Requirements for election, powers, duties, and
limits on presidential authority
What is article ll.
100
$ given directly to candidates or campaigns
What is PACS = political action committees
100
deciding votes in presidential elections
What is Electoral College
100
powers given by Congress to enact and enforce laws
What is delegated powers
100
Give examples of the president as law enforcement
What is
-Increasing role after 911: domestic surveillance
-Power to pardon criminals
200
Separate ballots for president and vice-pres.
What is the 12th amendment
200
unlimited spending on campaigns, as long as not coordinated
w/campaign or candidate
What is Super PACs
200
Candidate with majority of electoral votes =
winner!If no candidate receives majority...who chooses the president?
Bonus: Who chooses the VP
What is The House of Representatives
Bonus: The Senate
200
claimed by president to carry out official duties
What is discretionary powers:
200
What are executive orders?
What is decrees not requiring legislative approval,
used for carrying out duties
300
Two-term limit
What amendment is it and bonus: why was the two-term limit introduced?
What is 22th amendment
300
True or False: When it comes to the national convention:
Each state sends delegates to the national
convention
Delegates determined by primary elections and
caucuses in the states
What is True
300
What term is associated with the president because s/he appoints people to run day-to-day operations
What is king of bureaucracy
300
How is the president Commander in Chief?
What is Article II, Section 2: President cannot initiate war, but can repel invasion.
Also oversees the military
400
True or False? Most president candidates have been: white, male, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant.
Who are the two exceptions?
What is True.
Barack Obama (black) and JFK (catholic).
400
day when there are more primaries than any other day
What is “Super Tuesday”
400
Name 3 of 9 battleground states (electoral college) mentioned in the slideshow
What is
Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia, Nevada, Wisconsin
400
True or False: the president has the power of appointment?
What is True
Cabinet: appointees to major administrative units of executive branch (with
Senate approval)
400
Examples of the president exercising his/her role as a Chief Diplomat
What is
diplomatic recognition:--Recognizes foreign nations
Presidential doctrine:--outline goals or purposes of
U.S. foreign policy
Executive agreements: agreements with foreign leaders without Senate approval
Summitt meetings: Meeting with foreign leaders
500
True or False? Most presidential candidates have held political office immediately before becoming chief executive.
What is true
500
candidate with the most popular votes (plurality) in a state receives all electoral votes from that state (except Maine and Nebraska)
What is Unit rule
500
Explicit grants of authority of the president
What is express powers
500
What component of the chief executive is this?: president submits an annual budget to Congress; Congress authorizes spending Office of Management and Budget (OMB) helps prepare budget requests
What is budgeting
500
Other duties of the president and does the president fit any of the below positions:?