Executive Leadership and Qualifications
What are checks and balances?
What is a system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches?
What is Presidential Succession?
What is the legal process that determines who assumes presidential duties when the President cannot serve?
What is impeachment
What is The House of Representatives' accusation that a federal official committed serious misconduct? (Does not alone remove the official)
An official addition or change to the United States Constitution
What is an Amendment?
What is Electoral College?
What is the Constitutional system through which electors formally elect the President and Vice President?
Who is the head of the executive branch and the leader of the United States government?
What is the President?
The official order of individuals who may assume the presidency when both the President and Vice President cannot serve
What is a line of succession?
An elected or appointed position that is temporarily unoccupied.
What is a vacancy?
The amendment establishing January 20 at noon as the beginning and end of presidential and vice-presidential terms
What is the 20th Amendment?
What is an Elector?
What is a person selected to cast an official Electoral College vote for the President and Vice President?
What is the Executive Branch?
What is Commander in Chief?
What is the President's role as the leader of the United States Armed Forces?
What is removal from office?
What is the 22nd Amendment?
What is the amendment limiting a person from being elected President twice?
An official vote cast by an elector for President or Vice President
What is an Electoral Vote?
What are informal qualifications?
What is personal qualities or experiences voters commonly look for in a presidential candidate, although they are not required by the Constitution?
What is the State of the Union Address?
What is the President's report to Congress about the condition of the country and the administration's priorities?
When someone formally leaves an office or position voluntarily.
What is resignation?
What does the 25th Amendment do?
What is explains presidential succession, presidential disability, and how a vacancy in the vice presidency is filled?
Votes cast directly by the people during an election
What is Popular Vote?
What are formal qualifications?
What is the constitutional requirements a person must meet to serve as President?
The President's role in directing foreign policy and representing the United States internationally
What is Chief Diplomat
What is incapacitated
What is unable to perform official duties because of serious illness, injury, or other condition?
What does the 12th Amendment require electors to do?
What is requires electors to cast separate votes for President and Vice President?
The election in which voters choose among candidates for public office
What is General Election?