Unit Four (because fuck unit three) Flashcards
22nd amendment (1951)
Prevents a president from serving more than 2 terms or ten years if they succeeded their predecessor.
Impeachment
A power delegated to the house of reps in the constitution to charge the president with high crimes such as treason or bribery.
Executive Privilege
Implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose confidential info. such as dickbutt.
U.S v. Nixon (1974)
Key supreme court ruling on the power of the president. There is no absolute constitutional executive privilege that lets a press. refuse to comply with court orders.
25th amendment (1967)
Established procedures for filling vacancies in office.
Cabinet
The formal body of presidential advisors who head the fifteen executive departments.
Veto power
Formal constitutional authority of the press. to reject bills passed by both houses in congress.
Item Line Veto
Authority of a chief executive to delete part of a bill that has been passed by the legislature.
War Powers act (1973)
The President is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty day period during peacetime.
Inherent Powers
Powers of the president that can be derived or inferred from specific powers in the constitution.
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Establishment created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy.
Patronage
Jobs, grants, or other special favors that are given as rewards to friends and political allies for support.
Office of management and budget (OMB)
The office that prepares the presidents annual budget.
Executive order
A rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law.
Bureaucracy
A set of complex hierarchal departments, agencies, commissions, and their staffs that exist to help a chief executive officer carry out their duties.
Spoils system
The firing of public office holders of a defeated political party and their replacement with loyalists.
Mandatory Spending
In the United States, mandatory spending refers to budget authority and ensuing outlays provided in laws other than appropriations acts, including annually appropriated entitlements. In fiscal year (FY) 2011, mandatory spending accounted for about 60 percent of the federal budget.
Political Polarization
Political polarization refers to cases in which an individual’s stance on a given issue, policy, or person is more likely to be strictly defined by their identification with a particular political party
Lame-Duck Period
A lame-duck session of Congress in the United States occurs whenever one Congress meets after its successor is elected, but before the successor’s term begins.
Election
A formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body.
Presidential Approval Ratings
A way to gauge public support for the President of the United States during his term.
Patronage
Jobs, grants, or other special favors that are given to friends for their political support.
Pendleton Act
Made it illegal for federal political appointees to be required to contribute to a particular system.
Civil Service System
System created by civil service laws by which appointments to the fed. bureaucracy are made.
Fed. Employees Political activities act (1993)
Liberalization of the hatch act. Fed. employees are now allowed to run for office in non-partisan elections.
Implementation
The process by which a law or policy is put into operation.
Iron Triangles
The relatively stable relationship between an agency, interest group, and congressional committee.
Issue networks
The loose and informal relationships that exist among a large number of actors who work in broad policy areas.
Interagency councils
Working groups created to facilitate coordination of policy making.
executive orders
rules or regulations issued by the president that have the effect of law.
