CLEP American Government Study Guide 2023/2024

WOTF is clearly a task charged to the Federal Reserve as a regulatory agency? module 1.3 -->(E) Providing financial services to depository institutions, the United States government and foreign institutions, as well as playing a key role in operating the nation's payments system Although the Constitution does not explicitly give Congress the right to enact a military draft, which clause in the Constitution allows Congress to do so? module 1.1 -->(A) Necessary and proper clause WOTF best explains the consistent growth of the federal bureaucracy over the past hundred years? 1.3 -->D. PUBLIC DEMAND FOR, AND EXPECTATION OF, SOCIAL SERVICES Public opinion is given a lot of attention in democracies because the democratic form of government rests on 5.2 -->C. THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED An oral statement that is false and intended to damage an individual is known as 2.4 -->A. SLANDER The formation of numerous interest groups during the post-Civil war industrialization shows the 3.2.1 -->D. INFLUENC EOF SOCIAL TENSIONS AND ECONOMIC STRESS ON GROUP FORMATION WOTF statements best reflects the pluralist theory of American politics? MOD 5.7 -->C. PUBLIC POLICIES EMERGE FROM COMPROMISES REACHED AMONG COMPETING GROUPS WOTF is generally the most significant influence on an individual's identification with a particular political party? MOD4.2 -->B. FAMILY WOTF committee assignments would confer the most power and influence on members of the House of Representatives? MOD 1.1 -->B. WAYS AND MEANS WOTF statements about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka is correct? MOD 2.2 -->A. IT DECLARED SEGREGATION BY RACE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, literacy tests were used by some southern states to MOD 5.7 -->B. PREVENT AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE The practice whereby individual senators can veto federal judicial nominations in their respective states is called MOD 2.1.2 -->D. SENATORIAL COURTESY Difference between House and Senate versions of a bill are resolved MOD 1.4 -->A. IN A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Which of the following principles protects a citizen from imprisonment without trial? MOD 2.5 -->(C) Due process The passage of legislation in Congress often depends on mutual accommodations among members. This suggests that, to some extent, congressional behavior is based on MOD 1.4 -->(C) the principle of reciprocity All of the following are constitutional rights that neither the federal government nor the states can restrict EXCEPT the right to