APGovCh.7.Juan.Jaimes

Question 1

President

Answer 1

The chief executive officer of the United States, as establishing by Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

Hayes, president of the United States from 1877 to 1881.

Question 2

Vice President

Answer 2

An officer created by Article II of the U.S. Constitution to preside over the U.S Senate and to fill any vacancy in the office of president due to death, resignation, removal, or disability.

He became the Vice President of the United States.

Question 3

Twenty-Second Amendment

Answer 3

Adopted in 1951; prevents president from serving more than two terms, or more than ten years f they came to office via death, resignation or removal of their predecessor.

Twenty-second Amendment, amendment (1951) to the Constitution of the United States effectively limiting to two the number of terms a president of the United States may serve.

Question 4

Watergate

Answer 4

A scandal in the early 1970s involving a breaking at the democratic national committee offices in the Watergate office complex.

The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s

Question 5

Executive Privilege

Answer 5

An implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose information regarding confidential conversations or national security to congress or the judiciary.

President Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to coin the phrase “executive privilege,” but not the first to invoke its principle

Question 6

U.S. v. Nixon(1974)

Answer 6

Supreme court ruling on power of the president, holding that no absolute constitutional executive privilege allows a president to refuse to comply with a court order to produce information needed in a criminal trial.

In the U.S v. Nixon case the court decided that the president can’t refuse to comply and produce information.

Question 7

Presidential Succession Act

Answer 7

A 1947 law enacted by Congress that provides for the filling of any simultaneously vacancy of the presidency and vice presidency.

a Presidential Succession Act is a federal statute establishing the presidential line of succession

Question 8

Twenty Fifth Amendment

Answer 8

Adopted in 1967 to establish procedures for filling vacancies in the office of president and vice president as well as providing for procedures to deal with the disability of a president.

This amendment insures that their will always be someone for the presidency if anything were to happen.

Question 9

Cabinet

Answer 9

The formal body of presidential advisers who head the fifteen executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of formal advisers.

The president of the Republic has a military household, and the minister a cabinet

Question 10

League of Nations

Answer 10

A multilateral diplomatic organization that existed from 1920-1946 that sought, unsuccessfully, to prevent future wars, the us never joined.

Woodrow Wilson hoped the League of Nations would replace power politics with international cooperation.

Question 11

Executive agreements

Answer 11

Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not require the advice and consent of the U.S senate.

In the twentieth century, however, presidents had increasingly made use of executive agreements as instruments of foreign policy.

Question 12

Veto

Answer 12

The formal, constitutional authority of the president to reject bills passed by both houses of Congress, thus preventing them from becoming law without further congregational action.

The chairman has the right to veto any of the board’s proposals.

Question 13

Pardon

Answer 13

An executive grant providing restoration of all rights and privileges of citizenship to a specific individual charged with or convicted of a crime.

He was granted a pardon after new evidence had proved his innocence.

Question 14

Inherent Powers

Answer 14

Powers that belong to the president because they can be inferred from the constitution.

He has the inherent power necessary to ensure a fair trial,

Question 15

First lady

Answer 15

The designation provided to the wife of a president or, the state level, of a governed; no specific analogue exist for a male spouse.

Then there is the problem of what the first lady has done or should do.

Question 16

Executive Office of the President

Answer 16

A mini-bureaucracy created in 1939 to hep the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy.

The Office of the White House Chief of Staff is the highest office, and the Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the executive office of the president of the United States.

Question 17

Bully Pulpit

Answer 17

The view that a major power of the presidency, albeit not one prescribed by the constitution, is to draw the attention to and generate support for the particular positions.

Use the bully pulpit to make school-to-work an ongoing part of the school-reform agenda.

Question 18

Office of management and budget

Answer 18

The office that prepares the presidents annual budget proposal, reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments, supplies economic forecasts, and conducts detailed analyses of proposed bills and agency.

Lew would replace Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag, who is stepping down this month.

Question 19

Executive Order

Answer 19

Rule of regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. All executive orders must be published in the Federal Register.

Any new executive order would affect any acting or permanent intelligence chief.

Question 20

Signing Statements

Answer 20

Occasional written comments attached to a bill signed by the president.

He also denied signing statements that prosecutors say implicate Berenson.