Category 1: Executive Leadership and Qualifications
The head of the executive branch and leader of the U.S. government.
What is the President?
The amount of time a President is elected to serve.
What is a Term of Office?
A position that is temporarily unoccupied.
What is a Vacancy?
This amendment changed the beginning and ending of presidential terms to January 20 at noon.
What is the 20th Amendment?
The constitutional system used to formally elect the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
The branch responsible for enforcing the nation's laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The official who becomes President if the President can no longer serve.
Who is the Vice President?
Unable to perform official duties because of a serious condition.
What is Incapacitated?
This amendment limits a person to being elected President twice.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
A person selected to cast an Electoral College vote.
What is an Elector?
The constitutional requirements a person must meet to become President.
What are Formal Qualifications?
The legal process for determining who takes over when the President cannot serve.
What is Presidential Succession?
The House of Representatives' formal accusation of serious misconduct by a federal official.
What is Impeachment?
This amendment explains presidential succession and presidential disability.
What is the 25th Amendment?
The official vote cast by an elector.
What is an Electoral Vote?
A person who was a U.S. citizen at birth.
What is a Natural-Born Citizen?
The official order of people who may become President.
What is the Line of Succession?
The process of forcing an official to leave office, which can follow a Senate conviction.
What is Removal from Office?
This amendment requires electors to vote separately for President and Vice President.
What is the 12th Amendment?
Votes cast directly by the people in an election.
What is the Popular Vote?
Personal qualities or experiences voters often look for, but the Constitution does not require.
What are Informal Qualifications?
The formal act of voluntarily leaving an office.
What is Resignation?
The group of executive department leaders who advise the President.
What is the Cabinet?
The formal process of approving a constitutional amendment.
What is Ratification?
The number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency when all 538 electoral votes are available.
What is 270?