Executive Leadership and Qualifications
This is the branch of government responsible for enforcing the nation's laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
These are personal qualities or experiences voters commonly look for in a presidential candidate.
What are Informal Qualifications?
This means being unable to perform official duties because of a serious illness, injury, or other condition.
What is Incapacitated?
This is an official addition or change to the U.S. Constitution.
What is an Amendment?
This is the constitutional system through which electors formally elect the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
This person is the head of the executive branch and leader of the U.S. government.
Who is the President?
This is the amount of time an elected official is authorized to serve.
What is a Term of Office?
This is the formal act of voluntarily leaving an office.
What is Resignation?
This amendment established January 20 at noon as the beginning and end of presidential and vice-presidential terms.
What is the 20th Amendment?
This is a person selected to cast an official Electoral College vote.
Who is an Elector?
This official becomes President if the President dies, resigns, is removed, or cannot serve.
Who is the Vice President?
This is the legal process that determines who assumes presidential duties when the President cannot serve.
What is Presidential Succession?
This is the House of Representatives' formal accusation that a federal official committed serious misconduct.
What is Impeachment?
This amendment limits a person to being elected President twice.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This is an official vote cast by an elector for President or Vice President.
What is an Electoral Vote?
These are the constitutional requirements a person must meet to serve as President.
What are Formal Qualifications?
This is the official order of people who may become President when the President and Vice President cannot serve.
What is the Line of Succession?
This is the process of forcing an official to leave office, which can happen after Senate conviction.
What is Removal from Office?
This amendment explains presidential succession, presidential disability, and filling a vice-presidential vacancy.
What is the 25th Amendment?
These are votes cast directly by the people during an election.
What is the Popular Vote?
This means a person was a U.S. citizen at birth.
What is a Natural-Born Citizen?
This means an elected or appointed position is temporarily unoccupied.
What is a Vacancy?
This means formally approved, such as when an amendment is approved by the required number of states.
What is Ratified?
This amendment requires electors to cast separate votes for President and Vice President.
What is the 12th Amendment?
This means more than half of the total votes. A presidential candidate currently needs at least 270 of 538 electoral votes to win.
What is a Majority?