Jefferson
Jim Crow Laws
Shays' Rebellion
40. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
President's Inherent Powers
Speaker of the House
Amicus Curiae
Power of the Federal Reserve
41. Term of Senate/House
6 years/2 years
Logrolling
Strict Scrutiny
The Right of Due Process
42. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Gouverneur Morris
Habeas Corpus
Shays' Rebellion
Regulatory Agency
43. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Gideon v. Wainwright
2/3 from Congress
Class Action Suit
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
44. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
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45. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
Redlining
The Right of Due Process
Activist Judges
Administrative Rule Making
46. 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.
The Declaration of Independence.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Joint Chiefs of Staff
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
47. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears
CA Prop 187
Around 100
Lawyers
Administrative Rule Making
48. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Shays' Rebellion
Class Action Suit
State of the Union Address
Strict Scrutiny
49. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Executive Order
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Articles of Confederation
Plessy v. Fergueson
50. 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
Conference Committee
James Madison
American Government and Politics
4th Amendment protections