The minimum number of electoral college votes each state is entitled.
What is three?
100
A foreign policy agreement that requires Senate approval.
What is a treaty?
100
Each Department, (e.g., Defense, State) are part of this presidential advisory body.
What is the cabinet?
200
Dedicates monuments, visits colleges, or disaster sites.
What is Chief of State?
200
Two formal requirements to be President.
What is 35 years old, 14 years a resident, natural born citizen?
200
The method which usually awards electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote of 48 states.
What is "winner take all"?
200
An agreement between between the President and the leader of another country that does not require Senate approval.
What is an Executive Agreement?
200
This "service" was created to make sure federal employees were hired based on merit not political loyality.
Legal
Merit
Civil
National
What is Civil (Service)?
300
In this capacity he makes political appointments to loyal supporters and sometimes helps with fundraising for other politicians.
What is Political Party Leader?
300
This amendment set the number of terms in office at two.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
300
A presidential "ticket" includes this.
What is the President and Vice President?
300
To override a Presidential veto requires this number/fraction of a vote in the House and the Senate.
What is 2/3s?
300
Which of the following are not part of the Executive Office of the President?
Press Secretary
Environmental Protection Agency
Council of Economic Advisors
National Security Council
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
400
He negotiates treaties, meets with heads of states, and sets foreign policy.
What is Chief Diplomat?
400
This amendment deals with presidential disability.
What is the 25th Amendment?
400
The maximum number of years a person could serve as President.
What is 10 years?
400
The heads of the 15 executive departments have this title.
What is Secretary?
400
Which of the following is not a Cabinet-level department
Veteran's Affairs
Ways and Means
Justice
Transportation
What is the Ways and Means? (this is a committee in the House)
500
He suggests a national budget, gives the annual State of the Union Address, etc.
What is Chief Legislator?
500
The president can grant these to people once convicted of a federal crime.
What is a pardon or a reprieve?
500
If no presidential candidate receives a majority of the electoral college votes or if there is a tie, who decides who should be President?
What is the House of Representatives?
500
All of the following things the Bureaucracy can do EXCEPT,
Drafting ideas for new laws
Deciding which laws to implement
Creating Paper work
Making rules
What is deciding which laws to implement?
500
This legal reform provided the foundation for the present civil service system:
Pendleton Act
Hatch Act
Civil Service Duplication Reduction Act
Spoil System Act
What is the Pendleton Act of 1883?
(Be sure to study your handouts)