Chapter 8

Question 1

Twenty-Second Amendment

Answer 1

Adopted in 1961; prevents a president from serving more than two terms, or more than ten years if he came to office via the death, registration, or impeachment of his predecessor

Question 2

Impeachment

Answer 2

The power delegated to the House of Representatives in the constitution to charge the president, Vice President, or other “civil officers” including federal judges with “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” This is the first step in the constitutional process of removing government officials from office

Question 3

Executive privilege

Answer 3

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

Question 4

U.S v. Nixon

Answer 4

Supreme Court ruling on power of the president, holding that there is no absolute constitutional executive privilege allowing a president to refuse to comply with a court order to produce Information needed in a criminal trial

Question 5

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Cabinet

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Executive agreements

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Veto Power

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Line-item Veto

Answer 9

The authority of a chief executive to delete part of a bill passed by the legislature that involved Taxing or spending. Ruled unconstitutional by the U.S Supreme Court

Question 10

War powers Act

Answer 10

Passed by Congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime

Question 11

Pardon

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Inherent powers

Answer 12

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

Question 13

New deal

Answer 13

The name given to the program of “relief,recovery, reform” begun by president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to bring the United States pit of the Great Depression

Question 14

Executive office of the president (EOP)

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Office of management and Budget (OMB)

Answer 15

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 rules

Question 16

Executive order

Answer 16

Rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. All executive orders must be published in the federal register