Chapter 6

Question 0

Exclusive right to use or sell an invention

Answer 0

Patent

Question 1

Yearly financial plan of the federal government

Answer 1

National budget

Question 2

Proposed laws to spend money

Answer 2

Revenue bill

Question 3

To formally accuse a federal official

Answer 3

Impeachment

Question 4

Fighting between two sides and nothing gets accomplished

Answer 4

Gridlock

Question 5

Name for legislation that helps one region of the nation

Answer 5

Porkbarrel

Question 6

Freedom from prosecution

Answer 6

Immunity

Question 7

Power of president to refuse to spend money on programs already voted on by congress

Answer 7

Impoundment

Question 8

Right to publish or sell written, musical or artistic work

Answer 8

Copyright

Question 9

All activities concerning trade

Answer 9

Commerce

Question 10

Total amount of money that our government owes

Answer 10

Public debt

Question 11

Requires a person to appear in court

Answer 11

Subpoena

Question 12

Requires presidents to tell congress before they made certain actions

Answer 12

Legislative veto

Question 13

Name for necessary and proper clause

Answer 13

Elastic clause

Question 14

Requires a prisoner be brought to court and shown why he is being held in jail

Answer 14

Writ of habeas corpus

Question 15

Law that sentences personal jail without granting the right of a trial

Answer 15

Bills of attainder

Question 16

Legal proceedings in distributing the assets of business that can’t pay their debts

Answer 16

Bankruptcy

Question 17

Power of congress to check if it’s laws are being carried out

Answer 17

Legislative oversight

Question 18

This makes an act a crime that wasn’t illegal when it was committed

Answer 18

Ex post facto law

Question 19

1st president to be impeached

Answer 19

Andrew Johnson

Question 20

2nd president to be impeached

Answer 20

Bill Clinton

Question 21

1st president to step down from the presidency

Answer 21

Richard Nixon

Question 22

This man lead the senate investigations to get rid of communists in congress, the media and universities

Answer 22

Joseph McCarthy

Question 23

Famous senate majority leader and later president who said “you only have 1 year to prove yourself to congress”

Answer 23

Lyndon Johnson

Question 24

President during the Great Depression that greatly increased presidential power

Answer 24

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 25

Which is not a power that is denied to congress

Answer 25

Suspending contempt of congress

Question 26

What is the most common way that congress borrows money

Answer 26

Sale of government bonds

Question 27

All are ways our government regulates the economy except

Answer 27

Slowing down inflation by cutting taxes

Question 28

How many declared wars has the US been in

Answer 28

5

Question 29

Who is the only one who can appropriate funds for fighting wars

Answer 29

Congress

Question 30

According to the War Powers Resolution, the president is required to inform congress within ____ of sending troops further than the scope of the action

Answer 30

2 days

Question 31

According to War Powers Resolution, if congress doesn't approve of the action within ______ the president has to remove troops

Answer 31

2 months

Question 32

What court case gave the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce

Answer 32

Gibbons vs Ogden

Question 33

What court case decided on a loose interpretation of the constitution

Answer 33

McCulloch vs Maryland

Question 34

McCulloch vs Maryland gave the federal government the right to use ______ powers

Answer 34

Implied

Question 35

Which was a declared war

Answer 35

Spanish-American

Question 36

After a president has been impeached, the trial takes place. What percentage is needed for removal

Answer 36

67%

Question 37

When treaties are being voted on, what percentage do they have to be accepted by or they will be rejected

Answer 37

67%

Question 38

After WWI what treaty was rejected

Answer 38

Versailles

Question 39

Who won the presidential of 1800 even though he didn't have the majority

Answer 39

Jefferson

Question 40

Which is not a result of congressional investigation

Answer 40

They receive a criminal sentence

Question 41

All are witnesses rights in congressional investigations except

Answer 41

People can't be punished for what they say in court

Question 42

All are reasons why there isn't a lot of legislative oversight except

Answer 42

Congress requires the agencies of the executive branch to submit reports so they can tell if they are doing their job already

Question 43

What percentage is needed for overriding a veto

Answer 43

67%

Question 44

Which is not an example of how congress used the commerce clause to expand their powers

Answer 44

Congress regulated the businesses that traded within a particular state

Question 45

3 things house does

Answer 45

1. Power to initiate revenue bills 2. Power to impeach federal officials 3. Power to choose the president when there is no majority

Question 46

3 things senate does

Answer 46

1. Power to ratify treaties 2. Power to approve federal appointees 3. Power to try officials already impeached

Question 47

3 reasons for conflict between president and congress

Answer 47

1. Different ideas 2. Organization of congress 3. Different timetables

Question 48

4 things the national emergency act of 1976 stated

Answer 48

1. President must declare a new state of emergency in order to use powers 2. President must inform congress before declaring state of emergency 3. President has to renew state of emergency every 6 months 4. Congress can end state of emergency by majority vote in both houses