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The exclusionary rule is a policy that

a. prohibits the admission of illegally seized evidence at trial.

b. prohibits the arresting officer from serving as a character witness at a hearing or trial.

c. prohibits the detention of a suspect for more than forty-eight hours without the

suspect being charged.

d. is limited to the federal courts.

e. was ruled unconstitutional in 1914.

New forms of media

a. have decreased the polarization that characterizes American politics.

b. are all Internet based.

c. were made possible by the enforcement of the Fairness Doctrine.

d. include talk radio and cable television.

e. are all equally influential.

Determining which public policy questions will be debated or considered is a process

known as ______.

a. roll call

b. subconscious influence

c. lobbying

d. media dominance

e. agenda setting

The Defense of Marriage Act of 1996

a. bans federal recognition of lesbian and gay couples.

b. requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.

c. requires states to offer civil unions to same-sex couples.

d. bans states from performing same-sex marriages.

e. requires the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages performed in states

where they are legal.

Typically, an independent regulatory agency is responsible for

a. monitoring the actions of the cabinet department heads.

b. national defense-related legislation.

c. monitoring the lower courts.

d. a specific type of public policy.

e. monitoring the actions of Congress.

Which of the following is NOT a sound argument for a federalist system of

government?

a. The large area or population of some nations makes it impractical to locate all

political authority in one place.

b. Federalism brings government closer to the people.

c. Federalism offers a “training ground” for national leaders.

d. States are testing grounds for new government initiatives.

e. Federalism allows powerful state and local interests to block progress and impede

national plans.

Which of the following did NOT happen after, or as a result of, the Civil Rights Cases

of 1883?

a. Official state actions that violated people’s civil rights was considered illegal.

b. Private civil-rights violations by individual citizens were not illegal.

c. Whites largely approved of the decisions made by the Supreme Court.

d. African Americans earned equality with whites.

e. Other civil-rights laws passed by Congress went unenforced.

Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to

a. override presidential vetoes.

b. establish a system of courts below the Supreme Court.

c. limit the power of local governments.

d. regulate the media.

e. levy income taxes.

The New York Times v. United States case

a. affirmed the no-prior-restraint doctrine.

b. upheld the government’s right to provide the public with information about Vietnam.

c. punished the New York Times for publishing secret documents.

d. affirmed the free speech of students in public schools.

e. ruled against the right of newspapers to protect their reporters’ identities.

Powers held jointly by the national and state governments are called

a. cooperative powers.

b. statutory powers.

c. reserved powers.

d. concurrent powers.

e. inherent powers.

A brief, memorable comment that can easily be fit into news broadcasts is a

a. falsehood.

b. story line.

c. multimedia platform.

d. sound bite.

e. unit of analysis.

All of the following are true about the case of McCulloch v. Maryland EXCEPT

a. the case dealt with the issue of implied powers of the federal government.

b. one issue was whether the federal government could create a national bank.

c. the decision allowed the federal government to grow and expand.

d. the decision upheld the right of the federal government to use the necessary and

proper clause.

e. the Supreme Court ruled the national government could only use its express powers.

In terms of numbers, each cabinet department is served by

a. a handful of individuals, selected directly by the president.

b. dozens of individuals.

c. hundreds of individuals, a few of whom are under Presidential control.

d. thousands of individuals, a few of whom are under Presidential control.

e. hundreds of individuals.

Scholars began to detect the gender gap following the election of

a. Ronald Reagan.

b. Gerald Ford.

c. Jimmy Carter.

d. George W. Bush.

The National Right to Life Committee and the National Rifle Association are examples

a. economic interest groups.

b. single-interest groups.

c. public-interest groups.

d. foreign interest groups.

e. fringe interest groups.

Which of the following best defines statutory power?

a. Powers that are given to the President by the Constitution

b. Powers that are given to the Congress

c. Power created for the president through laws enacted by Congress

d. Temporary powers

e. Inherent powers

The Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment protected freedom of speech

from state infringement in the _________ case.

a. Schenk v. United States

b. McCulloch v. Maryland

c. Gibbons v. Ogden

d. Gitlow v. New York

e. Marbury v. Madison

The largest occupational group among members of Congress is

a. lawyers.

b. educators.

c. businesspersons.

d. lobbyists.

e. clergy.

Which of the following requirements exist under the Freedom of Information Act?

a. Government agencies have to tell the media if budgets are exceeded.

b. Federal agencies must disclose to individuals information contained in government

files.

c. The Act made obsolete the Government in the Sunshine Act.

d. Executive agencies must release all information to congressional committees.

e. Surveillance by the National Security Agency on individual Americans is prohibited.

Those who were born on foreign soil now constitute about ______ of the U.S.

population.

a. 1.5 percent

b. 6 percent

c. 13 percent

d. 23 percent

e. 46 percent

Constitutionally, the President must be

a. a citizen for at least twenty-one years.

b. a citizen for at least thirty-five years.

c. a naturalized immigrant to the United States.

d. at least twenty-one years old.

e. at least thirty-five years old.

Probably the most fundamental weakness of the Articles of Confederation, and the most

basic cause of their eventual replacement by the Constitution, was the

a. absence of an executive committee.

b. lack of provision for a president of the United States.

c. one-vote-per-state system.

d. lack of ability to conduct foreign policy.

e. lack of power to raise funds for the militia.

The foremost power holder in the House of Representatives is the

a. President of the House.

b. majority leader.

c. president pro tempore.

d. Speaker of the House.

e. chief whip.

Some observers argue that an excessive concern with voting fraud makes it harder for

a. Republicans to get voted into office.

b. tracking polls to accurately predict election results.

c. people to take election results seriously.

d. women to vote.

e. minorities and poor people to vote.

Which of the following BEST defines civil liberties?

a. Civil liberties are not particularly important.

b. Civil liberties restrain the actions of government against individuals.

c. Civil liberties allow the government the liberty to do what it likes.

d. Civil liberties are values that libertarians do little to try to defend.

e. Civil liberties are guaranteed at the state level, but not the federal level.

Advertising statements are known as

a. unprotected speech.

b. commercial speech.

c. symbolic speech.

d. profit-seeking speech.

e. public speech.

Who was the youngest person to be elected president of the United States?

a. John F. Kennedy

b. George W. Bush

c. Theodore Roosevelt

d. Ronald Reagan

e. Abraham Lincoln

A meeting of party members designed to select candidates and propose policies is called

a. an open primary.

b. a caucus.

c. a winner-take-all primary.

d. a local election.

e. a blanket primary.

“Soft money” in political campaigns is best described as

a. campaign contributions made by foreigners.

b. matching grants made by the federal government.

c. small campaign donations.

d. campaign contributions to political parties that escaped limits of federal or state

election law.

e. money obtained from illegal sources.

If the president orders that a certain action be taken, but Congress blocks the action

from being executed by refusing to fund it, Congress is exercising

a. conscientious objection.

b. its power of the purse.

c. it veto power.

d. its right to free speech.

e. its override power.

More than ______ nuclear warheads are known to be stockpiled worldwide.

a. 80

b. 900

c. 6,000

d. 22,000

e. 500,000

The plan known as the Great Compromise

a. was advanced by the delegates from Georgia.

b. proposed a bicameral legislature.

c. was presented too late to be considered.

d. was proposed by Texas.

e. proposed a unicameral legislature in which each state would have one vote.

The Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 and the Children’s Online Protection

Act of 1998

a. were both ruled constitutionally acceptable.

b. require public schools to block adult Internet content through filtering devices.

c. were vetoed by President Clinton.

d. have been blocked on constitutional grounds.

e. outlaw computer-generated images of minors engaging in lewd behavior.

A court rule bearing on subsequent legal decisions in similar cases is called a

a. precedent.

b. criminal law.

c. judicial maxim.

d. common law.

e. statutory law.

A majority of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention were

a. unaware that there were problems with the Articles of Confederation.

b. against a strong central government.

c. nationalists in favor of instituting a monarchy.

d. moderates in favor of keeping the Articles of Confederation with very few changes.

e. nationalists in favor of a stronger central government.

Should the United States practice a foreign policy more oriented toward moral idealism

or political realism, and why?