AP Government Unit 6 Assessment Review

In which of the following ways could the president try to limit the impact of a Supreme Court decision?

• Passing legislation that overrides the Court’s opinion

• Instructing the Department of Justice to not enforce a provision of the decision

• Changing the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court

• Calling for the removal of the Supreme Court justices

Which of the following statements describes a difficulty presidents face in the policy implementation process?

• Because of civil service laws, it is not easy for the president to remove professional bureaucrats when they disagree with the president’s agenda

• Members of the bureaucracy often lack the expertise to carry out the president’s preferred policies

• Members of the president’s Cabinet can be removed at any time by Congress

• Congress generally gives specific details about how the laws they pass will be executed by members of the professional bureaucracy

Which of the following is an example of presidential use of inherent powers?

• Woodrow Wilson’s signing of the Treaty of Versailles

• George H.W. Bush’s appointment of Clarence Thomas

• Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase

• Bill Clinton’s use of veto power on 37 bills

Which of the following is an expressed power of the president in the U.S. Constitution?

• Declare War

• Grant pardons and reprieves

• Issue Executive Agreements

• Executive Orders

Cabinet departments differ from independent regulatory agencies in which of the following ways?

• The President can dismiss cabinet officers, but not commissioners of independent regulatory agencies

• The President can use an executive order to create cabinet departments but not for an independent regulatory agency

• The President seeks appointees who reflect administration views in making cabinet appointments but not in making appointments to independent regulatory agencies

• Through the appropriations process, Congress can exert control over the cabinet departments but not over independent regulatory agencies

In what way does Congress try to control the bureaucracy?

• the creation of issue networks

• Judicial review

• the use of executive agreements and appointments

• They will rewrite laws, hold oversight hearings, and appropriations