How has the executive branch adapted to the needs of a globalized world?(1 point)
Responses
A. The executive branch has created no new departments or executive agencies.
B. The executive branch has created new departments to help the country’s growing population.
C. The executive branch has created new departments and executive agencies that specialize in veterans affairs, transportation, and housing and urban development.
D. The executive branch has created new departments and executive agencies that specialize in defense, communications, and space exploration.
A. 435
B. Putting a U.S. embassy in a foreign country
C. Like a legislature, they have rulemaking authority; like the executive branch, they enforce rules; and like a judiciary, they interpret different regulations.
D. radio, TV, wire, and satellite communications
C. contractionary policy
B. six years
D. Committees are important because they conduct research and revise bills to increase their likelihood of passing.
D. The APA established the rulemaking process to check the power of the executive branch and involve the public in creating rules for enacting new laws.
B. The Supreme Court can declare an executive order by the president unconstitutional and acts of Congress in violation of the Constitution.
A. The Supreme Court uses judicial review to check acts of Congress and executive orders of the president.
B. by accepting a writ of certiorari, reviewing the case, and deciding a different outcome than the lower court
B. a loose interpretation of the Constitution.
C. The executive branch has created new departments and executive agencies that specialize in veterans affairs, transportation, and housing and urban development.
How can a president use foreign policy power to recognize a foreign nation?(1 point)
Responses
A. Appointing a foreign country’s secretary of state
B. Putting a U.S. embassy in a foreign country
C. Negotiating a treaty with a foreign country
D. Sending diplomats to a foreign country
Which of the following is an example of a presidential use of inherent power?(1 point)
Responses
A. The take care clause
B. the use of executive power
C. the War Powers Act
D. the Great Society program
How do independent executive agencies take on the qualities of the other branches?(1 point)
Responses
A. They have to listen to the needs of the lobbyists.
B. They have the final say about what legislation gets signed into law by the president.
C. Like a legislature, they have rulemaking authority; like the executive branch, they enforce rules; and like a judiciary, they interpret different regulations.
D. Like the legislature, they need to be elected.
What does the FCC regulate?(1 point)
Responses
A. aeronautics research
B. workplace regulations
C. the nation’s food supply
D. radio, TV, wire, and satellite communications
Which of the following excerpts from the Constitution best demonstrates the constitutional principle of separation of powers?(1 point)
Responses
A. “The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.”
B. “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States.”
C. “No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”
D. “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.”
D. "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States."
Which of the following constitutional quotes best explains the differences between each congressional chamber’s approach to the legislative process?(1 point)
Responses
A. “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.”
B. “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States."
C. “Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.”
D. “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
A. "Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings."
Which of the following fiscal tax policies would be used to reduce inflation?(1 point)
Responses
A. monetary policy
B. expansionary policy
C. contractionary policy
D. income tax policy
Identify the term length of the members of the U.S. Senate.(1 point)
Responses
A. unlimited
B. six years
C. four years
D. two years
Identify the number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives.(1 point)
Responses
A. 435
B. 100
C. 270
D. 535
Which statement explains why committees are important in the process of a bill becoming a law?(1 point)
Responses
A. Committees are important because they have the deciding vote in whether a bill passes.
B. Committees are important because they are solely responsible for holding debate over bills.
C. Committees are important because they can veto bills if they don’t believe they will benefit all Americans.
D. Committees are important because they conduct research and revise bills to increase their likelihood of passing.
Using the information in the table, analyze why the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA) established the rulemaking process for enacting new laws.(1 point)
Responses
A. The APA established the rulemaking process to give power to Congress to enact new laws after it has developed the text of the legislation.
B. The APA established the rulemaking process to ban the involvement of individuals and agencies so rulemaking happens more efficiently.
C. The APA established the rulemaking process to enhance the power of the executive branch so it could override the decisions of Congress.
D. The APA established the rulemaking process to check the power of the executive branch and involve the public in creating rules for enacting new law
How can Congress use its power of the purse to impact the agenda of the executive branch?(1 point)
Responses
A. Congress could eliminate executive departments or agencies.
B. Congress could encourage the executive branch to fund certain departments or agencies.
C. Congress could force the executive branch to fund its own departments and agencies.
D. Congress could stop programs or plans proposed by the executive branch from being implemented.
D. Congress could stop programs or plans proposed by the executive branch from being implemented.
Read the following summary that includes a quote from President Theodore Roosevelt on the bully pulpit. “President Roosevelt, sitting at his desk, was reading to a few friends a forthcoming message. At the close of a paragraph ‘of a distinctly ethical character’ he wheeled about and said: ‘I suppose my critics will call that preaching, but I have got such a bully pulpit!’” Why does President Roosevelt use the imagery of a pulpit?(1 point)
Responses
A. The president always uses a pulpit to speak from like religious leaders.
B. The president supports a specific religion for Americans.
C. The president has a responsibility to lead the public to seek a better society like religious leaders.
D. The president threatens people with harm or danger to achieve presidential objectives.
C. The president has a responsibility to lead the public to seek a better society like religious leaders.
In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, how did the process of judicial review allow the Supreme Court to decide on the case?(1 point)
Reponses
A. The ruling was found in favor of the defendant, citing the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
B. The ruling was found in favor of the defendant, stating that in education they are allowed to segregate.
C. The ruling was found in favor of the plaintiff, ruling that separate but equal is unconstitutional.
D. The ruling was found in favor of the plaintiff, stating that the rule of law protected individuals from segregation in schools.
C. The ruling was found in favor of the plaintiff, ruling that separate but equal is unconstitutional.
In the case of Roe v. Wade, what answer explains why judicial review at the Supreme Court level was warranted?(1 point)
Responses
A. An individual right listed in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution is the right to choose a partner for marriage.
B. Individuals are protected against state laws that regulate interracial marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment.
C. The right for a woman to choose is not protected under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
D. The right to privacy named in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution protected the individual.
D. The right to privacy named in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution protected the individual.
How is the Supreme Court able to resolve policy differences between the legislative branch and the executive branch?(1 point)
Response
A. The Supreme Court operates individually from the other branches and only interprets the Constitution without resolving policy disputes.
B. The Supreme Court can declare an executive order by the president unconstitutional and acts of Congress in violation of the Constitution.
C. The Supreme Court may only review executive orders made by the president.
D. The Supreme Court can only review acts of Congress and is not able to rule against executive orders made by the president.
How is the Supreme Court able to check the other branches using judicial review?(1 point)
Responses
A. The Supreme Court uses judicial review to check acts of Congress and executive orders of the president.
B. The Supreme Court uses judicial review to check laws passed by Congress.
C. The Supreme Court uses judicial review to check the executive branch and orders issued by the president.
D. The Supreme Court uses judicial review to check all acts by the other branches of government.
How can the Supreme Court overturn a lower court’s decision on a case?(1 point)
Responses
A. by accepting a writ of certiorari and ruling on the side of the majority opinion of citizens
B. by accepting a writ of certiorari, reviewing the case, and deciding a different outcome than the lower court
C. by accepting a writ of certiorari and deciding the case based on suggestions from law clerks
D. by accepting a writ of certiorari and making a decision based on the guidelines presented in Rule 10 by accepting a writ of certiorari and making a decision based on the guidelines presented in Rule 10
When is judicial activism warranted by the Supreme Court?(1 point)
Responses
A. in any case that is appealed to it
B. when there is a need to decide on constitutional issues
C. if a case is highly publicized in the media
D. if there is a case where the court disagrees with a previous decision of the lower cour
B. when there is a need to decide on constitutional issues
Alexander Hamilton’s recommendation for creating a national bank is an example of(1 point)
Responses
A. a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
B. a loose interpretation of the Constitution.
C. a violation of states’ rights.
D. a power given by the federal government.
Which statement best identifies how the decision in the United States v. Eichmann case was a result of constitutional interpretation?(1 point)
Responses
A. The Supreme Court used the Flag Protection Act to make a decision.
B. Flag burning is not explicitly stated under the First Amendment but was interpreted to be a form of expression in the U.S. v. Eichmann case.
C. The Supreme Court reconsidered the language of the Fourteenth Amendment.
D. The Supreme Court followed the Constitution exactly and no interpretations were made in this case