Gov exam 4 MMHS

What is an example of an informal requirement to become President?

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What is the U.S. President’s yearly compensation?

$400.000, $50,000 general expenses, $100,000 travel expenses

What. isa role of the Vice-President?

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What is a part of the President’s benefit package?

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What is an example of Presidential power?

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What established Presidential succession?

25th amendment

Over the past 200+ years how have the duties of the President changed?

Presidential duties have not changed significantly

What are the formal requirements to become President of the United States?

Natural born citizen of the United States, 35 years old, 14 year residence

What established the current term limit for the President?

The 22nd Amendment established a two term or 10 year maximum

How is Presidential disability established?

The President or the VP and the majority of the Cabinet can inform Congress of an inability to perform duties

What is a criticism of the Electoral College system?

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What is one criticism of switching to a direct popular vote for President?

The focus of Presidential campaigns would shift to major population centers

The focus of Presidential campaigns would shift to major population centers

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When did political parties begin choosing electors by popular vote

1820s

What term describes voters who directly vote for President?

Electors

What is the official swearing in of the Presidents-Elect, which occurs at noon on January 20th in the year following the Presidential election?

Inauguration

What term describes the vote cast for President?

Electoral vote

What Amendment established that electors vote for President and Vice-President on separate ballots?

12th

How were electoral votes originally chosen?

State legislatures chose voters and each state gets as many votes as it has Senators and Representatives

What is true about modern elections for President?

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What is three factors that limit the Cabinet’s role?

Conflicting loyalties, secrecy, and trust

What is an important factor in the selection of members of the Cabinet?

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What group is composed of 15 secretaries, the Vice-President, and other top officials?

Cabinet

What Cabinet secretaries make up the “inner Cabinet?”

State, Defense, Treasury, and Attorney General

What is the role of the Cabinet?

Cabinet members are responsible for the executive department they head

What term describes when the President’s term releases information about a Cabinet member nomination to test the reaction of Congress and the public?

Leaking

What have the role of modern Cabinets been?

The Cabinet acts as a sounding board for the President

Historically, what kind of relationship do Presidents have with their Cabinet?

It depends on the President

What is an example of politics influencing a Cabinet appointment?

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Who confirms Cabinet appointments?

Senate

What executive office helps the President formulate nations economic policy?

Council of economic advisers

Why has the executive office of the President grown so rapidly?

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What is an example of a white house staff position?

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What office did congress create to advise the President and help foreign policy?

National Security council

What is a duty of the White House staff?

Gathering info and providing advice about key issues

What executive office is responsible for preparing national budget?

Office of Management and Budget

What created the Executive office of the President?

President Roosevelts new deal programs

How is the White House staff appointed?

The President appoints longtime supporters without senate affirmation

What cabinet office created after the attacks on the Pentagon?

Homeland Security

What office consists of individuals/agencies that really assist the President?

Executive office of the President

What term describes a medium for discussion on the Presidential issues?

forum

How can Congress limit the powers of the President

Overriding a Presidential veto

What was one of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that inspired Article II of the Constitution?

The lack of an executive branch

What was the ruling in Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer?

The president cannot assume powers of Congress that Congress is unwilling to assume

What is a specific example of an informal exercise of Presidential power?

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What term describes the expressed will of the people?

Mandate

Which Article of the Constitution grants Presidential power?

II

What power is granted to the President by the Constitution?

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Which of the following is a source of Presidential power?

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What is an example of limitation on Presidential power?

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How can the President use the military?

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What term describes a rule that the President has issued that carries the weight of the law?

Executive order

What term describes a reward for loyal political service?

Patronage

What term describes granting a patron to people who have committed a crime against the government?

Amnesty

What group of advisers was created to help the President study the economy?

Council of Economic Advisors

What term describes a postponement of legal punishment?

Reprieve

What term describes formal agreements between two or more nations?

Treaty

What term describes a release from legal punishment?

Pardon

What is a pact between the President and another head of state called?

Executive agreement

What term describes when the President refuses to spend money Congress has appropriated for a project?

Impoundment

What kinds of qualities do Presidents need to exercise leadership?

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How can the President become isolated?

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What term describes when a person does not technically hold the office of President, but exercises power as though he was President?

De facto

What do Presidents risk as they become more dependent on White House Staff?

Becoming more isolated

How do popular opinions of the President affect how Congress receives legislation the President proposes?

Negative public opinion about a President can have a negative affect on how Congress receivers proposed legislation

What is the term for secret activities that executive agencies might conduct that the President is unaware of?

Covert

What term describes the right of the President to refuse to provide information to Congress or to a court?

Executive privilege

Which President was known as “The Great Communicator”?

President Reagan

What is an example of a difference in Presidential leadership style?

President Carter wanted to be “hands on” and President Regan looked at the “big picture”

What was decided in the case of United States v. Nixon?

President Nixon must surrender tape recordings he made to a special prosecutor

What term describes the office of ambassadors in foreign countries?

Embassy

What term describes agencies that make rules for large industries and businesses?

Regulatory Commissions

What term describes agencies that are business run by the government?

Government Corporations

What department was one was one of the original Cabinet departments crated by George Washington?

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What describing purchasing materials?

Procurement

How many independent agencies, boards, and commissions exist that are not part of any Cabinet department?

More than 100

What term describes agencies that are agencies that are businesses run by the government?

Government Corporations

What department was one of the original Cabinet departments created by George Washington?

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What term describes the reduction of the powers of regulatory agencies?

Deregulation

What independent agency gathers information about political situations or other countries?

Central Intelligence Agency

What is the principle and practice of government employment on the basis of open competitive examination and merit?

Civil service system

What event imagined civil service reform?

The assassination of President Garfield by someone he denied a job to

Why does real power over daily operations remain with career civil service officials?

The short term tenures of Presidential appointments

On average, how many applicants are there for each civil service job?

76

What book lists all the available jobs that a new President can fill?

Plum book

What is an example of a bureaucrat?

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What act created the present civil service system?

The Pendleton Act

What term describes the practice of victorious politicians rewarding followers with government jobs?

Spoils system

What act limited how involved federal employees could become in elections?

Hatch Act

What percentage of civil service jobs are appointed by the President?

10%

What term describes the people that are most affected by the specific agencies, like the Labor Department, who service their needs?

Client groups

Why has the role of the bureaucracy in making public policy increased?

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What is the trend of the federal courts in respect to federal regulatory commissions?

Courts do not usually reverse the decisions of federal regulatory commissions

In what way do bureaucrats influence policy?

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What term describes when client groups, congressional committees, and federal departments cooperate to create public policy?

Iron Triangles

What economic crisis almost doubled the size of the federal bureaucracy?

Great Depression

What example of how international crisis increased the size and power of the bureaucracy?

Competition with the Soviet Union during the cold war created new agencies and expanded others

What term describes whatever action the government takes or does not take?

Public policy

What term describes Cabinet department agents who help promote good relations with Congress?

Liaison officers

What term describes an order that will stop a particular action or enforce a rule or regulation?

Injunction