Law & Society Spring Final Exam

Mark all the Constitutional requirements a person must meet to be eligible to be President

• Must be at least 35 years old

• Must have received US citizenship in the last 14 years

• Must have lived in the U.S. for 14 years

• Must be a natural-born citizen

• Must not be over 70

Explain the purpose of the system of checks and balances in the U.S. government.

• To allow the president to have absolute power

• To ensure that no single branch becomes too powerful

• To give Congress the ability to declare war

• To allow the judicial branch to create laws

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Mark all the ways the President is involved in the legislative process with Congress

• Proposing and writing the bill themselves so Congress can approve it into law

• Determining Constitutionality of a law

• Influencing Congress to address policy matters that are important to the President's agenda

• Vetoing laws

• Approving laws

Term limits, impeachment & removal, and limitations on financial compensation or gifts do which of the following?

• They expand the individual decision making process of the executive

• They enable citizens to remove a president for treason, bribery, or other crimes

• They permits the president to be fined for misconduct

• They allow the president to be re-elected without opposition as many times as they'd like

• They are limitations on the executive that prevent abuse of power or negative influence

What is the relationship between executive departments, law, and society?

• Executive departments create laws for the president to enforce with the approval of Congress

• Executive departments help create detailed rules and regulations that help execute the law in a real way that impacts daily life

• Executive departments have the power to veto congressional decisions so the public isn't harmed by bad laws

• Executive departments are responsible for interpreting the Constitution so the public understands was is/isn't a good law

Congress just passed a law that says:
"All communities must have access to a free public health clinic by the year 2040" and nothing else.

Mark all of the responsibilities the Executive Branch would have in executing this law.

• The Department of Health and Human Services can veto this law if they disagree with it.

• The President meets with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to discuss how to best carry out this law.

• The President and Secretary of Health and Human Services determine if this law is Constitutional.

• The Department of Health and Human Services' experts determine what services a “public health clinic” must provide to meet federal standards.

• The Department of Health and Human Services creates a plan and coordinates with state and local governments to get the clinics built and staffed.

The US Constitution in Article II, Section 2, says:

• [The President] shall have Power... by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

This excerpt of the Constitution refers to which of the following:

• The ability of Senate to pick the President's cabinet

• The ability of Congress to make a treaty

• The ability of a President to have departments that help execute laws

• The ability of the Senate to appoint ambassadora

• The ability for the President to determine a law' constitutionality on their own

In the context of how law and society impact each other, the role of President is most like which of the following?

(Select all that apply)

• Congress

• Trial courts

• State governors

• Mayors

• The Supreme Court

Match the descriptions with their correct role:

• Mayor

• Executes laws for an entire state & oversees departments that assist in executing law

• Police or Sheriff Department

• Executes laws for the entire country & oversees departments that assist in executing law

• President

• Executes laws within the boundaries of a particular city

• FBI and/or US Marshalls

• Enforces laws within the boundaries of a particular city or county

• Governor

• Enforces laws within the entire United States, with the ability to cross state lines

Label the gray boxes with the correct types of courts.

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

State Supreme Courts

US Court of Appeals

US Supreme Court

State Appellate Court

Federal Court System

US District Courts

State Court system

State Trial Courts