Question 1

1. The rise of national conventions to nominate the president led to the empowerment of what group?

Accepted Answer

State Party Leaders (516).

Question 2

2. ______ powers are the most common form of constitutional powers possessed by the president.

Accepted Answer

Expressed Powers (519).

Question 3

____ 3. When the president infers powers from the rights, duties, and obligations of the presidency, these are called

Accepted Answer

Inherent Powers (519).

Question 4

____ 4. The power to declare war is given to whom under the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

Both houses of Congress (521).

Question 5

____ 5. The ______ asserted that the president could send American troops into action abroad only in the event of a declaration of war or other statutory authorization by Congress, or if American troops were attacked or directly endangered.

Accepted Answer

War Powers Resolution (521).

Question 6

____ 6. The goal of the War Powers Resolution was to....................

Accepted Answer

limit the power of the president to commit American troops to military action without authorization from Congress (521).

Question 7

____ 7. When Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops into Little Rock High School in 1957, it demonstrated that...

Accepted Answer

the president may make unilateral use of the emergency powers to protect states against domestic disorder (523).

Question 8

____ 8. Executive agreements differ from formal treaties in that they....................

Accepted Answer

do not require Senate approval (525).

Question 9

____ 9. The president has the power to appoint which of the following positions?

Accepted Answer

executive officers and federal judges (525).

Question 10

____ 10. Why is the president's State of the Union address important?

Accepted Answer

It is an opportunity for the president to set the legislative agenda by initiating proposals and directing public attention to the executive's goals (526).

Question 11

____ 11. An executive order is.............................

Accepted Answer

a rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect and formal status of regulation (529).

Question 12

____ 12. The ______ is the informal designation for the heads of the major federal government departments.

Accepted Answer

Cabinet (532).

Question 13

____ 13. The formal group of presidential foreign policy advisers, established in 1947, is called the ____________.

Accepted Answer

National Security Counsel (534).

Question 14

14. What people compose the National Security Council?

Accepted Answer

president, vice president, secretary of state of state, secretary of defense, and other officials invited by the president (534).

Question 15

____ 15. As a means of managing the gigantic executive branch, presidents have increasingly come to rely upon the _________________.

Accepted Answer

The White House Staff (534).

Question 16

____ 16. What is the primary constitutional task of the vice president, besides succeeding the president in case of death, resignation, or incapacitation?

Accepted Answer

to succeed the president (535).

Question 17

____ 17. When are the president's partisan ties most important?

Accepted Answer

in dealing with Congress on legislative matters

Question 18

____ 18. What are signing statements?

Accepted Answer

announcements made by the president when signing bills into law, often presenting the president's interpretation of the law (545).

Question 19

____ 19. The decline of voting and political participation by Americans has which of the following effects?

Accepted Answer

It enhances the power of the president while weakening Congress

Question 20

____ 20. Which of the following derives its greatest source of influence from the support of civil society?

Accepted Answer

Congress

Question 21

____ 21. What is administrative rule making?

Accepted Answer

process by which executive branch state agencies. adopt rules that have the force of law.

Question 22

____ 22. What is the merit system?

Accepted Answer

a product of civil service reform, in which appointees to position in public bureaucracies must objectively be deemed qualified for those positions (564).

Question 23

____ 23. What are independent agencies? List the independent agencies in the U.S.

Accepted Answer

agency that is not part of a cabinet department National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the EPA (566).

Question 24

____ 24. What are regulatory agencies and what do they do?

Accepted Answer

a department, bureau, or independent agency whose primary mission is to impose limits, restrictions, or other obligations on the conduct of individuals or companies in the private sector (567).

Question 25

____ 25. What are independent regulatory agencies? List the independent regulatory agencies.

Accepted Answer

is run by a small commission, usually with five to ten members, appointed by the president forfixed terms.Consumer Product Safety Commission, the FCC, and the EPA (567).

Question 26

____ 26. The USA PATRIOT Act does this.

Accepted Answer

Gave the Justice Department broad new powers, allowing the attorney general to detain any foreigner suspected of posing a threat to internal security expanded the government's ability to use wiretaps and to issue search warrants without notifying suspects immediately (570).

Question 27

____ 27. Which divisions fall within the Justice Department?

Accepted Answer

Criminal Division, Civil Division (572).

Question 28

____ 28. What is the principal job of the Department of Homeland Security?

Accepted Answer

to coordinate the communication and activities of federal agencies that are involved in domestic security

Question 29

____ 29. What is the primary mission of the State Department?

Accepted Answer

diplomacy (572).

Question 30

____ 30. Congress was attempting to strike a balance between the need for secrecy in national security and the right of individuals to know what their government is doing when it passed the ______ Act.

Accepted Answer

Freedom of Information Act (575).

Question 31

____ 31. The use of taxing and spending powers to shape the economy is part of ______ policy.

Accepted Answer

fiscal policy (577).

Question 32

____ 32. Who has authority to set interest rates and lending activities for the nation's banks?

Accepted Answer

Federal Reserve System (577)

Question 33

____ 33. List examples of revenue agencies.

Accepted Answer

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)The US Customs Service for tariffs and other taxes on imported goods, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for collection of taxes on the sale of those particular interests (578).

Question 34

____ 34. What is the most constitutionally essential way to make the bureaucracy responsible?

Accepted Answer

Congressional Oversight (591)

Question 35

____ 35. The most visible indication of oversight is the................................

Accepted Answer

the use of public hearings, before bureaucrats and other witnesses are summoned to discuss and defend agency budgets and past decisions (592).

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