WGU C963 AMERICAN POLITICS AND US CONSTITUTION
2024 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS...ALREADY PASSED!!!
What is the primary effect of the census on the functioning of congress - (correct answer) It is
used to determine the number of House representatives for each state
What describes the purpose of Congressional appropriations committees - (correct answer)
They recommend how specific funds are allocated
Which power is assigned to the House under the Constitution - (correct answer) Originating
congressional spending bills
How does apportionment influence the make up of Congress? - (correct 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 - (correct answer) The Senate must confirm the presidents supreme. court
nominees
Which president was impeached by the House of Representatives - (correct answer) Andrew
Johnson for firing his secretary of war
Which presidental power can be directly restricted by Congress - (correct answer) appointing
cabinet members
What is the general purpose of the president making recess appointments? - (correct answer)
To fill cabinet vacancies while bypassing senate approval
What is true about the U.S. court system? - (correct 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 - (correct answer)
The Supreme Courts precedents are treated as established law
What was the significance of the supreme Courts ruling of McCulloch v Maryland - (correct
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? - (correct answer) Concurrent
What is an example of state exercising its reserve power? - (correct answer) Establishing
laws to regulate businesses in the state
What is an example of a state exercising a concurrent power? - (correct answer) Issuing
bonds to fund a infrastructure project
What is correct about Congress's oversight authority? - (correct answer) Oversight is not a
specifically enumerated power, but rather implied in Article 1
Enumerated power - (correct answer) Explicitly stated in the constitution
Implied power - (correct 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 - (correct answer) must be assumed to exist as a direct result of the countrys
existences.... outside the text
What is true about federal income tax - (correct answer) Federal income tax required the
ratification of a constitutional amendment after supreme court ruled that a previous attempt to tax
income was unconstitutional
2024 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS...ALREADY PASSED!!!
What is the primary effect of the census on the functioning of congress - (correct answer) It is
used to determine the number of House representatives for each state
What describes the purpose of Congressional appropriations committees - (correct answer)
They recommend how specific funds are allocated
Which power is assigned to the House under the Constitution - (correct answer) Originating
congressional spending bills
How does apportionment influence the make up of Congress? - (correct 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 - (correct answer) The Senate must confirm the presidents supreme. court
nominees
Which president was impeached by the House of Representatives - (correct answer) Andrew
Johnson for firing his secretary of war
Which presidental power can be directly restricted by Congress - (correct answer) appointing
cabinet members
What is the general purpose of the president making recess appointments? - (correct answer)
To fill cabinet vacancies while bypassing senate approval
What is true about the U.S. court system? - (correct 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 - (correct answer)
The Supreme Courts precedents are treated as established law
What was the significance of the supreme Courts ruling of McCulloch v Maryland - (correct
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? - (correct answer) Concurrent
What is an example of state exercising its reserve power? - (correct answer) Establishing
laws to regulate businesses in the state
What is an example of a state exercising a concurrent power? - (correct answer) Issuing
bonds to fund a infrastructure project
What is correct about Congress's oversight authority? - (correct answer) Oversight is not a
specifically enumerated power, but rather implied in Article 1
Enumerated power - (correct answer) Explicitly stated in the constitution
Implied power - (correct 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 - (correct answer) must be assumed to exist as a direct result of the countrys
existences.... outside the text
What is true about federal income tax - (correct answer) Federal income tax required the
ratification of a constitutional amendment after supreme court ruled that a previous attempt to tax
income was unconstitutional
