What are the four main powers of the president in foreign policy? To what extent are these checked and/or balanced by Congress?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should identify the following main powers: commander in chief of the nation’s armed forces, negotiating and signing treaties, appointing cabinet secretaries and ambassadors, and conducting diplomacy overseas. Congress’s role should be identified as the “power of the purse” and the ability to declare war, reject or confirm appointees, and conduct fact-finding missions overseas. Answers could discuss the overall role of Congress to offer advice and consent to the president on foreign policy.
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In presidential elections
A. voters elect the president directly. B. the number of electors equals each state's number of senators (two) plus its number of representatives. C. electors have always voted for the candidate who won their state's vote. D. All of these choices are true. E. None of these choices is true.
Stuart Taylor argues that the current statutes, administrative rules, and Supreme Court precedents involving searches and seizures and law enforcement investigations
a. are inadequate to effectively deal with the threat of terrorism. b. give the police too much power to violate people’s basic civil liberties. c. strike a good balance between effectively fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberties. d. were all shaped largely by the 2001 Patriot Act.
What is a trade group?
a. a coalition of public interest groups in a specific policy area, such as environmental policy b. an organization that coordinates exchanges of information and resources among multiple interest groups c. a type of labor union d. a formal interest group that represents a specific industry or profession
As part of the merit-selection plans for judges, retention elections
a. nearly always turn out in favor of the incumbent. b. rarely generate much enthusiasm among voters and seldom turn out the incumbent. c. generate greater enthusiasm than the general elections. d. have turned down retention for about 50 percent of all judges since 1972.