Executive Flashcards
The heads of non-legislative and non-judicial agencies who are elected or appointed for limited terms to supervise the making and execution of government policies.
Executives
- persons who inherit their positions as chiefs of state
- perform their functions either directly or indirectly through official representatives known as governor-generals
Hereditary Monarchs
- Officials, usually known as Presidents, who are selected by national legislatures or by special electoral colleges and who perform the chief-of-state functions but have no power over policy making.
Elected “Monarchs”
means “in practice but not necessarily ordained by law”
De facto
presidency of the United States
the oldest and best known office of presidency
First role of the president of the United States
Chief of State
Small group of his most trusted advisers with whom he can talk most comfortably and those upon whose candid advice he counts.
President’s ‘Kitchen cabinet’
has increasingly become an advisory body on policy rather than an administrative or supervisory agency
Cabinet
A power to do whatever is necessary to save the nation in a crisis
Emergency power
