Chapter 12 Flashcards
According to the U.S. Constitution, if no one candidate receives a majority vote of the Electoral College, who chooses the president?
the U.S. House of Representatives.
The presidency was created by _____________ of the U.S. Constitution.
Article II
Which of the following presidents lost the popular voted, but still won the presidency?
A.
Rutherford B. Hayes
B. Benjamin Harrison C. George W. Bush D. all of these answers are correct.
all of these answers are correct.
Which of the following is a formal constitutional requirement for becoming president?
A. One must be at least 40 years of age.
B. One must be a resident in the United States for at least 1 year.
C. One must be a natural-born citizen
D. One must be a white male.
One must be a natural-born citizen
A very challenging job for new presidents is to
nominate and gain confirmation for their cabinet and hundreds of other officials.
Twenty-second Amendment
Constitutional Amendment that restricts a president to two terms.
Twelfth Amendment
Constitutional amendment that couples a particular presidential candidate with that candidate’s running mate in a unified ticket.
Executive order
A rule issued by the president without the cooperation of Congress and having the force of law.
Executive agreement
An international agreement between the president and another country made by the executive branch without the formal consent of the Senate.
Executive privilege
The president’s right to withhold information from Congress, the judiciary, or the public.
The branch of the federal government that has changed the most is the
Executive Branch
Who suggested the president should be elected for life?
Alexander Hamilton
Powers the Constitution explicitly grants to the president are
expressed powers.
What are the powers assumed by the presidents, often during crises, on the basis of the constitutional phrase “the executive power shall be vested in the president”?
inherent powers
The idea that the Constitution puts the president in charge of executing the laws, and therefore no other branch should limit presidential discretion over executive matters, is known as
unitary executive theory
When signing bills into law, presidents often make statements that offer the administration’s interpretation of the law; these are known as
signing statements
Some critics refer to an American presidency that has begun to demonstrate imperial traits—indicating that the republic is slowly morphing into an empire—as a(n) ___________ presidency.
imperial.
Presidential roles include all of the following EXCEPT
head of the Senate
The presidential power to block an act of Congress by refusing to sign it is called
veto power.
Top officials in the executive agencies appointed by the president are
political appointees.
The agencies that help the president manage his daily activities are in the
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
The OMB’s authority to review and “clear” (or okay) anything a member of the administration says or does in public is called
central clearance.
Which First Lady became a one-woman campaign for liberal social policy and a popular symbol of the New Deal?
Eleanor Roosevelt.
The president’s constitutional roles, such as chief executive and commander in chief,
have expanded in practice to be more powerful than the writers of the Constitution intended
The Whig theory holds that the presidency
is a limited office whose occupant is confined to the exercise of expressly granted constitutional powers
The president’s role in foreign policy increased largely because
America became more of a world power
Which of the following is true of the vice presidency?
The Constitution assigns no executive authority to the vice president
The primary election as a means of choosing presidential nominees
has been used more extensively in recent decades, such that the candidate who dominates the primaries can usually expect to receive the nomination
The selection of the vice presidential nominee at the national convention is based on the
presidential nominee’s choice of a running mate
Which of the following did the framers want from a president
Administration of the laws.
National leadership.
Command of the military.
Statesmanship in foreign affairs
The presidency is an
office in which power is conditional, depending on whether the political support that gives force to presidential leadership exists or can be developed
A president’s accomplishments have largely depended on
whether circumstances favor strong presidential leadership
The honeymoon period occurs during
the first part of a president’s term
The forced removal of a president from office through impeachment and conviction requires action by the
House and Senate in separate proceedings
Congress authorized an official impeachment investigation of
Bill Clinton
When George W. Bush claimed the prerogative to not enforce those portions of a bill that he deemed unconstitutional, he did so using a technique for extending executive power known as the:
signing statement
States that apply the unit rule
grant all their electoral votes as a unit to the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote
If the president vetoes a bill:
the veto can be overridden by a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate
