BEATRIZSANTILLANES | CHAPTER 7

Question 1

PRESIDENT

Answer 1

D: The chief executive officer of the United States, as established by Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

S: President Donald J. Trump should get impeached.

Question 2

VICE PRESIDENT

Answer 2

D: An officer created by Article II of the U.S. Constitution to preside over the U.S. Senate and to fill any vacancy in the office of President due to death, resignation, removal, or (since 1967) disability.

S: Mike Pence, the Vice President, would take the presidents position if something happened to Donald J. Trump.

Question 3

TWENTY-SECOND AMENDMENT

Answer 3

D: Adopted in 1951 ; prevents presidents from serving more than two terms, or more than ten years if they came to office via the death, resignation, or removal of their predecessor.

S: Thanks to the 22nd amendment we will have Trump for a certain amount of years and no longer than eight years.

Question 4

WATERGATE

Answer 4

D: A scandal in the early 1970s involving a break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the watergate office complex. The involvement of members of the Nixon administration and subsequent cover-up attempts led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation from office and jail sentences for some members of his administration.

S: If President Nixon would not have resigned after the watergate scandal, he would have gotten impeached.

Question 5

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

Answer 5

D: an implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose information regarding confidential conversations or national security to congress or the judiciary.

S: The last president to claim executive privilege did it in open court.

Question 6

U.S. V. NIXON (1974)

Answer 6

D: Supreme Court ruling on power of the president, holding that no absolute constitutional executive privilege allows a president to refuse to comply with a court order to produce information needed in a criminal trial.

S: The U.S. v. Nixon case was decided by eight supreme court judges.

Question 7

PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION ACT

Answer 7

D: A 1947 law enacted by congress that provides for the filling of any simultaneous vacancy of the presidency and vice presidency.

S: The Presidential Succession Act has never been used further than a Vice President.

Question 8

TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT

Answer 8

D: Adopted in 1967 to establish procedures for filling vacancies in the office of president and vice president as well as providing for procedures to deal with the disability of a president.

S: The 25th amendment was created after the assassination of president John F. Kennedy.

Question 9

CABINET

Answer 9

D: The formal body of presidential advisers who head the fifteen executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of formal advisers.

S: The cabinet is composed of 13 secretaries and 1 attorney general.

Question 10

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Answer 10

D: A multilateral diplomatic organization that existed from 1920-1946 that sought, unsuccessfully, to prevent future wars: the United States never joined.

S: The League of Nations was replaced in 1946 by the United Nations.

Question 11

EXECUTIVE AGREEMENTS

Answer 11

D: Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not require the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate.

S: The U.S. can also enter into international agreements by way of executive agreements.

Question 12

VETO

Answer 12

D: The formal, constitutional authority of the president to reject bills passed by both houses of Congress, thus preventing them from becoming law without further congressional action.

S: This bill in its current form is headed for a veto.

Question 13

PARDON

Answer 13

D: An executive grant providing restoration of all rights and privileges of citizenship to a specific individual charged with or convicted of a crime.

S: The condition of his pardon is the endurance by him of the substituted punishment.

Question 14

INHERENT POWERS

Answer 14

D: powers that belong to the president because they can be inferred from the Constitution.

S: The president’s inherent powers are located in Article II of the Constitution.

Question 15

FIRST LADY

Answer 15

D: The designation provided to the wife of a president or, at the state level, of a governor; no specific analogue exists for a male spouse.

S: Michelle Obama was one of the best first ladies to go down in history.

Question 16

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT (EOP)

Answer 16

D: A mini-bureaucracy created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy.

S: Members in the executive office of the president are only the best of the best.

Question 17

BULLY PULPIT

Answer 17

D: The view that a major power of the presidency, albeit not one prescribed by the Constitution, is to draw attention to and generate support for particular positions.

S: If you have the federal government on one side with tremendous resources and a bully pulpit, it’s truly not fair.

Question 18

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET (OMB)

Answer 18

D: The office that prepares the president’s annual budget proposal, reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments, supplies economic forecasts, and conducts detailed analyses of proposed bills and agency rules.

S: The office of management and budget is the office that makes Trump’s budget proposal.

Question 19

EXECUTIVE ORDER

Answer 19

D: rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. All executive orders must be published in the Federal Register.

S: President Bush’s issued an executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment of terror suspects.

Question 20

SIGNING STATEMENTS

Answer 20

D: occasional written comments attached to a bill signed by the president.

S: President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on March 30, 2009, declaring one provision unconstitutional in his signing statement.