American Gov. 08
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- The nation\'s Founders envisioned Congress as the first and
- most powerful branch of government
- Trhoughout much of the 20th Century, Congress ceded leadership
- Presiden and the executive branch
- Even though the President is the \"Commander-in-Chief\' of the armed forces, only Congress can
- declare war
- Congress\' real power in both domestic and foreighn policy centers on its pwer over federal taxinga nd spending, also called the
- power of the purse
- The veto is the President\'s most powerful weapon when
- dealing with the Congress
- Congress passed the War Powers Act in 1973 to ______ the presidential war-making powers.
- limit
- Most policy initiatives originate in the
- White House and various departments of the executive branch
- To prevent Congress from passing bills they oppose, presidents may use
- the threat of a veto
- The constitution originally put _____ limits on the number of terms a president could serve.
- no
- The President\'s authority over the executive branch is constitutionally very
- vague
- The ______ is the single most important policy statement of any government.
- budget
- Government coporations resemble private corporations in that they typically
- charge for their services
- Despite the popular impression that policy is decided by the president and congress and merely implemented by the federal bureaucracy, in fact, policy is also made by the
- bureacracy
- The department that advises the President on the formation and execution of foreign policy is the Department of
- State
- The rule-making process for federal agencies, first passed in 1946, is prescribed by an
- Administrative Procedures Act
- In order to esetablish a system for selecting governmental personnel on merit, Congress pass the Pendleton Act in 1883, which created the
- Civil Service Commission
- The US Supreme Court is the only court established by the
- US Constitution
- Judicial self-restraint and activism are
- conflicting ideas
- Laws made by acts of Congress or state legislatures, as opposed to constitutional law are called
- statutory laws
- In the 1997 case of Clinton v. Jones, the Supreme Court
- rejected the notion of presidential immunity from civil claims arising from actions outside of the president\'s official duties
- The judicial principle which means that the issue has already been decided in earlier cases is known as
- stare decisis
- The power of a court to hear a case in question is a court\'s
- Jurisdiction
- The twelve appellant courts that make up the middle level of the federal court system are the
- circut courts
- People must create laws and governments to protect their freedom, bu the laws and governments themselves restrict freedom. This is the law
- Classic dilemma of free government
- The original intent of the bill of Rights was to limit the powers of
- Only the federal government
- Beginning in the 1920s, the Supreme Court handed down a long series of decisions that gradually incorporated almost all of the protections of the Bill of Rights into the \"liberty\" guaranteed against state actions by
- Teh Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment
- In interpreting religious freedom, the Supreme Court has distinquished between beliefs and ____________
- religious practices