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APGov Unit 2 Part 2: The Executive Branch and the Bureaucracy
Workbook #2
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Objectives: These are the key concepts that you must be able to answer after Unit 2 Part II.
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Understand the powers of Congress, specifically the committee system
Determine the make-up of the current House and Senate.
Analyze how Congress and the President undertake the arduous task of developing an annual budget.
Evaluate how social policy impacts policy making decisions.
Determine the purpose of a tax
Chapter 13 Vocabulary: impeachment, Watergate (Scandal), cabinet, National Security Council, Council of Economic
Advisers, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), veto, pocket veto, presidential coattails, War Powers Resolution, legislative veto
(11)
Chapter 15 Vocabulary: bureaucracy, patronage, Pendleton Civil Service Act, civil service, merit principle, Hatch Act, Office
of Personnel Management, GS (General Schedule) rating, Senior Executive Service, independent regulatory commission, government
corporations, independent executive agency, policy implementation, standard operating procedures, administrative discretion, streetlevel bureaucrats, regulation, deregulation, command-and-control policy, incentive system, executive orders, iron triangles (22)
Homework Assignments:
Chapter 13 Materials
Vocabulary
 Notecards and Quiz Due:
Textbook:
 The Presidency (pp. 390-433) and Quiz Due:
Reader:
 A Government Ill Executed and Quiz Due:
Chapter 15 Materials
Vocabulary
 Notecards and Quiz Due:
Textbook:
 The Federal Bureaucracy (pp. 466-501) and Quiz
Due:
Reader:
 Bureaucracy and Quiz Due:
SCOTUS Cases (Green): Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chada, United States v. Nixon, Clinton v. New York City
Extra Unit Practice: 5 Steps to a 5 A.P. U.S. Government and Politics Chapter 13
Unit 2 Test –
Unit 2 Guided Reading Point Matrix:
5 points.
3 points.
Chapter
13 –The President
15 –The Bureaucracy
Unit 2 Part 2 FRQ Creation
Unit 2 Part 2 Arch Question
Status/Point Value
Chapter 13 Key Concepts
13.1 The Presidents
1. What are the requirements to be the president?
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Describe the purpose of the 22 nd amendment.
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What can a president be impeachment for and how does the impeachment process work?
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Read "Should the Senate Have Convicted President Clinton?" and answer the following questions:
 What are the four points of agreement for impeachable offenses?
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Do you agree with these? Explain.
How does the 25th amendment address the issue of presidential succession?
13.2 Presidential Powers
1. Where does the presidential office get its power?
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Explain what "presidential duplicity" is and how it relates to our relationship with the president.
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What power did Nixon state he possessed to keep him from giving up evidence in the Watergate Scandal? Do you agree
with his point of view? Explain.
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Describe two ways in which the power of the president has expanded from its constitutional base.
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13.3 Running the Government: The Chief Executive
1. What are the roles of the following people/organizations? How to they help/hinder the president?
 The Vice President
-In your opinion, is the office of the VP redundant? Explain.
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The Cabinet
-What is the cabinet and what does it do?
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The First Lady
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-Not even mentioned in the Constitution, describe why the First Lady is one of the most powerful positions
within Washington, D.C
The Executive Office of the President (EOP)
-What four advisory and policy-making agencies are the most important in the EOP? Explain how each is
related to the powers of the president?
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The White House staff
2. What are the differences between the Cabinet, the EOP, and the White House Staff?
3. What are the similarities between the Cabinet, the EOP, and the White House Staff?
13.4 Presidential Leadership of Congress: The Politics of Shared Power
1. What is the purpose of the veto power?
2. What president has used the power of the veto the most? The least?
3. How many times has President Obama used his veto power (use the internet for this one!)?
 Is this number above, below or average?
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Explain some factors that could explain this
4. What is the result of the majority of veto’s that the president has issued?
5. Describe what each role of the job “president” entails:
 Chief Legislator
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Party Leadership
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The Bonds of the Party
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Slippage in Party Support
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Leading the Party
Public Support
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Public Approval
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Mandates
Legislative Skill
13.5 The President and National Security Policy
1. Describe the responsibility of the following terms:
 Chief Diplomat
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Describe the concept of the “executive agreement”.
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How does an executive agreement differ from a treaty?
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Commander in Chief
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Crisis Manager
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Working with Congress
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Describe the concept of "two presidencies"
2. How does the War Powers Act conflict with the post 9/11 world? Do you have any issues with how the presidents have used
their power as Commander in Chief in the last ten years? Explain.
3. What arguments FOR the constitutionality of the War Powers Act can you think of (come up with AT LEAST THREE)
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4. What arguments AGAINST the constitutionality of the War Powers Act can you think of (come up with AT LEAST THREE)
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13.6 Power from the People: The Public Presidency
1. The president relies on four methods to get policy/programs adopted. Please describe each below and detail the results of those
presidents who have relied on those methods:
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Going public
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Presidential Approval
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What is the presidential approval rating and why does anyone pay any attention to it?
Policy Support
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Read "The Generation Gap in Watching the President" and answer the following questions:
 Will the relative inattention to the president by today's young people persist as they age? Explain.
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Do you think presidents can govern effectively if they cannot connect to the people? Explain.
Mobilizing the Public
2. What are the two indicators of public support for the president (use the internet to answer this)?
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3. Read Analyzing Visuals and answer the following questions:
 Which president left office with the highest approval rating and the lowest?
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What pattern do you notice in the approval ratings of each president?
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How would you explain the changes in the approval ratings of President Obama?
13.7 The President and the Press
1. What is the role of the president’s press secretary? How often is this person used in the modern presidency (use the internet to
answer this question)?
2. What is the purpose of the formal presidential press conference?
3. How has the media affected your view of the president? Explain.
4. What are some of the positives that the president has when dealing with the press?
Chapter 15 Key Concepts:
15.1 The Bureaucrats
1. What is “bureaucracy” and what is the purpose of one?
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How many people work for the federal autocratic agencies? What percentage of government jobs does this number
encompass?
3. What is the difference between patronage and the merit principle?
PatronageMerit principle4. What is the purpose of the Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883 –aka Pendleton Act)?
15.2 How Bureaucracies Are Organized
1. What are the four basic types of agencies in the federal executive branch?
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2. Complete the following chart with information from the text:
Individual/Group
Who Are They Accountable To?
How Do The Members Get Their
Jobs?
President
Cabinet
Departments
Independent
Executive
Agencies
Independent
Regulatory
Commissions
Government
Corporations
Specific Examples
15.3 Bureaucracies as Implementers
1. When we say that bureaucracies are “Implementers”, what do we mean?
2. What are the three minimum elements of implementation (iron triangle)?
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3. List and explain six reasons why policy implementation might fail
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4. Explain how the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was successful policy implementation.
15.4 Bureaucracies as Regulators
1. When we say that bureaucracies are “Regulators”, what do we mean?
2. List three elements common to all regulation.
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Explain why there has been a movement toward deregulation in the past few years. What implications could this have for
individuals?
15.5 Understanding Bureaucracies
1. What is the difference between command-and-control policy and incentive system?
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command-and-control:
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Incentive:
2. List three criticisms of regulation.
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3. List four methods by which the president can control the bureaucracy.
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4. List four methods by which Congress can control the bureaucracy.
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5. Add the appropriate information to fully explain and flesh-out iron triangle networks (also known as Issue Networks)
Unit 2 Part 2 FRQ Creation: Create an FRQ based on the following political cartoon. The FRQ must have a minimum of 3 action
verbs that require you to complete three different objectives and must contain a minimum of five vocabulary terms from the Unit. Include
the answers to the FRQ as well.
APG Unit 2 Part 2 Arch Questions -Putting it all Together
Directions: Use the information that we have covered in Unit 2 Part 2 to
answer the following questions. You will randomly present these
responses to the class:
1. Explain how the Founding Fathers could have made the issues
surrounding the term “Commander in Chief” more
understandable (read: clear and precise)?
2.
Go to http://ampr.gs/2cQysZv, read the article and answer this
question: Does President Obama (or any President) have the
authority to conduct a “war” with terrorist organizations without
congressional approval or previous approval for a terrorist
eradication campaign? Support your answer with examples from
the above article, information we have covered in class, and the
Constitution.