Presidency Vocab

Question 1

22nd Amendment

Answer 1

Adopted in 1951; prevents a president from serving more than two terms, or more than ten years if he came to office via death, resignation, or impeachment of his predecessor.

Question 2

25th Amendment

Answer 2

Adopted in 1967 to establish procedures for filling vacancies in the office of the president and vice president as well as providing for procedures to deal with the disability of a president.

Question 3

Cabinet

Answer 3

The formal body of presidential advisers who head the fifteen executive departments.

Question 4

Executive Agreements

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Executive Office of the President

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Executive Order

Answer 6

Rule or regulation listed issued by the President that has the effect of law. All executive orders must be published in the Federal Register.

Question 7

Executive Privilege

Answer 7

An implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose information regarding confidential conversations or nation security to Congress or the judiciary.

Question 8

Impeachment

Answer 8

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 or misdemeanors.” This is the first step in the constitutional process of removing government officials from office.

Question 9

Inherent Powers

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Line-Item Veto

Answer 10

The authority of a chief executive to delete part of a bill passed by the legislature that involves taxing or spending, Ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Question 11

New Deal

Answer 11

The name given to the program of “Relief, Recovery, Reform” begun by president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to bring the United States out of the Great Depression.

Question 12

Office of Management and Budget

Answer 12

The office that prepares the president’s 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 13

Pardon

Answer 13

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

Question 14

U.S. v. Nixon

Answer 14

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 15

Veto Power

Answer 15

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

Question 16

War Powers Act

Answer 16

Passed by Congress in 1973; the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime (which can be extended for an extra thirty days to permit withdrawal) unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period.