chapter 7?

Question 1

All bills designed to raise revenue originate in

Answer 1

the HoR

Question 2

The commerce clause

Answer 2

regulating foreign and interstate commerce

Question 3

Who can ratify constitutional amendments

Answer 3

congress and state governments

Question 4

Which Article is the longest

Answer 4

Article I because of importance

Question 5

In the Civil Rights Act of 1964, what part of the Constitution is used to make discrimination in public facilities illegal?

Answer 5

commerce clause

Question 6

expressed power

Answer 6

listed in the Constitution

Question 7

The War Powers Act was created after which of the following events?

Answer 7

vietnam war

Question 8

The difference between an appropriations bill and an authorization bill is appropriations bills

Answer 8

proposes to authorize money and second actually allocates the money

Question 9

One way Congress can encourage spending and business expansion is by

Answer 9

increase taxes??

Question 10

Who does congress over see

Answer 10

the executive branch

Question 11

The power of the purse is important in oversight because it allows Congress to

Answer 11

Review, and possibly modify, agency budgets

Question 12

How is legislative oversight typically different from Congressional investigation?

Answer 12

Investigation involves the executive branch whereas oversight involves the legislature

Question 13

After a two-year investigation into investment banks’ role in the economic meltdown of 2008, which of the following is an appropriate action that Congress did in response to the 2008 economic crisis?

Answer 13

passed a major banking reform bill

Question 14

Legislative oversight is an example of checks and balances because

Answer 14

Congress can see if the executive branch is carrying out a law as it is intended

Question 15

The Supreme Court case of Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha ruled what concept was unconstitutional because it violated the concept of separation of powers?

Answer 15

Legislative Veto

Question 16

Legislative Veto

Answer 16

provision in a law that lets congress review and cancel actions of an executive agency

Question 17

The president can provide a check on Congress’s power to create legislation by

Answer 17

vetoing a bill

Question 18

in a divided government, power stuggles can occur because

Answer 18

one party controls the white house and the other controls congress

Question 19

what event in US history is credited with shifting power source of legislation to the pres

Answer 19

civil war

Question 20

while the pres proposes the national budget, who must aprove it

Answer 20

congress

Question 21

impoundment

Answer 21

pres refuses to spend money that congress has authorized and appropiated

Question 22

tension between the pres and congress

Answer 22

occurs as each works to protect its power

Question 23

line item veto

Answer 23

allows the pres to reject only part of a bill

Question 24

extra powers

Answer 24

given to pres during war time to make decision making faster

Question 25

who has more control over the federal budget

Answer 25

congress

Question 26

what does divided government do to legislative process

Answer 26

it slows

Question 27

legislative veto

Answer 27

congress could in theory review and cancel actions of executive agencies (violates separation of powers)

Question 28

implied power

Answer 28

power that congress has obtained through the elastic clause

Question 29

5 times we’ve declared war

Answer 29

-the war of 1812
-WWI
-WWII
-Spanish American
-Mexican American

Question 30

Patent

Answer 30

the exclusive right to sell something

Question 31

ex post facto laws

Answer 31

unable to pass because

Question 32

war powers act

Answer 32

it wanted to limit the pres’s ability to commit troops abroad without congressional approval

Question 33

what was the main reason congress passed the congressional budget and impoundment control act

Answer 33

keep the pres from stopping the funding of programs

Question 34

veto

Answer 34

the executive branch’s check of power on the legislative branch

Question 35

copyright

Answer 35

the exclusive right to publish and sell a literary or musical work

Question 36

immunity

Answer 36

freedom from prosecution

Question 37

why did the founders decide that revenue bills should originate in the house

Answer 37

representation in the house is based on pop

Question 38

in what way are political parties most powerful in checking the power of different branches of gov

Answer 38

the gov is divided

Question 39

whats a power given to congress in the constituation in terms of engaging in conflict

Answer 39

declare war

Question 40

which scenario do patents on inventions such as technological innovations help the economy

Question 41

how did marshal expand congress powers

Answer 41

providing a very broad interpretation of the necessary and proper clause

Question 42

National Emergencies Act

Answer 42

requires pres to tell congress when they plan to declare a national emergency

Question 43

why amending power is limited

Answer 43

states must ratify any approved amendments

Question 44

congress checking executive

Answer 44

oversee executive agencies

Question 45

civil rights act of 1964

Answer 45

legislation that used the commerce clause to combat racial descrimination

Question 46

appropiations bill

Answer 46

law proposed by congress to authorize spending money

Question 47

legislative oversight

Answer 47

allows congress to review executive branch