Powers of the President
The role of the President in regards to the Military.
What is the Commander-in-Chief
The President's veto power checks this branch of government.
What is the Legislative Branch
The federal Bureaucracy is part of this branch of the government.
What is the Executive Branch
This is a method Congress can use to check the Bureaucracy.
What are Congressional Oversight Hearings
This president considered himself a staunch Anti-Federalist
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This power allows the President to carry out the law or administer government without requiring an act of Congress.
What are Executive Orders?
The Senate has the power to check the President through the use of this process.
What is Advice and Consent
This part of the bureaucracy does not have to be approved by the Senate.
What is the Executive Office of the President
The President can check the Bureaucracy with this power.
What is the ability to fire Senate confirmed appointees at will.
This president’s lack of action during a time of national crisis would have been harshly judged by the author of Federalist 70
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Executive Privilege can be defined as...
What is the right to withhold information or their decision making process from another branch of government.
Three Presidents have undergone this check on the Presidency, which if successful would have removed them from office.
What is Impeachment
Known as "Secretaries", they lead these parts of the Bureaucracy.
What are Cabinet Departments
The Bureaucracy cannot fund their efforts without receiving this from Congress.
What is Appropriations/Authorization of Spending
John F. Kennedy faced a diplomatic crisis for bungling this invasion.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
By communicating with the general public to create support for legislation, the President is exercising an...
What is an informal power
This branch of government hears challenges to the legitimacy of executive orders.
What is the Judicial Branch
This depicts how Congress, Interest Groups, and the Bureaucracy come together to create policy.
What is the Iron Triangle
The FDA de-authorizing the use of Red-3 dye in food at the request of an advocacy group is these parts of the iron triangle interacting.
What is the Bureaucracy and Interest Groups
John Adams signed these acts into law, widely considered an overreach of his power and targeted members of the political opposition and immigrants
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The idea of a powerful president, exercising powers beyond those found in the Constitution, is called...
What is an Imperial Presidency
The 22nd Amendment serves as check on Presidential Power by...
What is creating a two-term limit
Delegated Discretionary Authority can be defined as...
What is the power to interpret legislation and create rules.
The Judicial branch can check the Bureaucracy by...
What is by taking cases that challenge regulations/rules made by the Bureaucracy.
This president expanded federal power by enforcing desegregation in schools
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
This document called for a strong executive who could lead the nation in times of crisis.
What is Federalist 70
This 1973 act of Congress limited the President's powers as Commander-in-Chief
What is the War Powers Act
The Bureaucracy's ability to enforce law and make rules can cause concerns about this aspect of government.
What is the separation of powers
This was an attempt by Congress to use a Presidential power to check the Bureaucracy.
What is the Legislative Veto.
This president created a policy of supporting democratic nations against communist ones, acting in the President’s role as chief diplomat.
Who is Harry Truman