POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo Salas

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POSC 100 Study Guide Ricardo
Salas

• Part 3
• Assignment 18

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Notice

• Dear students
• The odd-numbered questions are answered for
  you. The answers to the even-numbered questions
  are the result of your readings. This is to
  assure that you are understanding the material.
  Good luck!

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Assignment 18
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The Presidency

• T or F Questions (9)
• Multiple Choice questions (17)
• Fill-in Questions (3)

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True or False Questions

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True or False

• 1/9
• Throughout American history, each president's
  constitutional powers has been extended in
  practice beyond the Framers intention. .

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Answer

• 1/9
• True

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True or False

• 2/9
• In each of America's most recent wars, the
  Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Balkans,
  Afghanistan, and Iraq, it was the president who
  initiated them without an official declaration of
  war by the Congress.

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Answer

• 2/9

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True or False

• 3/9
• The Framers anticipated that Congress would
  define the nation's foreign policy while the
  president would oversee their implementation.

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Answer

• 3/9
• True

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True or False

• 4/9
• Congress does not have the power to cancel an
  executive agreement in which it disagrees.

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Answer

• 4/9

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True or False

• 5/9
• According to Patterson, presidents have
  exercised substantial power through their
  administrative authority (the power to execute
  the laws). But the presidents power to appoint
  has had a much greater impact.

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Answer

• 5/9
• False

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True or False

• 6/9
• The Framers expected the president to use the
  veto power extensively to assure that Congress
  did not try and introduce pernicious legislation.

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Answer

• 6/9

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True or False

• 7/9
• According to Patterson, although the role of
  the president in international affairs has
  significantly increased, in the area of domestic
  affairs little has changed.

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Answer

• 7/9
• False

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True or False

• 8/9
• Today it is open caucuses and not the voters
  in state primaries who play the decisive role in
  the selection of the Democratic and Republican
  presidential nominees.

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Answer

• 8/9

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True or False

• 9/9
• Since 1972, when the delegate-selection
  process was changed, the leading presidential
  candidate in every case has acquired enough
  delegates in the primaries to lock up the
  nomination before the convention begins.

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Answer

• 9/9
• True

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Multiple Choice Questions

• The following questions are multiple choices.
  Select the most appropriate answer.

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1/17

• The following refers to the time frame that is
  traditionally accorded a newly elected president
  in the beginning months of his term in office
• a) the grand beginning
• b) the affectionate lovefest
• c) the honeymoon period
• d) the sumptuous beginning.

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Answer

• 1/17
• c

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2/17

• The following refers to the executive
• office becoming so powerful that
• constitutional checks and balances are no
• longer effective in constraining it
• a) sovereign executive
• b) monarchical presidency
• c) absolute presidency
• d) imperial presidency.

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Answer

• 2/17

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3/17

• According to Alexander Hamilton from
• Federalist 69, what would be the only
• justification for war by presidential action?
• a) When the president decides it is necessary
• b) When a foreign nation threatens the United
  States
• c) When there was a surprise attack on the
  United
• States
• d) Hamilton argued that there was never any
• justification for the president to
  initiate a war.

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Answer

• 3/17
• c

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4/17

• Treaty ratification requires
• a) House approval by a majority vote
• b) Senate approval by a two-thirds vote
• c) Congressional approval by a majority
  vote
• d) Congressional approval by a two thirds
  vote.

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Answer

• 4/17

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5/17

• The president has acquired the power to
• make treaty like arrangements with other
• nations as a result of the following
• a) executive agreements
• b) presidential commitments
• c) chief executive resolutions
• d) presidential initiative.

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Answer

• 5/17
• a

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6/17

• In 1937, the Supreme Court ruled that
  executive agreements that are signed and approved
  by the president
• a) must also be approved by the Congress
  before
• achieving the force of law
• b) are limited in scope and may not
  displace a treaty
• c) have the same legal status as treaties
• d) are unconstitutional if they deal with
  foreign policy.

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Answer

• 6/17

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7/17

• In Federalist 76, Hamilton indicated that
• the president's real authority as chief
• executive was to be found in
• a) administrative effectiveness
• b) his close ties with congressional leaders
• c) his ability to articulate the major
  issues of his time
• d) his appointive capacity.

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Answer

• 7/17
• d

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8/17

• Although the powers that a contemporary
  president exercises are more extensive than the
  Framers envisioned, Patterson cited the following
  2 features in particular for such expansion
• a) political awareness and Constitutional
  power
• b) public support and presidential
  flexibility
• c) national election and singular authority
• d) executive liabilities and political
  capital.

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Answer

• 8/17

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9/17

• Most successors to President Jackson in the
  nineteenth century adopted the view that the
  presidency was constrained by powers expressly
  granted by constitutional authority
• a) imperial presidency
• b) stewardship theory
• c) presidential ascendancy theory
• d) Whig theory.

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Answer

• 9/17
• d

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10/17

• The following calls for a strong, assertive
• presidential role that is confined only at
• points specifically prohibited by law, not by
• undefined inherent restrictions
• a) executive theory
• b) stewardship theory
• c) administrative theory
• d) imperial tradition.

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Answer

• 10/17

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11/17

• Why did Herbert Hoover not take decisive action
• during the economic crash that followed the Wall
• Street meltdown of 1929?
• a) Because he believed in the social welfare
  state
• b) Because he felt that he lacked the
  constitutional
• authority
• c) Because he embraced the stewardship
  theory
• d) Because the public was opposed to using
  the
• government to eliminate the abuses of
  the stock
• market.

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Answer

• 11/17
• b

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12/17

• Why is Congress poorly suited to assume the
  dominant role in the area of foreign policy?
• a) Because the Constitution forbids it
• b) Because it is a large and unwieldy body
• c) Because it lacks the funds necessary
  for an
• expanded role
• d) Because members of Congress are
  unconcerned
• with foreign policy issues.

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Answer

• 12/17

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13/17

• Why did the delegates to the 1787 constitutional
• convention establish an Electoral College for
• selecting the president?
• a) They feared the power of the privileged
  elites of the time
• b) They feared that a popularly elected
  president would become too
• powerful
• c) They believed that only through the true
  voice of the people can
• any sitting president behave respectfully
• d) They knew that Congress had to be
  restrained from the
• corruption that power provided and the
  president could neutralize
• it.

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Answer

• 13/17
• b

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14/17

• Meetings that are open to any registered party
  voter who wants to attend
• a) open primary
• b) open party caucuses
• c) free-blanket caucuses
• d) free-love primaries.

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Answer

• 14/17

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15/17

• Observers estimate it takes how much
• money to run a strong nominating
• campaign for beginning a presidential run?
  
• a) 5 million b) 10 million
• c) 20 million d) 40
  million.

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Answer

• 15/17
• d

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16/17

• In spite of the fact that party loyalty has
  declined in recent decades, what percentage of
  the nation's voters still identify themselves as
  Democrats or Republicans?
• a) 51 b) 66
• c) 72 d) 81

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Answer

• 16/17

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17/17

• All the states except Maine and Nebraska grant
  all their electoral votes to the candidate who
  wins the state's popular vote
• a) unit rule
• b) conditional vote
• c) unanimous incorporation
• d) plurality.

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Answer

• 17/17
• a

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Fill-in Questions

• The following questions have missing critical
  words. Fill in the most appropriate missing word.

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1/3

• The fact is that the formal powers of the
  president are somewhat limited and thus
  presidential power changes with
• a) national __________,
• b) ___________ circumstances,
• c) and the __________ capacity of the office's
• occupant.

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Answer

• 1/3
• conditions
• political
• personal

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2/3

• What did the writers of the Constitution
• want from a president?
• a) national ____________,
• b) _______________ in the area of foreign
  affairs,
• c) command in time of war and ____________,
• d) _____________ of the laws.

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Answer

• 2/3

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3/3

• The Electoral College has
• a) a total of _____ electoral votes,
• b) including _______ from the District of
  Columbia even
• though it has ___ ________ representative
  in
• Congress.
• c) To win a candidate must receive at least
  _____
• votes, electoral majority.

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Answer

• 3/3
• a) 538
• b) 3, no voting
• c) 270

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The Presidency--Focus of LeadershipClinton
Rossiterpgs. 258-263
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True or False

• 1/2
• According to the Constitution, the president
• can pick and choose those laws he wishes
• to enforce.

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Answer

• 1/2
• False

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2/2

• In time of war, argues Rossiter, the president
  has the authority over all major decisions of
  strategy and tactics.

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Answer

• 2/2

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Multiple Choice Questions

• 1/1
• When the president assumes the role
• of ceremonial leader of the country, he
• is functioning as
• a) chief administrative officer
• b) party leader
• c) commander-in-chief
• d) chief of state.

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Answer

• 1/1
• d

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Fill-in Questions

• 1/1
• The president is the leader of
• a) the _____________,
• b) the ________ ________,
• c) his _______,
• d) the __________,
• e) foreign affairs.

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Answer

• 1/1
• a) bureaucracy
• b) armed forces
• c) party
• d) Congress

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The End