The War Powers Resolution of 1973 has been found by the Supreme Court constitutional
a) true
b) false
b) false
__________ is a formal charge against an executive or judicial branch official by the House of Representatives.
a) indictment
b) arrest
c) impeachment
d) revocation
c) impeachment
Section 8, Clause 18, the Necessary and Proper Clause, is sometimes called the "elastic clause" because it allows actions not specifically named in the Constitution. Which might be an example of such an action?
a) Setting a new tax on imported goods
b) De
c) Buying territory to expand the boundaries of the United States
Which answer best completes the sentence....If a President is impeached, __________.
a) The President will go to jail
b) the courts decide what should happen next
c) Members of the House of Representatives can remove the President from office
d) the trial
d) the trial takes place in the Senate
Congress has unlimited taxing power
a) True
b) False
b) false
Which of the following is not a power of Congress?
a) to coin money
b) to regulate trade with other nations
c) to appoint judges
d) to raise and support a navy
c) to appoint judges
Liberal interpretation of the Constitution and allows Congress to have broad powers is considered a Liberal constructionist
liberal constructionist
Implied powers allow the federal government to adapt to changes in society and technology that the Framers couldn't have seen.
a) true
b) false
a) true
The actions taken by Congress to authorize the spending of funds is __________.
a) Impoundment
b) Appropriation
c) Authorization
d) Rejection
b) Appropriation
Congress should only use their expressed powers and any implied powers should be what is necessary to carry out expressed powers is considered a Strict constructionist
Strict constructionist
The act of lying under oath
a) acquit
b) censure
c) perjury
d) impeach
c) perjury
Congressional review of the activities of an agency, department, or office is called
a) advisory
b) investigation
c) oversight
c) oversight
Grants a person the sole right to manufacture, use or sell "any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof" (Good for 20 years)
a) perjury
b) acquit
c) patent
d) tax
c) patent
Congress has the power to create a national school
a) True
b) False
b) false
The United States has a unicameral legislature
a) True
b) False
b) False
Liberal Constructionist believes their should be open-minded interpretation of the Constitution and allow Congress to have broad powers.
Liberal Constructionist
Powers directly stated in the Constitution
a) inherent powers
b) commerce powers
c) implied powers
d) expressed powers
d) expressed powers
Legislatures now have a new oversight power called congressional reveiw.
a) True
b) False
a) True
The functions of Congress include
a) all of the above
b) overseeing and legitimizing
c) lawmaking and policy clarification
d) representation and consensus-building
a) all of the above
The House of Representatives plays a special oversight function through its ability to confirm key members of the executive branch and federal court appointees.
a) True
b) False
b) false
Any kind of money that a creditor must by law accept in payment for debts. (Currency Power - Expressed Power)
a) Legal Tender
b) Censure
c) Patent
d) Public Debt
a) Legal Tender
Which Supreme Court case is an example when the Necessary and Proper Clause was used in Congress.
a) Westbury v. Sanders
b) McCullough v. Maryland
c) Roe v. Wade
b) McCullough v. Maryland
The inherent power of the Federal Government to take private property for public use
a) inherent powers
b) eminent domain
c) direct tax
d) indirect tax
b) eminent domain
A legal order directing one to appear in court and/or to produce certain evidence
a) subpoena
b) sucessor
c) doctrine
d) patent
a) subpoena
To accuse and bring charges against
a) subpoena
b) tax
c) impeach
d) perjury
c) impeach