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CLEP Political Science Us

Subjects : clep, political-science
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. # of Cases the Supreme Court receives and hears






2. No arrest w/o probable cause - no improper searches and seizures.






3. Courts usurp authority and make law rather than interpret constitution (otherwise known as judicial activism).






4. Allows the right to a legal representation in all felony cases.






5. A case brought by someone to help him or her and all others who are similarly situated.






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.






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.






10. In 1920 the 19th was ratified to give women the right to vote.






11. 1896 - required segregation of the reaces on trolleys and other public carriers. Louisiana.






12. Most common job of Senators






13. 1954 - stopped state from using race as a criterion of discrimination and gave national gov't the power to intervene.






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.






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?






17. WWll - 1941






18. First ten amendments to the US Constitution - ratified in 1971; ensure the rights and liberties to the people.






19. % of votes to override a presidential veto






20. A practice whereby agreements are made between legislators in voting for or against a bill; vote trading.






21. Regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of legislation.






22. Attended the Constitutional Convention and recorded the debate proceedings. Also contributed to the Federalist Papers.






23. Constitutional powers that are assigned to one governmental agency but that are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.






24. Number of Supreme Court Justices






25. Reasserted the principle of congressional war power - required the president to inform Congress of any planned military campaign. 1973.






26. An adviser to the court on some matter of law who is not a party to the case.






27. A Revolutionary War veteran who led a rebellion of farmers against tax collectors and the banks that were siezing their property.






28. Wrote the final version of the Constitution.






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.






31. One of the Civil War amendments; guaranteed equal protection and due process.






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.






33. An agreement - between president and other country that is like treaty but doesn't require Congress agreement.






34. 30 minutes.






35. One of the authors of the Federalist papers.






36. A governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest.






37. President of the body at the Constitutional Convention.






38. Address banking problems and Americas Central Bank.






39. Interstate Commerce Commission 1887. Created over railroad problems.






40. Process that executive and independent agencies use to create - or promulgate - regulations.






41. % of House that get reelected






42. Term of Senate/House






43. Gave an expansion of free speech. Money for candidates is a form of free speech by 1st amendment. Early 1970s.






44. An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.






45. State no longer had the authority to make private sexual behavior a crime.






46. Legislation that gives tangible benefits to constituents in several districts or states in the hope of winning their votes in return.






47. Laws enacted by southern states following Reconstruction that discriminated against African American.






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.






49. The effort to oversee or to supervise how the executive branch carries out legislation.






50. Writer of the Declaration of Independence.