Executive Branch True/False Questions
1) The Framers envisioned a weaker presidency than the U.S. currently has.
2) The Articles of Confederation had a fairly powerful executive.
3) The president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States.
4) Although governors have the power to pardon, the president does not.
5) A president can serve for a maximum of eight years.
6) The House of Representatives has the power to impeach a president. Impeachment trials
occur in the Senate.
7) In U.S. v. Nixon, the Supreme Court ruled that the president has nearly unlimited executive
privilege.
8) If the vice presidency is vacant, the president appoints a new vice president, subject to the
approval of two-thirds of the Senate.
9) Presidents can have a long-range influence on American government through their federal
court appointments.
10) During George W. Bushʹs first term in office, he did not appoint any women or minorities to
major positions in his administration.
11) Most of a presidentʹs Cabinet nominees are successfully confirmed by the Senate.
12) The president has the power to convene Congress on ʺextraordinary Occasions.ʺ
13) At the end of World War I, the Senate confirmed the Treaty of Versailles and the United States
joined the League of Nations.
14) Treaties are more commonly used than executive agreements.
15) Most presidential vetoes are overridden by Congress.
16) President George W. Bush has used the line-item veto frequently in order to reduce the
amount of pork included in Democratic spending measures.
17) The vice president serves as Commander in Chief of the armed forces.
18) According to the War Powers Act, the president is prohibited from engaging troops in combat
without a congressional declaration of war.
19) As a check on the judicial branch, the president has the authority to pardon those accused or
convicted of a federal crime.
20) Crises have often triggered expansions of presidential power.
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