<p>Mr. Schaber AP Political Science Wilson Ch. 14 - The Presidency</p><p>Presidents and Prime Ministers 1) The popularly elected president is an ______invention. (368)</p><p>2) How long does a prime minister in a parliamentary system stay in power? (368)</p><p>3) True / False - Most presidents in U.S. history were members of Congress just before becoming president. (369)</p><p>4) Who usually gets chosen (by the president) as heads of cabinet-level departments in the U.S.? (369)</p><p>5) A prime minister's party (or coalition) ______has a majority in parliament, while a president's party (in the U.S.) ______does not have a congressional majority. (370)</p><p>Divided Government 6) Define 'divided government.' (370)</p><p>7) Define 'unified government.' (370)</p><p>8) What does the word 'gridlock' mean (in government terms). (371)</p><p>9) How do divided governments do compared to unified governments in regards to passing important laws, conducting important investigations, and ratifying significant treaties? (371)</p><p>10) Who has less ability to decide what laws get passed - a U.S. president or a British prime minister? (371)</p><p>11) Why is gridlock a necessary consequence of a system of representative democracy? (372)</p><p>The Evolution of the Presidency 12) True / False - The Founders all agreed about how to create the office of U.S. president. (372)</p><p>13) What were the issues discussed by the Founders in regards to the creation of the U.S. presidency? (372-373) 14) What is the electoral college? (373)</p><p>15) What amendment to the Constitution limited the U.S. president to two terms in office? (373)</p><p>16) True / False - The office of U.S. president was kept simple and modest during the years of the 'First Presidents.' (374-375)</p><p>17) How did Andrew Jackson change the U.S. presidency? (375-376)</p><p>18) What happened with Congress at the end of Andrew Jackson's second term? How long did this situation last? (377)</p><p>19) Who was the only president during this time of congressional dominance that broke new ground for presidential power? What did he do? (378)</p><p>20) Our popular conception of the president as the ______figure of national government, devising a ______program and ______a large staff of advisers, is very much a product of the ______era and of the ______role of government. (378)</p><p>21) Since the ______the presidency has been ______no matter who occupied the office and whether or not there was a ______. (378)</p><p>The Powers of the President 22) What article of the Constitution deals mostly with the power of the president? (379)</p><p>23) What are some of the powers the president alone can exercise? (379)</p><p>24) What are two powers the president shares with the Senate? (379)</p><p>25) What power does the president share with Congress as a whole? (379)</p><p>26) The president's authority as commander-in-chief has grown to encompass not simply the direction of the ______forces, but also the management of the ______and the direction of ______affairs as well. (379-380) 27) Where is the greatest source of presidential power found? (380)</p><p>The Office of the President 28) Where do the president's closest assistants have offices? (381)</p><p>29) When a president's subordinates report to him through a chain of command led by the chief of staff it is known as a ______structure. (381)</p><p>30) A ______structure is when several of the president's assistants report directly to him. (381)</p><p>31) When several subordinates, cabinet officers, and committees report directly to the president on different matters it is an ______structure. (381)</p><p>32) Typically, where are senior White House staff members drawn from? (383)</p><p>33) Agencies in the Executive Office report directly to the president but are not located in the White House. What is perhaps the most important agency in the Executive Office? (383)</p><p>34) What is (the president's) 'cabinet?' (384)</p><p>35) What is a great advantage the president has in making appointments to the Senate? (385)</p><p>Who Gets Appointed 36) True / False - The president knows all of the people he appoints to government positions. (385)</p><p>37) Of late a tendency has developed for presidents to place in their ______people known for their ______or administrative ______rather than for their political following. (386-387)</p><p>Presidential Character 38) Every president brings to the White House a distinctive ______, which affects the way the White House is organized and run. (388)</p><p>The Power to Persuade 39) The president must rely heavily on ______if he is to accomplish much. (390)</p><p>40) The president's persuasive powers are aimed at three audiences. What are they? (390) a) </p><p> b) c) </p><p>41) Presidents have made fewer and fewer ______remarks in the years since Franklin ______held office and have instead relied more and more on ______speeches from which political ______can be ______in advance. (390)</p><p>42) What is the 'bully pulpit?' (390)</p><p>43) It is true that a winning president will find that his party's strength in Congress ______. (391)</p><p>44) True / False - A president's popularity can have a big effect on how much of his program(s) Congress passes. (391)</p><p>45) When does a president's popularity tend to be the highest? (394)</p><p>The Power to Say No 46) What is meant by a president's 'veto message?' (394)</p><p>47) What is a 'pocket veto?' (394)</p><p>48) What happens to a bill that is not signed or vetoed within ten days while Congress is still in session? (395)</p><p>49) What is a 'line-item veto?' (395)</p><p>50) True /False - Presidents of the United States have line-item veto power. (395)</p><p>51) What has the Supreme Court said about 'executive privilege?' (396)</p><p>52) Federal courts have upheld the rule that the ______must spend, without delay for policy reasons, money that ______has appropriated. (397)</p><p>The President's Program 53) There are basically two ways for a president to develop a program. What are they? (397) a) </p><p> b) 54) What are four of the major constraints on a president's ability to plan a successful program? (398) a) </p><p> b)</p><p> c)</p><p> d)</p><p>55) What two key issues has every president in recent decades been forced to devote much of his time to? (399) a)</p><p> b)</p><p>56) True / False - Most presidents since 1928 have tried to change the structure of the executive department (their staffs, departments, and agencies) in one way or another. (400)</p><p>57) True / False - Congress has the power of legislative veto. (400)</p><p>Presidential Transition 58) About what percentage of presidents since George Washington have been elected to a second term? (401)</p><p>59) Through 2006, how many times has a vice president become president because of the death of his predecessor? (401)</p><p>60) What is the only official task of the vice president? (401)</p><p>61) Absent of a crisis, the vice president is, at best, only an ______to the president. (402)</p><p>62) According to the Twenty-fifth Amendment, what happens if the president declares that he is unable to perform the duties of his office? (402)</p><p>63) Also according to the Twenty-fifth Amendment, what does the vice president do when the president (his predecessor) dies or resigns? (402)</p><p>64) There is one other way - besides death, disability, or resignation - by which a president can leave office before his term expires, and that is by ______. (403) 65) What is impeachment, and how does the process work? (403)</p><p>66) How many presidents have been brought up on impeachment charges in U.S. history? How many were convicted by the Senate? (403)</p><p>67) President ______would surely have been impeached and removed from office, but he ______first. (403)</p><p>68) What is meant by a 'lame duck' politician? (404)</p><p>How Powerful Is The President? 69) What are three of the rules of thumb presidents use to deal with their political problems, and what does each rule mean? (406) a) </p><p> b) </p><p> c)</p>