1. JEOPARDY #1 Ch 12-15

2. 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

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

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

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

6. Power Trip- 200
What is the Congress?

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. Compromising Positions - 100
What are CIVIL SERVICE jobs?

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

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

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

18. Compromising Positions - 300
What is the White House Office?

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

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

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

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

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

24. Senatorial Courtesy - 100
What is a filibuster?

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

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

27. 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

28. Senatorial Courtesy - 300
What is federal judge?

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

30. 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

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

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

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

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

35. 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

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

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

38. 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?

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

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

41. 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.

42. Act I - 500
What is the Hatch Act?

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

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

45. 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

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

47. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

58. No-no’s! - 300
What is a pocket veto?

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

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

61. 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)

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