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The CLEP American Government exam covers material that is usually taught in a one-semester introductory course in American government and politics at the college level.  CLEP American Government Exam content: Institutions and Policy Processes: Presidency, Bureaucracy, Congress, and the Federal Courts (30%–35%) The major formal and informal institutional arrangements and powers Structure, policy processes, and outputs Relationships among these three institutions and links between them and political parties, interest groups, the media, and public opinion Structure and processes of the... Show more
CLEP American Government Exam Practice Test
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1. Which of the following was called for in the Virginia Plan?
2. In the Mayflower Compact, we see the emergence of two enduring principles important to the American political system: (1) a willingness to live under the rule of law and (2)
3. What Supreme Court case in 1966 guaranteed that no individual “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself”?
4. By tradition, before a president nominates a person to serve as a federal judge, the president ensures that the senators from the candidate’s home state support his or her nomination. This is referred to as
5. The theory of sampling relies on which of the following key factors?
6. 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 the
7. A piece of legislation proposed to Congress is called
8. The Bill of Rights guarantees all of the following EXCEPT
9. In times of national emergency, or when the government needs to act quickly and flexibly, Congress has done what with its federal powers?
10. Which of the following acts, signed by President Bill Clinton, resulted in a balanced budget and a surplus for the first time since the end of the 1960s?
11. A Congressperson’s franking privileges pertain to
12. Which of the following terms refers to a potential check on federal judicial power?
13. What twentieth-century presidential candidate received fewer votes than his opponent but still won the election?
14. In the seventeenth century, the signers of which of the following documents agreed to live under the colony’s recognized authority and to wait for a royal charter, such as the Virginians had?
15. Marble-cake federalism is a term political scientists use to describe
16. The Grand Old Party (GOP) is a lesser-used name for what political party?
17. Congress has the power to do all of the following EXCEPT
18. Presidents can shape the nation’s legislative agenda in all of the following ways EXCEPT
19. All of the following programs were part of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and war on poverty programs EXCEPT
20. “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.” These words best define what political arrangement?
21. Which of the following is NOT true of state militias?
22. New England’s town meetings are examples of
23. The Real ID Act of 2005 was an example of
24. Civil liberties are freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Because civil liberties set limits on the extent to which the government can control citizens’ affairs, they are sometimes referred to as
25. What has been called “the most penetrating commentary ever written on the [U.S.] Constitution”?

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