Question 1

Identify two especially active first ladies and describe their involvement during their husband's term in office.

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Question 2

List the five functional roles of the president and provide an example of each.

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Question 3

Which functional role of the president is the most difficult to perform? Which is the most important? Explain your position.

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Question 4

Identify three ways in which the president has a role in legislative matters.

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Question 5

What constitutional limits are there on the president's ability to make foreign policy and wage war? What limits are there in actual practice?

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Question 6

What are executive orders? Why are they used?

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Question 7

What is the War Powers Resolution? How does the Act affect the powers of the president?

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Question 8

What have been some primary factors that have limited the effectiveness of recent presidents? Explain.

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Question 9

List three features you believe make a president great. How does your list compare to that developed by presidential historian Robert Dallek?

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Question 10

Who do you believe was the best president of all time? Who was the worst? On what factors do you base your assessment?

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Question 11

Identify and assess the five qualities that historian Robert Dallek has identified as constants in the men who have most effectively performed in the office of president.

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Question 12

Which features of the executive branch, as established by the Constitutional Convention, were, in your opinion, most significant? Why.

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Question 13

What were the objections of the Constitutional Convention delegates to the selection of the president? Were their objections accurate? Why or why not?

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Question 14

Explain how George Washington's impending selection as the first chief executive shaped the way the framers of the Constitution defined the powers of the presidency. What have been the long-term consequences of the framers' approach to the highest executive office?

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Question 15

Describe the different philosophical approaches by presidents to their cabinets.

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Question 16

In what ways did Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to the Great Depression shape the development of federalism and the nature of the presidency? Be sure to reference the specific programs developed by Roosevelt's administration in your answer.

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Question 17

How have presidents utilized the public to advance their policy initiatives? Which presidents do you believe have been most effective in this regard?

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Question 18

In his book Presidential Power, Richard Neustadt stresses the importance of the president's informal powers. Explain what the president's informal powers are and why these powers are so important for the modern presidency.

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Question 19

How do presidents use public relations and the shaping of public opinion as pathways of action? Why are presidents uniquely placed to appeal directly to the people?

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Question 20

How does presidential popularity (see Figure 7.1 in your text) change over a president's time in office? What are the most important factors influencing presidential popularity?

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Quiz 7: The Presidency