Sorry, I forgot to write this after classes. PJ

I want you to exercise your brains. Maybe argue about these
in discussion section. These are the sorts of things I 
think about when dreaming up test questions. So even if I'm
not collecting these questions, you better think them over.

1. When Congress implemented civil service system after 1883,
did they violate the president's right to appoint executive
officials? Why not? 

Hint: re-check your Constitution on this. I did.
The president gets to appoint all executive officials? 
Really? Could Congress say the Secretary of State must
be chosen by a merit exam?

2. After class, a student asked me if the independent
commissions were part of FDR's New Deal "alphabet soup" of
new agencies. The answer's no.  Almost all of those agencies
were created before FDR took office. FDR did not favor the
independent commission approach.  Can you guess why they
didn't make independent commissions out of the National
Recovery Administration or the Social Security Administration
or the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare?

3. Remember the "principal-agent" problem from the start
of the term?  I forgot to explicitly point it out during
the lecture today, but it was in there quite a few times.
Can you find the pieces in the lecture when I could have 
stopped and yelled "here's a principal, here's an agent,
here's slippage, here's shirking, here's a transaction
cost"?

4. Let's say that an executive agency is a hockey puck,
and the president and a Congressional committee are
hitting the puck with their "policy sticks".  What
sticks does the Congress (or its committee) have, and
what sticks does the president have?