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 changed the Presidential inauguration (when a POTUS is sworn in) to be moved from March 4 to January 20, reducing the "Lame Duck" period.
What is the 20th Amendment?
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?
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?
(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 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?
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 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)
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
(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?