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Under this role, the President is in charge of the military.
What is commander in chief?
Who succeeds the vice president in the line of becoming President if the vice president dies or is temporarily unable to perform his duties?
Who is the Speaker of the House?
President Truman used this power to recognize Israel as a sovereign country in 1948.
What is diplomatic recognition?
Public opinion is an informal check on the President's power that affects his influence over this body of government.
What is Congress?
This office under the Executive Office of the President was created in response to the threat of the Soviet Union.
What is the National Security Council?
Under this role, the President is responsible for the fifteen executive departments that together employ 1.8 million people.
What is the chief administrator?
Though not a constitutional requirement, 75% of all presidents have had this in their background.
What is military experience?
If the President does not want to convince Congress to pass a treaty, he can instead make this.
What is an executive agreement?
What is 2/3 of each chamber?
Though people in this role initially felt there was too little to do, those elected to this office nowadays can expect to be key advisers to the President, attend NSC meetings, and visit foreign nations.
What is the vice president?
As the chief agenda setter, the President gives this speech at the beginning of each year to suggest areas Congress should focus on as they make laws.
What is the State of the Union Address?
The three requirements to become a president.
What are 35, 14, and natural born citizen?
Name the three executive powers:
What are appoint + remove, executive orders, and executive privilege?
The check on the President's power by the Supreme Court is called:
What is judicial review?
Headed by three appointed advisers. This office comes up with an annual economic report on the state of the country's economy. Not to be confused with the National Economic Council.
What is the Council of Economic Advisers?
In this informal role, the President is expected to be a role model for all Americans.
What is chief citizen?
Who are the fifteen people who succeed the Speaker of the House in line for President in the event of a President's death or disability?
Who are the secretaries? (heads of the executive departments)
The President may use this judicial power to delay a sentence for humanitarian reasons or to allow a defendant to gather more evidence.
What is reprieve?
These two factors account for the significant increase in the President's power over the years.
What are the growth of the government as new programs are created to solve problems and the growth of US influence in global affairs?
The group of fifteen secretaries who each head one of the fifteen executive departments.
What is the cabinet?
These two roles, one formal and one informal, overlap as the President deals with America's relationships with other countries.
What are the foreign policy leader and the chief of state?
Why did the Framers require US presidential candidates to be "natural born US citizens"?
What is a fear of interference from foreign nations?
President Andrew Jackson granted this to a group of pirates who helped him in the War of 1812. In other words, though piracy was illegal, they were forgiven because of their service.
What is amnesty?
What is the press?
This President intentionally assembled a cabinet of leaders who had very different views. Some of them had even run against him in political campaigns.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?