Presidential Powers
The president's role in the military.
What is Commander in Chief?
The President who was elected to four terms.
Who is FDR?
Includes ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement).
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
The ability of an Independent Agency to make its own rules and regulations.
What is a quasi-legislative power?
The name of George W. Bush's chief of staff.
Who is Mr. Card?
What is Article II of the Constitution?
The expectation of the Founding Fathers is that the President would be this kind of person.
What is non-partisan and esteemed by all?
Led by the controversial Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Largest budget of any department.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services?
This Supreme Court ruling affirmed the constitutionality of Independent Agencies and made it illegal to fire the head of such an agency.
What is Humphrey's Executor?
The forerunner to the CIA which lagged considerably behind the KGB and MI6.
What is the OSS?
These are the representatives of the United States and foreign countries which the President appoints and receives.
What are ambassadors?
The tactic used by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to influence public opinion.
What is the bully pulpit?
This department, led by Linda McMahon, has been on the chopping block since the beginning of President Trump's second term.
What is the Department of Education?
The legal philosophy that the President should have complete control over the Executive Branch.
What is the Unitary Executive Theory?
This President was assassinated by a man who was upset that the President hadn't given him a job in the Federal bureaucracy.
Who was James Garfield?
The ability of the President to forgive people who have been convicted by a court.
What is a pardon?
President Andrew Jackson was famous for using this as an instrument of policy.
What is the veto?
Charged with enforcing the Endangered Species Act to preserve vulnerable wildlife in the United States.
What is the Department of the Interior?
Filling executive branch positions by those who are politically loyal rather than those most qualified for the job.
What is patronage?
This President called out the National Guard to put down a strike by workers of the Pullman Car company in Chicago.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This presidential power has served as the constitutional basis for the Cabinet.
What is the Opinion Clause?
The rationale for Abraham Lincoln's expansion of the President's powers during the Civil War.
What is inherent executive power?
A significant portion of this department collects statistics on the state of the economy to guide policy decisions.
What is the Department of Labor?
This law abolished patronage and introduced a professional civil service with an exam.
What is the Hatch Act?
The class of naval vessels that FDR secretly supplied to Great Britain during World War II without the authorization of Congress.
What are destroyers?