The plan by which a presidential vacancy is filled.
What is presidential succession
100
The people chosen to cast their state's formal votes for President.
What is electors
100
The formal statement of a political party's basic principles.
What is the platform
100
The mass of people who can cast votes in an election
What is the electorate
200
The maximum # of years a president can serve.
What is 10 years
200
The order of succession to the presidency after the Vice President is determined by this act.
What is Presidential Succession Act.
200
The major importance of this amendment was that it eliminated the possibility of a tie for the presidency.
What is the 12th amendment
200
The first and most widely publicized caucus today is held in this state
What is Iowa
200
# of votes W.V. has
What is 5
300
The president's role as head of the armed forces.
What is commander in chief
300
A method by which the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet can have presidential disability declared.
What is Inform Congress in writing
300
The minimum # of electoral votes a state can have.
What is 3
300
The person who is likely to be nominated if the incumbent President is seeking another term in office.
Who is the President
300
One of the arguments(as stated in your book) against the electoral college system.
What is:
1. A candidate who loses popular vote may still be elected
2. A elector doesn't have to vote with the state
3. election may be thrown into the House
400
As this, the president is the political leader of the nation.
What is chief of state
400
One formal duty of the Vice President is to help decide the question of presidential disability, this is the other duty.
What is Preside over the Senate
400
The election of 1800 resulted in a tie between these two people.
Who were Jefferson & Burr
400
One of the major goals of the national convention.
What is:
1. name the candidate
2. unify the party
3. adopt the party platform
400
The most widely supported plan for reform of the electoral college.
What is direct popular election plan
500
3 formal qualifications for becoming president.
What is:
1. natural born citizen
2. at least 35
3. Have lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years
500
In presidential succession, this position is #2 - following the Vice President.
What is Speaker of the House
500
The framers intended this to be the "most enlightened and respectable citizens" from each state.
What are the electors
500
two of the characteristics (as listed in your book) that help determine who is nominated.
What is:
1. Incumbent 6. healthy appearance
2. from a large state 7. good speaking skills
3. married
4. governor
5. Protestant
500
As shown in the book (2004), the number of electoral votes California has