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WGU C963 /WGU C963 OA EXAM AMERICAN
POLITICS AND THE US CONSTITUTION EXAM
NEWEST 2025 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 200
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
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- What is Concurrent Powers
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Powers held jointly by the
national and state governments
- Examples of concurrent power
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Impose Taxes, Borrow
Money, Establish Lower Courts
- What is Expressed powers
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Powers directly stated in the
constitution
- Examples of Expressed Powers
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Make treaties, Coin money,
Declare war, Grant copyrights and patents
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- What is Reserved Powers
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Powers that the Constitution
does not give to the national government that are kept by the states
- Examples of Reserved Powers
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: police power, promote
safety, morals and health, Criminal justice, use of public land and water, marriage/divorce, education, roads, welfare
- How does a bill become a law?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: If a bill has passed in both
the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and has been approved by the President, or if a presidential veto has been overridden, the bill becomes a law and is enforced by the government
- Standing Committee
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A permanent committee that
meets regularly
- Select Committee
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A small legislative
committee appointed for a special purpose
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- Joint Committee
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: legislative committee
composed of members of both houses
- Conference Committee
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Special joint committee
created to reconcile differences in bills passed by the House and Senate
- Rule Committee
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A standing committee of
the House of Representatives that provides special rules under which specific bills can be debated, amended, and considered by the house
- Appropriations Committees
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Decide how to spend
money allocated to each spending category by Budget Resolution; 12 subcommittees for major areas of budget (ex.defense, energy, agriculture); major source of earmarking
- Budget Committee
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- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: House & Senate standing
committees that begins budget process in Congress by setting overall budget size and amounts that will be spent on different topics (ex. defense, education)
- Electrol college
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: A group of people named
by each state legislature to select the president and vice president. 1. candidate who wins the popular vote in the state gets two electoral votes, 2. winner of each congressional district also receives an electoral vote
- Executive orders
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Is a Domestic Policy, a way
of getting around Congress when the legislature is not acting in a given area
- What is the purpose of executive agreements?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Is National Security of
foreign Policy and War. And To establish agreements with foreign countries without congressional approval
- The Senate