WGU C963 Exam Questions And Correct Answers Current Update
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WGU C963 Exam Questions And Correct Answers Current Update
What is the primary effect of the census on the functioning of congress - Answer -It is used to determine the number of House representatives for each state
What describes the purpose of Congressional appropriations committees - Answe...
WGU C963 Exam Questions And Correct
Answers Current Update
What is the primary effect of the census on the functioning of congress - Answer -It is
used to determine the number of House representatives for each state
What describes the purpose of Congressional appropriations committees - Answer -
They recommend how specific funds are allocated
Which power is assigned to the House under the Constitution - Answer -Originating
congressional spending bills
How does apportionment influence the make up of Congress? - Answer -It determines
the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives based on the equal proportions
methods
What is an example of checks and balances between executive and legislative
branches of government - Answer -The Senate must confirm the presidents supreme.
court nominees
Which president was impeached by the House of Representatives - Answer -Andrew
Johnson for firing his secretary of war
Which presidental power can be directly restricted by Congress - Answer -appointing
cabinet members
What is the general purpose of the president making recess appointments? - Answer -
To fill cabinet vacancies while bypassing senate approval
What is true about the U.S. court system? - Answer -It is a dual system with federal
court system and courts in each state
What describes the Supreme Court's use of judicial principle of stare decisis - Answer -
The Supreme Courts precedents are treated as established law
What was the significance of the supreme Courts ruling of McCulloch v Maryland -
Answer -It established a loose constructionist view of necessary and proper clause...
Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme court ruled that federal law
was stronger than state law
Which type of power is a states power to tax? - Answer -Concurrent
What is an example of state exercising its reserve power? - Answer -Establishing laws
to regulate businesses in the state
, What is an example of a state exercising a concurrent power? - Answer -Issuing bonds
to fund a infrastructure project
What is correct about Congress's oversight authority? - Answer -Oversight is not a
specifically enumerated power, but rather implied in Article 1
Enumerated power - Answer -Explicitly stated in the constitution
Implied power - Answer -not specifically detailed in the constitution but inferred as
necessary to achieve the objects of the national government ... oversight power of
congress... Based on the text
Inherent power - Answer -must be assumed to exist as a direct result of the countrys
existences.... outside the text
What is true about federal income tax - Answer -Federal income tax required the
ratification of a constitutional amendment after supreme court ruled that a previous
attempt to tax income was unconstitutional
What is the difference between congressional budget committees and appropriation
committees - Answer -While the budget committees set overall spending limits the
appropriation committees are responsible for recommending specific allocations of
funds
How has the Constitutions interstate commerce clause been interpreted? - Answer -
Very Broadly, forming the justification for much of the Congress's modern day economic
regulation
Who has the power related to war and peace - Answer -President and both houses of
Congress
Which of the following enumerated powers of Congress are generally regarded as
responses to weaknesses of national legislature under the Articles of Confederation? -
Answer -Power to regulate commerce
Exclusive power to coin money
Who argued for the creation of a very powerful presidency - Answer -Alexander
Hamilton
How did President Polk bring about a war with Mexico? - Answer -Ordered American
troops to occupy disputed territory in his capacity of commander-in-chief
Why did Andrew Jackson veto Congressional legislation? - Answer -He disagreed with
the content of the legislation
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