Unit 6

Question 1

22nd amendment

Answer 1

Limits president to 2 terms or 10 years

Question 2

Executive privilege

Answer 2

Implied power that allows the president to refuse to disclose info on confidential conversations or national security to congress or the judiciary

Question 3

US v. Nixon

Answer 3

No absolute constitutional executive privilege

Question 4

25th amendment

Answer 4

Procedures for filling vacancies for office of president and VP and disability of a president

Question 5

Executive agreements

Answer 5

Formal international agreements that do not require consent of senate

Question 6

Executive office of the president (1939)

Answer 6

A mini bureaucracy created to help the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy

Question 7

Office of management and budget

Answer 7

Preps president’s annual budget proposal, reviews budget and programs of executive departments, supplies economic forecast and analyses proposed bills

Question 8

Executive order

Answer 8

Rule or regulation issued by president that has effect of the law

Question 9

Patronage

Answer 9

Special favors given as rewards to friends or allies for their support

Question 10

Pendleton act

Answer 10

Established merit system for federal employment (1883)

Question 11

Independent regulatory commission

Answer 11

Agencies created by congress to regulate a specific economic activity or interest (federal communications commission)

Question 12

Departments

Answer 12

Administrative units responsible for a broad area of government operations (defense)

Question 13

Independent executive agencies

Answer 13

Narrower areas of responsibility and provide services, not regulation (NASA)

Question 14

Government corporations

Answer 14

Businesses established by congress to perform functions that could be provided by private businesses (Amtrak and post office)

Question 15

Hatch act

Answer 15

Prohibits federal employees from taking activist roles in partisan campaigns

Question 16

Iron triangle

Answer 16

Three way relationship between an agency, interest group and congressional committee for their own benefit

Question 17

Issue networks

Answer 17

A large group of people with a loose relationship who work in a broad policy area

Question 18

Administrative adjudication

Answer 18

Process in which a bureaucratic agency settles disputes between two parties

Question 19

Administrative discretion

Answer 19

Ability of bureaucrats to make decisions concerning the best way to implement congressional or executive intentions