The president is able to check the power of congress by: a: vetoing laws passed by congress b: preventing bills from being sent to committee c: filibustering bills to prevent a vote d: setting the rules of congressional debate

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.