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What does EOP stand for?
Executive Office of the Presidency
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What are the 4 categories of the Bureaucracy?
- - The Cabinet
- - Independent Regulatory Agencies
- - The Government Corporations
- - Independent Executive Agencies
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What is the benefit of duplication?
It keeps any one agency from being to powerful over a cetain issue.
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What is duplication?
Giving one job to more than one agency
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How does Congress serve as a "check" on the bureaucracy?
- -Authorization
- -Hearings
- -Rewriting Legislation
- -Duplication
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How do agencies apply and enforce their rules?
- - Fining those who do not follow their rues
- -Administrative procedures
- - In Court
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How does the bucreaucracy regulate buisnesses?
- 1.) Recieves grant of power from Congres to sketch out the means of executing broag policy decisions
- 2.) Agency develops a set of guidelines to govern and industry
- 3.)Agency applies and enforces its rules and guidelines
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What are the implied powers of the President?
- executive agreements- executive orders
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What powers does the President share with the Senate?
- -make treaties with foreign governments
- -appoints leaders/ judges/ cabinet members
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What are the Constitutional Powers of the President?
- - approve or veto laws
- - make state of the union address's
- -commander-in-cheif
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What is the precedent of Munn v Illinois?
The government has the right to regulate buisness.
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What is the precedent of Clinton v Jones?
Civil suits against the chief executive do not distract him from his presidential duties
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Why are line item vetos unconstitutional?
Because they invaid the legislations power in making laws; inteferes with seperation of powers
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What is the Precedent established by US v Nixon?
There is no privilege that makes the president immune to judicial proceedings
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What is the presedent set by Nixon v. Fitzgerald?
The President cannot be sued for damages related to official decisions while in office
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Descirbe the Impeachment process
- - Accused by the House
- - Troed by the Senate
- -Decides guilt or innocence
- (If the President is on trial the Supreme court resides over the case)
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What is the Budget Reform and Impoundment Act of 1974?
The act that requires the President to spend all funds appropriated by Congress unless Congress approves of impoundment.
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What are the two Presidential Characters?
- - active v passive inclinations
- -negative v positive points of veiws
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What are the 7 differences between the President and the Prime Minister?
- The Prime Minister..
- - selected by the legislature
- - elected by the members of the legislature
- - party leader- chosen by the majority party in Parliment
- - Holds power in Parliment until the party decides to remove him/her or if the party loses the majority
- - Represents the majority party
- -Strong party discipline
- - Has national experience in the legislature.
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Whats the difference between a divided and united government?
- A divided government is one where the party that controls the White House doesnt control one or both houses in Congress
- A united government is one where the same party conrtrols the White House and both houses of Congress.
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What does the 12th Ammendment say?
The President and Vice President run together as one "slate"
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What does the 25 Ammendment say?
What do do if the President is deemed disabled by the Vice President and Congress
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What does the 22nd Ammendment say?
Tje president cn only run for two teerms, or 10 years
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How can special interest groups "check" the bureaucracy?
- They can check the bureacracy through
- -giving money to the president
- -freedom of expression
- -right to peaceful assembly
- -right to petition
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How does the Court "check" the bureaucracy?
They can deem the regulations the bureacracy sets constittional or unconstitutional
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How does Congress check the bureaucracy?
It appropriates funds to make sure the bureacracy is doing what it is supposed to
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What does the OPM do?
The office of Personal Management admisiters service laws, rules, and regulations
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What are ways that federal government can reduce bureaucracies?
- - Devolution
- -Privatization
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What power does Congress have over agencies?
To create, organize, and disband agencies.
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When was the general shape of the bucreaucracy formed>
During the Depression and WWII
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What groups make up the iron triangle?
- Congressional Committees
- Agencies
- Interest groups
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Who appropriates and authorizes the funds?
Congress
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Who dominates agencies?
Lifetime bureacrats who have worked for no other agency
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When does the bureacracy grow?
When the economy is falling
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What is an equllibrium price?
When the price of the consumer and the producer meet; achieved through subsides.
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What are subsides?
Grants that do not have to be payed off
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What is red tape?
the maze of government rules, regulations, and paperwork
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What are appropriations?
Money formally set aside for specific use
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What are issue networks?
People in interest groups who regularyl debate on an issue
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What is the difference between majority v. plurality in the elctoral college?
- - In a majority the candidate has to win the majority of the electoral votes
- - In plurality the cadidate has the most amount of votes (popular vote)
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What are the qualifications of the President/
- - 35 years of age
- - resident of the US for 14 years
- - Born in the US
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How does the President have a say in forgein policy?
- -executive agreements
- -making treaties
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How does Congress have a say in forgein policy?
- -Approve treaties
- -Appropriate funds
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What is the spoils sytem?
A system where people with very little knowledge and background are appointed high government posistions
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What is the Pendleton Act?
Switched from patronage to merit system
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What is the Hatch Act?
Government employess, once hired, cannot have much of a part in political parties
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