Assignment:
QUESTION 1. Article III of the Constitution creates the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Circuit Courts and the Federal District Courts.
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QUESTION 2. Under the Constitution, the president has the power to declare war.
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QUESTION 3. Administrative agencies pass laws known as "regulations."
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QUESTION 4. All bills for taxation must begin in the House of Representatives before going to the Senate.
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QUESTION 5. President Trump is responsible for appointing Supreme Court Justices ,while Governor Beshear appoints judges to the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
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QUESTION 6. Under the original Constitution, presidents were limited to 2 terms.
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QUESTION 7. A federal district court judge is free to completely disregard the decision of an administrative law judge, since the federal district court judge is a higher rank.
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QUESTION 8. Under the original Constitution, senators were appointed by state legislatures.
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QUESTION 9. Both senators and members of the House of Representatives serve four-year terms.
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QUESTION 10. Only the Senate confirms presidential appointments to the cabinet; the House has nothing to do with it.
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QUESTION 11. If the president vetoes a bill, the veto can be overriden with a simple majority of both houses of Congress.
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QUESTION 12. The Democratic Party dominated the federal government from 1931 to 1981.
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QUESTION 13. The Constitution provides that presidents may exercise "executive orders."
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QUESTION 14. Legislation passed by Congress is automatically reviewed by the courts to make sure that it is constitutional.
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QUESTION 15. A Constitutional amendment has eliminated the Electoral College.
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QUESTION 16. The 3/5 Clause provided that slaves' votes would count 3/5 in federal elections.
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QUESTION 17. Federal judges may serve for life unless they are impeached and convicted.
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QUESTION 18. The 14th Amendment provides that anyone born in the United States is a citizen of the United States.
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QUESTION 19. Administrative agencies are created by the Constitution's Article IV.
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QUESTION 20. Under the Constitution, states are required to conduct elections to award their electoral votes.
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QUESTION 21. Since 1981, divided government has been the rule, rather than the exception.
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QUESTION 22. The president can fire most employees of the federal government if they don't share his political beliefs.
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QUESTION 23. The Democratic Party was the first "modern" political party and was created during the Age of Jackson.
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QUESTION 24. The Republican Party dates from the 1850's.
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QUESTION 25. The federal government heavily regulated the American economy throughout most of the 19th Century.
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QUESTION 26. The president has the authority to fire the head of all administrative agencies.
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QUESTION 27. The biggest problem with the Articles of Confederation was that it created a too-strong central government.
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QUESTION 28. Constitutionally, the VIce-President of the United States is the President of the Senate.
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QUESTION 29. Congress has not declared war since World War II.
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QUESTION 30. Both the House and the Senate must ratify a treaty by a 2/3 vote before it takes effect.
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QUESTION 31. Explain the concept of enumerated powers as it relates to the Constitution.
QUESTION 32. Discuss the importance of the 14th Amendment
QUESTION 33. Discuss the specific problems with the Articles of Confederation
QUESTION 34. Explain the 1964 Civil Rights Act
QUESTION 35. As one of the drafters of the Constitution of 1787, you are happy to discover that time travel has been invented, and a time machine can take you to the year of your choice. You choose 2020, because you're curious as to how the government you helped design has turned out 233 years later. You show up at Mock's United States Government Class in Morehead, Kentucky. There you learn about the current American National Government. You are told that the Constitution you helped draft is still being used today. What pleases you (if anything)? What surprises you (if anything)? What disappoints you (if anything)? Explain. Take your time and be very thorough.
QUESTION 36. Discuss the history of the United States Government's regulation (or lack thereof) of the economy, including but not limited to, taxes and spending.
QUESTION 37. Discuss the history of parties in the United States, including the major ones, their creation, their eras of dominance, what the founders did or didn't do about them, and the extent of the dominance of the two major parties today.
QUESTION 38. Discuss the role and importance of Administrative agencies in depth, including (but not limited) to where they get their power and their reason for existence.
QUESTION 39. Discuss the office of the presidency - including its creation and its powers, discussing also particularly the criticism that the office has become too powerful (hint: don't tell me that the presidential pardon suggests the office has become too powerful; they've had that power since the beginning).
QUESTION 40. Discuss, in detail the reason why we broke away from England and had to form our own government.
QUESTION 41. Discuss voting in America in detail. Who could vote in the early years, and who said so? Have voting rights expanded in America? How and why? Have there been any impediments to voting, even after we thought voting rights had been secured? Has Congress taken any action to protect voting rights?