This man was a symbol of excessive executive power.
Who is King George III of Great Britain?
100
Two of the three eligibility requirements for becoming president.
What are 35 years old, resident of U.S. for 14 years, and natural-born citizen?
100
When the president issues his/her legislative agenda.
What is the annual State of the Union address?
100
Powers that are clearly outlined in the Constitution.
What are expressed powers?
100
This is a measure of how well-liked a president is and impacts how much he/she can get done.
What is an approval rating?
200
What the framers envisioned to be the focal point of the United States government.
What is Congress?
200
What all presidents have been, aside from two.
What are white, Protestant, males?
200
The term used to refer to the symbolic leader of a country.
What is Chief of State?
200
The right of executive officials (especially the president) to refuse to disclose some information and refuse to appear before Congress.
What is executive privilege?
200
The people a president must please, aside from the general public.
What is the Washington community and his/her party?
300
Two of the early assertive presidents.
Who were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln?
300
The type of election held to determine who will run for the executive office in each major party.
What is a primary?
300
The president's primary role in the federal bureaucracy.
What is making bureaucratic appointments?
300
The most important "inherent power" used by the president.
What is the executive order?
300
A description of how media coverage of the president has changed over the course of the past century.
What is reporting and analyzing everything the president does, even if (or especially if?) it might hurt the president's image?
400
The term used to describe (derisively) the executive office in the first few decades of the United States because presidential nominations always came directly from Congress.
What is King Caucus?
400
The people who actually vote for the president and the process by which they elect him/her.
Who are electors, and what is the Electoral College?
400
The 15 appointees who are in charge of important bureaucratic agencies and who are responsible for advising the president.
What is the cabinet?
400
The term referring to the deft use of political skill, prudence, and opportunity by the president.
What is statecraft?
400
Theodore Roosevelt's theory that the president has the right to do whatever the nation needs (within the law, of course).
What is the stewardship theory?
500
Another derisive term used to describe the executive office in the latter half of the 19th century because most of those presidents took a "back seat" to Congress.
What is the "clerk in chief"?
500
How the vice president was chosen from 1789 to 1804.
What is the second-greatest number of electoral votes?
500
The veto power that many governors have and the president wishes he had.
What is the line-item veto?
500
Where all executive orders are published on a daily basis.
What is the Federal Register?
500
The most dangerous types of presidents, according to James Barber's psychological analysis model.