CLEP American Government Practice Test 2024

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