AP GOV Vocab Chapter 5 & 7

Question 1

Bureaucrat

Answer 1

Keep jobs after any one president has come and gone.

Question 2

Federal Bureaucracy

Answer 2

The sum total of all executive agencies and personnel.

Question 3

Pocket veto

Answer 3

An informal veto caused when the president chooses not to sign a bill within 10 days, during a time when Congress has adjourned at the end of a session.

Question 4

Treaties

Answer 4

An agreement with a foreign gov negotiated by the president and require a 2/3 vote in the senate to ratify.

Question 5

Executive Order

Answer 5

Policy directives signed by presidents that do not require congressional approval.

Question 6

Signing Statement

Answer 6

Written comments issued by presidents while signing a bill into law that usually consists of political statements or reason for signing the bill but that may also include a president’s interpretation of the law itself.

Question 7

Impeachment

Answer 7

The process of removing a president from office, with articles of impeachment issued by a majority vote in the House of Representatives, followed by a trial in the Senate, with a 2/3 vote necessary to conduct and remove.

Question 8

Going Pulpit

Answer 8

A tactic through which president reach out directly to the American people with the hope that the people will in turn , put pressure upon their representatives and senators to press for a president’s policy goals.

Question 9

Bully Pulpit

Answer 9

Presidential appeals to the public to pressure branches of gov to support his or her policies.

Question 10

Bargaining and persuasion

Answer 10

An informal tool used by the president to persuade members of Congress to support his or her policy initiatives.

Question 11

War Powers Resolution

Answer 11

A law passed over president Nixon’s veto that restricts the power of the president to maintain troops in combat for more than 60 days without congressional authority.

Question 12

Presidential Pardon

Answer 12

Presidential authority to forgive an individual and set aside punishment for a crime.

Question 13

Executive Office of the President

Answer 13

A collection of offices within the White House organization designed manly to provide info to the president.

Question 14

Executive Agreements

Answer 14

An agreement between a president and another nation that does not have the same durability in the American system as a treaty but does not require senta e ratification.

Question 15

State of the Union Address

Answer 15

The annual speech from the president to Congress updating that branch the state if national affairs.

Question 16

Veto

Answer 16

Formal rejection by the president of a bill that has passed from both houses of Congress

Question 17

Executive Privilege

Answer 17

A right claimed by presidents to keep certain conversations, records, and transcripts confidential from outside scrutiny, especially that of Congress.

Question 18

Executive Branch

Answer 18

The branch of gov charged with putting the nation’s law into effect.

Question 19

Formal Powers

Answer 19

Powers of the president expressly granted in the constitution.

Question 20

Informal Powers

Answer 20

Powers not laid out in the constitution but used to carry out presidential duties.