Presidential Powers
This is a set of policy goals and priorities a president wants to achieve.
What is a presidential agenda?
These are the main organizations within the executive branch, each focusing on a specific area.
What are departments?
This is what the country lacked when Washington took office.
What is a strong military?
This is the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
What is nine?
This is the term for the system that ensures no one branch of government becomes too powerful.
What are checks and balances?
These are written instructions from the President that direct executive agencies and officials.
What are executive orders?
The heads of the executive departments make up this advisory body.
What is the Cabinet?
This was the biggest money problem the country faced.
What is national debt?
The President does this to begin the process of filling a Supreme Court vacancy.
What is nominate?
This is one way Congress can check the President's power in foreign policy.
What is declaring war? or What is controlling funding for the military?
This is the title given to the President in their role as head of the military.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
This department is in charge of the nation's finances.
What is the Department of the Treasury?
Hamilton held this position.
What is the Secretary of the Treasury?
This body must approve the President's nominee.
What is the Senate?
The President can do this to a bill passed by Congress, but Congress can override it.
What is veto?
This is one way a presidential agenda begins to form.
What are primary campaign promises?
This is the largest branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
This was the first domestic tax.
What is the Whiskey Tax?
Justices appointed to the court hold this type of term.
What is a life term?
This is how the Constitution involves both the President and Senate in the process of making treaties.
What is the President negotiates, and the Senate approves?
This is a speech given by the President to Congress to outline their goals.
What is the State of the Union address?
These are government organizations that focus on specific issues but are not directly controlled by the President.
What are independent agencies?
What was the biggest fear about the new Constitution?
What is a strong central government?
This is the term for the philosophy focusing on how a nominee interprets the Constitution.
What is judicial philosophy?
This is how the Constitution involves both the President and Senate in the process of appointing Cabinet members.
What is the President appoints, and the Senate confirms?