Study Guide Chapter 11

Question 1

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

Answer 1

“advice and consent”

Question 2

what is a very powerful influence of the media called?

Answer 2

agenda setting

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Budget Reform and Impoundment Act of 1974

Question 4

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

Answer 4

circular model

Question 5

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 5

Clinton v. City of New York

Question 6

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 6

Clinton v. Jones

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Commander-in-chief

Question 8

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

Answer 8

diplomatic recognition

Question 9

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

Answer 9

divided government

Question 10

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

Answer 10

electoral college

Question 11

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 11

executive agreements

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Executive Office of the President

Question 13

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 13

Executive orders

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Executive privilege

Question 15

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

Answer 15

gridlock

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Impeachment process

Question 17

What is to seize by legal right?

Answer 17

Impoundment

Question 18

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

Answer 18

inner cabnet

Question 19

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

Answer 19

legislative veto

Question 20

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

Answer 20

line-item veto

Question 21

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 21

Myers v. United States

Question 22

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

Answer 22

National Economic Councel

Question 23

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

Answer 23

National Security Councel

Question 24

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 24

Nixon v. Fitzgerald

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Office of Management and the Budget

Question 26

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 26

Presidential succession

Question 27

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 27

Pyramid Model

Question 28

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

Answer 28

United States v. Nixon

Question 29

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

Answer 29

War powers resolution

Question 30

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

Answer 30

White House Office

Question 31

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 31

12th Amendment

Question 32

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

Answer 32

22nd Amendment

Question 33

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 33

25th Amendment