Chapter 12

Question 1

According to the U.S. Constitution, if no one candidate receives a majority vote of the Electoral College, who chooses the president?

Answer 1

the U.S. House of Representatives.

Question 2

The presidency was created by _____________ of the U.S. Constitution.

Answer 2

Article II

Question 3

Which of the following presidents lost the popular voted, but still won the presidency?
A.
Rutherford B. Hayes

B.	 Benjamin Harrison

C.	 George W. Bush

D.	 all of these answers are correct.

Answer 3

all of these answers are correct.

Question 4

Which of the following is a formal constitutional requirement for becoming president?
A. One must be at least 40 years of age.
B. One must be a resident in the United States for at least 1 year.
C. One must be a natural-born citizen
D. One must be a white male.

Answer 4

One must be a natural-born citizen

Question 5

A very challenging job for new presidents is to

Answer 5

nominate and gain confirmation for their cabinet and hundreds of other officials.

Question 6

Twenty-second Amendment

Answer 6

Constitutional Amendment that restricts a president to two terms.

Question 7

Twelfth Amendment

Answer 7

Constitutional amendment that couples a particular presidential candidate with that candidate’s running mate in a unified ticket.

Question 8

Executive order

Answer 8

A rule issued by the president without the cooperation of Congress and having the force of law.

Question 9

Executive agreement

Answer 9

An international agreement between the president and another country made by the executive branch without the formal consent of the Senate.

Question 10

Executive privilege

Answer 10

The president’s right to withhold information from Congress, the judiciary, or the public.

Question 11

The branch of the federal government that has changed the most is the

Answer 11

Executive Branch

Question 12

Who suggested the president should be elected for life?

Answer 12

Alexander Hamilton

Question 13

Powers the Constitution explicitly grants to the president are

Answer 13

expressed powers.

Question 14

What are the powers assumed by the presidents, often during crises, on the basis of the constitutional phrase “the executive power shall be vested in the president”?

Answer 14

inherent powers

Question 15

The idea that the Constitution puts the president in charge of executing the laws, and therefore no other branch should limit presidential discretion over executive matters, is known as

Answer 15

unitary executive theory

Question 16

When signing bills into law, presidents often make statements that offer the administration’s interpretation of the law; these are known as

Answer 16

signing statements

Question 17

Some critics refer to an American presidency that has begun to demonstrate imperial traits—indicating that the republic is slowly morphing into an empire—as a(n) ___________ presidency.

Answer 17

imperial.

Question 18

Presidential roles include all of the following EXCEPT

Answer 18

head of the Senate

Question 19

The presidential power to block an act of Congress by refusing to sign it is called

Answer 19

veto power.

Question 20

Top officials in the executive agencies appointed by the president are

Answer 20

political appointees.

Question 21

The agencies that help the president manage his daily activities are in the

Answer 21

Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Question 22

The OMB’s authority to review and “clear” (or okay) anything a member of the administration says or does in public is called

Answer 22

central clearance.

Question 23

Which First Lady became a one-woman campaign for liberal social policy and a popular symbol of the New Deal?

Answer 23

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Question 24

The president’s constitutional roles, such as chief executive and commander in chief,

Answer 24

have expanded in practice to be more powerful than the writers of the Constitution intended

Question 25

The Whig theory holds that the presidency

Answer 25

is a limited office whose occupant is confined to the exercise of expressly granted constitutional powers

Question 26

The president’s role in foreign policy increased largely because

Answer 26

America became more of a world power

Question 27

Which of the following is true of the vice presidency?

Answer 27

The Constitution assigns no executive authority to the vice president

Question 28

The primary election as a means of choosing presidential nominees

Answer 28

has been used more extensively in recent decades, such that the candidate who dominates the primaries can usually expect to receive the nomination

Question 29

The selection of the vice presidential nominee at the national convention is based on the

Answer 29

presidential nominee’s choice of a running mate

Question 30

Which of the following did the framers want from a president

Answer 30

Administration of the laws.
National leadership.
Command of the military.
Statesmanship in foreign affairs

Question 31

The presidency is an

Answer 31

office in which power is conditional, depending on whether the political support that gives force to presidential leadership exists or can be developed

Question 32

A president’s accomplishments have largely depended on

Answer 32

whether circumstances favor strong presidential leadership

Question 33

The honeymoon period occurs during

Answer 33

the first part of a president’s term

Question 34

The forced removal of a president from office through impeachment and conviction requires action by the

Answer 34

House and Senate in separate proceedings

Question 35

Congress authorized an official impeachment investigation of

Answer 35

Bill Clinton

Question 36

When George W. Bush claimed the prerogative to not enforce those portions of a bill that he deemed unconstitutional, he did so using a technique for extending executive power known as the:

Answer 36

signing statement

Question 37

States that apply the unit rule

Answer 37

grant all their electoral votes as a unit to the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote

Question 38

If the president vetoes a bill:

Answer 38

the veto can be overridden by a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate