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Chapter 13: The American Presidency: Institutions, Individuals, and Power
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following best describes the relationship between the president and Congress?
a. Congress is superior in power and authority to the president.
b. The president is able to control the political goals of Congress.
c. Congress’s members and the president often have differing political goals.
d. Presidential authority exceeds that of Congress.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.1: Consider the American president as one individual acting with and against many institutions and other political actors.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. In the American political system, the president acts as head of ______.
a. the executive branch
b. the judicial branch
c. the legislative branch
d. all branches of the government
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.1: Consider the American president as one individual acting with and against many institutions and other political actors.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The executive branch of government is charged with ______.
a. making the nation’s statutory laws
b. putting the nation’s laws into effect
c. interpreting the laws of the nation
d. determining the constitutionality of a law
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.1: Consider the American president as one individual acting with and against many institutions and other political actors.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. In the weeks before the Constitutional Convention in 1787, even James Madison had ______.
a. given great consideration to the office of president
b. defended a strong national executive
c. worked out few specifics for the “national executive”
d. devised a strong and well-organized executive structure
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Constitution Outlines the Powers of the American Presidency and Places Limits on Those Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The framers of the Constitution feared ______.
a. any executive would be rejected by the states
b. the executive office would become a puppet for Congress
c. the office of the president might become too powerful
d. they had not given the presidential office enough power
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Constitution Outlines the Powers of the American Presidency and Places Limits on Those Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. The most prominent advocate for a strong and single executive was ______.
a. James Madison
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Patrick Henry
d. James Wilson
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Constitution Outlines the Powers of the American Presidency and Places Limits on Those Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The portion of the Constitution that describes the presidency is ______.
a. Article I
b. Article II
c. Article III
d. Article IV
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Constitution Outlines the Powers of the American Presidency and Places Limits on Those Powers
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Once the founders settled on a single president, the most contentious issue facing the delegates was ______.
a. how the president would be selected
b. what qualifications the president should have
c. the length of a presidential term
d. whether there should be term limits
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Delegates Settle Questions of Selection, Qualifications for Office, and Length of Terms
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Less populous states were against which of the following methods of selecting the president?
a. direct popular election
b. state delegations
c. electors chosen by state legislatures
d. congressional appointment
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Delegates Settle Questions of Selection, Qualifications for Office, and Length of Terms
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. Delegates to the Congressional Convention settled on a term of ______.
a. 2 years with no possibility of reelection
b. 4 years with the possibility of reelection
c. 6 years with the possibility of reelection
d. 8 years with no possibility of reelection
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Delegates Settle Questions of Selection, Qualifications for Office, and Length of Terms
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. George Washington’s decision not to ______ established a precedent that held until Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency in the 1930s and 1940s.
a. seek a third term of office
b. override congressional legislation
c. influence congressional legislation
d. issue executive orders
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Delegates Settle Questions of Selection, Qualifications for Office, and Length of Terms
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. How old must someone be before attaining the office of president of the United States?
a. 25 years
b. 30 years
c. 35 years
d. 40 years
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Delegates Settle Questions of Selection, Qualifications for Office, and Length of Terms
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. To be eligible to hold the office of the presidency, a candidate must ______.
a. be a naturalized American citizen
b. be a natural-born American citizen
c. be born inside the continental United States
d. swear an oath of allegiance if born outside the United States
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Delegates Settle Questions of Selection, Qualifications for Office, and Length of Terms
Difficulty Level: Hard
14. Which of the following is NOT an example of a president’s expressed powers?
a. the power to serve as commander in chief
b. the power to introduce bills in Congress
c. the power to pardon crimes
d. the power to convene Congress
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The President Is Granted Considerable Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Although the convention settled on the simple title “President of the United States,” George Washington was said to have preferred ______.
a. “His majesty the illustrious President of the United States and Defender of the Faith”
b. “His exalted sire, the Chief Executive of the United States and Supreme Commander”
c. “His High Mightiness, the President of the United States and Protector of Liberties”
d. simply to be called “the Honorable Mr. Washington”
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Is Granted Considerable Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Which of the following general powers were placed in the hands of the president?
a. expressed, implied, and delegated
b. legislative, executive, and judicial
c. lawmaking, law enforcement, and legal interpretation
d. policymaking, policy implementation, and policy enforcement
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Is Granted Considerable Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. Which of the following is NOT an example of a president’s role described in the Constitution?
a. chief executive
b. chief of party
c. commander in chief
d. chief diplomat
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Is Granted Considerable Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the president as chief executive?
a. He or she is the head of executive branch.
b. He or she oversees a complex system of agencies and bureaucracies.
c. He or she appoints many positions including federal court judges.
d. Many of his or her powers as chief executive are described in the Constitution in great detail to limit presidential power.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. As head of the executive branch, the president is responsible for ______.
a. all actions and branches of government
b. carrying out the laws of the nation
c. making the laws of the nation
d. interpreting the laws of the nation
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
20. The portion of the Constitution that states “The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America” can be found in ______.
a. Article I
b. Article II
c. Article III
d. Article IV
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Which of the following is NOT true regarding the president’s power of appointment?
a. It is a constitutional power.
b. Roughly 1,000 appointments require the Senate’s consent.
c. The president appoints all federal court judges.
d. Recess appointments made by the president require Senate confirmation.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. The portion of the Constitution authorizing the president to “require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Office in each of the executive Departments…” is generally interpreted as creating the president’s ______.
a. appointments
b. bureaucracy
c. cabinet
d. supremacy
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Roughly ______ presidential appointments require Senate confirmation.
a. 17
b. 100
c. 750
d. 1,000
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. When the president chooses a person to fill a position that requires the advice and consent of the Senate in a period when the Senate is not in session, it is called a(n) ______.
a. intercessory appointment
b. recess appointment
c. pocketbook appointment
d. executive appointment
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. As chief diplomat, the president is responsible for ______.
a. creating and executing social policy
b. developing economic policy
c. implementing domestic policy
d. guiding national foreign policy
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: As Chief Diplomat the President Guides Foreign Policy
Difficulty Level: Easy
26. As chief diplomat, the president has the power to ______.
a. declare war
b. fund foreign operations
c. ratify treaties
d. receive ambassadors
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: As Chief Diplomat the President Guides Foreign Policy
Difficulty Level: Easy
27. The advantage that the president has over Congress in foreign affairs is his/her ability to ______.
a. act quickly and decisively on the international stage
b. negotiate and sign treaties with foreign nations
c. appoint and station ambassadors all over the world
d. fund and conduct secret military operations without approval
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Diplomat the President Guides Foreign Policy
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. According to the text, the ingredients of successful diplomacy are ______.
a. strength, authority, influence, and supremacy
b. stealth, longevity, consideration, and consolidation
c. secrecy, dispatch, unity, continuity, and access to information
d. gentleness, communication, collaboration, and cooperation
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Diplomat the President Guides Foreign Policy
Difficulty Level: Hard
29. What is the president’s main advantage in shaping national foreign policy?
a. He or she can get all the information he or she needs from Congress.
b. He or she is able to act quickly and decisively, unlike the House or Senate.
c. He or she can declare war as part of the power of commander in chief.
d. He or she can generate emergency funding without Congress’s consent.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: As Chief Diplomat the President Guides Foreign Policy
Difficulty Level: Hard
30. Perhaps the most fateful role that the Constitution creates for the president is his or her authority as ______.
a. chief executive
b. chief administrator
c. chief legislator
d. commander in chief
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Commander in Chief the President Is Responsible for the Nation’s Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
31. For the framers of the Constitution, the war-making power of the presidency was ______.
a. a limited one
b. absolute
c. highly suspect
d. nonexistent
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Commander in Chief the President Is Responsible for the Nation’s Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
32. While Congress may have the broader power to “make war,” the Founding Fathers feared that the nation might ______.
a. find itself in a unilateral military operation with a foreign power without Congress’s authorization
b. be unable to respond quickly to threats when Congress was not in session
c. be susceptible to military invasion by foreign powers without proper protection
d. lack centralized military expertise and leadership under presidential authority
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Commander in Chief the President Is Responsible for the Nation’s Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
33. One of the most enduring and controversial legacies of the Nixon presidency was the passage of the ______ over Nixon’s veto.
a. International Relations Bill
b. War Powers Resolution
c. Foreign Relations Agenda
d. Congressional Authorization Law
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Commander in Chief the President Is Responsible for the Nation’s Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. Under the terms of the War Powers Resolution, a president may only introduce armed forces into conflict or likely conflict if which of the following conditions exist?
a. a commitment of military troops, an executive order, or a perceived threat to U.S. security
b. a public call for military intervention, a decision by the full cabinet, or a commitment of military leadership
c. a vote by the National Security Council, a presidential commitment, or a vote by the House Defense Committee
d. a declaration of war (by Congress), specific statutory authorization by Congress, or a national emergency created by an attack on the United States, its territories, or its armed forces
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Commander in Chief the President Is Responsible for the Nation’s Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
35. The president’s veto power ______.
a. is an implied power
b. is exercised within 20 days after the bill reaches his or her desk
c. is easily overridden
d. can be used as a threat to influence Congress’s actions
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
36. In devising a system in which power had to be shared between the three branches, the framers gave the president a(n) ______ role in the legislative process.
a. positive and powerful
b. expanded and strong
c. unlimited and extreme
d. limited and mostly negative
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. Article II Section 3 gives the president the authority and responsibility to give an annual ______.
a. accounting of national spending
b. State of the Union address to Congress
c. review of all bureaucratic agencies
d. summary of all executive actions and decisions
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
38. The real audience of the State of the Union address is ______.
a. the Congress
b. the federal bureaucracy
c. the military
d. the American people
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. Which of the following best describes the president’s role in the lawmaking process?
a. direct introduction of bills into the House of Representatives and/or Senate
b. working with party leaders in both chambers to shape the legislative agenda
c. working with the president’s own party to introduce and pass a purely partisan agenda
d. joining and leading congressional committees and subcommittees to steer a bill to the floor
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. The most important legislative power that the president is given by the Constitution is the ______.
a. filibuster
b. cloture
c. veto
d. override
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
41. Vetoes are more likely during periods of ______.
a. divided government
b. unified government
c. national emergency
d. legislative expediency
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
42. Except in cases of impeachment, the president has the power to release from all legal consequences and restore the benefits of citizenship to individuals arising from the commitment of federal crimes. This is known as the president’s power of/to ______.
a. absolution
b. release
c. pardon
d. commitment
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Have the Power to Issue Pardons
Difficulty Level: Medium
43. The president’s power to pardon can be controversial when the subject has ______.
a. committed a serious crime
b. failed to show remorse
c. been sentenced to a long jail term
d. close personal ties to the president
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Have the Power to Issue Pardons
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. Under the Constitution, the limitations of presidential power were placed primarily in the hands of ______.
a. the people
b. the Congress
c. his/her party
d. the judiciary
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of the Presidency Are Also Constitutionally Limited
Difficulty Level: Medium
45. With a majority vote, the House of Representatives has the power to ______.
a. suspend presidential power
b. override presidential orders
c. impeach the president
d. remove the president
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of the Presidency Are Also Constitutionally Limited
Difficulty Level: Medium
46. Which two presidents have been impeached?
a. Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson
b. John Adams and William Henry Harrison
c. Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
d. Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of the Presidency Are Also Constitutionally Limited
Difficulty Level: Medium
47. How many presidents have been convicted and removed by the Senate?
a. none
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of the Presidency Are Also Constitutionally Limited
Difficulty Level: Medium
48. Which president was close to impeachment but chose to resign instead?
a. Andrew Jackson
b. Richard Nixon
c. Gerald Ford
d. Andrew Johnson
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Powers of the Presidency Are Also Constitutionally Limited
Difficulty Level: Medium
49. The size and complexity of the executive branch establishment—especially the ______—can act as a powerful brake on presidential initiatives.
a. federal bureaucracy
b. Executive Office of the President
c. Office of Management and Budget
d. White House Chief of Staff
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Institutions and Other Informal Sources of Power Shape the Modern Executive Branch
Difficulty Level: Medium
50. The Constitution’s vague language created a ______ second in command.
a. strong
b. neutral
c. weak
d. negative
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Vice Presidency Plays a Limited But Important Role
Difficulty Level: Medium
51. Which executive official serves as president of the Senate and assumes the office of president of the United States in case of death, resignation, or impeachment?
a. the Speaker of the House
b. the Senate Majority Leader
c. the Majority Whip
d. the Vice President
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Vice Presidency Plays a Limited But Important Role
Difficulty Level: Medium
52. The ______ Amendment, passed in 1967, established the modern rules of succession and also established a process for replacing a vice president who has left office during his or her term.
a. 18th
b. 22nd
c. 25th
d. 27th
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Vice Presidency Plays a Limited But Important Role
Difficulty Level: Medium
53. What is the most important responsibility of the vice president according to the Constitution?
a. succeeding the president in case he or she cannot serve
b. presiding over Senate sessions
c. chairing cabinet meetings
d. advising the president
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Vice Presidency Plays a Limited But Important Role
Difficulty Level: Medium
54. The heads of the 15 major executive branch departments make up the ______.
a. president’s cabinet
b. National Security Council
c. Executive Office of the President
d. Office of Homeland Security
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Cabinet and the Executive Branch Bureaucracy Help Advise the President
Difficulty Level: Medium
55. Which of the following is a collection of agencies and offices that assist the president in an advisory and policy-making capacity?
a. the Office of the National Security Advisor
b. the General Accounting Office
c. the Executive Office of the President
d. the White House Chief of Staff
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Executive Office of the President Assists the President with Policy
Difficulty Level: Medium
56. Formally, the first spouse ______.
a. receives foreign delegation.
b. communicates with the American people
c. spearheads domestic policy issues
d. serves no role
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The First Spouse Can Help the President Connect
Difficulty Level: Medium
57. According to the text, the most powerful first lady was most probably ______.
a. Martha Washington
b. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
c. Dolly Madison
d. Eleanor Roosevelt
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The First Spouse Can Help the President Connect
Difficulty Level: Medium
58. Which of the following best describes the relationship between modern presidents and their parties?
a. Modern presidents serve as unofficial but real leaders of their own political parties.
b. Presidents must contend with their party only during periods of divided leadership.
c. The president serves as the official chairman of his/her party.
d. Today, the president is rarely concerned with the agenda of his/her party.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Political Parties Influence the Executive Office
Difficulty Level: Medium
59. A strategy through which presidents reach out directly to the American people with the hope that they will, in turn, put pressure upon their representatives and Senators to press for a president’s policy goals is known as going ______.
a. rogue
b. public
c. incognito
d. informal
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Tries to Use the Media to Shape Public Opinion
Difficulty Level: Medium
60. Following a convincing first-term victory, a president often enjoys a period of strong public approval called the ______ period.
a. honeymoon
b. adjustment
c. supporting
d. accommodation
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Americans’ Evaluations of Presidential Performance Can Affect the President’s Policy Agenda
Difficulty Level: Medium
61. In May 2013, Attorney General Eric Holder formally acknowledged ______.
a. an earlier drone strike that targeted an American citizen
b. President Obama’s official birth status
c. the attack that killed Osama Bin Laden
d. President Obama’s intent to pass the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care)
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pushing the Limits of Presidential Powers to Preserve National Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
62. The death of Anwar al-Awlaki was apparently the first time since ______ that the U.S. government had carried out the deliberate killing of an American citizen as a wartime enemy without trial.
a. the American Revolution
b. the War of 1812
c. the Civil War
d. World War II
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pushing the Limits of Presidential Powers to Preserve National Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
63. The part of the Obama administration’s decision to target Anwar al-Awlaki that made many political experts uncomfortable was its ______.
a. level of violence
b. degree of autonomy
c. constitutionality
d. degree of secrecy
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pushing the Limits of Presidential Powers to Preserve National Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
64. Anwar al-Awlaki’s primary weapon was ______.
a. targeted bombing
b. the use of the Internet
c. domestic terrorism
d. massive kidnapping
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pushing the Limits of Presidential Powers to Preserve National Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
65. What drove al-Awlaki to defend his faith with violence?
a. U.S. policy of war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
b. the treatment of Afghan refugees in Pakistan
c. the issue of Jewish persecution against Palestine
d. the detainment of American citizens in Guantanamo
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pushing the Limits of Presidential Powers to Preserve National Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
66. On May 22, 2013, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., notified ______ of the decision by the Obama administration to target and kill Anwar al-Awlaki 2 years earlier.
a. the American people
b. the leadership of both parties
c. President Obama’s cabinet
d. the leadership of Congress
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pushing the Limits of Presidential Powers to Preserve National Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
67. The Obama administration’s justification for the al-Awlaki killing was ______.
a. to protect from threats against national security
b. to ensure that national secrecy was maintained
c. as retribution for attacks against soldiers
d. as a necessary measure in the conduct of foreign war
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Pushing the Limits of Presidential Powers to Preserve National Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
68. What position did Roger Brooke Taney hold in May of 1861?
a. vice president of the United States
b. ambassador to the Confederate States
c. Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
d. Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
69. John Merryman was being held by Abraham Lincoln and the Union troops on charges that he ______.
a. blew up a large gun stash
b. led guerrilla attacks against union troops
c. stole secrets from Union generals
d. burned at least six railroad bridges
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
70. The detention of John Merryman was an important case in presidential power because of President Lincoln’s assertion of the power to ______.
a. suspend habeas corpus
b. indiscriminately punish Southern traitors
c. write and enforce bills of attainder
d. command the Union army
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
71. The procedure through which a person can challenge what they see as an unlawful detention by issuing a written command is called ______.
a. judicial review
b. bill of attainder
c. writ of habeas corpus
d. writ of certiorari
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
72. In the decision of Ex Parte Merryman (1861), Chief Justice Taney placed a limit on the president’s ability to ______.
a. issue writs of habeas corpus
b. command the U.S. military
c. allow the use of bills of attainder
d. suspend habeas corpus
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
73. Since the power to suspend habeas corpus appears in Article I Section 9 of the Constitution, Justice Taney argued that the power to suspend habeas corpus was given only to ______.
a. the states
b. the Congress
c. the president
d. the military leadership
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
74. Political scientist Edward S. Corwin concluded that, during wartime, the Constitution is ______.
a. suspended without prejudice because the national good outweighs the Constitution
b. dispensable and portable so as to allow for the protection of individual rights
c. transformed from a Constitution of Rights to a Constitution of Powers
d. even more necessary in order to ensure and protect the rights of citizens
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
75. In the decades following the conclusion of the Civil War, presidential powers ______.
a. receded
b. increased
c. fluctuated
d. stayed the same
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
76. A right claimed by presidents to keep confidential certain conversations, records, and transcripts from outside security, especially by Congress, is described as executive ______.
a. confidentiality
b. agreement
c. privilege
d. order
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to act unilaterally and further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Medium
77. When a president issues a policy directive to the executive branch bureaucracy, it is called an executive ______.
a. confidentiality
b. agreement
c. privilege
d. order
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to act unilaterally and further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Medium
78. Based on data presented in the textbook, which of the following presidents issued the greatest number of executive orders?
a. Barack Obama
b. Woodrow Wilson
c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. George W. Bush
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to act unilaterally and further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Medium
79. Text written by presidents while signing a bill into law that usually consists of political statements or reasons for signing the bill and/or a president’s interpretation of the law itself is best described as a ______.
a. legal codicil
b. signing statement
c. signature affidavit
d. presidential veto
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to act unilaterally and further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Medium
80. When a president and another nation enter into an agreement without the same durability as a treaty but requiring no approval from the Senate, the document is described as an executive ______.
a. confidentiality
b. agreement
c. privilege
d. order
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to act unilaterally and further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Medium
True/False
1. In the American political system, the president acts as head of the legislative branch.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.1: Consider the American president as one individual acting with and against many institutions and other political actors.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention were greatly divided as to whether the new government should be more powerful than that under the Articles of Confederation.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Constitution Outlines the Powers of the American Presidency and Places Limits on Those Powers
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. While the Constitution did not explicitly prohibit women from holding the office of president, at the time of ratification, women were generally denied the right to vote or to hold political office within their states.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Delegates Settle Questions of Selection, Qualifications for Office, and Length of Terms
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. The Constitution does not offer many specifics as to what it means to execute the laws.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Other than saying that the president should “take care that the laws should be faithfully executed,” the Constitution does not give much detail on how the president is supposed to run the federal government.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Chief Executive the President Carries out the Nation’s Laws
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is at the top of the entire military chain of command.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: As Commander in Chief the President Is Responsible for the Nation’s Security
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Congressional overrides of presidential vetoes are rather common.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. The argument between Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney and President Abraham Lincoln in Ex Parte Merryman was over the issue of presidential writs of attainder.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. The Supreme Court has never overturned a president’s executive order.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. The Supreme Court cases Korematsu v. United States (1944) and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) both focused on the legality of presidential executive orders.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Easy
Short Answer
1. ______ powers are those that Congress grants the president in order to carry out the laws that Congress has passed.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The President Is Granted Considerable Powers
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. “From time to time,” the Constitution requires the president to give Congress information on the ______.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Presidents Use the State of the Union Address to Advance Their Goals
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. In the opinion ______ (1861), Chief Justice Taney challenged the president’s authority to suspend the issuing of writs of habeas corpus even in times of war and rebellion.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Abraham Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus During the Civil War
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Executive Order 9066 led to the internment of more than 130,000 individuals, most of whom were ______.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. During the Korean War, President Truman unsuccessfully tried to seize the nation’s ______ industry by executive order as a matter of wartime exigency.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The President Has Several Tools for Unilateral Action
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. In Federalist No. 74, ______ saw the potential of and need for presidential power in wartime.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to act unilaterally and further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Presidential Character Affects the Success of a Presidency
Difficulty Level: Medium
Essay
1. Describe the Constitutional tensions between the president and Congress in making war. How have those tensions been resolved, changed, or not addressed?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: As Commander in Chief the President Is Responsible for the Nation’s Security
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What are the constitutional constraints on the presidency? Who holds them?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.2: Describe the powers of presidency as defined in the Constitution and the constitutional limitations placed on those powers.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Powers of the Presidency Are Also Constitutionally Limited
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. How do the examples of Anwar al-Awlaki and John Merryman demonstrate the ability of the president to expand his/her powers in time of war or national emergency? Why do you think it is important to understand these particular examples?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.4: Understand how presidents have tested the limits of executive power during wartime and other crises.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Pushing the Limits of Presidential Power to Preserve National Security
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Some political scientists have looked to the character and personality of individual presidents to explain their relative effectiveness in office. Explain why this is a difficult proposition. Discuss, moreover, Richard Neustadt’s influential portrait of presidential power and how it relates to presidential effectiveness.
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.5: Evaluate the tools that presidents use to further expand their power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Presidential Character Affects the Success of a Presidency
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. How does a president use advisors and bureaucratic offices to assist him/her in the performance of his/her duties? What would the president’s job be like without such assistance?
TOP: Learning Outcome: Explain the main institutions of American government, including their roles and interrelationships.
KEY: Learning Objective: 13.3: Discuss institutional and informal sources of and influences on presidential power.
REF: Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Executive Office of the President Assists the President with Policy
Difficulty Level: Hard
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