Terms and Tradition
The number of years in a President's term.
What is 4 years?
The main role of the executive branch.
What is to carry out and enforce laws?
The number of electoral votes a candidate needs to get to win the Presidency.
What is 270+ votes?
The power the President has to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is to veto bills?
This V.P. role involves voting to break a tie in the Senate.
What is to preside over the Senate?
This is the President who broke the two-term tradition.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
You must have lived in the USA for this many years to be President.
What is 14 years?
The people who are appointed to vote in presidential elections for president or vice president.
What are Electors?
An official representative of a country's government in another country.
What is an Ambassador?
The most recently created executive department.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This President set the tradition of only serving two terms.
Who is George Washington?
The eight different roles the President serves
What are Commander in Chief, Chief Executive, Chief Party Leader, Chief Diplomat, Chief Administrator, Chief Citizen, Chief Legislator, and Chief of State?
The body that determines the winner of the Presidency if neither candidate gets the required number of votes.
What happens if neither political candidate gets that number?
This is one of the President's roles, which means they serve as the head of the armed forces.
What is Commander in Chief?
The total number of departments that make up the Cabinet.
What are 15 departments?
This amendment was created as a direct result of a President serving four terms.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This is a rule or command the president gives out that has the force of a law.
What is an Executive Order?
The total number of electors cited in the notes.
What is 538 electors?
The group of advisors to the president that includes the heads of the 15 top-level executive departments.
What is the Cabinet?
This act lists the line of succession after the Vice President.
What is the Presidential Succession Act?
The two rules of the 22nd Amendment regarding presidential terms.
What is: a president may only run 2 terms (4 years each), and someone who fills an ongoing presidential term lasting more than two years is also prohibited from being elected president more than once?
This is a declaration of forgiveness and freedom from punishment.
What is a Pardon?
The method used to determine the number of electors for each state.
What is: based on 2 senators plus the number of representatives in that state?
The President's power to name the heads of executive agencies, federal court judges, and ambassadors.
What is the power to make appointments (or to name officials)?
The title given to the people who work directly under the President, which is also a group of advisors.
Who are The Cabinet?