Encore - AP GOV Review #1
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- Q1Which of the following is an example of checks and balances, as established by the ConstitutionThe Supreme Court's ability to overturn a lower court decisionThe requirement that presidential appointments to the Supreme Court be approved by the SenateA requirement that states lower their drinking age to 18 as a condition of receiving funds through federal highway grant programsThe election of the President by the electoral college rather than by direct election30s
- Q2The role of a conference committee in Congress is toreconcile differences in bills passed by the House and Senatedecide which bills should be considered by the full Senatehold hearings on proposed legislationoversee the actions of the executive branch of the government30s
- Q3Supreme Court justices were given tenure subject to good behavior by the framers of the Constitution in order to ensure thatjustices remain accountable to the publiccooperation between the judicial and legislative branches is assuredPresidents are encouraged to seek younger nominees for the Supreme Courtjustices are free from direct political pressures30s
- Q4The most important source of the Supreme Court's caseload isits original jurisdictioninstruction from the solicitor generalCongress' certification of cases for reviewits appellate jurisdiction30s
- Q5A primary election in which voters are required to identify a party preference before the election and are not allowed to split their ticket is calledan open primarya runoff primarya blanket primarya closed primary30s
- Q6Which of the following did the most to expand civil rights in the 1950s?Executive orders mandating affirmative actionThe passage of voting rights legislation by CongressState legislative decisions desegregating public accomodationsThe Supreme Court decision declaring state-mandated school segregation to be unconstitutional30s
- Q7In a federal system of government, political power is primarilydivided between the central government and regional governmentsdivided between regional governments and local governmentsvested in local governmentsvested in the central government30s
- Q8Which of the following is true about the right of free speech, as currently interpreted by the Supreme Court?It protects the use of language deemed obscene by the courtsIt allows citizens to disobey laws that they believe to be unjustIn cannot be limited in any mannerIt protects the right to express opinions even without the actual use of words30s
- Q9Which of the following generalizations about group voting tendencies is true?Jewish voters tend to vote RepublicanAfrican American Democrats tend to support the more liberal candidates within their partyMore women identify themselves as RepublicansRural voters are more likely to support Democratic candidates than are urban voters30s
- Q10All of the following powers are granted to the President by the Constitution EXCEPTcommissioning officers in the armed forcesforming new cabinet-level departmentsgranting pardons for federal offensesaddressing Congress on the state of the union30s
- Q11Discrimination in public accommodations was made illegal in the United States as a direct result of theSupreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of TopekaSupreme Court decision in Sweatt v. PainterMontgomery bus boycottCivil Rights Act of 196430s