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41. Which side of the US Congress has more ability to check presidential actions?
  1. The House of Representatives because it must confirm all executive nominations.
  2. The House of Representatives because it is the only body that can hold hearings on how the Executive Branch does its job.
  3. The Senate because it decides how much money each presidential project gets.
  4. The Senate because it must confirm all executive nominations.
  5. Neither. The House and the Senate have equal ability to check Presidential actions.
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42. Independent bureaucratic agencies and Cabinet departments are created by:
  1. The President of the United States
  2. Congress
  3. The Constitution
  4. The Supreme Court
  5. Our imaginations
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43. The US Supreme Court, with its ruling in the case Marbury v. Madison (1803), established:
  1. That state courts could not apply federal laws.
  2. The power of Congress to create additional federal courts.
  3. The right of federal courts to hear state disputes.
  4. That the courts could review laws to determine if they conflicted with the Constitution.
  5. That states could not sue each other.
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44. What is one of the powers that a president holds without Congressional checks?
  1. The ability to forgive the crimes of some citizens
  2. Selecting the leaders in the executive branch
  3. Guiding the agenda of the year through the State of the Union address
  4. Creating a federal budget
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45. What is the best description of the general relationship between the media and U.S. presidents?
  1. Mutual trust
  2. Mutual distrust
  3. The two groups need each other and use each other for gains.
  4. Presidents hate media scrutiny.
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