Vocab
Presidential Power
Major Cases
Bill Actions
100
What is legal forgiveness of a crime?
Pardon
100
What is the power that the president has to make or deny bills from becoming law?
Veto Power
100
What is the decision of the Supreme court to shoot down the idea that president can make a lie-item veto?
Clinton vs. New York City 1998
100
What is it called when the a bill dies before the given 10 days?
pocket veto
200
What is the postponement of the execution of a sentence?
Reprieve
200
What is the power that the president has to present the State of Union address and two other major messages to congress?
Message Power
200
Watergate Scandal What is the acceptance of a full pardon on Nixon by President Gerald Ford in 1974?
Watergate Scandal
200
What is the right he president has to decline or refuse to sign a bill?
veto
300
What is the power to commute the length of sentence or fine imposed by a Court?
Commutation
300
What is the power that only the president has in order to call a ______ _______ of Congress?
Special Session
300
What is the cases where George Burdick was persecuted for printing reported fraud on customs duties?
Burdick vs. United States
300
What is when the president agrees to pass the bill?
signing a bill
400
What is the effective pardon of a group of people?
Amnesty
400
What is the power that the president has to end session of Congress when in a disagreement?
Prorogue, Adjourn
400
What is the thought that the president can expand the veto power to deleting certain lines of a bill?
line pocket veto
500
What is the presidential powers regarding Federal or state cases excluding impeachment?
Clemency
500
What is the power that the president has to allow the bill to become a law without acting upon it with certain set of days?
10 day signing
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