Multiple Choice Questions

What is the primary constitutional task of the vice president, besides succeeding the president in case of death, resignation, or incapacitation?
  • do not have to be approved by the Senate.
  • While presidents have made signing statements throughout American history, they have only recently been recorded and made part of the official legislative record
  • Use of the veto varies considerably across presidential administrations, and vetoes are seldom overridden.
  • to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate
The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 directly by ________.
  • War Powers Resolution of 1973
  • White House staff
  • Expressed
  • an executive order
What did the framers mean to accomplish by indirect election of the president?
  • inherent
  • president may make unilateral use of the emergency powers to protect states against domestic disorder
  • cabinet secretaries
  • to make the president responsible to state and national legislatures
When Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops into Little Rock High School in 1957, it demonstrated that the
  • cabinet secretaries
  • president may make unilateral use of the emergency powers to protect states against domestic disorder
  • inherent
  • to make the president responsible to state and national legislatures
The office of the presidency was established by Article ________ of the Constitution.
  • Use of the veto varies considerably across presidential administrations, and vetoes are seldom overridden.
  • partisan
  • While presidents have made signing statements throughout American history, they have only recently been recorded and made part of the official legislative record
  • II
Executive agreements differ from formal treaties in that they
  • Use of the veto varies considerably across presidential administrations, and vetoes are seldom overridden.
  • to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate
  • do not have to be approved by the Senate.
  • an expressed power
The last time Congress exercised its constitutional power to declare war was during ________.
  • World War II
  • White House staff
  • War Powers Resolution of 1973
  • Congress
An informal group of advisers to the president is often called the ________.
  • Recent presidents have refrained from asking Congress to declare war and have instead frequently deployed the military without congressional authorization.
  • substantially enhances the importance of the presidency.
  • two-thirds of both houses of Congress
  • kitchen cabinet
Which of the following statements is most accurate?
  • Recent presidents have refrained from asking Congress to declare war and have instead frequently deployed the military without congressional authorization.
  • substantially enhances the importance of the presidency.
  • kitchen cabinet
  • two-thirds of both houses of Congress
The president's delegated powers come from ________.
  • Congress
  • White House staff
  • It is an opportunity for the president to set the legislative agenda by initiating proposals and directing public attention to the president's goals.
  • World War II
________ was the first first lady to seek public office on her own.
  • do not have to be approved by the Senate.
  • partisan
  • an expressed power
  • Hillary Clinton
What is required for Congress to override a presidential veto?
  • two-thirds of both houses of Congress
  • kitchen cabinet
  • substantially enhances the importance of the presidency.
  • Recent presidents have refrained from asking Congress to declare war and have instead frequently deployed the military without congressional authorization.
The power to receive ambassadors is an example of ________.
  • Hillary Clinton
  • an expressed power
  • partisan
  • do not have to be approved by the Senate.
Which of the following statements about the presidential veto is most accurate?
  • do not have to be approved by the Senate.
  • Use of the veto varies considerably across presidential administrations, and vetoes are seldom overridden.
  • to cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate
  • While presidents have made signing statements throughout American history, they have only recently been recorded and made part of the official legislative record
An executive order is
  • to make the president responsible to state and national legislatures
  • executive agreements
  • president may make unilateral use of the emergency powers to protect states against domestic disorder
  • a rule or regulation issued unilaterally by the president that has the status of a law.
Which of the following statements about signing statements is most accurate?
  • Hillary Clinton
  • While presidents have made signing statements throughout American history, they have only recently been recorded and made part of the official legislative record
  • Use of the veto varies considerably across presidential administrations, and vetoes are seldom overridden.
  • an expressed power
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