Assignment: American Government and Politics Final Examination
1. List all of the Article 2 powers that the president has
2. What legislative power does the president have?
3. What is an inherent power, define was it is and give one example of a president using inherent powers?
4. Governmental bureaucracies are different than private enterprise organizations, how are they different?
5. How are civil servants protected from political influence?
6. What authority do regulatory agencies such as the FEC have?
7. In what specific ways can the president influence the bureaucracy?
8. What does program implementation require of the agencies?
9. How can congress control the bureaucracy?
9b What does the concept of administrative discretion mean?
10. Explain the Doctrine of Judicial Review.
11. How does the supreme court decide to take a case?
12. When they rule they use the doctrine of Stare Decisis. What does this mean?
13. How many members of the court are needed to rule in your favor in win a case?
14. What are civil liberties, who are you protected from, is this positive or negative freedom?
15. Why didn't the bill of rights apply to state actions in our early history?
16. Explain what the long term process of selective incorporation did to the states
17. What amendment and clause now prevents states from violating the bill of rights?
18. What are civil rights and how do they differ from civil liberties?
19. What major piece of legislation prohibits employment and now housing discrimination?
20. What are the protected groups that the government and employers can't discriminate against?
21. After slavery was abolished, how did the courts interpret the equal protection clause, explain Plessy vs. Ferguson in your answer?
22. What did Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 call for in terms of equal protection?
23. What are the four stages of the policymaking model?
24. Why is policy making so difficult?