Terms and Qualifications
This is how long for one term as President and the maximum terms he or she can run for.
What is 4 years and 2 terms?
The amount of electoral votes in the presidential election.
What is 538 electoral votes?
This is the name for a proposed law (rough draft) and the term for when the president rejects a piece of legislation.
What is a bill and a veto?
These are the leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
What is the Speaker of the House and Pro Tempore of the Senate?
The age requirement to be president.
What is 35 years of age?
Describe the President's role as chief executive. The President's job in this role.
What is the President is the director of the executive branch? He can issue executive orders and appoint officials. He directs and manages the executive branch, getting people in that branch to do their jobs they way they are supposed to be done.
This is the amount of electoral votes needed by a President to win the presidential election.
What is 270 electoral votes?
The 22nd Amendment addresses this.
What is no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice?
Name a president to have been impeached and the total number of presidents impeached in United States History.
Who is:
1. Andrew Johnson
2. Bill Clinton
3. Donald Trump
for a total of 3 Presidents?
This is how long someone has to reside in the United States in order to be President.
What is 14 years?
This President role is not explicitly given in the Constitution and describe its impact.
What is Chief of Party/Party Leader: the acknowledged leader of the political party that controls the executive branch; he can campaign for fellow political members?
What is the U.S. House of Representatives—voting as states, not individuals—selects the President and the Senate selects the Vice President?
An executive order can be defined as this.
What is a signed, written, and published directive of the President?
Name three presidential powers/roles of the President.
What is:
1. Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States
2. Make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur
3. Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment
4. Take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed
5. The power to veto legislation passed by Congress
6. Appoint judges and executive branch officials with the advice and consent of the Senate?
The maximum length of time someone can hold the office of President.
What is 8 years?
Name the duties for the president as Chief Diplomat.
What is he is the head of the government to direct foreign policy of the country as leader of the nation on the world stage?
Name four ideas to how one should elect a president.
What is:
1. Direct election by popular vote
2. Selected by members of congress
3. Electors selected state governors
4. An electoral college?
The 3 categories of authority when the president:
1. Acts WITH congressional approval
2. Acts in the face of DISAPPROVAL from congress
3. Has neither congressional approval nor disapproval
What is:
1. MAXIMUM authority
2. LEAST authority
3. Zone of Twilight?
This is the process covered in the 25th amendment.
What is the process of presidential succession, death, disability, or replacement of the vice presidency?
Does the President need to be a natural born citizen? Define natural born citizen.
Yes. A person born abroad to American citizen parents or someone born in the United States. (Someone who is an American at birth)
Describe the Presidential role of chief legislator.
What is the President can speak to Congress during the State of the Union and share his plans for the government? (He does this by setting the overall shape of the congressional agenda, and by initiating, suggesting, requesting, insisting, and demanding that Congress enact much of its major legislation.)
The formula for how many electors a state gets.
What is the number of state house of representatives + state senators?
Two purposes of the Commander-In-Chief Clause
What is
1. Ensures civilian control over the military (we don’t live in a military state).
2. Places this control in the hands of a single person—a President elected by the American people?
The removal process of a president is noted through these three offenses.
What is:
1. Treason,
2. Bribery,
3. Other High Crimes and Misdemeanors?