Vocabulary
What is a treaty?
What is an agreement between two nations
How long is a presidential term of office?
What is four years
What are occurrences taking place in the United States
What former president was pardoned by President Gerald Ford?
Who was Nixon
When was the last time Congress officially declared war?
What was December 8, 1941
World War Two
What is a veto?
What is when the President rejects a bill
Who is the commander in chief of the armed forces?
Who is the president
What are foreign affairs?
What are occurrences taking place in other countries
Who was the first president of the United States?
Who was George Washington
What are executive orders?
What are directives from the president that have the effect of law
What is impeachment?
What is when a president is removed from office for coming a crime
What is the president in charge of as the nation's chief legislator?
What is the nations public policies
What does it mean to "balance the ticket?
What is when the presidential nominee chooses a running mate who can strengthen their chance of being elected
What is an executive agreement?
What is an executive agreement is a pact between the president and the head of a foreign nation, does not have to be approved by the senate
What is the official title for the President’s wife or the White House Hostess?
Who is the First Lady
What is recognition?
What is when the president receives the diplomatic representatives of another sovereign state
What is the president in charge of as the nation's chief diplomat?
What is the main architect of American foreign policy and the nation’s chief spokesman to the rest of the world
What is the Whig Theory?
What is this assumed that Congress would lead the policy process, while Presidents were limited to the powers expressly granted to them in the Constitution
What is the War Powers Act of 1973?
Says that the President can commit American military forces to combat only if Congress has declared war if Congress has authorized that action, or when an attack on the nation or its armed forces has occurred
What are the only two duties assigned to the Vice President by the Constitution?
What are the President will preside over the senate and to help decide with the question of presidential disability
What does it mean when someone is declared persona no grata?
What is they are not welcome, another country’s ambassadors would be asked to leave the United States
What is presidential succession?
What is the scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled
What is executive privilege?
What is when chief executives claim that the Constitution gives the President the inherent power to refuse to disclose certain information to Congress or the Federal Courts
What is the ordinance power?
What is the power to issue executive orders; it comes from the Constitution and acts of Congress
What is the Stewardship Theory?
What is the restrained approach to presidential power. President’s should not merely carry out the will of Congress but instead should build public support for particular policy agendas