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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