US presidency

Question 1

Define domestic policy?

Answer 1

Issues within the USA that directly concern citizens, eg healthcare

Question 2

Define electoral mandate?

Answer 2

permission granted to a political leader or winning party to govern and act on their behalf

Question 3

Define Executive branch?

Answer 3

The executive branch is headed by the president is one of the three branches of government

Question 4

Define Executive orders?

Answer 4

official documents issued by the executive branch with the force of the law, through which the president directs federal officials to take certain actions

Question 5

Define imperial presidency?

Answer 5

A dominant presidency with the ineffective checks and balances from other branches

Question 6

Define imperilled presidency?

Answer 6

thus is the contrasting theory to that of an imperial presidency- it is claimed that the president does not have enough power to be effective

Question 7

Define informal powers?

Answer 7

powers of the president not listed on the constitution but taken anyway