Presidential Powers
The Presidents
The Chief Executive
100
National Security Powers, Legislative Powers, Administrative Powers, Judicial Powers, are powers of the president.
What is Constitutional Powers?
100
These are the central themes of American political thought.
What is Opposition of power, and suspicion of government as the dangerous embodiment of power?
100
One of the president's most important roles, this role does not receive the same publicity as other functions do, but it is of great importance.
What is Presiding over the administration of government?
200
Today, there is more to presidential power than the Constitution alone suggests, presidents themselves have taken the initiative to develop new roles for the office.
What is The Expansion of Power?
200
Passed in 1951, the amendment that limits presidents to two terms of office.
What is the Twenty-Second Amendment?
200
A group of presidential advisors not mentioned in the Constitution, although every president has had one.
What is the Cabinet?
300
A series of secret documents slipped to the press by Daniel Ellsburg, Nixon's "enemies list" and his avowed goal to "screw our enemies" by tapping their phones, and using "surreptitious entry"
What is The Pentagon Papers?
300
U.S. Senator from California, Served two terms as Eisenhower's vice president, and lost the presidential election of 1960 to John F. Kennedy.
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
300
Constitutionally, these people are assigned the minor tasks of presiding over the Senate and voting in case of a tie among the senators.
Who is the Vice President?
400
This was revealed about presidents in the Pentagon Papers.
What is Presidential Duplicity?
400
The House of Representatives may do this to a president by a majority vote for "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
What is impeachment?
400
Manages the nation's natural resources, including wildlife and public lands.
What is the Interior Department?
500
Many people felt differently about the presidency in the 1970s, the Vietnam War was unpopular, Lyndon B. Johnson and the war made people reassess the role of presidential power, and Richard Nixon's Watergate Scandal heightened public distrust.
What is Perspectives on Presidential Power?
500
Passed in 1951, this amendment permits the vice president to become acting president if both the vice president and the president's cabinet determine that the president is disabled.
What is the Twenty-Fifth Amendment?
500
Created in 1921, an office consisting of a handful of political appointees and hundreds of skilled professionals. It also performs both managerial and budgetary functions.
What is the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)?
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