test 11-20

Which of the following committees of the House of Representatives sets the conditions for debate and amendment of most legislation?

• (A) Ways and Means

• (B) Appropriations

• (C) Judiciary

• (D) Rules

• (E) Government Operations

Of the following, which has been used most to expand the power of the national government?

• (A) Commerce clause of the Constitution

• (B) The habeas corpus clause of the Constitution

• (C) The bill of attainder clause of the Constitution

• (D) The First Amendment

• (E) The Fifth Amendmnet

Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the two major political parties in the United States?

• (A) Parties have no organization except at the national level

• (B) Parties are centrally organized to provide a smooth transition from one national campaign to the next

• (C) Parties are organized much like a large corporation, in that decisions flow from national to state and local levels

• (D) Local and state parties have virtually no power in the party system

• (E) Separate and largely independent party organizations exist at national, state, and local levels

Following the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was designed to overturn the

• (A) Dred Scott decision

• (B) Plessy v. Ferguson ruling

• (C) Emancipation Proclamation

• (D) Civil Rights Act of 1866

• (E) Slaughterhouse cases

Which of the following best illustrates the point being made in the cartoon above?

• (A) The influence of presidents on the Supreme Court is limited because the Senate often rejects their nominees

• (B) The terms of Supreme Court justices should be reduced from their current forty years

• (C)Presidents can have an influence on public policy far beyond their terms of office

• (D) The opinions of Supreme Court justices remain very similar over long periods of time

• (E) Supreme Court justices seldom issue dissenting opinions

The tables best supports which of the following statements about party identification and voting behavior?

• (A) There is no consistent relationship between party identification and voting behavior

• (B) People with weak party identification tend to vote for opposing party candidates

• (C) Independent-leaning Democrats are unreliable voters for the Democratic party

• (D) People who most resist party identification tend to vote for Republican candidates

• (E) People with strong Democratic party identification tend to vote for the Democratic party

The table best supports which of the following statements about the two elections for which data are provided?

• (A) The 1988 and 1990 elections were clear victories for the Democratic party

• (B) Republican voters exhibited greater party discipline in 1990 than they did in 1998

• (C) Independent-leaning Republicans were the Republicans least likely to cross party lines

• (D) Pure independents were less likely to vote for the Democratic presidential candidate in 1998 than for Democratic House candidates in 1990

• (E) Weak Democrats were the group most likely to vote for Republican candidates