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The Presidency
The Presidency in Action
Bureaucracy
Financing Government
Foreign Policies and National Defense
100
Makes peace with other countries.
What is chief diplomat?
100
A directive, rule, or regulation that has the effect of the law.
What is executive order?
100
The government's many administrators and agencies.
What is administration?
100
The higher one's income, the higher the tax.
What is progressive tax?
100
Use of violence to intimidate a government or society.
What is terrorism?
200
Acknowledged leader of each political party.
What is chief of party?
200
The pact between a president and the head of a foreign state.
What is executive agreement?
200
The 12 month period used by government and business for record keeping, budgetting, and other financial managment purposes.
What is fiscal year?
200
Imposed on the making of a gift by a living person.
What is gift tax?
200
Everything a nation's government says and does in world affairs.
What is foreign policy?
300
The group of people chosen from each state to formally select the president and vice president.
What is electoral college?
300
The postponement of the execution of a sentence.
What is reprieve?
300
Civilian employees who perform the administrative work of the government.
What is civil service?
300
Taxes laid on the goods bought into the country from abroad.
What is customs duties?
300
A purposeful refusal to become generally involved in the affairs of the rest of the world.
What is isolationism?
400
Meeting where the parties pcik their presidential and vice presidential candidates.
What is national conventions?
400
The power to reduse the length of a sentence or a fine imposed by court.
What is commutation?
400
Additional agencies located outside of the departments.
What is independant agencies?
400
The government's total outstanding indebtedness.
What is public debt?
400
If communism if contained, it would fail from internal conflict.
What is containment?
500
Candidates chosen in the same way as members of Congress.
What is district plan?
500
A blanket pardon offered to a group of law violators.
What is amnesty?
500
Includes members from both parties.
What is bipartism?
500
A charge for borrowed money, generally a percentage of the amount borrowed.
What is interest?
500
Economic and military aid to other countries.
What is foreign aid?