GOVERNMENT FINAL EXAM FALL 2017 STUDY GUIDE
- Know the Georgia’s governor.
- Know the Presidential line of succession through the 1st member of his cabinet.
- Know Georgia’s two current US Senators.
- Know the 2016 major presidential candidates.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. Know these amendments:
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__ Prohibition of slavery.
__ No excessive fines or bails
__ Freedom from testifying against yourself
__ The right to bear arms.
__ Women’s right to vote.
__ Freedom of speech.
__ The right to a jury trial in criminal cases.
__ Right of 18 year olds to vote.
__ Rights of citizens, defines citizenship.
__ Congress cannot establish a religion.
__ No unreasonable searches and seizures.
__ You cannot be tried twice for the same crime: Double Jeopardy
__ Right of African-Americans to vote.
__ Freedom of the press.
__ No cruel and unusual punishment.
__ Deals with presidential disability.
__ Equal protection of the laws.
__ Congress cannot prohibit the free exercise of religion
__ Deals with how many times a president can be elected, how long he can serve.
U.S. CONSTITUTION (True or False)
__ Congress may declare war.
__ Members of the House are chosen every 2 years.
__ Members of the House must be at least 30 years old.
__ An election for all 100 Senators is held at the same time every 6 years.
__ Each state gets the same number of Representatives in the U.S. House.
__ The Vice President of the U.S. is also the President of the Senate.
__ Bills for raising revenue must begin in the Senate.
__ One must be at least 35 years old to be president.
__ To be president, one must have lived in the U.S. for at least 25 years.
__ The president shall report from time to time on the state of the union.
__ Congress has no power to borrow money under the Constitution.
__ Every state shall be guaranteed a republican form of government.
__ Amendments to the Constitution must be ratified by all 50 states.
__ Nine states were necessary to ratify the Constitution at its beginning.
__ A 2/3 vote of the House and the Senate is needed to propose a Constitutional Amendment.
__ 2/3 of the states are needed to ratify a Constitutional Amendment.
True or False:
__ Ideological parties are based around a particular set of beliefs.
__ Splinter parties come out of parties that already exist.
__ Conservatives believe that government should be unlimited in size and scope.
__ Liberals believe the government should have no role in health, justice, education, or equality.
__ A moderate is someone whose views fall between liberals and conservatives.
Know the terms below with their definitions:
samplerunoff
representative sampleFEC
straw voteFCC
random sampleopen primary
interest groupsclosed primary
______Private organizations that work to affect public policy to benefit their own concerns.
______Election that is open to all voters regardless of what party they are a member of.
______Oversees the election process and makes sure candidates are complying with the campaign finance laws.
______A portion of a population that can represent the whole population.
______An election in which the top two vote getters must then compete against each other to see who wins.
______A sample in which each member of the universe has an equal chance of being selected.
______Oversees the broadcast airwaves and punishes those who put on inappropriate content.
______A sample constructed to represent the major characteristics of the universe.
______An election in which only the voters registered for the party holding the election can vote in it.
______A poll that tries to assess opinion simply by asking the same question to a large number of people.
Know the terms below with their definitions:
Standing
House Rules
Joint
Select
Conference
______Schedules bills for debate and defines how bills will be debated.
______Committees set up for short periods of time, often to investigate scandals.
______Committees established to iron out differences between House and Senate versions of bills.
______Permanent committees of the House and the Senate.
______Committees containing members from the House and the Senate.
Know the roles of the President:
chief administrator
chief of state
chief legislator
commander-in-chief
chief citizen
chief diplomat
______the President is the ceremonial leader of the United States.
______the President is the architect of American foreign policy.
______the President shapes the Congressional agenda.
______the President is representative of all of the people.
______the President heads up the U.S. Military.
______the President heads up 3 million govt.employees and a $3 trillion budget.
Be able to answer these questions:
The Virginia Plan called for ______
Compromise at the Constitutional Convention?
______
The Articles of Confederation were weak because
______
A voting district is known as a ______
The House is reapportioned each decade. Why?
What are the requirements to be a member of the Senate?
______
1/3 of the House and ½ of the Senate is composed of people from what profession?
______
Congress may not?
______
If no one gets a majority of the electoral votes in a presidential race, who chooses the president?
The President of the Senate is the ______
The main purpose of Congressional Committees is to
______
The president of the United States is formally elected by the ______
The electoral college is flawed because of the following reasons:
______
Know the terms below with their definitions:
grand jurypetit jurylibel
seditious speechjurisdiction
slandertort
mediationwrit of certiorari
statuteprecedent
______The area or type of cases over which a court has control.
______A wrongful act for which damages can be sought.
______A law established by a legislative body.
______Jury that actually tries a case and determines the guilt or innocence of the defendant.
______Afalse or malicious written statement that is published and damages someone’s reputation.
______Issued by a higher court to obtain the records of a lower court.
______Aproceeding that determines if enough evidence is present for an actual trial to take place.
______A previous decision of a court that is used to help decide later cases.
______Advocates the overthrow of the government.
______Saying something false or malicious that damages someone’s reputation.
______When someone intervenes and meets with two parties in dispute and helps resolve the situation.
Know the Supreme Court cases below:
Engel v. VitaleMarbury v. Madison
Plessy v. FergusonMiranda v. Arizona
Baker v. Carr
Mapp v. Ohio
Brown v. Board of Education
Regents of Univ. of CA v. Bakke
______The Court struck down New York’s required 22 word prayer that was said at the beginning of each school day.
______The Court ruled that those arrested must be advised of their rights prior to any questioning.
______Dealt with affirmative action/using race in making decisions on applicants.
______The Court developed the concept of judicial review by declaring part of a federal law unconstitutional.
______Established the “separate but equal” doctrine. The races can be kept separate as long as the facilities are equal. Ruling was later overturned.
______Overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine for public schools. A black girl had been prohibited to attend a school and the Supreme Court said that she could. Led to desegregation of schools.
______Case involving the redrawing of Tennessee legislative districts. Led to the “one person, one vote” principle that would come later.
______A woman’s house was raided and obscene materials were found. The Court said the evidence had been obtained improperly and must be excluded.
Know the answers to these questions:
What is it called when the president grants forgiveness for crimes to a large group of people at the same time?
Who is the current Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court?
Who is in charge of the U.S. Senate when the normal President of the Senate is absent?
The power of the courts to review the actions of the Executive and Legislative branches and determine their constitutionality.
What is it called when an opposing senator attempts to talk a bill to death in the Senate.
What executive agency is in charge of regulating the broadcast TV and radio airwaves and fining those stations that violate its standards?
Until about 50 years ago, the U.S. followed a policy of ______in regard to its foreign policy and dealings with other nations.
The United States system of government, in which power is divided between a national government and other regional governments is called this.
Bill to law. Know the order: “ICE, ICE, baby…”
__ House Committee discusses and votes on the bill
__ President receives the bill
__ Bill is introduced to either the House or Senate
__ Full House votes on the bill
__ Bill is introduced to either the House or the Senate
__ Senate Committee discusses and votes on the bill
__ Full Senate votes on the bill
Match the types of propaganda below with the examples they correspond to:
testimonial
name-calling
transfer
plain folks
bandwagon
______“Vote for Ted for president. You don’t want to be the only one who misses out.”
______“I delivered newspapers as a kid, worked part-time in a factory in college, and know what it’s like to do an honest day’s work. Vote for me for the Senate.”
______Clint Eastwood endorses Mitt Romney for president.
______“Jim Smith is a left-wing socialist. His stances on the issues are extreme and fanatical.”
______President Reagan speaks in front of the Statue of Liberty and always has many American flags in his commercials and at his events.