Study Packet Questions.

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Duties of the President

1. What are the duties of the President? (There are 7.)

2. Who can the President appoint? 

3. Who does the President need to make a treaty?

 

 

4. What is a pardon?

 

 

5. What is the most important duty of the president?

 

 

 

Constitutional Powers

1. The writers of the Constitution wanted what kind of executive?

 

 

2. This executive had to be able to do what three things?

 

 

3. Where are details about the presidency found in the Constitution?

 

 

4. What are implied powers?

 

 

 

5. Implied powers are demonstrated through _______________   ___________________.

 

6. Thomas Jefferson used his implied powers to…

 

 

 

7. Lincoln used his implied powers to…

 

8. FDR used his implied powers to…

 

 

 

 

9. What is a mandate?

 

 

 

10. How can the legislature keep a check on the president? (Four things)

 

 

 

11. How can the judiciary keep a check on the president?

 

 

12. Explain your answer for #12. (What is it?)

 

 

 

13. How can public opinion keep check on the president?

 

 

14. The Vice President presides over which house of Congress?

 

 

15. What are the duties of the Vice President?

 

 

 

 

Qualifications for the Presidency

1. What are the qualifications listed in the Constitution?

 

 

 

2. What else is realistically needed?

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. What has been a coincidental characteristic of most presidents?

 

 

4. Draw the political scale and label it. (What does each letter stand for?)

 

 

 

 

 

5. Where should you stand on most major issues when running for president?

 

 

 

The Order of Succession

1. Which Amendment is this?

 

 

2. This amendment was established after how many presidential deaths in office?

 

 

 

3. Who were these presidents?

 

 

 

4. This amendment first applied in what year?

 

 

5. Describe this scenario.

 

 

 

 

6. What is the order of succession?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Roles of the President

1. What are the seven roles of the president?

 

 

 

 

2. Describe the president’s role as head of state.

 

 

 

 

3. Describe the president’s role as chief diplomat.

 

 

 

 

4. Describe the president’s role as chief legislator.

 

 

 

5. Describe the president’s role of economic planner.

 

 

 

6. Describe the president’s role as party leader.

 

 

 

7. Describe the president’s role as chief executive.

 

 

 

8. Describe the president’s role as commander-in-chief.

 

 

 

9. Who is the State of the Union address for?

 

 

 

10. So why is it on TV?

 

 

 

11. Who does the president meet with as commander-in chief?

 

 

12. What is an executive order?

 

 

 

13. What is an executive agreement?

14. What is impoundment?

 

 

15. What are the powers gained by the president as chief executive?

 

 

 

 

 

16. What are the president’s legislative tools?

 

 

 

17. What is diplomatic recognition?

 

 

 

18.  What is party patronage?

 

 

 

19. What is a veto?

 

 

 

20. Give an example of a political favor?

 

 

21. What is NOT included in political favors?

 

 

22. What is a pocket veto?

 

 

 

23. What essentially happens to a law when it is pocket vetoed?

 

 

24. What are the powers gained by the president as chief diplomat?

 

 

 

25. What are the powers gained by the president as commander-in-chief?

 

 

 

26. Does the president alone have the power to make war?

 

 

27. The president is the head of which branch of government?

 

 

28. The president is also the leader of his/her ________________  _________________.

 

Political Parties

1. What are the two major political parties that exist today?

 

 

2. Have the always existed?

 

 

3. What is a political party?

 

 

4. Describe the One Party System. (How many parties are there? Who makes decisions? Where can this system by found?)

 

 

 

5. What is a theocracy?

 

 

 

6. What is the most common party system?

 

 

7. Where in the world can it be found?

 

 

8. The parties within this system represent what?

 

 

9. What’s the problem with this system?

 

 

10. What is a coalition government?

 

 

 

11. Describe how one could be set up.

 

 

12. Do you recall the example from class? Where did the example take place? Who was involved?

 

 

 

13. Describe the Two Party System. (How many parties are there? Who makes decisions? Where can this system by found?)

 

 

 

 

14. What is a third party?

 

 

15. What are the foundations of third parties?

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c)

 

 

 

16. How many political parties did the US start out with?

 

17. Who warned the US about political parties?

 

 

18. How many parties would form after the first presidency?

 

 

19. These parties were…

 

 

20. What did each stand for/what did they want?

 

 

21. Who represented each party?

 

 

22. Which of these parties splits in the 1820s?

23. What parties exist now?

 

 

24. At this point, who represents the Democrats?

 

25. Which party splits in the 1850s?

 

 

26. What parties exist now?

 

 

27. Why is there a split in the 1850s?

 

 

 

28. Which parties merge together?

 

 

29. Which party holds office until the 1930s?

 

 

30. Who gets elected in 1932?

 

 

31. Which party does he belong to?

 

 

32. Explain the party shift that happened around this time.

 

 

 

33. Who takes the White House in 1968?

 

 

34. What happened in 1973? (This was the first time that….)

 

 

35. Six of the next nine presidents belong to which party?

 

 

36. Who gets elected in 1992?

 

 

37. He belongs to which political party?

 

 

38. What happens in 1995? Why is this significant?