The president's real ability to persuade Congress often rests on which of the following?
A) personal popularity of the president
B) the president's formal powers
C) the president's informal powers
D) the president's veto powers
E) his wife's appeal
Question -2-Which of the following is not a power that the president can utilize?
A) the power to veto congressional legislation
B) the power to invoke a pocket veto to stop legislation passed by Congress from becoming law
C) the power to invoke a line-item veto to stop legislation passed by Congress from becoming law
D) the power to invoke either the veto, the pocket veto, or the line-item veto to stop legislation passed by Congress from becoming law
E) none of the above
Question -3-When the Supreme Court ordered President Nixon to surrender certain tapes asked for by lower court authorities, it also recognized which of the following doctrines?
A) popular sovereignty
B) the doctrine of federal supremacy
C) the doctrine of executive privilege
D) the doctrine of eminent domain
E) concurrent powers
Question -4-When the president invokes the inherent right to withhold information from Congress, the doctrine that is being claimed is that of
A) executive privilege.
B) popular sovereignty.
C) eminent domain.
D) federal supremacy.
E) federalism.
Question -5-The president is performing the role of chief legislator when the president
A) delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress.
B) sends a comprehensive legislative package for solving the drug problem in the United States.
C) vetoes legislation because he thinks that it is too expensive.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.
Question -6-The president has the sole power to do which of the following when performing in the role of chief diplomat?
A) to oversee the operations of the United Nations
B) negotiate treaties and recognize a foreign government
C) negotiate treaties only with United Nations' approval
D) to only sign unilateral agreements
E) to only sign bilateral agreements
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