Executive Branch

Question 1

12th Amendment

Answer 1

.The 12th amendment requires separate electoral ballots for the president and vice president. This was created because, during the election of 1800 Thomas Jefferson & Aaron burr were going against the federalists, Jefferson & burr won, but they each received 73 electoral votes and the house of representatives had to re vote 35 times until on the 36th ballot Jefferson won. This happened because during that time the 2 people that got the highest votes were president and vice president, even if they were in different political parties.

Question 2

22nd Amendment

Answer 2

.No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Question 3

25th Amendment

Answer 3

.The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities. It supersedes the ambiguous wording of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, which does not expressly state whether the Vice President becomes the President, as opposed to an Acting President, if the President dies, resigns, is removed from office or is otherwise unable to discharge the powers of the presidency.[1] The Twenty-fifth Amendment was adopted on February 23, 1967.

Question 4

Amnesty

Answer 4

A group pardon to individuals for an offense against he government

Question 5

Bureaucracy

Answer 5

Government administrators

Question 6

Cabinet

Answer 6

Secretaries of the executive departments, the vice president, and other top officials that help the president make decisions and policy

Question 7

Congressional Override

Answer 7

The power of congress to pass legislation over a president’s veto

Question 8

Electoral College

Answer 8

.a body of electors chosen by the voters who formally elect the president and vice president
2. any body of electors with similar functions

Question 9

Executive Agreements

Answer 9

An agreement made between the president and a h

Question 10

Executive Order

Answer 10

A rule issued by the president that has the force of law

Question 11

Executive office of the president

Answer 11

.the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws

Question 12

Executive Privalege

Answer 12

The right of the president and other high ranking executive officers to refuse to testify before Congress or a court

Question 13

Impeachment

Answer 13

A formal accusation of misconduct in office against a public official

Question 14

Independent Agencies

Answer 14

.an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments

Question 15

Line-Item Veto

Answer 15

the power to veto only certain lines or items in a bill

Question 16

Mandate

Answer 16

a formal order given by a higher authority

Question 17

National Security Council

Answer 17

the council, composed of the President, vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that determines means by which domestic, foreign, and military policy can best be integrated for safeguarding the national security

Question 18

Office of Management and Budget

Answer 18

the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget

Question 19

Pardon

Answer 19

a release from legal punishment

Question 20

Patronage

Answer 20

the practice of granting favors to reward party loyalty

Question 21

Presidential Succession

Answer 21

the order in which officials fill the office of president in case of a vacancy

Question 22

Pocket Veto

Answer 22

when a president kills a bill passed during the last 10 days Congress is in session by simply refusing to act on it

Question 23

Treaty

Answer 23

a formal agreement between the governments of two or more countries

Question 24

Veto

Answer 24

Rejection of a bill

Question 25

War Powers Act

Answer 25

The War Powers Act, now called the War Powers Resolution, was passed by Congress in 1973. The act stated that the President could only call the military to action if Congress authorized it or the United States was under attack.