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CLEP AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ULTIMATE NEWEST 2025/2026
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 170 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW!!
Which of the following political philosophers most influenced the writing of
the United States Constitution?
(A) Plato
(B) Machiavelli
(C) Locke
(D) Rousseau
(E) Marx - ANSWER-(C) Locke
The concept of responsible party government emphasizes which of the
following about elections?
(A) Political parties will take positions similar to each other.
(B) Political parties will take clear, unambiguous positions.
(C) Voters will decide how to vote on the basis of how well the incumbent
party satisfied them.
(D) Voters will vote mostly according to past identification.
(E) Special interest groups provide platforms and policy positions to political
parties and their candidates. - ANSWER-(B) Political parties will take clear,
unambiguous positions.
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Which of the following is a difference between the House of Representatives
and the Senate?
(A) Seniority is more important in the Senate than in the House.
(B) Leadership is more centralized in the Senate than in the House.
(C) The Senate has the exclusive power to ratify treaties.
(D) The Senate has more committees than does the House.
(E) The Senate may veto laws passed by the House, but the House may not
veto senatorial legislation. - ANSWER-(C) The Senate has the exclusive
power to ratify treaties.
Which of the following was a consequence of the New Deal legislation
passed during the Great Depression under the administration of Franklin D.
Roosevelt?
(A) States gained additional powers to pass legislation to relieve the
economic problems of the Depression.
(B) The federal government became a more important agent of change than
in previous presidential administrations.
(C) New presidential appointments to federal courts limited the judicial
powers of the Supreme Court.
(D) Social policy became the primary concern of state governments.
(E) Presidents have been much more likely to defend their creation of
emergency acts by claiming executive privilege. - ANSWER-(B) The federal
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government became a more important agent of change than in previous
presidential administrations.
Congressional oversight is best described as:
(A) monitoring the federal bureaucracy
(B) monitoring the judicial branch and court rulings
(C) recommending and confirming federal judges
(D) regulating interstate commerce
(E) implementing public policy - ANSWER-(A) monitoring the federal
bureaucracy
The differences between the political attitudes of men and women are
referred to as:
(A) the political gap
(B) the gender gap
(C) partisan politics
(D) party loyalty
(E) the median voter theory - ANSWER-(B) the gender gap
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According to the Constitution, which of the following decides the presidential
election outcome in the event that a single candidate does not get a majority
of electoral votes?
(A) The Supreme Court
(B) The Senate
(C) The House of Representatives
(D) Both houses of Congress
(E) The sitting president - ANSWER-(C) The House of Representatives
If the vice presidency of the United States is vacated, the Constitution
stipulates that the president must:
(A) appoint a new vice president with the approval of the House only
(B) appoint a new vice president with the approval of the Senate only
(C) appoint a new vice president with the approval of both houses of
Congress
(D) instate the Speaker of the House as the new vice president
(E) leave the vice presidency vacant for the remainder of the term of office -
ANSWER-(C) appoint a new vice president with the approval of both houses
of Congress
CLEP AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ULTIMATE NEWEST 2025/2026
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 170 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED
A+||BRAND NEW!!
Which of the following political philosophers most influenced the writing of
the United States Constitution?
(A) Plato
(B) Machiavelli
(C) Locke
(D) Rousseau
(E) Marx - ANSWER-(C) Locke
The concept of responsible party government emphasizes which of the
following about elections?
(A) Political parties will take positions similar to each other.
(B) Political parties will take clear, unambiguous positions.
(C) Voters will decide how to vote on the basis of how well the incumbent
party satisfied them.
(D) Voters will vote mostly according to past identification.
(E) Special interest groups provide platforms and policy positions to political
parties and their candidates. - ANSWER-(B) Political parties will take clear,
unambiguous positions.
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Which of the following is a difference between the House of Representatives
and the Senate?
(A) Seniority is more important in the Senate than in the House.
(B) Leadership is more centralized in the Senate than in the House.
(C) The Senate has the exclusive power to ratify treaties.
(D) The Senate has more committees than does the House.
(E) The Senate may veto laws passed by the House, but the House may not
veto senatorial legislation. - ANSWER-(C) The Senate has the exclusive
power to ratify treaties.
Which of the following was a consequence of the New Deal legislation
passed during the Great Depression under the administration of Franklin D.
Roosevelt?
(A) States gained additional powers to pass legislation to relieve the
economic problems of the Depression.
(B) The federal government became a more important agent of change than
in previous presidential administrations.
(C) New presidential appointments to federal courts limited the judicial
powers of the Supreme Court.
(D) Social policy became the primary concern of state governments.
(E) Presidents have been much more likely to defend their creation of
emergency acts by claiming executive privilege. - ANSWER-(B) The federal
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government became a more important agent of change than in previous
presidential administrations.
Congressional oversight is best described as:
(A) monitoring the federal bureaucracy
(B) monitoring the judicial branch and court rulings
(C) recommending and confirming federal judges
(D) regulating interstate commerce
(E) implementing public policy - ANSWER-(A) monitoring the federal
bureaucracy
The differences between the political attitudes of men and women are
referred to as:
(A) the political gap
(B) the gender gap
(C) partisan politics
(D) party loyalty
(E) the median voter theory - ANSWER-(B) the gender gap
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According to the Constitution, which of the following decides the presidential
election outcome in the event that a single candidate does not get a majority
of electoral votes?
(A) The Supreme Court
(B) The Senate
(C) The House of Representatives
(D) Both houses of Congress
(E) The sitting president - ANSWER-(C) The House of Representatives
If the vice presidency of the United States is vacated, the Constitution
stipulates that the president must:
(A) appoint a new vice president with the approval of the House only
(B) appoint a new vice president with the approval of the Senate only
(C) appoint a new vice president with the approval of both houses of
Congress
(D) instate the Speaker of the House as the new vice president
(E) leave the vice presidency vacant for the remainder of the term of office -
ANSWER-(C) appoint a new vice president with the approval of both houses
of Congress
