CLEP American Government Practice Exam | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest
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Punch cards - Type of voting system that became well known immediately following the
2000 election
Prospective voting - A person who votes based on what candidate says he or she will
do in the future is said to be engaged in this type of voting
House of Representatives - Should presidential candidates receive an equal number of
electoral votes, the election is decided by___________
Democracy - "A form of government in which the people (defined broadly to include all
adults or narrowly to exclude women and slaves, for example) are the ultimate political
authority"
Direct democracy - New England town's meetings are examples of this type of
democracy
The Federalist Papers - Under the pen name "Publius," Alexander Hamilton, James
Madison, and John Jay wrote this
The Mayflower Compact - In the seventeenth century, the signers of which document
agreed to live under the colony's recognized authority and to wait for a royal charter,
such as the Virginians had?
Rhode Island - The last state to ratify the U.S. Constitution
U.S. President - The purpose of the electoral college is to choose the_________
Interest groups - In the debates over the Constitution, federalist sand anti-federalist a
spoke of factions the way we today speak of _________
Article I - "All Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives."
These words appear in which article of the U.S. Constitution?
John Locke - The English philosopher whose words are heavily drawn on in the
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Treasury - Insofar as the Constitution is concerned, members of Congress receive
payment for their work from_______
Senate - The Vice President of the United States is the president of what government
body?
, 25 - What is the minimum age specified in the Constitution for members of the House of
Representatives?
Oregon - In recent decades, which state has relied most heavily on mail-in voting?
The Constitution - In which of the nation's founding documents could one point to an
"elastic clause" to justify the existence of vast government agencies such as the
Department of Health and Human Services?
State legislatures and the people - The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution states that
government powers "not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States," are reserved for_____, ______, and _______.
Administrative discretion - Term for when Congress sets guidelines for government
agencies to follow
Unfunded mandate - The Real ID Act of 2005 was an example of an_______
Filibuster - Senators have the power to "talk a bill to death." What is the formal term for
this procedure?
Bill - A piece of legislation proposed to Congress is called_________
End debate in the Senate - What do Unanimous consent agreements accomplish?
Congress - Article I is the longest section contained in the U.S. Constitution. What is the
subject matter of this article?
Punch-card ballots - Created a controversy following the 2000 presidential election; the
"hanging" and "dimpled" chads that resulted when voters did not punch through the
cards completely were difficult for vote counters to assess
Prospective voting - Forward-looking voting: when a voter supports a candidate based
on what the candidate plans to do once in office
Retrospective voting - Voting based on an informed view of a candidate's or political
party's past
Attack and contrast ads - Designed, respectively, to create negative feelings toward a
candidate's opponent and to draw distinctions between opponents
Republicanism - Advocates a political system without a monarch
"Mobocracy" - Rule by the mob
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