Presidential Problems
This presidential role is most important during war-time.
What is the Commander-in-Chief?
The president’s power to grant a convicted criminal official forgiveness for a crime called.
What is a pardon?
When this occurs, the President has decided not to sign a bill into law from Congress.
What is a VETO?
These are TWO of the THREE requirements to be elected POTUS.
What are (name at least 2) _____ & ________ ?
Natural Born Citizen
35 Years Old
14 Year U.S. Resident
This elects the President of the United States, in elections every four years
What is the Electoral College?
During the Civil Rights Movement, this group was protected when Poll taxes were barred (you cannot charge people to vote) by the 24th Amendment.
Who are African-Americans in the South?
(Two Parts) The requirements to serve as Vice President and the maximum number of years someone could serve in the role.
What are same requirements to be POTUS and unlimited?
This Executive Department focuses on the nation’s policies towards other countries and advises the President on International situations.
What is the State Department?
The longest someone could serve as President, in accordance with the 22nd Amendment.
What is 10 years? (2 terms, + 2 years if taking over for someone else).?
Besides Congress writing a bill negating working it, this is the only way an Executive Order can be stopped.
What is judicial review/being struck down by the Courts?
This limits how long the President can send troops somewhere without Congressional Permission.
What is the War Powers Act of 1973?
This must happen for a candidate to be officially declared the winner in a presidential election.
What is winning a majority of the electoral votes (270 or more)?
Suffrage (the right to vote) has been granted to many groups in the US through this.
What are constitutional amendments (15th - Black Men, 19th - Women, 26th - 18-year-olds)?
These are TWO ways Executive Orders differ from laws.
(Answers vary) What are _________ & __________ (NOT requiring congressional approval, a future POTUS can remove easily, can happen quickly as opposed to a slow process, etc)?
This elects the President of the United States, in elections every four years.
What is the Electoral College?
This requires that the federal government give Jobs to Most Qualified candidates as opposed to whoever is simply connected to the President.
What is the civil service system?
How many US Presidents have been removed from office by the Senate after impeachment?
What is ZERO? (although four have been impeached by the House; A. Johnson, B. Clinton, D. Trump x2 and Nixon would have been if he hadn't resigned)
When a disaster strikes the US (like a Hurricane or mass act of violence), POTUS may have to take on this role.
What is Citizen or Consoler-in-Chief?
This is used to enable voters to participate in an election when they cannot be present at the polls on election day?
What is an absentee ballot?
When the 20th amendment gave new terms of office for the President and Congress, it shortened the “Lame Duck” period between President & President-Elect from March to this month.
What is January?
The Senate can block the president’s appointees to these positions. (Name AT LEAST two).
What are the Supreme Court, the Cabinet, Federal Judiciary Courts, and/or Federal executive agency heads?
This officially established our current line of succession and says V-P and majority of Cabinet can declare presidential incapacity.
What is the 25th Amendment?
These are FIVE of the 15 Executive Departments that advise the President in his Cabinet.
What are (must have FIVE from the list below):
This MUST happen to a bill before the President can sign it to become a law, with no exceptions.
What is completing the legislative process in BOTH houses?
These are the TWO ways unelected Civil Servants/Bureaucrats have received their jobs historically & how they differ (2 titles, 2 explanations)?
What are the Civil service system and Spoils system? (Explanations vary:
*Spoils: Give Jobs to Supporters (Andrew Jackson 1820's-1870's)
*Merit/Civil Service: Give Jobs to Most Qualified (1880's-present)
This number is based on a states’ numerical representation in the House and Senate.
What is the formula for Electoral College Votes that each state earns?
(TWO PARTS) The 23rd Amendment gave Washington D.C. this many electoral votes; an identical number to this group or state name.
What is three / the same number as the smallest states (Alaska, Vermont, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming)?
These are THREE examples of Executive Departments & what their job is (three answers, three explanations).
What are (answers vary but include) _____, _________, & _________ ?
These are two responsibilities a Cabinet Secretary has (MUST get both).
What are Advising the President on Issues Related to their Departments and Carrying Out the President’s Policy Decisions?
In addition to Commander-In-Chief, these are
FOUR POTUS roles and what they mean.
What are Chief Executive, Chief Diplomat, Legislative Leader, Head-of-State, or Party Leader (with definitions)?
Besides a pardon, the President has these two checks & balances to use against the Judicial Branch for people accused of Federal crimes. (Define these terms too).
A commutation (lessening of the criminal penalty) and the power to issue a reprieve (also called a stay of execution or a "respite") to temporarily delay the imposition of a death sentence.
Like the FBI helping to enforce law enforcement, these are THREE Agencies or Regulatory Commissions that can help the POTUS "carry out the Law" as he sits fit any what they do. (Three Organizations, 3 explanations)
What are _________, _________, & ________ (answers vary) & how they work for the President carrying out the law?
Federal Reserve
Federal Trade Comm.
Securities & Exchange Comm.
Federal Communications Commission
Central Intelligence Agency
NASA
Small Business Admin.
Comm. On Civil Rights
Environmental Protection Agency
Nat’l Endowment for the Arts
Consumer Product Safety Commission
EEOC
These are the requirements for those who are usually selected to be Electoral College delegates.
What are Loyal party members who do not hold high offices & have not tried to overthrow the government?
This is the primary reason the 26th amendment lowered the voting age to 18.
What is matching the age of military eligibility/ in response to Vietnam War draft?
(TWO Parts) Debates over this Presidential power and originating with this scandal were at the heart of US vs. Nixon.
What are Executive Privilege and Watergate/the Watergate Break-In?