Presidency

Which of the following best describes the viewpoint shown in the cartoon

• Presidents believe they have superpowers

• The Supreme Court unfairly blocks presidential initiatives

• Executive orders are unconstitutional

• Other branches of government check the president

One November 20,2014 President Obama issued a statement removing the threat of deportation for approximately five million undocumented parents and payment residents who lived in the country for at least five years'

Which of the following powers did President Obama use in the scenario?

• The informal power to issue an executive order

• The formal power as commander and chief

• The formal power as chief diplomat

• The informal power to issue an executive agreement

Which of the following best explains the trend shown in the graph

• Presidents rarely face divided government at the beginning of a term

• Newly elected presidents take advantage of the "honeymoon" period with Congress to get their policies passed

• Presidents often win elections by large margins, making them popular at the beginning of their terms

• Members of Congress rely on the president for electoral support, making them more likely to support presidential initiatives

Select the pair of examples that matches the presidential role with the correct enumerated constitutional power

• commander and chief/declare war

• chief diplomat/ratifies treaties

• Chief legislator/give the State of the Union Address

• Chief executive/issues executive orders

President Smith begins slurring his words and speaking incoherently about dropping nuclear bombs on Russia. What is the most expeditious way under the Constitution to avert disaster?

• The president can be removed when the vice president and a majority of the cabinet advise the congress that the president is unfit

• The president can be removed at the end of her term of office when a new president is sworn in

• The president can be removed when the Supreme Court declares the president unfit upon application of a surgeon general

• The president can be removed via impeachment and removal proceedings in the House and Senate

The bar chart supports which of the following inferences?

• President Trump has nominated more white federal judges than any president since Ronald Reagan

• President Carter nominated more African American judges than any other president

• The president who nominated the most Asian American judges also nominated the fewest Hispanic judges

• A consistent trend has emerged over the decades favoring the nomination of an increasing number of judges from minority backgrounds

Which of the following statements best describes the impact of the Supreme Court's decision in McCulloch v Maryland

• The court ruled that states have authority over commercial activity within their borders, weakening national power

• The court ruled that the necessary and proper clause allows the national government to create banks, strengthening national power

• The Court upheld a division of power between the states and the national government by allowing states to tax national banks within their borders

• The court ruled that creating a national bank fell within the national government's enumerated powers, confirming national power

Which of the following constitutional provisions gives Congress and the president expressed power over the national defense

• Article VI

• Articles I and II

• Articles VII

• the Preamble

All of the following are formal powers of the president EXCEPT

• commander and chief

• receive diplomats

• make executive agreements

• call congress into session

When President Obama signed a 2011 budget bill into law, he expressed his opposition to some of the provisions in the bill that allowed for the indefinite detention of American citizens. Which of the following would most effectively allow Obama to express his opposition

• Issuing an execute order ruling portions of the law unconstitutional

• Campaigning around the country for Congress to pass new legislation removing that provision

• Pocket vetoing the portions of the bill he disagreed with

• Issuing a signing statement instructing the executive branch not to enforce the offending portions of the bill