SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CLEP Political Science Us
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
clep
,
political-science
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment.
Habeas Corpus
Shays' Rebellion
Last time Congress declared war
Stare Decisis
2. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Dred Scot v. Standford
8th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
3. A collection of essays expressing the political philosophy of the Founders and that were instrumental in bringing about the ratification of the Constitution.
Executive office of the President
Native American Smoking
The Federalist Papers
Shays' Rebellion
4. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
9
Redlining
Pork Barrel Legislation
Delegated Powers
5. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Presidential Mandate
Jim Crow Laws
9
President's Appointment Power
6. 30 minutes.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Daniel Shays
Conference Committee
Gouverneur Morris
7. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Civil Service Act of 1883
Delegated Powers
14th Amendment
8. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Executive Agreements
Brown v. Board of Education
Pork Barrel Legislation
Administrative Rule Making
9. Most common job of Senators
Critical Period
Brown v. Board of Education
The Exclusionary Rule
Lawyers
10. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Delegated Powers
President's Appointment Power
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
11. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Administrative Rule Making
Brown v. Board of Education
Buckley v. Valeo
Lawrence v. Texas
12. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Executive office of the President
Native American Smoking
George Washington
Government Corporation
13. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Constitutional Convention
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
14. Save Our State - 1994 - Prohibit illegal aliens from using health care - public education - and other social services in the U.S. State of California.
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
CA Prop 187
Critical Period
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
15. Not allowed.
Clear and Present Danger Test
Strict Scrutiny
Articles of Confederation
Native American Smoking
16. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
Habeas Corpus
Devolution
Plessy v. Fergueson
Constitutional Convention
17. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.
Regulatory Agency
Miranda v. Arizona
Articles of Confederation
Critical Period
18. (law) The right and power to interpret and apply the law.
Native American Smoking
Redlining
What were the key weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
Jurisdiction
19. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Articles of Confederation
8th Amendment
Daniel Shays
20. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Executive Order
Presidential Mandate
Gouverneur Morris
Civil Service Act of 1883
21. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).
Activist Judges
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Prior Restraint
Habeas Corpus
22. 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
Class Action Suit
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
6 years/2 years
President's Appointment Power
23. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Plessy v. Fergueson
State of the Union Address
9
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
24. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Logrolling
Buckley v. Valeo
State of the Union Address
Daniel Shays
25. The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws.
War Powers Resolution
Daniel Shays
Executive office of the President
Lawrence v. Texas
26. % of votes to override a presidential veto
Power to Declare War
2/3 from Congress
Pork Barrel Legislation
Lawyers
27. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
Senatorial Courtesy
Bill of Rights
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
28. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.
Clear and Present Danger Test
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Executive office of the President
President's Inherent Powers
29. Let the decision stand; decisions are based on precedents from previous cases.
Standing
9
Pork Barrel Legislation
Stare Decisis
30. 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
Marbury v. Madison
Standing
Senatorial Courtesy
Plessy v. Fergueson
31. 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
Around 100
Class Action Suit
90% or higher
32. 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.
90% or higher
Speaker of the House
President's Inherent Powers
Marbury v. Madison
33. A claim by a victorious candidate that the electorate has given him or her special authority to carry out promises made during the campaign.
Senatorial Courtesy
Gideon v. Wainwright
Standing
Presidential Mandate
34. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Administrative Rule Making
Congressional Oversight
Redlining
Shays' Rebellion
35. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Gideon v. Wainwright
Prior Restraint
CA Prop 187
36. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
What were the key weaknesses of the 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.
Presidential Mandate
The Federalist Papers
37. Federal employees are elected/hired based on merit.
Civil Service Act of 1883
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Buckley v. Valeo
38. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.
Speaker of the House
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Standing
Executive Order
39. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Buckley v. Valeo
Conference Committee
Senatorial Courtesy
Native American Smoking
40. Congress because they're tied to the people.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
41. 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
Lawyers
Activist Judges
American Government and Politics
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
42. WWll - 1941
Prior Restraint
Miranda v. Arizona
Last time Congress declared war
Thomas Jefferson
43. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
44. A legal rule stating who is authorized to start a lawsuit.
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Marbury v. Madison
14th Amendment
Standing
45. A rule that gov't action toward religion is permissible if it is secular in purpose. Separation of law and religion.
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
46. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.
Jurisdiction
Thomas Jefferson
Power of the Federal Reserve
State of the Union Address
47. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Griswald v. Connecticut
The Declaration of Independence.
Habeas Corpus
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
48. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Dred Scot v. Standford
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Constitutional Convention
49. Legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person.
Conference Committee
14th Amendment
The Right of Due Process
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
50. Term of Senate/House
Last time Congress declared war
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
6 years/2 years
James Madison