The president's influence increased significantly during the 20th century for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
a. the president was better able to respond quickly to the needs of the people than Congress, which is big, cumbersome, and divided along party lines.
b. the emergence of the United States as a global power gave more power to the president, who has a large amount of freedom to set foreign policy.
c. presidents were generally more newsworthy than Congress, which gave the president a greater opportunity to manipulate the media and public opinion.
d. the president's staff grew smaller in recent history, which reduced outside influence on the president's decision-making process.
Question 2
The U.S. presidency
a. was set up by the Framers of the Constitution to be the dominant component of the government.
b. is considered one of the weakest government offices in the world because of the limited resources the president has at his disposal.
c. enjoys only so much power as the president's ability to persuade and build coalitions of support inside and outside of Congress.
d. has progressively lost influence and power since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration.
Blending inheritance formed the basis of nineteenth-century critiques of evolution by natural select
Medicinal leeches on a patient’s neck. Today leeches are sometimes used in microsurgery to prevent b
Cao Fei, RMB City, in Art in the Twenty-First Century, season 5 episode, "Fantasy".
The proportion of U.S. adults in the workforce has increased slightly for older age groups over the ...
Increased neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus following damage. The left panel shows (1) an ...
Survivorship curves for people in the United States in the early 20th and early 21st centuries