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Which of the following statements is true of the president's veto power?
 
  A) If the president does not send a bill back to Congress after ten congressional working days, the bill is killed for that session of Congress.
  B) Congress can override a presidential veto with a two-thirds vote by the members present in each chamber.
  C) The president can override a congressional veto by a two-thirds majority vote from his or her political party.
  D) If the president signs a bill within ten congressional working days after the bill is submitted, the result is a pocket veto.
  E) The result of a presidential veto override by Congress is that the bill is reintroduced in the next session of Congress.

Question -2-

A pocket veto results if:
 
  A) the president does not send a bill back to Congress within ten congressional working days.
  B) the president sends a bill back to Congress after rejecting just one item in the bill on the grounds of constitutionality.
  C) Congress overrides a presidential veto with a two-thirds vote by the members present in each chamber within ten congressional working days.
  D) the president refuses to sign a bill and Congress adjourns within ten working days after the bill has been submitted to the president.
  E) Congress revises a bill after a presidential veto and the president approves the revised bill within ten congressional working days.

Question -3-

Which of the following amendments addresses the question of how the president should fill a vacant vice presidency?
 
  A) The Twenty-third Amendment
  B) The Twenty-fifth Amendment
  C) The Twenty-fourth Amendment
  D) The Tenth Amendment
  E) The Twentieth Amendment

Question -4-

The president's power to grant a pardon serves as a check on _____.
 
  A) gubernatorial power
  B) executive power
  C) legislative power
  D) bureaucratic power
  E) judicial power

Question -5-

Critics of the Obama administration believe that the czar system:
 
  A) is more suited to a socialist system of government.
  B) results in the loss of leverage of Congress.
  C) increases government expenditure.
  D) reduces governmental transparency.
  E) is against the Constitution's cabinet formation policies.

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