Exam 6: the Presidency

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has used its authority under the Occupational Safety and Health Act created by Congress to require that all "half-inch and smaller chains,rings,hooks,shackles,and swivels in general use" in marine terminals be annealed (heat treated)every six months.This is an example of an ____________________.

Explain the concepts of formal powers and informal powers as they relate to the American presidency.Identify at least two formal powers of the presidency as well as two of its informal powers.Which set of powers is more important for presidents? Discuss a specific example or examples to support your claim.

Which is an agreement between the United States and one or more foreign countries concluded solely with presidential approval?

Discuss the evolution of presidential power.Identify the major periods or phases of presidential history and how the actions of specific presidents enhanced or undermined the powers of the presidency.In particular,compare the scope of presidential authority and activity intended by the Founders with that exercised by modern American presidents.

How can divided government shape bargaining between Congress and the president?

How does the presidency fit into the system of checks and balances that accompanies the separation of powers? How is the presidency checked by Congress and the Judiciary? How does the president check Congress and the Judiciary? On balance,which branch of government has the greatest degree of formal power under the U.S.Constitution?

President Obama has promised to not sign into law any legislation that repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.This is an example of a/an ____________________.

The Supreme Court has granted wider latitude to the president in his role as ____________________ than as ____________________ due to powers stated in the Constitution.

A national party's presidential nominating convention helps resolve ____________________ among its state party leaders.

What best explains the increasing power of the vice president over time?

What best explains why the president is better able to solve collective-action problems than Congress?

During the Civil War,the Union States' competing desires to defeat the Confederate states while avoiding the costs of providing troops and supplies for the war effort created intense ____________________ that were overcome,in part,by President Lincoln's executive actions.

The presidency is less democratically accountable than Congress due to ____________________.

Why would presidents utilize executive orders?

Which refers to a government in which the president is a member of one party and the majority in Congress is controlled by another?

The "spoils system?" rewards political loyalists by giving them ____________________.

President Barack Obama appointed Charles Rivkin to serve as ambassador to France.Mr.Rivkin had previously served as the California finance co-chair for President Obama's election campaign,raising more than $500,000 for the election effort.President Obama's appointment of Mr.Rivkin may be considered part of a/the ____________________.

The Constitutional Convention's decision to vest the national government's executive authority in a single person was principally intended to ____________________.

Not voting due to long distances to travel to polling places and lack of interest,and depending on others to vote in a favored direction,is a form of ____________________.

What is the electoral college? How does it work? Why did the Founders assign responsibility for electing the president to the electoral college rather than to a direct national election? How does the electoral college influence the choice of president made by the American people?