Chapter 13 - The Presidency
Chapter 14 - The Presidency In Action
Chapter 15 - Government at Work: The Bureaucracy
Chapter 16 - Financing Government
Chapter 17 - Foreign Policy and National Defense
100
Term for which the President is the leader of his/her political party.
What is Chief of Party?
100
Mercy granted to an offender by a Chief Executive.
What is Clemency?
100
Matters not directly connected to foreign affairs.
What is Domestic Affairs?
100
Yearly shortfall between revenue and spending.
What is Deficit?
100
An official representative of the United States appointed by the President to represent the Nation in matters of Diplomacy.
What is Ambassador?
200
All the people entitled to vote.
What is Electorate?
200
Oath taken by the President the day he takes office.
What is Oath of Office?
200
Head of Department of Justice.
What is Attorney General?
200
All the money borrowed by the Government and not yet repaid. Also called Federal/National Debt.
What is Public Debt?
200
A 15-manner panel which bears the UN's major responsiblility for keeping international peace.
What is UN Security Council?
300
Scheme by which Presidential vacancy is filled.
What is Presidential Succession?
300
A release for the punishment or legal consequences of a crime by the President or Governor.
What is Pardon?
300
The practice of giving jobs to supporters and friends.
What is Patronage?
300
Special tax demanded by the states as a condition for voting.
What is Payroll Tax.
300
The policy of making America and it's Allies so militarily strong that their very strength will discourage or prevent any attack.
What is Deterrence?
400
A political parties formal statement of basic principles stands on major issues and objectives.
What is Platform?
400
An unwelcomed person, used to describe recalled diplomatic officials.
What is Persona Non Grata?
400
A agency which supports the Chief Executive and other Administrators.
What is Staff Agency?
400
A declaration of taxable income and of the deductions and exemptions claimed.
What is Tax Return?
400
I purposeful refusal to become generally involved in the affairs of the rest of the world.
What is Isolationism?
500
Group of people chosen in each state every four years who make a formal selection of the president and vice-president.
What is Electoral College?
500
A blanket pardon offered to a group of law-violators.
What is Amnesty?
500
12-Month period used by the Government and Business World for its record keeping, budgeting, revenue-collecting, and other financial management purposes.
What is Fiscal Year?
500
A charge for borrowed money, generally a percentage of the amount borrowed.
What is Interest?
500
Spying.
What is Espionage?
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