Chapter 13 "The Presidency"
Chapter 14 "The Presidency in Action
Chapter 15 "The Bureaucracy"
Chapter 16 "Financing Government"
Chapter 17 "Foreign Policy and National Defense"
100
A group of people to formally select the president and vice president.
What is the electoral college?
100
formal agreement between two or more sovereign states.
What is a treaty?
100
supported by two parties
What is a bipartisan?
100
type of tax proportionate to income.
What is progressive tax?
100
events within the U.S.
What are domestic affairs?
200
the formal statement to basic principles and stands on major political matters and objectives.
What is a platform?
200
an official postponement of the execution of a sentence.
What is a reprieve?
200
those citizen employees who perform the administrative work of government.
What is civil service?
200
a yearly shortfall between income and outgo; and it borrwoed heavily to make up the difference.
What is a deficit?
200
conscription or compulsory military service.
What is a draft?
300
electoral college members would be selected in the same manner as senators in this alternative plan to the electoral college.
What is the district plan?
300
term used to describe a president as an emperor who acts without consulting congress or acts in secrecy to evade or deceive congress.
What is an imperial presidency?
300
a detailed financial document containing estimates of federal income and spending during the coming fiscal year.
What is a federal budget?
300
tax imposed on the making of a gift by a living person.
What is a gift tax?
300
right to send and receive diplomats
What is the right of legislation?
400
meeting at which a party's delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice presidential candidates.
What is a national convention?
400
a blanket pardon offered to a group of law violators.
What is an amnesty?
400
the practice of giving jobs to supporters and friends
What is patronage?
400
a measure which allows agencies to continue working based on the pervious year's apropriations.
What is a continuing resolution?
400
a principal to keep international peach and order.
What is collective security?
500
The law enforcing the order of presidential succession.
What is the presidential succession act of 1947?
500
an unwelcome person used to described recalled diplomatic officials.
What is persona non grata?
500
regulate important aspects of the nation's economy
What is independent regulatory comissions?
500
a tax laid on the manufacture sale, or consuption of goods and/or the performance of services.
What is excise tax?
500
ambassadors are not subject to the state to which they are accredited.
What is diplomatic immunity?
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