Chapter 11 Study Guide

Question 2

What is a phrase in the constitution allowing the Senate to restrain presidential powers of appointment and treaty-making.

Answer 2

“advice and consent”

Question 3

what is a very powerful influence of the media called?

Answer 3

agenda setting

Question 4

What is the United States federal law that governs the role of the Congress in the United States budget process?

Answer 4

Budget Reform and Impoundment Act of 1974

Question 5

What is the cyclical operation of demand, output, income, and new demand?

Answer 5

circular model

Question 6

What is a legal case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the line-item veto as granted in the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 violated the Presentment Clause of the United States Constitution?

Answer 6

Clinton v. City of New York

Question 7

What is the United States Supreme Court case establishing that a sitting President of the United States has no immunity from civil law litigation against him?

Answer 7

Clinton v. Jones

Question 8

What is the supreme commander of the armed forces of a nation or, sometimes, of several allied nation?

Answer 8

Commander-in-chief

Question 9

What is the means by which foreign governments recognize each other’s right to exercise their authority?

Answer 9

diplomatic recognition

Question 10

When the presidency and the Congress are controlled by different parties, what is that called?

Answer 10

divided government

Question 11

What is the institution that officially elects the President and Vice President of the United States every four years?

Answer 11

electoral college

Question 12

What is an agreement, usually pertaining to administrative matters and less formal than an international treaty, made between chiefs of state without senatorial approval?

Answer 12

executive agreements

Question 13

What is a group of federal agencies supervised by directors or staffs that work directly with the president or a presidential assistant?

Answer 13

Executive Office of the President

Question 14

What is an order having the force of law issued by the president of the U.S. to the army, navy, or other part of the executive branch of the government?

Answer 14

Executive orders

Question 15

What is the discretionary right claimed by certain U.S. presidents to withhold information from Congress or the judiciary?

Answer 15

Executive privilege

Question 16

What is situation in which nothing can move or proceed in any direction?

Answer 16

gridlock

Question 17

what is the process in which a president is taken out of office?

Answer 17

Impeachment process

Question 18

What is to seize by legal right?

Answer 18

Impoundment

Question 19

What is the Departments of Justice, Treasury, State, and Defense called?

Answer 19

inner cabnet

Question 20

What is a veto exercised by a legislature nullifying or reversing an action, decision, of the executive branch?

Answer 20

legislative veto

Question 21

What is the power of the executive to veto particular items of a bill without having to veto the entire bill?

Answer 21

line-item veto

Question 22

What is the United States Supreme Court decision ruling that the President has the exclusive power to remove executive branch officials, and does not need the approval of the Senate or any other legislative body?

Answer 22

Myers v. United States

Question 23

Who coordinates policy-making for domestic and international economic issues?

Answer 23

National Economic Councel

Question 24

What advises and assists the President on national security and foreign policy matters?

Answer 24

National Security Councel

Question 25

What was the Supreme Court case that dealt with immunity from suit to government officials performing discretionary functions when their action did not violate clearly established law?

Answer 25

Nixon v. Fitzgerald

Question 26

What is the office responsible for devising and submitting the president’s annual budget proposal to Congress?

Answer 26

Office of Management and the Budget

Question 27

What is the term in which someone takes the office of the president if, President of the United States is incapable, dead, resigned, or is removed from office?

Answer 27

Presidential succession

Question 28

What is presidential management model in which the chief of staff plays a prominent role as the head of a military style chain of command?

Answer 28

Pyramid Model

Question 29

The Supreme Court unanimous 8-0 ruling falling against President Richard Nixon and was important to the late stages of the Watergate scandal

Answer 29

United States v. Nixon

Question 30

A law passed in 1973 spelling out the conditions under which the president can commit troops without congressional approval.

Answer 30

War powers resolution

Question 31

the personal office of the president, which tends to presidential political needs and manages the media.

Answer 31

White House Office

Question 32

Brought about by the jefferson/burr tie, stated that presidential and vice-presidential nominees would run on the same party ticket. before that time, all of the candidates ran against each other, with the winner becoming president and second-place becoming vice-president.

Answer 32

12th Amendment

Question 33

limits the number of terms a president may be elected to serve

Answer 33

22nd Amendment

Question 34

clarifies an ambiguous provision of the constitution regarding succession to the presidency, and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president as well as responding to presidential disabilities.

Answer 34

25th Amendment