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Chapter 12: The President

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz


This activity contains 21 questions.

	Presidential responsibilities, burdens, power, and impact have changed very little over the last 200 years.    True  False

	Early in American history, the presidency did not, by and large, dominate the political life of the nation.    True  False

	The federal government's expansion during the Franklin Roosevelt administration was due much more to the personal legislative skills of the president than to structural factors.    True  False

	The president is no longer expected to initiate public policy as he once was in the early years of the republic.    True  False

	Different presidents have used their chiefs of staff in different ways.    True  False

	Acting on agency requests, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) advises the president on how much the administration should propose to spend for each government program and where the money will come from.    True  False

	The Twenty-fifth Amendment states that if the vice-presidency becomes vacant, the president can nominate a new vice- president, who would take office upon confirmation by both houses of Congress.    True  False

	The president's cabinet is not mentioned in the Constitution.    True  False

	Members of the cabinet are advisors to the president but also represent their own constituencies, including permanent civil servants in their departments and organized interests served by their departments.    True  False

	The president has firm control over the executive branch of government; he can simply order departments and agencies to do something, and they will do it.    True  False

	Presidents rarely stoop to having to persuade other executive branch officials to follow the president's wishes.    True  False

	The structural constraints created by the Constitution provide for a cooperative environment between the president and Congress.    True  False

	Contrary to popular opinion, party control of the Congress has little at all to do with how successful a president is in getting his program passed.    True  False

	Presidential vetoes are seldom overridden.    True  False

	The Founders thought of the president as an elite leader, relatively distant from the people, interacting with Congress often but with the people only rarely.    True  False

	A basic trend in the presidency from the time of the founding of the United States to the present day is a significant increase in the closeness of the president to the general public, as leader and inspirer of ordinary citizens and as responder to the democratic representatives of the people.    True  False

	All presidents, especially since Franklin Roosevelt, have attempted to both shape and respond to public opinion by speaking directly to the people about policy. This is a marked change from the behavior of earlier presidents in American history.    True  False

	Only rarely does a modern president get badly out of touch with the public, so that the full power of public opinion is revealed.    True  False

	Presidential popularity varies little from month to month.    True  False

	Because presidents are so insulated, it is doubtful that organized interest groups exert any important kinds of influence on presidential policy.    True  False

	Changes in party control of the presidency produce significant changes in policy.    True  False

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