Select a bill recently passed by Congress and signed by the president. Explain how interbranch interactions (and possibly conflict) influenced the policy that was eventually implemented.
What will be an ideal response?
Depending on the bill selected, students might describe some of the following dynamics: presidential agenda-setting through the State of the Union or other public pronouncements, veto threats (and/or actual vetoes and subsequent override or amended bill), consideration of constitutionality/judicial reaction by members of Congress, judicial review after the passage of the bill, executive discretion in implementing the statute, and so on.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Rules regarding congressional eligibility include quotas to create a legislative body representative of the people 2. An individual must be at least thirty years old to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. 3. To be eligible for service in Congress, candidates must live in the state that they seek to represent. 4. Senators must have been U.S. citizens for at least nine years before election to Congress.
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a. rescission b. executive courtesy c. patronage d. extradition e. succession
What is the concept that refers to the U.S. public’s aversion to military activism, coupled with a sense of defeatism?
a. The diversionary theory of war b. The isolationism effect c. The Iraq Syndrome d. The Vietnam Syndrome