Presidential Powers
This power allows the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is a veto?
Congress can override a presidential veto with this fraction of votes in both chambers.
What is two-thirds?
This type of directive allows the President to manage operations of the federal government without Congress.
What is an executive order?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
The President lives in this famous building.
What is the White House?
The President is the Commander-in-Chief of this institution.
What is the U.S. Armed Forces?
This branch can declare presidential actions unconstitutional.
What is the Judicial Branch?
This official is second in line for the presidency after the Vice President.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
He was the youngest elected President at age 43.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This room in the White House is used for formal meetings with foreign leaders.
What is the Oval Office?
This constitutional clause gives the President the duty to “faithfully execute the laws.”
What is the Take Care Clause?
In United States v. Nixon (1974), the Supreme Court limited this presidential power.
What is executive privilege?
This type of agreement with a foreign nation does not require Senate approval, unlike treaties.
What is an executive agreement?
He argued that the President has a “stewardship theory” of power, expanding the executive role.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This President gave the shortest inaugural address, at just 135 words.
Who is George Washington (second inauguration)?
This law requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying troops and to withdraw forces within 60 days unless Congress authorizes military action.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
This congressional power is considered the strongest check on the Executive, as it controls federal spending.
What is the power of the purse?
Franklin D. Roosevelt issued this famous executive order authorizing Japanese American internment.
What is Executive Order 9066?
He created the Executive Office of the President in 1939.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This rarely used constitutional power allows the President to adjourn Congress if the House and Senate cannot agree on a date.
What is the adjournment power (Article II, Section 3)?
This type of presidential power is not explicitly listed in the Constitution but arises from the President’s role as national leader.
What are inherent powers?
This doctrine describes how presidential power expands during crises but contracts afterward, as seen after 9/11.
What is the crisis/“pendulum” theory of presidential power?
During the Korean War, President Truman tried to seize steel mills to keep them operating, but the Supreme Court ruled that he did not have this kind of authority without Congress.
What is the power to seize private property?
He was the only President to serve without being elected as President or Vice President.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This President once got stuck in the White House bathtub and had to order a larger one installed.
Who is William Howard Taft?