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JEOPARDY #1 Ch 12-15
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JEOPARDY #1Ch 12-15
POWER
TRIP
Compromising
PositionsSenatorial Courtesy
Act I Just in Case No-no’s!
100 100 100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500 500 500
Power Trip- 100
Term which refers to the expansion of the powers of the modern presidency during the
course of the 20th century
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?
Power Trip- 300
It is the Vice President’s only real legislative power.
Power Trip - 300
What is the power to break ties in Senate votes?
Power Trip - 400
It has the power to impeach presidents.
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.
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
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
Senatorial Courtesy - 500
What are the power to
1.Confirm presidential appointments
2.Ratify all treaties
3.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?
Act I - 200
It set the merit system and established the Civil Service
Commission
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
No-no’s- 400
Bills supporting stem-cell research and children’s health
insurance
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)
No-no’s!- 500
What is the line-item veto?
