What are the four main powers of the president in foreign policy? To what extent are these checked and/or balanced by Congress?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should identify the following main powers: commander in chief of the nation’s armed forces, negotiating and signing treaties, appointing cabinet secretaries and ambassadors, and conducting diplomacy overseas. Congress’s role should be identified as the “power of the purse” and the ability to declare war, reject or confirm appointees, and conduct fact-finding missions overseas. Answers could discuss the overall role of Congress to offer advice and consent to the president on foreign policy.
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Describe how the president's powers as commander in chief expanded over time and give reasons why these changes occurred. Do you think this expansion is a positive one for the office of the president?
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Which group of voters was most affected by passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment?
a. Southern Democrats b. Eighteen- to twenty-one-year-olds c. Women d. African Americans