Who has the responsibility for formally electing the President?
What are presidential electors.
100
The party's objectives for the present campaign and the following years.
What is a party platform?
100
What role means that the President leads the military?
What is the commander in chief?
100
This is what would be needed to get rid of the electoral college due to the direct popular election plan?
What is a constitutional amendment?
100
This is a formal qualification for President related to age.
What is the President must be 35 years-old?
200
According to the framers' plan, each presidential elector would cast this many votes?
What is two votes, each for a presidential candidate?
200
The speech that sets the tone at a party convention.
What is the keynote address?
200
The President's role as the main author of public policy.
What is chief diplomat?
200
The plan that says a State's electoral votes should be divided by a candidate's share of the popular vote.
What is the proportional plan?
200
This is the portion of the electoral votes a candidate will get under the proportional representation plan if they win 55% of all votes cast in a primary.
What is 55%?
300
The founders believes that this group of people would vote directly for presidential candidates.
What is the electoral college, or, who are presidential electors?
300
This is what the major parties hold every four years to unify the party, identify candidates, and establish a platform.
What is a national convention?
300
The role that says that the President leads their party.
What is chief of party?
300
This plan lets every State congressional district pick its own electors by popular vote.
What is the district plan?
300
If no presidential candidate wins a majority of the electoral votes, this body decides the election.
What is the House of Representatives?
400
Who decides the winner if a candidate does not win a majority of the electoral votes.
What is the House of Representatives?
400
This is a closed meeting of party members to select delegates for the national convention and express preferences for candidates.
What is a caucus?
400
The President as the head of the government and national symbol.
What is chief of state?
400
This plan gets rid of the electoral college and allows voters to vote directly for President.
What is the direct popular election plan?
400
Before this amendment, the President could serve an unlimited number of terms according to the Constitution?
What is the 22nd Amendment?
500
The state with the earliest delegate selection contest in every presidential campaign since 1972.
What is Iowa?
500
This is the first method parties used to pick their candidates for President.
What are congressional caucuses?
500
This role requires the President to head the whole Executive Branch.
What is chief administrator?
500
This plan asks states to reform the electoral college system.
What is the national popular vote plan?
500
After President Roosevelt held his third and fourth term in office, the Congress wanted to keep power balanced and passed this amendment.