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AP GOVERNMENT
Chapter 13 : The Presidency
1. What are the two contradictory expectations or beliefs that Americans have about the
presidency ?
2. Outline the procedure for removing a president from office .
3. Read Table 13.3 on the constitutional powers of the President.
Choose the one constitutional power from each category that YOU believe to be most
important.
a. National Security Powers :
b. Legislative Powers:
c. Administrative Powers:
d. Judicial Powers:
4. Describe two ways in which the power of the president has expanded from its constitutional
base.
a.
b.
5. What is the cabinet and what does it do?
6. List and explain the function of the three major policymaking bodies of the Executive Office.
a.
b.
c.
7. What is the difference between a hierarchical organization and a wheel-and-spokes system of
White House management?
8. What is the difference between a veto, a pocket veto, and a line-item veto?
a. Veto:
b. Pocket veto:
c. Line-item veto
9. Explain what is meant by the term “presidential coattails.”
10. What are the two indicators of public support for the president?
11. What is meant by the president’s “honeymoon period?”
12. What is the difference between an executive agreement and a treaty?
13. What are the main provisions of the War Powers Resolution?
14. Why is the president more equipped to handle a crisis than Congress?
15. What are the “two presidencies?
16. What is the role of the president’s press secretary?
17. In what ways are the press biased in their coverage of the president?
18. In what ways is the institution of the presidency undemocratic?
19. How does the presidency increase and decrease the scope of government?
20. What are the formal qualifications for the presidency?
21. Describe the content of the 22nd Amendment.
22. Describe the content of the 25th Amendment.
23. What are the formal duties of the Vice President?
24. What was meant by the statement “I am the Vice President. In that, I am nothing, but I could be
everything.”
25. What was the impact of the Watergate scandal on the presidency?
AP US Government
Chapter 15 : The Federal Bureaucracy
1. List four prevalent myths about bureaucracy.
a.
b.
c.
d.
2. What is the difference between patronage and the merit principle?
3. What is the purpose of the Hatch Act?
4. What are some of the common characteristics of the plum book appointees?
5. List five elements of the Weberian model of bureaucracy.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
6. What are the four basic types of agencies in the federal executive branch?
a.
b.
c.
d.
7. Explain the relationship between interest groups and independent regulatory agencies.
8. What are the three biggest independent executive agencies?
a.
b.
c.
9. What are the advantages of using standard operating procedures?
10. What was the significance of Munn v. Illinois (1877)?
11. How might the president control the bureaucracy?
12. How might Congress control the bureaucracy?
13. Explain the difference between an iron triangle and an issue network.
Identify :
Pendleton Civil Service Act:
Office of Personnel Management:
GS (General Schedule) rating:
Street-level bureaucrats:
Regulation:
Deregulation:
Command and control policy:
Incentive system:
Executive orders: