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Which strategydo presidents pursue when they have just claimed a power that neither Congress nor the courts have endorsed?
 
  A) They act as if no new powers are being claimed at all.
  B) They vocally challenge Congress to stop them from claiming this new authority.
  C) They hold a public ceremony in the Rose Garden to rally public opinion behind them.
  D) They bring the matter before the Supreme Court so the Court can rule on the constitutionality of the matter.

Question -2-

Which situation best illustrates the principles of wartime jurisprudence?
 
  A)The Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding the suspension of habeas corpus.
  B)Public support for Roosevelt immediately spiked following the Pearl Harbor attacks.
  C)The United States was tried in the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes.
  D)The Supreme Court relied on international law in ruling against a president's wartime actions.

Question -3-

Which statement is an institutional explanation for the rise of public appeals by presidents?
 
  A)Presidents are becoming more charismatic, which increases their likeability and the responsiveness of the public to their message.
  B)Presidents are becoming more dependent on political elites, who always advise them to go public to advance the political message of the party.
  C)The importance of political elites has declined, and thus presidents cannot remain isolated but must appeal to a diversity of interest groups and political actors.
  D)Presidential power has grown so much that it now dominates the political world, making all other actors irrelevant.

Question -4-

What strategy was deployed by Obama to corral Democratic votes in Congress to pass the Affordable Care Act?
 
  A)He called on liberal Internet bloggers to pressure their representatives to support the act.
  B)He threatened to oust opponents of the act from their committee positions in Congress.
  C)He pledged to actively campaign against any Democrat in Congress who opposed to the act.
  D)He intimated that opponents would be ineligible for financial support from the party.

Question -5-

Which statement best describes attempts by presidents to increase their power?
 
  A) Presidential power grabs are lavishly orchestrated public events.
  B) Presidential power grabs attempt to make broad and sweeping policy changes.
  C) Presidential power grabs are often couched in conciliatory and incremental terms.
  D) Presidential power grabs are always the result of changes to the institutional nature of the presidency through constitutional amendments and public pressure.

Question -6-

When did scholars do their most serious and sustained thinking about the relationship between war and presidential power?
 
  A)immediately following the Civil War
  B) right before the start of World War I
  C)at the beginning of the twentieth century
  D)in the mid-twentieth century

Question -7-

With respect to the media, the goal of Ronald Reagan's press team was to control __________.
 
  A)editorial content
  B) the number of stories
  C) what reporters said
  D) what people saw

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