For the final exam, we will make 100 multiple choice questions. 4 of them will be based on these discussion readings:
Greenhouse, Linda. "States' Rights Defense Falters in Medical Marijuana Case"
Andrews, Edmund and Robert Pear. "With New Rules, Congress Boasts of Pet Projects"
Oglesby, Christy "Wanted: One Chief Executive, No Experience Required"
Ehrenreich, Barbara. "Warning: This is a Rights- Free Workplace." The New York Times. March 5, 2000
I don't have the questions for the final ready at this time. I have about 170 possibilities, and I'll probably use about 85 of them and then make the GTAs write 15 new ones. Here are the questions I have so far (Dec. 10, 2008)
The Federal Communications Commissions does NOT
After the 1974 Election Campaign Reform Act placed limits on spending in House and Senate Campaigns,
In a closed primary,
The Prospective Theory of Voting states that:
Party leaders are an example of a Member of Congress's:
In the case of McCulloch? v. Maryland, the Supreme Court held that the law that created the National Bank
Libel is
Following the Supreme Court's decision in \textit{Plessy v. Ferguson}, we observed
Barriers used to prevent African Americans from voting included De jure segregation means racial segregation
A major result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was
Redistricting is
Gerrymandering is
A conference committee has the authority to
An ``initiative'' is
Social Security is a national
When the principal-agent problem arises, the principle wants the agent:
What is required to amend the Constitution?
In a representative democracy
The Bill of Rights provided for By definition, a Collective Good is
The Great Compromise created
According to Article II, the President is granted the power to perform each duty EXCEPT
To end debate in the Senate, a procedure called \rule{0.25in}{.4pt} is used
Standing Committees are important because:
The implied powers of the President are:
Which of the following state policies was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
The Bill of Rights explicitly imposed limits
When the Supreme Court says that the due process clause of the 14th amendment forbids a state government from violating one of your rights, this is called
The Exclusionary Rule:
On the whole, the Supreme Court's decisions regarding freedom of the press over the last 100 years have been
Even though you have a right of free speech and press, the government can punish you if the newspaper you print has
"Fiscal policy" concerns
Which of the following programs uses "means testing"?
Comparing Social Security and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, which of these statements is correct?
After 1930, the Supreme Court's reinterpretation of the commerce clause
Social contract theory maintains that
For which branch of the national government are its powers spelled out with the greatest amount of detail in the Constitution?
The Federalists were Suppose the President wants to put his friend Thomas Clarence on the Supreme Court. The Senate can hold hearings and decide whether or not to confirm the appointment. This is an example of
The Supremacy Clause in the Constitution (Article VI) states
Federalism can best be described as
People who think the national government has taken too much power from the states cite examples like:
Which of the following best describes political knowledge in America?
If a person decides to ignore politics because other personal matters are more important, Prof. Johnson says that person is:
A sample in which every individual in the population has an equal probability of being included is called a(n)
An organization that calls its members and urges them to contact elected officials is engaging in Members of the Sierra Club receive the Sierra Club Magazine. The magazine is an example of
Political Action Committees are
The best statistical studies have found that roll call votes in Congress are __ PAC donations.
The problem that arises when people who share an interest group's goals but do not join or contribute to the group is known as
Amicus curiae is the Latin term that we use to refer to
How many electoral votes are there in the Electoral College?
Which is not a tool that members of Congress might use to cultivate support from their constituents?
In the Constitution, there is no provision that allows Congress to pass a law to
Which organization has the power to confirm or reject presidential appointments to the Supreme Court?
A legislature composed of two chambers is called
Thousands of bills are proposed every year. Most never become law because In the Senate, the rules allow
When the President vetoes a bill, Congress can
If the President is to be removed from office, the following impeachment process must be used
Getting the Senate to approve a treaty has often proved difficult for Presidents. In an attempt to avoid this difficulty, Presidents often sign these instead
When the President sends the army into a country against which Congress has not declared war, the President is exercising the
Which of the following best describes the evolution of the presidency in the US?
In \textit{Marbury v. Madison}, the Supreme Court established
The Constitutional Amendment which limited Supreme Court justices to two terms was the
The Supreme Court is reluctant to change its interpretation of the Constitution or previous rulings. This reluctance is known as the principle of
When the United States Supreme Court grants a writ of certiorari, it means that
If all of the members of the Supreme Court are voting, how many votes does the winning side need?
In the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Congress imposed restrictions on private businesses and hotels. Congressional leaders claimed that Congress had Constitutional power to do that because
In 1883, the United States Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional on the basis that
What is the most notable effect of the McCain? -Feingold campaign finance act (BCRA) of 2002?
Duverger's law states that
The Median Voter Theorem leads us to expect that 2 candidates for office will
When the media affects the salience of issues and problems, it is called
An example of a public assistance program that is not means-tested is
The Medicare program
Interest rates and monetary policy are the primary responsibility of which federal agency
Compared to the US, a parliamentary system that uses proportional representation is more likely to have
The Constitution is written in language that
Implied powers of the president are clearly outlined in what part of the Constitution?
At the Constitutional Convention, James Madison's proposal (the ``Virginia Plan'')
A presidential candidate who accepts federal campaign funds for the general election
In Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court ruled that
The "white primary" was employed in many Southern states in order to
The "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment
The right of people of all races to vote
According to the Supreme Court, the state governments cannot arrest people for committing consensual homosexual acts in private. Which part of the Constitution is the basis for that right?
How free is speech today?
The Constitution gives the power to declare war to the
Which of these is NOT a characteristic of ideal bureaucracy according to Managerial Orthodoxy:
Fire alarm oversight occurs when:
Groups of knowledgeable people who care about specific topics and monitor political affairs are called:
The Supreme Court's doctrine of strict scrutiny requires that, in order to justify restrictions on rights of ``protected groups'', a state must:
Adam Smith's term "invisible hand" refers to the free market's tendency to
The Equal time rule, administered by the FCC, requires:
Americans who form coherent, well-linked, patterns among their attitudes on different issues
For a free market to function efficiently, it is necessary for the government to
The Constitution of the United States allowed slavery, but it also stipulated that:
One of the reasons that the percentage of Americans who vote appears low in comparison with other countries is that
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the major political party organizations at the current time?
During the Constitutional Convention, the ``Great Compromise''
When two or more governments exercise authority over the same people, it is known as
A large majority of the money donated by PACs go to
Washington had used the so-called "blanket primary" rule. The Supreme Court said that was unconstitutional because
The Constitution may be amended when an amendment is approved by
Which of the following powers is NOT granted to Congress in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution?
The Constitution is written in language that
What kind of grant-in-aid allows the recipient of the grant the least independence in determining how the money will be spent?
Which action did Shays' Rebellion help to precipitate?
"Dual federalism" is the doctrine which states that
Which of the following statements best describes the principle of separation of powers? Federal regulations that impose regulatory costs on state and local governments without supplying appropriate federal monies are called:
Followers of classical liberalism believe that
There are usually two major parties competing for political offices in the U.S. One likely reason for that is
The right to vote is sometimes referred to as
An attempt to remove an official from office before the completion of the term is a/an:
Advocates of federalism sometimes claim that the system offers ``laboratories of democracy?'' This means that:
Which of the following is a problem associated with the administration and implementation of federal grant programs?
In the US, at the current time, the most widely used method of selecting candidates for public office is the
How would you describe the strength of ideology as observed in public opinion surveys:
When voters decide to vote against an incumbent because the economy is doing badly and the voter does not have much money,___ is said to occur.
According to Prof. Johnson, what three goals do all members of Congress have?
According to Prof. Johnson's lecture, the constituency of a member of Congress includes
Distributive tendencies of Congress often cause it to
In the case of a tie vote in the Senate, the deciding vote is cast by the
Which type of the presidential "implied powers" has been most frequently rejected by the Supreme Court
How are chairs of House committees selected?
Some of the most prominent members of the federal bureaucracy are cabinet secretaries. Which one of the following statements about cabinet secretaries is most true?
Which of the following is true about the federal appeals process?
Article II states that the courts shall have the "power and obligation of Judicial Review." That would be
The Senate refused to ratify President Bush's UN ambassador nominee John Bolton, but in 2005 Bolton took over the job anyway. That happened because
One of the problems with a bureaucratic system designed according to the Managerial Orthodoxy is that
The length of a term in the U.S. House of Representatives is \rule{0.1in}{.4pt} years, while a term in the U.S. Senate is \rule{0.1in}{.4pt} years.
The President makes appointments with Senate confirmation, but when the Senate is in recess, an appointment is:
Which element is \emph{not} a feature of a criminal trial?
The FPJM text claims that recent Court decisions follow a \textbf{doctrine of fundamental freedoms}. That doctrine states
The First Amendment does not protect speech or press when
Which part of the U.S. Constitution states ``the right of privacy shall not be violated by an official of any governmental unit''?
After 1919, the courts developed a standard that is now referred to as the ``bad tendency test''. That test allowed people who opposed US involvement in World War I to be punished because
The Exclusionary Rule states that:
The Bill of Rights explicitly imposed limits
Post-Reconstruction laws that enforced segregation were known as:
How could you best describe the Supreme Court's current position on affirmative action in University admissions?
When segregation exists, but was not created by law or policy, it is called:
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 said private businesses could not discriminate. In 1883, the United States Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional on the grounds that
The "white primary" was an effort to
The FPJM textbook claims that legal distinctions that depend on race
are treated as \textbf{suspect classifications}. That means
that
Government regulation of large businesses that have established monopolies is known as
Free markets that are working efficiently do not
President Bush proposed that the Social Security System should create individual investment accounts that workers would be allowed to invest in the stock market. That would be a big change because, at the current time,
All of the following are true of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) EXCEPT
The amount by which annual spending exceeds revenue is known as:
If someone argues that the government should spend money during a
recession in order to ``jump start'' the economy, the FPJM textbook
says that person is called a
The right of people of all races to vote:
As we currently understand it, the "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment
After the House reapportions seats among the states, which entity is supposed to draw district lines within each state
Unlike the Senate, the rules of the House of Representatives provide for
When somebody hires another person to do a specialized job, there can be slippage because:
How are chairs of House committees selected?
When the president is elected and his/her party gains seats in Congress, we call it:
Congressional incumbents have the all of the following advantages over challengers, except:
A term used to describe the close, stable connection among agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees is:
The version of legislation emerging from a conference committee:
The House Rules Committee may determine all of these except:
Managerial orthodoxy (MO) of bureaucracy recommends:
The FEC provides public subsidies to presidential candidates; the money for these matching funds comes from
Which of the following is a popular delay tactic in the Senate?
The Supreme Court's original jurisdiction is conferred by
Executive orders:
A presidential candidate who accepts federal campaign funds for the general election
The largest single expense of most presidential campaigns is
The president’s formal, enumerated powers do not include -- PaulJohnson - 18 Aug 2008
The Federal Communications Commissions does NOT
After the 1974 Election Campaign Reform Act placed limits on spending in House and Senate Campaigns,
In a closed primary,
The Prospective Theory of Voting states that:
Party leaders are an example of a Member of Congress's:
In the case of McCulloch? v. Maryland, the Supreme Court held that the law that created the National Bank
Libel is
Following the Supreme Court's decision in \textit{Plessy v. Ferguson}, we observed
Barriers used to prevent African Americans from voting included De jure segregation means racial segregation
A major result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was
Redistricting is
Gerrymandering is
A conference committee has the authority to
An ``initiative'' is
Social Security is a national
When the principal-agent problem arises, the principle wants the agent:
What is required to amend the Constitution?
In a representative democracy
The Bill of Rights provided for By definition, a Collective Good is
The Great Compromise created
According to Article II, the President is granted the power to perform each duty EXCEPT
To end debate in the Senate, a procedure called \rule{0.25in}{.4pt} is used
Standing Committees are important because:
The implied powers of the President are:
Which of the following state policies was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
The Bill of Rights explicitly imposed limits
When the Supreme Court says that the due process clause of the 14th amendment forbids a state government from violating one of your rights, this is called
The Exclusionary Rule:
On the whole, the Supreme Court's decisions regarding freedom of the press over the last 100 years have been
Even though you have a right of free speech and press, the government can punish you if the newspaper you print has
"Fiscal policy" concerns
Which of the following programs uses "means testing"?
Comparing Social Security and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, which of these statements is correct?
After 1930, the Supreme Court's reinterpretation of the commerce clause
Social contract theory maintains that
For which branch of the national government are its powers spelled out with the greatest amount of detail in the Constitution?
The Federalists were Suppose the President wants to put his friend Thomas Clarence on the Supreme Court. The Senate can hold hearings and decide whether or not to confirm the appointment. This is an example of
The Supremacy Clause in the Constitution (Article VI) states
Federalism can best be described as
People who think the national government has taken too much power from the states cite examples like:
Which of the following best describes political knowledge in America?
If a person decides to ignore politics because other personal matters are more important, Prof. Johnson says that person is:
A sample in which every individual in the population has an equal probability of being included is called a(n)
An organization that calls its members and urges them to contact elected officials is engaging in Members of the Sierra Club receive the Sierra Club Magazine. The magazine is an example of
Political Action Committees are
The best statistical studies have found that roll call votes in Congress are __ PAC donations.
The problem that arises when people who share an interest group's goals but do not join or contribute to the group is known as
Amicus curiae is the Latin term that we use to refer to
How many electoral votes are there in the Electoral College?
Which is not a tool that members of Congress might use to cultivate support from their constituents?
In the Constitution, there is no provision that allows Congress to pass a law to
Which organization has the power to confirm or reject presidential appointments to the Supreme Court?
A legislature composed of two chambers is called
Thousands of bills are proposed every year. Most never become law because In the Senate, the rules allow
When the President vetoes a bill, Congress can
If the President is to be removed from office, the following impeachment process must be used
Getting the Senate to approve a treaty has often proved difficult for Presidents. In an attempt to avoid this difficulty, Presidents often sign these instead
When the President sends the army into a country against which Congress has not declared war, the President is exercising the
Which of the following best describes the evolution of the presidency in the US?
In \textit{Marbury v. Madison}, the Supreme Court established
The Constitutional Amendment which limited Supreme Court justices to two terms was the
The Supreme Court is reluctant to change its interpretation of the Constitution or previous rulings. This reluctance is known as the principle of
When the United States Supreme Court grants a writ of certiorari, it means that
If all of the members of the Supreme Court are voting, how many votes does the winning side need?
In the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Congress imposed restrictions on private businesses and hotels. Congressional leaders claimed that Congress had Constitutional power to do that because
In 1883, the United States Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional on the basis that
What is the most notable effect of the McCain? -Feingold campaign finance act (BCRA) of 2002?
Duverger's law states that
The Median Voter Theorem leads us to expect that 2 candidates for office will
When the media affects the salience of issues and problems, it is called
An example of a public assistance program that is not means-tested is
The Medicare program
Interest rates and monetary policy are the primary responsibility of which federal agency
Compared to the US, a parliamentary system that uses proportional representation is more likely to have
The Constitution is written in language that
Implied powers of the president are clearly outlined in what part of the Constitution?
At the Constitutional Convention, James Madison's proposal (the ``Virginia Plan'')
A presidential candidate who accepts federal campaign funds for the general election
In Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court ruled that
The "white primary" was employed in many Southern states in order to
The "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment
The right of people of all races to vote
According to the Supreme Court, the state governments cannot arrest people for committing consensual homosexual acts in private. Which part of the Constitution is the basis for that right?
How free is speech today?
The Constitution gives the power to declare war to the
Which of these is NOT a characteristic of ideal bureaucracy according to Managerial Orthodoxy:
Fire alarm oversight occurs when:
Groups of knowledgeable people who care about specific topics and monitor political affairs are called:
The Supreme Court's doctrine of strict scrutiny requires that, in order to justify restrictions on rights of ``protected groups'', a state must:
Adam Smith's term "invisible hand" refers to the free market's tendency to
The Equal time rule, administered by the FCC, requires:
Americans who form coherent, well-linked, patterns among their attitudes on different issues
For a free market to function efficiently, it is necessary for the government to
The Constitution of the United States allowed slavery, but it also stipulated that:
One of the reasons that the percentage of Americans who vote appears low in comparison with other countries is that
Which of the following statements most accurately describes the major political party organizations at the current time?
During the Constitutional Convention, the ``Great Compromise''
When two or more governments exercise authority over the same people, it is known as
A large majority of the money donated by PACs go to
Washington had used the so-called "blanket primary" rule. The Supreme Court said that was unconstitutional because
The Constitution may be amended when an amendment is approved by
Which of the following powers is NOT granted to Congress in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution?
The Constitution is written in language that
What kind of grant-in-aid allows the recipient of the grant the least independence in determining how the money will be spent?
Which action did Shays' Rebellion help to precipitate?
"Dual federalism" is the doctrine which states that
Which of the following statements best describes the principle of separation of powers? Federal regulations that impose regulatory costs on state and local governments without supplying appropriate federal monies are called:
Followers of classical liberalism believe that
There are usually two major parties competing for political offices in the U.S. One likely reason for that is
The right to vote is sometimes referred to as
An attempt to remove an official from office before the completion of the term is a/an:
Advocates of federalism sometimes claim that the system offers ``laboratories of democracy?'' This means that:
Which of the following is a problem associated with the administration and implementation of federal grant programs?
In the US, at the current time, the most widely used method of selecting candidates for public office is the
How would you describe the strength of ideology as observed in public opinion surveys:
When voters decide to vote against an incumbent because the economy is doing badly and the voter does not have much money,___ is said to occur.
According to Prof. Johnson, what three goals do all members of Congress have?
According to Prof. Johnson's lecture, the constituency of a member of Congress includes
Distributive tendencies of Congress often cause it to
In the case of a tie vote in the Senate, the deciding vote is cast by the
Which type of the presidential "implied powers" has been most frequently rejected by the Supreme Court
How are chairs of House committees selected?
Some of the most prominent members of the federal bureaucracy are cabinet secretaries. Which one of the following statements about cabinet secretaries is most true?
Which of the following is true about the federal appeals process?
Article II states that the courts shall have the "power and obligation of Judicial Review." That would be
The Senate refused to ratify President Bush's UN ambassador nominee John Bolton, but in 2005 Bolton took over the job anyway. That happened because
One of the problems with a bureaucratic system designed according to the Managerial Orthodoxy is that
The length of a term in the U.S. House of Representatives is \rule{0.1in}{.4pt} years, while a term in the U.S. Senate is \rule{0.1in}{.4pt} years.
The President makes appointments with Senate confirmation, but when the Senate is in recess, an appointment is:
Which element is \emph{not} a feature of a criminal trial?
The FPJM text claims that recent Court decisions follow a \textbf{doctrine of fundamental freedoms}. That doctrine states
The First Amendment does not protect speech or press when
Which part of the U.S. Constitution states ``the right of privacy shall not be violated by an official of any governmental unit''?
After 1919, the courts developed a standard that is now referred to as the ``bad tendency test''. That test allowed people who opposed US involvement in World War I to be punished because
The Exclusionary Rule states that:
The Bill of Rights explicitly imposed limits
Post-Reconstruction laws that enforced segregation were known as:
How could you best describe the Supreme Court's current position on affirmative action in University admissions?
When segregation exists, but was not created by law or policy, it is called:
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 said private businesses could not discriminate. In 1883, the United States Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional on the grounds that
The "white primary" was an effort to
The FPJM textbook claims that legal distinctions that depend on race
are treated as \textbf{suspect classifications}. That means
that
Government regulation of large businesses that have established monopolies is known as
Free markets that are working efficiently do not
President Bush proposed that the Social Security System should create individual investment accounts that workers would be allowed to invest in the stock market. That would be a big change because, at the current time,
All of the following are true of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) EXCEPT
The amount by which annual spending exceeds revenue is known as:
If someone argues that the government should spend money during a
recession in order to ``jump start'' the economy, the FPJM textbook
says that person is called a
The right of people of all races to vote:
As we currently understand it, the "equal protection clause" of the Fourteenth Amendment
After the House reapportions seats among the states, which entity is supposed to draw district lines within each state
Unlike the Senate, the rules of the House of Representatives provide for
When somebody hires another person to do a specialized job, there can be slippage because:
How are chairs of House committees selected?
When the president is elected and his/her party gains seats in Congress, we call it:
Congressional incumbents have the all of the following advantages over challengers, except:
A term used to describe the close, stable connection among agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees is:
The version of legislation emerging from a conference committee:
The House Rules Committee may determine all of these except:
Managerial orthodoxy (MO) of bureaucracy recommends:
The FEC provides public subsidies to presidential candidates; the money for these matching funds comes from
Which of the following is a popular delay tactic in the Senate?
The Supreme Court's original jurisdiction is conferred by
Executive orders:
A presidential candidate who accepts federal campaign funds for the general election
The largest single expense of most presidential campaigns is
The president’s formal, enumerated powers do not include -- PaulJohnson - 18 Aug 2008
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