CLEP American Government Practice Test
Questions and Answers A+ Guide
Punch cards - correct answers✅✅Type of voting system that became well
known immediately following the 2000 election
Prospective voting - correct answers✅✅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 - correct answers✅✅Should presidential
candidates receive an equal number of electoral votes, the election is
decided by___________
Democracy - correct answers✅✅"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 - correct answers✅✅New England town's meetings are
examples of this type of democracy
The Federalist Papers - correct answers✅✅Under the pen name "Publius,"
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote this
The Mayflower Compact - correct answers✅✅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 - correct answers✅✅The last state to ratify the U.S.
Constitution
U.S. President - correct answers✅✅The purpose of the electoral college is
to choose the_________
, CLEP American Government Practice Test
Questions and Answers A+ Guide
Interest groups - correct answers✅✅In the debates over the Constitution,
federalist sand anti-federalist a spoke of factions the way we today speak of
_________
Article I - correct answers✅✅"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 - correct answers✅✅The English philosopher whose words are
heavily drawn on in the Declaration of Independence
U.S. Treasury - correct answers✅✅Insofar as the Constitution is
concerned, members of Congress receive payment for their work from_______
Senate - correct answers✅✅The Vice President of the United States is the
president of what government body?
25 - correct answers✅✅What is the minimum age specified in the
Constitution for members of the House of Representatives?
Oregon - correct answers✅✅In recent decades, which state has relied
most heavily on mail-in voting?
The Constitution - correct answers✅✅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 - correct answers✅✅The Tenth
Amendment to the Constitution states that government powers "not
Questions and Answers A+ Guide
Punch cards - correct answers✅✅Type of voting system that became well
known immediately following the 2000 election
Prospective voting - correct answers✅✅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 - correct answers✅✅Should presidential
candidates receive an equal number of electoral votes, the election is
decided by___________
Democracy - correct answers✅✅"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 - correct answers✅✅New England town's meetings are
examples of this type of democracy
The Federalist Papers - correct answers✅✅Under the pen name "Publius,"
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote this
The Mayflower Compact - correct answers✅✅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 - correct answers✅✅The last state to ratify the U.S.
Constitution
U.S. President - correct answers✅✅The purpose of the electoral college is
to choose the_________
, CLEP American Government Practice Test
Questions and Answers A+ Guide
Interest groups - correct answers✅✅In the debates over the Constitution,
federalist sand anti-federalist a spoke of factions the way we today speak of
_________
Article I - correct answers✅✅"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 - correct answers✅✅The English philosopher whose words are
heavily drawn on in the Declaration of Independence
U.S. Treasury - correct answers✅✅Insofar as the Constitution is
concerned, members of Congress receive payment for their work from_______
Senate - correct answers✅✅The Vice President of the United States is the
president of what government body?
25 - correct answers✅✅What is the minimum age specified in the
Constitution for members of the House of Representatives?
Oregon - correct answers✅✅In recent decades, which state has relied
most heavily on mail-in voting?
The Constitution - correct answers✅✅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 - correct answers✅✅The Tenth
Amendment to the Constitution states that government powers "not
