JEOPARDY #1 Ch 12-15

100 200 300 400 500 POWER TRIP Senatorial Courtesy Act I Just in Case Compromising Positions Senatorial Courtesy Act I Just in Case No-no’s! 100 200 300 400 500

Power Trip- 100 Term which refers to the expansion of the powers of the modern presidency during the course of the 20th century

What is the IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY? Power Trip- 100 What is the IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY?

Power Trip - 200 It has the major power to create, organize, and disband federal agencies.

Power Trip- 200 What is the Congress?

It is the Vice President’s only real legislative power. Power Trip- 300 It is the Vice President’s only real legislative power.

What is the power to break ties in Senate votes? Power Trip - 300 What is the power to break ties in Senate votes?

It has the power to impeach presidents. Power Trip - 400 It has the power to impeach presidents.

What is the House of Representatives Power Trip- 400 What is the House of Representatives

Power Trip - 500 Although President Clinton used one to restrict tobacco advertising to teenagers and President Bush used one to determine that terrorists are enemy combatants not covered by the Geneva Convention, the president’s power to issue these is NOT mentioned in the Constitution.

What are EXECUTIVE ORDERS? Power Trip - 500 What are EXECUTIVE ORDERS?

Compromising Positions - 100 Type of federal positions which are NOT appointed by the president

Compromising Positions - 100 What are CIVIL SERVICE jobs?

Compromising Positions - 200 He or she presides over the House of Representatives

Compromising Positions - 200 Who is the Speaker of the House?

Compromising Positions - 300 The president’s chief of staff, press secretary, and counsel work as a part of this.

Compromising Positions - 300 What is the White House Office?

Compromising Positions - 400 The secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the secretary of the treasury, and the attorney general

Compromising Positions - 400 Who are the members of the president’s “inner cabinet”?

Compromising Positions - 500 The president’s national security advisor and National Security Council are a part of this

Compromising Positions - 500 What is the Executive Office of the President?

Senatorial Courtesy - 100 A Senator can effectively prevent the Senate from voting on an issue by engaging in this

Senatorial Courtesy - 100 What is a filibuster?

Senatorial Courtesy - 200 Unlike his or her counterpart in the House of Representatives, he or she has the top leadership post

Who is the MAJORITY LEADER? Senatorial Courtesy - 200 Who is the MAJORITY LEADER?

Senatorial Courtesy - 300 The term “senatorial courtesy” refers to the fact that the president does not generally nominate anyone for this post within a state without the approval of that state’s senators

Senatorial Courtesy - 300 What is federal judge?

Senatorial Courtesy - 400 16 signatures & 60 votes (3/5)

Senatorial Courtesy - 400 The number of signatures required for a cloture petition and the number votes necessary to kill a filabuster by means of cloture

Senatorial Courtesy - 500 Three important nonlegislative congressional powers and responsibilities which are given exclusively to the Senate

Confirm presidential appointments Ratify all treaties Senatorial Courtesy - 500 What are the power to Confirm presidential appointments Ratify all treaties Try impeached officials

Act I - 100 According to the Presidential Succession Act, the number 2 and 3 in the line of official presidential succession

Act I - 100 Who are the speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate?

It set the merit system and established the Civil Service Commission Act I - 200 It set the merit system and established the Civil Service Commission

What is the Pendleton Act? Act I - 200 What is the Pendleton Act?

Act I - 300 Within 48 hours; Within 60 days unless congress declares war, okays deploy- ment, or grants a 30-day extension

Act I - 300 What are the time limits set forth by the War Powers Resolution for notifying Congress of deployment of troops and withdrawal of troops if Congress fails to approve?

Act I - 400 It checked presidential budgetary authority by establishing the Congressional Budget Office and precluding the sequestering of duly appropriated funds

What is the Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974? Act I - 400 What is the Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974?

Act I - 500 Passed in 1939, it forbade federal employees from running for public office, raising funds for candidates, or engaging in other party activities.

Act I - 500 What is the Hatch Act?

Just in Case - 100 U.S. v. Nixon Nixon v. Fitzgerald, and Clinton v. Jones have restricted and defined it.

What is executive privilege? Just in Case - 100 What is executive privilege?

Just in Case - 200 The 1877 Supreme Court decision in Munn v. Illinois gave significant power to government bureaucracies because it gave them this right

What is the right to regulate business? Just in Case - 200 What is the right to regulate business?

Just in Case - 300 Wesberry v. Sanders, the “one-man, one vote” decision addressed this problem, which resulted from demographic changes in the country caused by the industrial revolution

What is malapportionment? Just in Case? - 300 What is malapportionment?

Just in Case - 400 Easley v. Cromartie and Shaw v. Reno are Supreme Court cases which disallow this

What racial gerrymandering? Just in Case - 400 What racial gerrymandering?

Just in Case - 500 Passed in 1951, the 25th Amendment prescribes procedures just in case this or that happens.

Just in Case - 500 What is the president is disabled or a recuperated president wished to reclaim his job?

No-no’s! - 100 A 2/3 vote in each house

What is required for a veto override? No-no’s- 100 What is required for a veto override?

No-no’s! - 200 Conditions under which a bill which is not vetoed but not signed by the president passes

No-no’s! - 200 What happens to a bill that the president fails to sign within ten days while Congress is in session?

No-no’s- 300 It’s the technique that allows a president to kill legislation without “taking the heat” for killing the bill

No-no’s! - 300 What is a pocket veto?

Bills supporting stem-cell research and children’s health insurance No-no’s- 400 Bills supporting stem-cell research and children’s health insurance

What has President Bush vetoed? No-no’s! - 400 What has President Bush vetoed?

No-no’s!- 500 The Supreme Court rejected it as a violation of the principle of separation of powers in Clinton v. City of New York (1997)

What is the line-item veto? No-no’s!- 500 What is the line-item veto?