Chapter 11 Electronic Test (True and False)
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With the benefit of your textbook, supply the correct answer for each of the following questions in the space provided, then forward electronically. Insert a T for True, and F for False.
1. President Reagan's decisive reelection to a second term in 1984 marked the first time since 1956 that a president had been returned to office by the voters.
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2. Under the Constitution, the president appoints ambassadors and Supreme Court justices "with the advice and consent of both houses of Congress."
3. Although a president normally delegates most of his authority as commander in chief to his generals and admirals, he is not required to do so.
4. In 1952, the Supreme Court upheld President Harry Truman's right, as commander in chief, to seize the nation's steel mills in the face of a strike threat.
5. Often a foreign policy crisis may increase the public's support of the president's actions, at least in the short run.
6. The president has sole power to recognize or not to recognize foreign governments.
7. Active presidential participation in the legislative process has been evident since the late 1700s.
8. In a case concerning Richard Nixon's tapes of his White House conversations, the Supreme Court ruled that the doctrine of executive privilege must yield to the need for evidence in a criminal trial.
9. The cabinet as an organized body is not specifically provided for by law or in the Constitution.
10. In the twentieth century, through the 1996 presidential election, only three vice presidents had succeeded to the presidency through the death or resignation of an incumbent president, or by election.
11. Ronald Reagan was the first president to have a "kitchen cabinet" of informal advisers.
12. As a result of his attempt to cover-up the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon was impeached by the House of Representatives and convicted in a Senate trial.
13. The only officials of the American government elected by all the people are the president and the vice president.
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Chief Justice Richard Barajas Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics Cathedral High School, El Paso, Texas Last updated: July 25, 2000
