PSCI210 Exam 2 Questions With Correct
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Executive Office of the President - answerA group of presidential staff agencies created in
1939 that provides the president with help and advice
Marbury vs Madison - answerThe 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his
associates first...
Executive Office of the President - answer✔✔A group of presidential staff agencies created in
1939 that provides the president with help and advice
Marbury vs Madison - answer✔✔The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his
associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S.
Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of
Congress, in this case the Judiciary Act of 1789.
Electoral College - answer✔✔The group of electors from each state who cast the 538 votes that
actually count toward the election of the President of the United States.
Succession Act of 1947 - answer✔✔The question of who shall be president if both the President
and the Vice President Die, resign, or are disabled, the speaker of the house will become
president, after resigning from congress. Next in line is the president pro tem of the Senate,
followed by the cabinet officers in the order of the creation of their departments.
Impoundment of Funds - answer✔✔An action taken by the president in which he or she
proposes not to spend all or part of a sum of money appropriated by Congress, explanation: by
law, the president proposes a budget and congress approves it but there was no law that requires
the president to spend all of the funds appropriated by congress. Now the budget and the
impoundement control act of 1974 exists requiring the president to have to spend all appropriated
funds
Line-Item Veto - answer✔✔Presidential power to strike, or remove, specific items from a
spending bill without vetoing the entire package; declared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court.
Pocket Veto - answer✔✔A veto taking place when Congress adjourns within 10 days of
submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it.
Legislative Veto - answer✔✔A provision in a bill reserving to Congress or to a congressional
committee the power to reject an action or regulation of a national agency by majority vote:
declared unconstitutuionall by the Supreme Court in 1983
22nd Amendment - answer✔✔An amendment to the Constitution stating that no president can be
elected to said office more than twice, and no person who inherits the presidency due to death
can be elected more than once. This amendment had little, if any, awareness published about it,
as people had little concern for it and weren't very involved.
The Imperial Presidency - answer✔✔this term arose in the 1970s to describe the situation when
the balance between power and accountability is upset in favor of the presidency
Kitchen Cabinet - answer✔✔An informal group of advisers to whom the president turns for
counsel and guidance. Members of the official Cabinet may or may not also be members
Common Law - answer✔✔Judge-made law that originated in England from decisions shaped
according to prevailing custom. Decisions were applied to similar situations and gradually
became common to the nation.
Stare Descisis - answer✔✔"let the decision stand" The doctrine that a previous decision by a
court applies as a precedent in similar cases until that decision is overruled
Statutory Law - answer✔✔Law enacted by the legislative branch of government, as
distinguished from case law or common law.
16th Amendment - answer✔✔Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave
Congress the power to tax income.
Spoils System - answer✔✔A practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives
government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory and as an incentive to keep
working for the party.
Buddy System - answer✔✔system of name-request job when bureaucracy knows whom it
wishes to hire and wants to circumvent an elaborate search
Bureaucracy - answer✔✔A system of managing government through departments run by
appointed officials
The Revolving Door - answer✔✔the movement of personnel between roles as legislators and
regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation and/on within lobbying
companies
Parkinson's First Law - answer✔✔Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
Criminal Law - answer✔✔A body of rules and statutes that defines conduct prohibited by the
government because it threatens and harms public safety and welfare and that establishes
punishment to be imposed for the commission of such acts
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