Constitutional
Foundations
Foundations
This article of the U.S. Constitution discusses the American Presidency.
What is Article II?
A "corrupt bargain" occurred between John Quincy Adams and Henty Clay during this election.
What was the 1824 Election?
This Rossiter "hat" would see a president cutting the ribbon at the opening of a new hospital.
What is the Chief of State?
Fine and Waterman use these elements in their model of presidential leadership.
What are skill, leverage, and outcome?
This clause states the "the executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America."
What is the Vesting Clause?
After 36 ballots, the Election of 1800 finally chose John Adams to be president while also moving toward putting this amendment in the Constitution.
What was the Twelfth Amendment?
This unilateral action gives the president the power to wipe away penalties for previously committed crimes.
What is the Pardon Power?
Due to being aligned with a vulnerable political regime, Skowronek places Herbert Hoover into this category.
What is the Politics of Disjunction?
Name all three authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who were Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and John Jay?
In 1952, this Republican presidential candidate was one of the first to air televised campaign ads telling people to vote for him.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
This president believed that his power was limited to the text of the Constitution.
This theory of presidential scandal centers on politicians themselves being flawed individuals.
What is Psychiatric Theory?
This Federalist Paper on the executive branch distinguishes the president from a monarch.
What is Federalist 69?
Following the raucous 1968 DNC in Chicago, this commission was created to modernize the delegate selection process.
What was McGovern-Fraser?
What is style?
This president defiantly claimed that "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
Who was Bill Clinton?
Who was Daniel Shays?
This state has the first-in-the nation primary, allowing candidates to gain or increase their public support.
What is New Hampshire?
FDR and Reagan would likely rank high on this leadership trait developed by Fred Greenstein.
Public Communication
This was the collective name for the group who fixed White House "leaks" during Richard Nixon's presidency.
Who were The Plumbers?