CLEP AMERICAN GOVERNMENT EXAM ACTUAL
EXAM WELL ORGANIZED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
Type of voting system that became well known immediately following the 2000
election - (ANSWER)Punch cards
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 - (ANSWER)Prospective voting
Should presidential candidates receive an equal number of electoral votes, the
election is decided by___________ - (ANSWER)House of Representatives
"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" - (ANSWER)Democracy
New England town's meetings are examples of this type of democracy -
(ANSWER)Direct democracy
Under the pen name "Publius," Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
wrote this - (ANSWER)The Federalist Papers
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? - (ANSWER)The Mayflower Compact
,The last state to ratify the U.S. Constitution - (ANSWER)Rhode Island
The purpose of the electoral college is to choose the_________ - (ANSWER)U.S.
President
In the debates over the Constitution, federalist sand anti-federalist a spoke of
factions the way we today speak of _________ - (ANSWER)Interest groups
"All Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives."
These words appear in which article of the U.S. Constitution? - (ANSWER)Article I
The English philosopher whose words are heavily drawn on in the Declaration of
Independence - (ANSWER)John Locke
Insofar as the Constitution is concerned, members of Congress receive payment
for their work from_______ - (ANSWER)U.S. Treasury
The Vice President of the United States is the president of what government
body? - (ANSWER)Senate
What is the minimum age specified in the Constitution for members of the House
of Representatives? - (ANSWER)25
,In recent decades, which state has relied most heavily on mail-in voting? -
(ANSWER)Oregon
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? - (ANSWER)The Constitution
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 _______. - (ANSWER)State
legislatures and the people
Term for when Congress sets guidelines for government agencies to follow -
(ANSWER)Administrative discretion
The Real ID Act of 2005 was an example of an_______ - (ANSWER)Unfunded
mandate
Senators have the power to "talk a bill to death." What is the formal term for this
procedure? - (ANSWER)Filibuster
A piece of legislation proposed to Congress is called_________ - (ANSWER)Bill
What do Unanimous consent agreements accomplish? - (ANSWER)End debate in
the Senate
, Article I is the longest section contained in the U.S. Constitution. What is the
subject matter of this article? - (ANSWER)Congress
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 - (ANSWER)Punch-card
ballots
Forward-looking voting: when a voter supports a candidate based on what the
candidate plans to do once in office - (ANSWER)Prospective voting
Voting based on an informed view of a candidate's or political party's past -
(ANSWER)Retrospective voting
Designed, respectively, to create negative feelings toward a candidate's opponent
and to draw distinctions between opponents - (ANSWER)Attack and contrast ads
Advocates a political system without a monarch - (ANSWER)Republicanism
Rule by the mob - (ANSWER)"Mobocracy"
A government run by a few people - (ANSWER)Oligarchy
EXAM WELL ORGANIZED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
Type of voting system that became well known immediately following the 2000
election - (ANSWER)Punch cards
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 - (ANSWER)Prospective voting
Should presidential candidates receive an equal number of electoral votes, the
election is decided by___________ - (ANSWER)House of Representatives
"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" - (ANSWER)Democracy
New England town's meetings are examples of this type of democracy -
(ANSWER)Direct democracy
Under the pen name "Publius," Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
wrote this - (ANSWER)The Federalist Papers
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? - (ANSWER)The Mayflower Compact
,The last state to ratify the U.S. Constitution - (ANSWER)Rhode Island
The purpose of the electoral college is to choose the_________ - (ANSWER)U.S.
President
In the debates over the Constitution, federalist sand anti-federalist a spoke of
factions the way we today speak of _________ - (ANSWER)Interest groups
"All Bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives."
These words appear in which article of the U.S. Constitution? - (ANSWER)Article I
The English philosopher whose words are heavily drawn on in the Declaration of
Independence - (ANSWER)John Locke
Insofar as the Constitution is concerned, members of Congress receive payment
for their work from_______ - (ANSWER)U.S. Treasury
The Vice President of the United States is the president of what government
body? - (ANSWER)Senate
What is the minimum age specified in the Constitution for members of the House
of Representatives? - (ANSWER)25
,In recent decades, which state has relied most heavily on mail-in voting? -
(ANSWER)Oregon
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? - (ANSWER)The Constitution
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 _______. - (ANSWER)State
legislatures and the people
Term for when Congress sets guidelines for government agencies to follow -
(ANSWER)Administrative discretion
The Real ID Act of 2005 was an example of an_______ - (ANSWER)Unfunded
mandate
Senators have the power to "talk a bill to death." What is the formal term for this
procedure? - (ANSWER)Filibuster
A piece of legislation proposed to Congress is called_________ - (ANSWER)Bill
What do Unanimous consent agreements accomplish? - (ANSWER)End debate in
the Senate
, Article I is the longest section contained in the U.S. Constitution. What is the
subject matter of this article? - (ANSWER)Congress
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 - (ANSWER)Punch-card
ballots
Forward-looking voting: when a voter supports a candidate based on what the
candidate plans to do once in office - (ANSWER)Prospective voting
Voting based on an informed view of a candidate's or political party's past -
(ANSWER)Retrospective voting
Designed, respectively, to create negative feelings toward a candidate's opponent
and to draw distinctions between opponents - (ANSWER)Attack and contrast ads
Advocates a political system without a monarch - (ANSWER)Republicanism
Rule by the mob - (ANSWER)"Mobocracy"
A government run by a few people - (ANSWER)Oligarchy
