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CLEP Political Science Us
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1. A slave that didn't have due process rights in a free state. 1857.
Constitutional Convention
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Articles of Confederation
Dred Scot v. Standford
2. What document was heavily influenced by Locke's philosophies?
Standing
Regulatory Agency
The Exclusionary Rule
The Declaration of Independence.
3. % of House that get reelected
90% or higher
Last time Congress declared war
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Thomas Jefferson
4. The power to appoint high-ranking officials.
5. Gave equal right to black people covering voting - employment - public accommodation - and educations.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Prior Restraint
Alexander Hamilton
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
6. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.
Logrolling
Administrative Rule Making
Independent Agency
Conference Committee
7. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.
War Powers Resolution
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Amicus Curiae
Speaker of the House
8. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.
Delegated Powers
Habeas Corpus
14th Amendment
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
9. No excessive bail and no cruel/unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
Alexander Hamilton
10. 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
Civil Service Act of 1883
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Congressional Oversight
Critical Period
11. President is obligated to make recommendations for Congress's consideration.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
State of the Union Address
Last time Congress declared war
Congressional Oversight
12. A rule that gov't action toward religion is permissible if it is secular in purpose. Separation of law and religion.
13. Congress has this power - only used twice.
Executive office of the President
James Madison
Activist Judges
Power to Declare War
14. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Native American Smoking
Three most common ways for President to expand his base of power
Thomas Jefferson
Amicus Curiae
15. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.
Administrative Rule Making
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Buckley v. Valeo
16. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.
War Powers Resolution
Dred Scot v. Standford
Amicus Curiae
The Exclusionary Rule
17. Delegate - member of Congress acts on the express preference of his constituents. Trustee - member is more loosely tied to constituents and makes the decisions she thinks best.
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Griswald v. Connecticut
Delegated Powers
18. 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.
Clear and Present Danger Test
Around 100
Gouverneur Morris
Conference Committee
19. WWll - 1941
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Last time Congress declared war
Griswald v. Connecticut
Constitutional Convention
20. Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
Brown v. Board of Education
Clear and Present Danger Test
Buckley v. Valeo
Joint Chiefs of Staff
21. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.
George Washington
Griswald v. Connecticut
Around 100
Jim Crow Laws
22. 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.
State of the Union Address
Speaker of the House
Least dangerous branch of the gov't
Dred Scot v. Standford
23. Requires police to read the Miranda rights so they know they don't have to self incriminate.
Miranda v. Arizona
The Right of Due Process
Jim Crow Laws
Native American Smoking
24. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.
90% or higher
Plessy v. Fergueson
Lawrence v. Texas
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
25. Number of Supreme Court Justices
Activist Judges
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
9
Last time Congress declared war
26. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.
Amicus Curiae
4th Amendment protections
CA Prop 187
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
27. The continuous holding of the floor by a party to prevent action. Needs 3/5 to end.
Filibuster
Delegated Powers
Alexander Hamilton
De facto and de jure segregation
28. Affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls and disputes between the states.
Buckley v. Valeo
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
The Right of Due Process
Daniel Shays
29. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.
Clear and Present Danger Test
Congressional Oversight
Gideon v. Wainwright
14th Amendment
30. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.
Plessy v. Fergueson
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Power to Declare War
George Washington
31. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.
Delegated Powers
Brown v. Board of Education
Class Action Suit
The Federalist Papers
32. A practice in which banks refure to make loans to people living in certain geographic locations.
8th Amendment
Class Action Suit
Redlining
The Federalist Papers
33. 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.
Prior Restraint
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
Miranda v. Arizona
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
34. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.
Standing
Executive office of the President
Last time Congress declared war
Lawrence v. Texas
35. 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
Difference between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Delegate and Trustee Theories of Representation
Senatorial Courtesy
American Government and Politics
36. 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
Devolution
Stare Decisis
Amicus Curiae
37. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
Standing
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
Congressional Oversight
38. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.
Critical Period
Buckley v. Valeo
Activist Judges
Habeas Corpus
39. Who formalized the political science curriculum in the United States?
Native American Smoking
The Declaration of Independence.
Amicus Curiae
Faculty at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. They were deeply influenced by German scholarship on the nation-state and the formation of democratic institutions.
40. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.
Last time Congress declared war
Executive Agreements
Conference Committee
CA Prop 187
41. A symbol of the inability of the government to under the Articles of Confederation to maintain order.
42. Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution - but are inferred from it.
43. A system in which the president submits the name of a candidate for judicial appointment to the senators from the candidate's state before formally submitting it for full senate approval.
8th Amendment
19th Amendment and the year it was ratified
Senatorial Courtesy
Civil Service Act of 1883
44. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.
Gouverneur Morris
Lemon v. Kurtzman- 'Lemon Test'
6 years/2 years
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
45. 1965 - state forbid the use of contraceptive between married couples. Supreme court overturned the decision.
Lawrence v. Texas
Griswald v. Connecticut
Executive Agreements
Supreme Court - Original Jurisdiction
46. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.
Articles of Confederation
Jim Crow Laws
First Regulatory Agency created by Congress
Shays' Rebellion
47. Not allowed.
Articles of Confederation
Native American Smoking
Plessy v. Fergueson
Independent Agency
48. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.
Lawyers
Time aloud for oral argument with Supreme Court
9
Daniel Shays
49. The delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government).
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Devolution
Government Corporation
13th - 14th - and 15th Amendments
50. A collection of essays expressing the political philosophy of the Founders and that were instrumental in bringing about the ratification of the Constitution.
The Federalist Papers
Power to Declare War
2/3 from Congress
Power of the Federal Reserve