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Powers of the Pres
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The Executive Organization
Organizations of the Bureaucracy
Reform and Rules
100
The authority vested in the president to fill a govenrnment office or position.
What is appointment power?
100
Decorating war heroes falls under this role of the president.
What is head of state?
100
These are the largest and smallest Executive Departments respectively.
What are Defense and Education?
100
This is the total number of Cabinet departments.
What is 15?
100
The term other than the spoils system that is used to describe the act of appointing political supporters to bureaucatic posts.
What is patronage?
200
A release from the punishment for a crime.
What is a pardon?
200
Under this role, the president is constitutionally bound to enforce the acts of Congress, the judgements of federal courts, and treaties signed by the US.
What is chief executive?
200
This is the place within the executive branch where one would find most of the president's key advisors.
What is the White House Office?
200
This is an agency outside the major executive departments charged with making and implementing rules and regulations.
What is an independent regulatory agency?
200
This piece of legislation established the Civil Service Commission.
What is the Pendleton Act?
300
This is the president's main role in the law-making process.
What is signing or vetoing legislation?
300
The president's role as commander in chief was checked by Congress in 1973 with the passage of this law.
What is the War Powers Act?
300
In the pyramid model of executive organization, this person would control access to the president.
Who is the Chief of Staff?
300
These are the two modern presidents most associated with the concept of deregulation.
Who are Reagan and Bush (43)?
300
This abolished the Civil Service Commission.
What is the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978?
400
President Franklin Roosevelt was using these powerws when he ordered an embargo on the shipment of weapons to two warring South American countries.
What are emergency powers?
400
As chief diplomat, the president first has to use this power before normal diplomatic relations can take place.
What is diplomatic recognition?
400
These are two of the three main functions of the Office of Management and Budget.
What is assisting the president in preparing the annual budget, clearing and coordinating departmental agency budgets, and supervising the administration of the federal budget.
400
AMTRAK and the US Postal Service are both examples of these.
What are government corporations?
400
This is what is required by the Government in the Sunsine Act.
What is conducting the business of committee-directed federal agencies in public session?
500
The president's power of executive privlige rests on this constitutional concept.
What is separation of powers?
500
This would have increased the president's power as chief legislator if not for Clinton v. New York.
What is the line-item veto?
500
This agency provides a link between the president's key foreign and military advisors and the president.
What is the National Security Council (NSC)
500
This is known as agency capture.
What is the act by which an industry being regulated by an agency gains direct or indirect control over agency personnel and decision makers?
500
This act prohibited federal employees from actively participating in the political management of campaigns.
What is the Hatch Act?