Ch. 13 Vocabulary 1
Ch. 13 Vocabulary 2
Ch. 13 Vocabulary 3
Ch. 13 Vocabulary 4
Ch. 13 Vocabulary 5
100
Role of the President that signifies him as the nation's chief spokesperson to the rest of the world.
What is chief diplomat?
100
Role by which the President is vested by the Constitution with "The Executive Power" of the United States.
What is Chief executive?
100
The director of the huge executive branch of the Federal Government
What is Chief Administrator
100
The main architect of American foreign policy and the nation's chief spokesperson to the rest of the world.
What is Chief Dipolmat
100
The main architect of its public policies.
What is Chief Legislature
200
Votes that are cast to decide the winner of a presidential race.
What are Electoral Votes?
200
Group of people chosen from each state and D.C. to formally select the President and VP
What is Electoral College?
200
"Representative of all the people"
What is Chief Citizen
200
Act in which the Order of Succession is fixed by Congress following the Vice President.
What is Presidential Succession Act of 1947
200
The acknowledged leader of the political party that controls the executive branch and he is virtually unchallengeable in that role.
What is Chief of Party
300
Proposed reform to the electoral college in which electors would be chosen in each state in the same way as members of Congress.
What is District Plan?
300
Proposed Electoral College reform in which the presidency is decided directly by the vote of the people
What is Direct Popular Election?
300
Amends state election laws to provide that all of the state's electoral votes are to be awarded to the winner of the national popular vote
What is National Popular Vote Plan
300
President picks Vice President to strengthen his chance of being elected by virtue of certain ideological, geographic, racial, ethnic, gender, or other characteristics.
What is Balancing the ticket
300
A group of people (electors) chosen from each State and the district of Columbia to formally select the President and Vice President.
What is Electoral College
400
The meetings at which the delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
What is National Convention?
400
Any candidate who wins at least 15% of the votes cast in a primary gets the number of that State's convention delegates that corresponds to his or her share of that primary vote.
What is Proportional Representation
400
Formal statement of basic principles, stands on major policy matters, and objectives for the campaign and beyond.
What is Platform
400
Proposed in which each presidential candidate would receive the same share of a state’s electoral vote as he or she received in the state’s popular vote.
What is Proportional Plan
400
Outlines presidential succession line and process of determining the question whether a President is disabled
What is the 25th Amendment?
500
The scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled.
What is Presidential Succession?
500
The candidate who wins the preference vote automatically won the support of all delegates chosen at the primary
What is winner-take-all
500
Commands Millions of men and women in uniform and the nation's entire military arsenal.
What is Commander in Chief
500
Election in which a party's voters choose some or all of a state party organization's delegates to their party's nation convention, and/or express a preference among various contenders for their party's presidential nomination.
What is Presidential Primary
500
A speech delivered by one of the party's most accomplished orators.
What is Keynote Address