Branch
Article II creates this branch of Government
What is the Executive Branch?
If the President resigns from office, this person takes over as President.
Who is the Vice President?
The way to determine how many Electoral College voter each state receives
What is add the number of House members and Senators in the state.
The principle of the Constitution that makes sure no one branch of the Government gets too much power by giving them the ability to check one another
What is checks and balances?
The amendment that was passed after JFK's assassination to better define Presidential Succession
What is the 25th Amendment?
The main job of the executive branch.
What is to enforce or execute the laws?
Term length for President
What is four years?
This body confirms some Presidential nominees
What is the Senate?
One check the President has on Congress
The amendment that gives Washington D.C the same amount of Electoral College electors as the smallest state
What is the 23rd Amendment?
The 26th President of the United States
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The maximum amount of time a person can ever be President after the 22nd Amendment
What is 10 years?
One power the President has
What is: Propose and administers laws
Commands the military
Appoints ambassadors, judges, and officials
Conducts foreign policy
Makes treaties
One check the Congress has on the President
What is the ability to override the Veto, or the power to impeach?
The amendment that codifies the tradition started with George Washington that President's should only serve two terms
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This document, which was the first governing document of the United States, did not include an executive branch. This is not a mistake the Founders made when writing the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What is Commander in Chief?
According to the Constitution, these are the crimes that can get a President impeached
What are treason, bribery, other high crimes, and misdemeanors?
One check the President has on the Supreme Court
What is the ability to nominate judges or the power to grant reprieves and pardons?
The Lame Duck amendment that speeds up the transition between the election and when the President is inaugurated
What is the 20th Amendment?
The executive branch is not just the President. Who else is in the executive branch? Article II is comprised of all of these:
What are the Vice President, The Cabinet, and the Executive Departments?
Requirements to be President (All Three)
What are: natural-born citizen, 35 years old, resident for 14 years.
The four actions a President can take when a bill is on their desks
What are: sign - becomes law
not sign - becomes law
veto - sent back to Congress
pocket veto - dies
One check the Supreme Court has on the President
What is the power to declare Presidential actions unconstitutional?
The amendment that prevents a tie from occurring in a Presidential election after the election of 1800
What is the 12th Amendment?