Unit Four (because fuck unit three)

Question 1

22nd amendment (1951)

Answer 1

Prevents a president from serving more than 2 terms or ten years if they succeeded their predecessor.

Question 2

Impeachment

Answer 2

A power delegated to the house of reps in the constitution to charge the president with high crimes such as treason or bribery.

Question 3

Executive Privilege

Answer 3

Implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose confidential info. such as dickbutt.

Question 4

U.S v. Nixon (1974)

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

25th amendment (1967)

Answer 5

Established procedures for filling vacancies in office.

Question 6

Cabinet

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Veto power

Answer 7

Formal constitutional authority of the press. to reject bills passed by both houses in congress.

Question 8

Item Line Veto

Answer 8

Authority of a chief executive to delete part of a bill that has been passed by the legislature.

Question 9

War Powers act (1973)

Answer 9

The President is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a sixty day period during peacetime.

Question 10

Inherent Powers

Answer 10

Powers of the president that can be derived or inferred from specific powers in the constitution.

Question 11

Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Answer 11

Establishment created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy.

Question 12

Patronage

Answer 12

Jobs, grants, or other special favors that are given as rewards to friends and political allies for support.

Question 13

Office of management and budget (OMB)

Answer 13

The office that prepares the presidents annual budget.

Question 14

Executive order

Answer 14

A rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law.

Question 15

Bureaucracy

Answer 15

A set of complex hierarchal departments, agencies, commissions, and their staffs that exist to help a chief executive officer carry out their duties.

Question 16

Spoils system

Answer 16

The firing of public office holders of a defeated political party and their replacement with loyalists.

Question 17

Mandatory Spending

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

Political Polarization

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Lame-Duck Period

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

Election

Answer 20

A formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body.

Question 21

Presidential Approval Ratings

Answer 21

A way to gauge public support for the President of the United States during his term.

Question 22

Patronage

Answer 22

Jobs, grants, or other special favors that are given to friends for their political support.

Question 23

Pendleton Act

Answer 23

Made it illegal for federal political appointees to be required to contribute to a particular system.

Question 24

Civil Service System

Answer 24

System created by civil service laws by which appointments to the fed. bureaucracy are made.

Question 25

Fed. Employees Political activities act (1993)

Answer 25

Liberalization of the hatch act. Fed. employees are now allowed to run for office in non-partisan elections.

Question 26

Implementation

Answer 26

The process by which a law or policy is put into operation.

Question 27

Iron Triangles

Answer 27

The relatively stable relationship between an agency, interest group, and congressional committee.

Question 28

Issue networks

Answer 28

The loose and informal relationships that exist among a large number of actors who work in broad policy areas.

Question 29

Interagency councils

Answer 29

Working groups created to facilitate coordination of policy making.

Question 30

executive orders

Answer 30

rules or regulations issued by the president that have the effect of law.