Chapter 13- President

Question 1

Amnesty

Answer 1

A blanket pardon, grantable by the president

Question 2

Executive privilege

Answer 2

A right to withhold information from congress and the courts. Defined as inherent in executive power.

Question 3

Chief of staff

Answer 3

The president’s right hand man. Controls the president’s calendar, manages the staff, and helps the president in all aspects of domestic and foreign policy.

Question 4

Pardons

Answer 4

Grantable by the president. Absolves you of criminal charges.

Question 5

Stewardship theory

Answer 5

A view that the Constitution permits the president to do anything that the needs of the nation demand unless such action is forbidden by the constitution or laws. Derived from Hamilton’s ideas.

Question 6

Constitutional theory

Answer 6

Derived from Madison’s ideas. The president can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power or justly implied and included within such express grant as necessary and proper to its exercise

Question 7

Treaty

Answer 7

An agreement between two or more nations, in which they promise to behave in a certain way.

Question 8

Executive agreements

Answer 8

Like treaties, but negotiated by and between only the executive leaders of countries.

Question 9

Honeymoon period

Answer 9

The first 100 days of a presidency, in which congress is more conducive to new laws and legislation.

Question 10

Impoundment

Answer 10

The refusal to allow the expenditure of funds appropriated by Congress. A presidential check on the legislative branch.

Question 11

Inherent power

Answer 11

The power that goes hand-in-hand with the presidential seat

Question 12

Lame ducks

Answer 12

A term tagged on presidents during their second term because they can not run for a third term.

Question 13

Legislative agenda

Answer 13

The primary tool available for securing and extending the president’s power. Passage of the agenda is the key to the president’s effort to be re-elected for a second term and to secure his place in history.

Question 14

Landslide

Answer 14

An election in which a candidate wins both the electoral and popular votes by a huge margin.

Question 15

Mandate

Answer 15

The idea that the people’s support of a candidate in an election grants that candidate the support and backing of the people throughout their presidency.

Question 16

Pocket veto

Answer 16

A term for what happens to a bill if Congress adjourns before the ten days deadline for it to pass have expired and the president has still not signed the bill, then the bill is said to have been subjected to a pocket veto. Deprives congress of the chance to override a formal veto.

Question 17

Line-item veto

Answer 17

A proposed amendment which would a veto of only a part of a certain bill instead of the entire bill.