AmGovU3 Quizziz

Which two are main purposes of the President's Oath of Office (most of these are on the internet btw)

• They're basically magic words, the power of the President (whatever that is) won't flow into them without the incantationt

• To swear to uphold the Constitution above any personal priorities

• To be able to legally make laws these words have to be said first

• Show that there's a peaceful transfer of power from the last head of state to this one

Why does the President get to assign cabinet members if they're such important jobs?

• They work most closely with the President trying to execute his vision

• Because the Farmers appreciated the value of a smart cabinet

• Because the power of the Judicial Branch is vitally linked to the strength of the cabinet, and the President is the Judicial Branch's chief executive

• Since they're legislative branch members once appointed, the executive branch gets the job of appointing them

The Constitution doesn't directly give the President power to create NASA, why wasn't the creation of a space program considered unconstitutional?

• The Necessary and Proper clause lets presidential power grow in response to new challenges and the increasingly-connected world

• It is unconstitutional, now that I think about it

• The executive branch has the power over domestic affairs, and space is technically American soil once we claimed the moon

• The executive branch doesn't really have any restrictions or checks on its war powers, which NASA falls under

Which of the following is a Presidential power that effects foreign policy?

• Deciding embassy locations and placement

• Creating laws

• Negotiating formal long-standing treaties

• Passing higher taxes that all non-american citizens must pay

Why is the Great Society initiative considered a use of inherent powers?

• because the actions that President Johnson took were justified by the Vesting and Take Care Clause of the Constitution

• The Constitution directly had a stipulation outlining a 'Great Society program' many years in the future

• The great society initiative was later ruled wholly unconstitutional

• It inherently falls to the Supreme Court to improve society

Which of the following apply as ways that Executive Agencies have powers from each branch?

• The Environmental Protection Agency can pass regulations that kind of work like laws

• The Central Intelligence Agency has executive power to enforce rule of law

• The National Relations Labor Board can interpret different rulings and regulations like a judiciary

• The military can create arable farmland in other nations as an act of domain expansion

When you hear a bleep on broadcast TV, or if it feels like the radio station in the car stops to loudly identify itself like every ten minutes, you're hearing the regulatory work of

• The Federal Communications Commission

• The FBI

• The Legislative Branch

• The NLRB

Congress getting to decide how much of our money goes to what costs every year (making the budget) is sometimes also weirdly called

• The Power of the Purse

• The Power of the Pocket

• The Power of the Coin

• Power Power Power Purse

“Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings.” is a Constitutional provision that basically tells us what about the chambers of Congress?

• Their processes are weird but nobody can make them change

• They operate efficiently and swiftly

• They can't adjourn for more than three days without a provisional speaker calling for an attendance role

• Congress Makes Laws

Expansionary Fiscal Policy puts more blood (money) in the blood stream; if we've got too much blood flowing we get high blood pressure (inflation) which is often less than great; The Federal reserve might then try

• More expansionary Fiscal Policy

• Lower income taxes

• Contractionary Fiscal Policy

• Foreign Policy