Unit 2 AP Gov Test

Question 1

Constituencies

Answer 1

Senate looks over the whole state while the house is split into multiple districts with representatives for each

Question 2

Strict Interpretation of the Constitution

Answer 2

If it’s not in Article 1 section 8 it cannot happen

Question 3

Entitlement Spending

Answer 3

Tax breaks, Welfare programs

Question 4

Tax Revenues

Answer 4

Congress is in charge of setting the tax rate, how much money comes to the government, where the money comes from, how that money is collected

Question 5

Treaty ratification (senate)

Answer 5

official way to confirm something

Question 6

Executive Appointment Confirmation (Senate)

Answer 6

when the president provides a written nomination to the Senate, where it is read on the floor and assigned a number.

Question 7

Appropriations (starts in the house)

Answer 7

A law of Congress that provides an agency with budget authority.

Question 8

Party polarization

Answer 8

a fourth role for the legislature as the partisan (divided voting)

Question 9

Treaties (Subject to ratification in the senate)

Answer 9

The president negotiates treaties with foreign nations

Question 10

Chief Executive

Answer 10

the role of the president as head of the executive branch of the government

Question 11

Executive Order

Answer 11

Is a command to a particular agency, about how the law will be enforced under the president

Question 12

Executive privilege

Answer 12

what privacy does the president have in determining what he owes?

Question 13

22 Amendment

Answer 13

limits the president to 2 terms

Question 14

Whig Theory

Answer 14

these are the only formal power that the president has. Congress is the, leading branch. the president does what congress authorizes them to do.

Question 15

Stewardship Theory

Answer 15

the president is the only person that is singularly elected by the people. they are representatives of the speaker of the nation.

Question 16

War Time Power

Answer 16

The president’s great power can be found here

Question 17

Congressional power

Answer 17

if congress wants more/less courts, congress creates more/less courts

Question 18

Judicial Act of 1789

Answer 18

gave structure to the supreme court, the circuit court gave the court the power to date decisions.

Question 19

Hamilton federalist number 78

Answer 19

gave the courts an important mechanism to enforce their decision

Question 20

Justifiability

Answer 20

the court will only get involved in what is collected a justiciability cases

Question 21

Judiciary Act of 1801

Answer 21

they expanded the size of the federal judiciary