GOVT 2305 EXAM 2 TEST BANK COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALREADY
PASSED RESOURCE
●● Cabinet
Answer: The formal body of presidential advisors who head the fifteen
executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of formal
advisors
●● Criminal law
Answer: a system of law concerned with the punishment of those who
commit crimes
●● Civil law
Answer: a non-criminal law
●● Department
Answer: Major administrative units with responsibility for a broad area
of government operations. Departmental status usually indicates a
permanent national interest in a particular govt function such as defense,
commerce, or agriculture
●● Deregulation
,Answer: A reduction in market controls such as (price fixing, subsidies,
or controls on who can enter the field) in a favor of market-based
competition
●● Discrimination
Answer: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of
people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex
●● Executive-congressional agreement
Answer: An accord made by joint authority of the Congress and the
president covering areas of International Law that are not within the
ambit of treaties.
Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not
require the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate
●● Executive order
Answer: Rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of
law. All executive orders must be published in the Federal Register.
●● Fiscal policy
Answer: The deliberate use of the national government's taxing and
spending policies to maintain economic stability
●● Freedom of Information Act (1966)
, Answer: provides that any person has the right of access to federal
agency records or information.
●● Independent executive agency
Answer: Government units that closely resemble a cabinet department
but have narrower areas of responsibility and perform services rather
than regulatory functions
●● Independent regulatory commission
Answer: An entity created by congress outside a major executive
department
●● legislative initiative
Answer: The constitutionally defined power to propose a new law (bill)
●● logrolling
Answer: Veto trading; voting to support a colleague's bill in return for a
promise of future support
●● mandate
Answer: A command, indicated by an electorate's votes, for the elected
officials to carry out a party platform or policy agenda
●● national security council
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALREADY
PASSED RESOURCE
●● Cabinet
Answer: The formal body of presidential advisors who head the fifteen
executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of formal
advisors
●● Criminal law
Answer: a system of law concerned with the punishment of those who
commit crimes
●● Civil law
Answer: a non-criminal law
●● Department
Answer: Major administrative units with responsibility for a broad area
of government operations. Departmental status usually indicates a
permanent national interest in a particular govt function such as defense,
commerce, or agriculture
●● Deregulation
,Answer: A reduction in market controls such as (price fixing, subsidies,
or controls on who can enter the field) in a favor of market-based
competition
●● Discrimination
Answer: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of
people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex
●● Executive-congressional agreement
Answer: An accord made by joint authority of the Congress and the
president covering areas of International Law that are not within the
ambit of treaties.
Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not
require the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate
●● Executive order
Answer: Rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of
law. All executive orders must be published in the Federal Register.
●● Fiscal policy
Answer: The deliberate use of the national government's taxing and
spending policies to maintain economic stability
●● Freedom of Information Act (1966)
, Answer: provides that any person has the right of access to federal
agency records or information.
●● Independent executive agency
Answer: Government units that closely resemble a cabinet department
but have narrower areas of responsibility and perform services rather
than regulatory functions
●● Independent regulatory commission
Answer: An entity created by congress outside a major executive
department
●● legislative initiative
Answer: The constitutionally defined power to propose a new law (bill)
●● logrolling
Answer: Veto trading; voting to support a colleague's bill in return for a
promise of future support
●● mandate
Answer: A command, indicated by an electorate's votes, for the elected
officials to carry out a party platform or policy agenda
●● national security council
