19.2 - Formal Powers - Executive Power

Question 1

Chapter 19.2 - Formal presidency powers - executive power

Answer 1

executive power

Question 2

What is the executive power in the Constitution interpreted as?

Answer 2

Being able to organise the Executive Office of the President (EXOP)

Question 3

What are the 4 main things included in the executive power?

Answer 3

• Executive orders
• Executive memoranda
• Presidential proclamations
• Signing statements

Question 4

How many executive orders has Joe Biden authorised as of the 1st June 2023?

Answer 4

115

Question 5

What was Joe Biden’s first executive order (13985)?

Answer 5

Advancing Racial Equality and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government

Question 6

How many of Biden’s first 60 executive actions were direct reversals of Trump’s policies?

Answer 6

24

Question 7

In his first 100 days in office, how many Joe Biden’s executive orders were direct reversals of Trump’s immigration policies?

Answer 7

10

Question 8

What Biden Executive Order increased the minimum federal wage of federal contractors to $15 per hour?

Answer 8

Executive Order 14026

Question 9

What Biden Executive Order implemented the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act?

Answer 9

Executive Order 14052

Question 10

How many executive orders did Trump sign from January 2017 to January 2021?

Answer 10

220

Question 11

What was Trump’s 1st Executive Order?

Answer 11

Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

Question 12

What Executive Order did Trump sign on the 28th January 2017 and what did it ban?

Answer 12

‘Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees’ - stopped all executive branch officials from lobbying for 5 years and placed a lifetime ban on lobbying a foreign government

Question 13

What are executive memoranda?

Answer 13

The delegation of tasks that Congress has given to the president to members of his executive branch

Question 14

How many executive memoranda did Donald Trump issue?

Answer 14

140

Question 15

What was Biden’s first executive memorandum and who was it addressed to?

Answer 15

Preserving and Fortifying Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) - addressed to the Attorney General Secretary of Homeland Security

Question 16

What was Trump’s 3rd executive memorandum, on the 23rd January 2017?

Answer 16

Regarding the withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement

Question 17

What are presidential proclamations?

Answer 17

They are an issuing of public policy and a type of presidential directive

Question 18

How many presidential proclamations has Biden signed as of 1st June 2023?

Answer 18

453 presidential proclamations

Question 19

How many presidential proclamations did Trump sign?

Answer 19

570

Question 20

What did Biden’s 2nd presidential proclamation do?

Answer 20

Ended discriminatory bans on entry to the United States

Question 21

What do presidential proclamations tend to celebrate?

Answer 21

National days e.g. Earth day, Father’s day etc

Question 22

How many presidential proclamations did Bush make?

Answer 22

941

Question 23

What is a signing statement?

Answer 23

A statement issued by the president regarding a bill that he has just signed into law

Question 24

Of Bush’s 161 signing statements, how many objected to at least part of the law?

Answer 24

127

Question 25

What is the most famous presidential proclamation?

Answer 25

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation 1863