2/28 test

Question 1

Treaty

Answer 1

an agreement with a foreign government negotiation by the president and requiring 2/3rds vote in the senate to ratify

Question 2

Veto

Answer 2

formal rejection by the president of a bill that passes both houses of congress

Question 3

Pocket Veto

Answer 3

An informal veto caused when the president chooses not to sign a bill within ten days during a time when congress has adjourned at the end of a session.

Question 4

Presidential pardon

Answer 4

Presidential authority to release individuals convicted of a crime from legal consequences and set aside punishment for crime

Question 5

Executive privilege

Answer 5

a right claimed by presidents to kept certain conversation, records, and transcripts confidential from outside scrutiny, especially that of congress

Question 6

Executive agreement

Answer 6

an agreement between a president and another nation that does not have the same durability in the american system as a treaty does not require senate ratification.

Question 7

Signing statement

Answer 7

written comments issued by presidents while signing a bill into law that usually consist of political statements ot reasons for signing the bill but may also include a presidents interpretation

Question 8

Executive order

Answer 8

policy directives issued by presidents that do not require congressional approval

Question 9

War powers resolution

Answer 9

a law passed over president Nixon’s Veto that restricts the power of president to maintain troops in combat for more than 60 days without congressional authorization

Question 10

Impeachment

Answer 10

The process of removing a president from office,with articles of impeachment issues by a majority vote in the HOR, followed by a trial in the senate with a 2/3rds vote necessary to convict and remove

Question 11

Bully pulpit

Answer 11

Presidential appeals to the public to pressure other branches of government to support his or her pollices

Question 12

Going public

Answer 12

a tactic through which presidents reach out directly to the american people with the hope that the people will in turn put pressure upon their representatives and senators to press for a president’s policy goal

Question 13

Lame duck

Answer 13

In politics, a lame duck or outgoing politician is an elected official whose successor has already been elected of will be soon

Question 14

federal bureaucracy

Answer 14

the departments and agencies within the executive branch that carry out the laws of the nation

Question 15

political patronage

Answer 15

filling of administrative positions as a reward for support, rather that solely on merit

Question 16

pendleton act

Answer 16

an act of congress in 1883 that created the 1st US civil service commission to draw up and enforce rules of hiring, promotion, and tenure of office, within the civil service

Question 17

Federal civil service

Answer 17

the merit-based bureaucracy, excluding the armed forces and political appointments

Question 18

Merit system

Answer 18

a system of hiring and promotion based on competitive testing results, education, and other qualifications rather that policies and personal connections

Question 19

iron triangle

Answer 19

coordinated and mutually beneficial activities of the bureaucracy, Congress, and interest groups to achieve shared policy goals

Question 20

Issue network

Answer 20

webs of influence between interest groups, policy makers, and policy advocates

Question 21

bureaucratic discretion

Answer 21

the power to decide how a law is implemented and to decide what congress meant when it passed a law

Question 22

regulation

Answer 22

The process through which the federal bureaucracy makes rules that have the force of law to carry out the laws passed by congress

Question 23

Bureaucratic adjudication

Answer 23

when the federal bureaucracy settles disputes between particles that arise over the implementation of federal laws or determines which individuals or groups are covered under a regulation or program

Question 24

isolation

Answer 24

a foreign policy theory in which a country does not get involved in other countries matters

Question 25

foreign policy

Answer 25

how we interact and develop policies with other countries

Question 26

disengagement

Answer 26

the belief that the US was harmed by its war in vietnam and so should avoid supposedly similar events