Chapter 9

Question 1

Tax on the sale of goods produced within the United States

Answer 1

Excise tax

Question 2

Spending projects that a congressman works to get for his/her district that will benefit the people of the district but are actually designed to help them get re-elected

Answer 2

Pork-barrel

Question 3

Their primary power is to make laws

Answer 3

Congress

Question 4

Tax on an import

Answer 4

Duty

Question 5

This amendment created income tax

Answer 5

Sixteenth amendment

Question 6

Three ways that congress conducts this entitlements, borrowing, and guaranteed loans

Answer 6

Back door

Question 7

This has value only because the national government says it does

Answer 7

Fiat money

Question 8

They were granted citizenship in 1924

Answer 8

Native Americans

Question 9

This amendment granted the District of Columbia three electoral votes

Answer 9

Twenty third amendment

Question 10

All federal judicial appointments are subjects to this by the senate

Answer 10

Confirmation

Question 11

This is where all revenue bills originate

Answer 11

House of Representatives

Question 12

This a federal government power to regulate interstate commerce

Answer 12

Gibbons vs. Ogden

Question 13

Reaction into this event cause the war powers act of 1973

Answer 13

Vietnam war

Question 14

Government compensation programs that congress has protected by law

Answer 14

Entitlements

Question 15

Constitutional powers not withheld from the states but are withheld from the national government

Answer 15

Reserved powers

Question 16

Requires a person to testify before a congressional committee

Answer 16

Subpoena

Question 17

Time limits are placed on patents and copyrights to avoid these

Answer 17

Monopolies

Question 18

To what event was the war powers act of 1973 a reaction ?

Answer 18

The Vietnam war

Question 19

Why is there a time limit on patents and copyrights?

Answer 19

To avoid monopolies

Question 20

How many justices are on the Supreme Court today?

Answer 20

Nine

Question 21

Which Supreme Court case confirmed the federal government power to regulate interstate commerce?

Answer 21

Gibbon vs. Ogden

Question 22

What term is used for government compensation programs that congress has protected by law?

Answer 22

Entitlements

Question 23

What term means a document that requires a person to testify before congressional committee?

Answer 23

Subpoena

Question 24

How many times has the House of Representatives chosen the president?

Answer 24

Two

Question 25

What is a tax on import goods called?

Answer 25

Duty

Question 26

What constitutional powers are not withheld from the states but are withheld from the national government?

Answer 26

Reserved powers

Question 27

All federal judicial appointments are subject to a process by the senator?

Answer 27

Conformation

Question 28

List three ways congress conducts "backdrop spending"

Answer 28

Entitlements, borrowing, and guaranteed loans

Question 29

Which amendment created the income tax?

Answer 29

Sixteenth

Question 30

Which amendment granted three electoral votes to the District of Columbia?

Answer 30

Twenty third

Question 31

Essay question: define "pork barrel politics" and "back door spending" and explain why they are detrimental to the people and government of the United States

Answer 31

Pork-barrel politics involves spending projects that a congressman works to get for his district that will benefit the people of the district but that are actually designed to help him get re-elected. Backdoor spending is that which is immune from budget cuts. It includes such things as entitlements, borrowing, and guaranteed loans.

Question 32

Essay question: Discuss the military powers of congress.

Answer 32

Congress defines and punishes piracy. It also has powers that include anything necessary for the defense of the country, which requires raising, equipping, funding, and maintaining all branches of the armed forces. Only congress has the power to declare war