AG Unit 5 Pre-Test

Exclusive power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign trade

• Taxing Power
• Commerce Power
• Borrowing Power
• Coining Power

Permanent committee in a legislative body to which bills in a specified subject area are referred

• Standing Committee
• Select Committee
• Joint Committee
• Investigative Committee

The United States’s legislative branch; includes the House of Representatives and the Senate, whose job it is to make laws

(a)  

Proposed laws presented to a legislative body for consideration

(a)  

According to the Constitution, who has the sole power to hold an impeachment trial?

• The House of Representatives
• The Supreme Court
• The President
• The Senate

What is #1?

• House of Representatives
• Senate
• Conference Committee
• President

Compensation for members of Congress are

• unchanged since the ratification of the Constitution.
• set by the President.
• tightly held secrets.
• set by themselves.

Given the prompt, select only the following expressed powers of Congress:

• the power to declare war and the power to coin money.

• the power to tax exports and the power to tax imports

• the power to coin and borrow money.

• the power to faithfully enforce the laws of the land.

• the power to declare war and to set funding levels for the army

Most measures introduced in Congress die at which of these steps?

• committee
• cloture
• floor vote
• conference committee

Which of the following actions would most likely be criticized by a Strict Constructionist?

• Passing a law to enforce a treaty ratified by the Senate.

• Establishing a federal program to fund healthcare under the Commerce Clause.

• Implementing laws explicitly stated under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.

• Regulating immigration through specific legislative provisions outlined by Congress.