Party Leadership
Public Support
Chief & War Powers
Congress & Crisis
Genius Points
100
The most important relationship in the House and Senate and the president
What are bonds between parties?
100
Public approval in the polls, and mandates
What is an indicator of public support for the President that people of Congress consider?
100
A briefcase with the codes needed to unleash nuclear war; always within the president's reach.
What is the football?
100
The driving force behind national security policy, providing energy and direction.
Who is the President?
100
Limits the President to 2 terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
200
The primary obstacle to party unity.
What is a lack of consensus on policies among party members?
200
• It displays to congressmen whether the president is able to shift public opinion against their opponents. • It makes the president more effective in carrying out legislation. • It sets limits to how much Congress will go through for the president, based on how high or low public approval is. • BUT, presidents can’t depend on having it for Congress to support them.
What is the benefit of a president having public approval?
200
Presidents must consult with Congress whenever possible prior to using military force and to withdraw forces after 60 days unless Congress declares war or grants an extension; as a result of fighting in Vietnam and Cambodia.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
200
Congress focuses and has power with domestic policies, but it is less involved in this.
What is national security policy?
200
Jimmy Carter did this on December 14, 1978, when he announced the exchange of ambassadors with the People's Republic of China and the downgrading of the U.S. Embassy of Taiwan.
What is extending diplomatic recognition to foreign governments?
300
Trying to solicit help from the opposing party.
What is the president's last resort when there is a lack of dependable party support?
300
It refers to the perception that voters strongly support a president’s character and policies
What is Electoral mandate?
300
An example is the War Powers Resolution. The Supreme Court would find this a violation of the doctrine of separation of powers.
What is legislative veto?
300
Congress is well organized to deliberate openly on the discrete components of policy but it is not well designed to take the lead; it typically oversees the executive rather than initiating policy.
What is Congress's role in national and domestic policies?
300
Vietnam peace agreement and SALT I agreement
What are executive agreements?
400
When voters cast their ballots for congressional candidates of the president’s party because they want to support the president.
What are presidential coattails?
400
Bargaining, personal appeals, consulting Congress, structuring congressional votes.
What are executive legislative skills?
400
The president is the commander in chief of the armed forces, while Congress declares war and votes on military budget.
What are the war powers?
400
The effect of this can remake a president's image by showing the public what they are capable of doing in a high risk situation.
What is handling a crisis?
400
Since 1953, there have been 30 years in which Republican presidents faced a Democratic House of Representatives and 22 years in which they encountered a Democratic Senate.
What is a lack of majority of the president's party in one or both houses of Congress?
500
The president’s relationship with party leaders in Congress
What is delicate?
500
• If the president avoids a policy, he’ll have to get back to it later in his presidency. • Not everything can be achieved through bargaining. • Congress can set its own agenda to compete with the president’s proposals. • Having to compete with factors that sway votes in Congress, like party, ideology, personal stance, constituency interests, etc.
What are limits to a presidents' legislative skills?
500
Theodore Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize in settling the war between Japan and Russia; Jimmy Carter's peace treaty between Egypt and Israel at Camp David.
What is presidential diplomacy?
500
The president’s roles as chief diplomat and commander in chief are related to this; This is when a crisis (which is a sudden, unpredictable, and potentially dangerous event), occurs, and it requires quick judgments on the basis of sketchy information.
What is crisis management?
500
A new president is ready to send legislation to Capitol Hill during this period; early in the first year of office.
What is the honeymoon period?
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