US GOVT - Chapter 6 Study Guide – CONGRESSIONAL POWERS

Use the book to answer the following questions.

1. What are laws for raising money for the federal government called?

2. What are proposed laws to authorize spending money called?

3. If you think Congress had the power to charter the Second Bank of the United States, you believe in?

4. What can witnesses who do not tell the truth can be prosecuted for?

5. What power allows Congress to check on how the executive branch is administering the law?

6. What did President Bush use his authority under the National Emergencies Act to do in 2001?

7. What action was found unconstitutional because it violated the separation of powers?

8. What did President Nixon use to combat economic problems?

9. What is the president's refusal to spend money called?

10. What do some historians believe the checks and balances system causes?

11. What powers of Congress are described in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution?

12. What implies that Congress has powers beyond those expressed in the first 17 clauses of Article I, Section 8?

13. Where does setting the minimum wage come under the power of Congress?

14. What requires the president to notify Congress when committing military forces?

15. What is a legal order that a person appear in court or produce requested documents called?

16. What is freedom from prosecution for witnesses whose testimony might tie them to illegal acts called?

17. Which employee of President Reagan's National Security Council was granted immunity for his testimony before a congressional committee?

18. Over the years presidents have assumed more responsibility for the nation’s yearly financial plan, or what?

19. What is the president's refusal to spend appropriated funds called?

“The result of the most careful and attentive consideration bestowed upon this clause is, that if it does not enlarge, it cannot be construed to restrain the powers of Congress or to impair the right of the legislature to exercise its best judgment in the selection of measures to carry into execution the constitutional powers of the government.”

—Chief Justice John Marshall, 1819

20. According to Chief Justice John Marshall which branch of the government is responsible for upholding the U.S. Constitution?

21. Which clause of the U.S. Constitution does Marshall cite to support the Court’s decision in McCulloch v. Maryland?

22. In the excerpt from the Supreme Court's ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland, what kind of constitutional interpretation is Marshall applying?

23. How many public bills passed by the 106th Congress were vetoed by the president?

24. How many public bills—of the 592 passed by the 106th Congress—were enacted over presidential veto?

25. How many public bills were passed by the 106th Congress?

“We, therefore, conclude that the action of Congress in the adoption of the Act as applied here to a motel which concededly serves interstate travelers is within the power granted it by the ______________ of the Constitution, as interpreted by this Court for 140 years.”

—Justice Tom C. Clark, 1964

26. According to Justice Tom C. Clark, which specific part of the Constitution granted Congress the powers it applied in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States?