examples of the executive branch

Question 1

Example of a president proposing Legislation

Answer 1

`His yearly Budget

Question 2

How many pardons did Obama use

Answer 2

212

Question 3

What was Obamas popular vote percent in 2008

Answer 3

52.8

Question 4

Example of electoral mandate not working

Answer 4

President Obama won a large victory in the 2008 election, but after the 2010 midterms, lots of legislation was blocked by the House of Representatives in Congress, where the opposition Republican party had a majority.

Question 5

Example of an executive order

Answer 5

President Trump used an executive order to ban immigrants from certain majority-Muslim countries in 2017.

Question 6

Example of a national event helping the president

Answer 6

President Bush gained lots of support after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and had the power to begin his war on terror.

Question 7

Example of a national event helping the president

Answer 7

President Bush gained lots of support after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and had the power to begin his war on terror.

Question 8

Example of the separation of powers working

Answer 8

John Kerry resigned from the Senate when appointed as Secretary of State by President Obama in 2013.

Question 9

example of the presidents power to deal make

Answer 9

Trump made bipartisan deals to pass the first step act 2018

Question 10

Example of a president setting an agenda

Answer 10

In 2020 trump called covid the “Chinese Virus” and blamed the Chinese government for the pandemic.

Question 11

Example of the president being a world leader

Answer 11

after 9/11 bush led an international coalition for the “War on terror”

Question 12

2 examples of executive orders

Answer 12

Obama - Increasing the federal minimum wage and outlawing same - sex marriages in insurance companies

Bush - Used them to authorise anti - terror measures after 9/11

Question 13

Example of the president being chief executive

Answer 13

He “makes” and sends in the budget

Question 14

Example of a presidential veto

Answer 14

Trump vetoed 2 bills in feb 2019 which would of stopped his advnace to build a wall on the south border

Question 15

Example of a president using their power to pardon

Answer 15

Clinton pardoned 140 people on the last day of his presidency.

Question 15

example of the president not asking congress before going to war

Answer 15

Bush’s invasion of afghanistan (2001)

Obamas military actions in libya (2011)

Question 16

Example of an implied power

Answer 16

in the second ww after pearl harbour roosevelt ordeded japanese americans to go into camps until the end of the war.

Question 17

example of congress rejecting presidential legislation

Answer 17

In 2012 congress rejected bringing in gun control laws

Question 18

Example of congress overriding a presidential veto

Answer 18

Trumps annual budget was rejected even though they had a majority in the senate

Question 19

Example of congress rejecting a presidential appointment

Answer 19

in 2016 the republican senate didn’t allow Obama’s nominee for the supreme court in merrick garland and waited until trump got elected in 2017 to appoint neil gorsuch

Question 20

Example of impeachment

Answer 20

Trump was impeached in 2019 and 2021 but survived due to the republican senate.

Question 21

example of judicial review used on the president

Answer 21

When courts stopped trumps 2017 muslim travel ban

Question 22

Example of emergency powers

Answer 22

Roosevelt’s holocaust of the japanese

Obama didn’t close guantanamo Bay

Trump declared a national emergency in march 2020 because of covid