Section: AP Government

38) What best describes the power of the bureaucracy in the United States?

1. Executive agencies are much weaker in America than in other countries because they have to report to the president and other elected officials.
2. Executive agencies are very powerful because they are independent of the other parts of government.
3. Executive agencies are very weak in America because their only source of power is that which is delegated explicitly to them in the Constitution.
4. Executive agencies are very powerful because they have a great deal of discretionary authority.