Which of the following statements represents an informal method used to adapt the Constitution?
A) The Supreme Court creates a specialized court to review requests for wiretapping suspected terrorists.
B) The Supreme Court makes recess appointments to lower federal courts when the president delays confirmation of appointees.
C) The president delegates to a federal agency the power to write regulations.
D) Congress suspends civil liberties in a time of war.
E) Congress passes a law that regulates business conducted between different states because of the commerce clause.
E
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In Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois (1990), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that:
A. states must establish comparable worth policies. B. policy-level officials may be fired for politically partisan reasons, but lower-level officials may not. C. policy-level officials may not be fired for politically partisan reasons, but lower-level workers may. D. the number of minority employees in state and local governments must be proportionate to the number of minorities in the population.
If as president you believed that Congress was sidestepping important issues, what could you do to try to make Congress to address those issues?
A)Raise those issues during the weekly cabinet meeting and initiate bureaucratic action without congressional authority. B)Challenge Congress to deal with the issues by activating the take-care clause of the Constitution. C) Invoke executive privilege to bypass congressional inaction on these critical issues. D) Raise those issues during a State of the Union address to focus the public's attention on them.