Power of the President on the day he takes office, pledging to "failthfully execute" the office and "preserve, protect, and defend" the constitution
What is Ordinance Power?
100
An agency which supports the chief executive and other administrators by offering advice and other assistance in the management of the organization
What is Staff Agency?
100
A type of tax proportionate to income
What is Progressive Tax?
100
Spying
What is Espionage?
200
A special body that choose the future President
What is Presidential Electors?
200
Those means of communication that reach large audiences, especially television, radio, printed publications, and the internet
What is Mass Media?
200
A detailed financial document containing estimates of federal income and spending during the coming fiscal year
What is Federal Budget?
200
A levy imposed on the assets of one who dies
What is Estate Tax?
200
A polict based in the belief that communism could be kept within its existing boundaries, it would collapse, under the weight of its internal weaknesses
What is Containment?
300
People directly vote for the President
What is Direct Popular Election?
300
The exclusive power of a President to recognize (establish formal diplomatic relations with) foreign states
What is Recognition?
300
An official in charge of a department of government
What is Secretary?
300
A benefit that federal law says must be paid to all those who meet the elegibility requirements, e.g., Medicare, food stamps, and veterans' pension
What is Entitlement?
300
Economic and military aid to other countries
What is Foreign Aid?
400
Electors must choose the President according to the National Popular Vote
What is National Popular Vote Plan?
400
Additional agencies created by Congress located outside the Cabinet departments
What is Independent Agencies?
400
Spending that Congress and the President have no power to change directly
What is Uncontrollable Spending?
400
The keeping of international peace and order
What is Collective Security?
500
A political party's formal statement of basic principles, stands on major issues, and objectives
What is Platform?
500
Mercy or leniency granted to an offender by a chief executive
What is Clemency?
500
Corporations within the executive branch subject to the President's direction and control, set up by Congress to carry out certain business-like activities
What is Government Corporation?
500
A tax on a gift by a living person
What is Gift Tax?
500
A period of more than 40 years during which relations between two superpowers were at least tense, and often hostile. A time of threats and military buildup.