Unit 5: The Executive Branch

What does Article II of the Constitution tell us about the presidency?

• The powers of the president
• The process for electing the president
• How a president may be removed from office
• All of the Above

Which of these is not a power of the president?

• Serving as commander in chief
• Approving new amendments to the Constitution
• Appointing judges and executive branch officials
• Granting pardons and reprieves

During the Constitutional Convention, James Wilson argued that the executive branch should be led by______.

• A tyrannical king
• A single president
• A multi-member executive counsel
• A figurehead with no real executive authority

James Madison, known as the Father of the Constitution, thought that the president should be chosen by _________.

• Members of Congress
• State governors
• State legislatures
• Royal proclamation

After much debate during the Convention, what system of electing the president did the delegates finally agree to?

• The president would be chosen directly by the people
• The president would be a hereditary position
• The Electoral College
• The president would be chosen by members of Congress

In addition to the question of how the president should be elected, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention also had to address which big issue about the president?

• How long the president’s term should be
• Whether the president should be allowed to run for reelection
• How to remove a president from office
• All of the above

Signed, written, and published directives by the president that tell the executive-branch officials what to do are known as ______.

• Vetoes
• Impeachments
• Misdemeanors
• Executive orders

Which former president referred to the executive power as “the steward of the public welfare” in his “New Nationalism” speech?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• Franklin Roosevelt

This president, who later became chief justice of the United States, argued that the people may carry out their will, but only after the wholesome delay and deliberation within the restrictions of the Constitution.

• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft
• Harry Truman
• Richard Nixon

The Supreme Court ruled on the limits of presidential power in which landmark case?

• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Marbury v. Madison
• McCulloch v. Maryland