SOURCES OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER

Question 1

What are enumerated powers

Answer 1

Powers explicitly given to president

Question 2

What are the 2 types of enumerated powers

Answer 2

Constitutional powers - set out in article 2

Delegated powers - From congress

Question 3

Example of a constitutional power

Answer 3

The power to propose legislation to congress

Question 4

Example of a delegated power

Answer 4

Power to determine detailed regulations for congress’s laws

Question 5

What are implied powers

Answer 5

Implied by the text of the constitution

Question 6

What clause gives implied powers

Answer 6

The “elastic clause”

Question 7

What are inherent powers

Answer 7

Not set out in constitution but needed to carry out role

Question 8

What was FDR’s use of implied powers

Answer 8

in ww2 you deployed an executive order to send 120,000 japanese-americans into internment camps

supreme court overruled it in 1944

1988 congress formally apologised and gave reparations

Question 9

What was bush’s use of inherent powers

Answer 9

After 9/11 bush said that his inherent powers meant he was allowed to ignore the civil liberties of terrorist suspects by detaining them

Suspects where transported to other countries and tortured

The supreme court ruled against it without a trial in 2008