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Which of the following best reflects the roles of the president?

• chief foreign policy maker, speaker of the house, chief justice

• chief of state, chief justice, commander in chief

• commander in chief, chief of state, chief foreign policy maker

• speaker of the house, commander in chief, chief of state

Who are the official members of the Cabinet, whose job it is to advise the president?

• the Speaker of the House and all joint congressional committee chairs

• military and national security leadership, including chiefs of all branches of the military

• the vice president and heads of fifteen major departments in the executive branch

• about twenty temporary academic economists and three permanent economic statisticians

If the president ignores a bill for ten days when Congress is not in session, what power is he or she exercising?

• pocket veto

• filibuster

• slate bill

• line-item veto

Read the text from the mission statement of a cabinet-level department of the US government and answer the question.

This is the mission statement of which department?

• the Department of Homeland Security

• the Department of the Treasury

• the Department of the Interior

• the Department of State

Under Article II, Section 3 of the US Constitution, the president is required to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." This clause has led every president since George Washington to proclaim rules and directions that have the full force of law, yet because they are not actually laws, they are often criticized. Some feel that such actions are unconstitutional because the Constitution designates Congress as the sole law-making branch of the federal government. What are these powerful, yet controversial presidential actions called?

• common laws

• executive orders

• legislative decrees

• presidential edicts