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Ch 13- The Presidency
Ch 14- The Presidency in Action
Ch 15- The Bureaucracy
Ch 16- Financing Government
Ch 17- Foreign Policy and National Defense
100
Supreme Leader of the Nation's Armed Forces
What is Commander in Chief?
100
Release of punishment of legal consequences of a crime, by President or governor.
What is a Pardon?
100
The practice of giving offices and other favors of government to political supporters and friends.
What is the spoils system?
100
The yearly short fall between revenue and spending.
What is a deficit?
100
The purposeful refusal to become generally involved in the affairs of the rest of the world.
What is isolationism?
200
All of the people entitled to vote in an election
What is Electorate?
200
Oath taken by President on the day he takes office
What is Oath of Office?
200
All matters not directly connected to the realm of foreign affairs.
What is domestic affairs?
200
Spending that Congress and the President have no power to change directly.
What is uncontrollable spending?
200
an official representative of the United States appointed by the President to represent the nation in matters of diplomacy.
What is Ambassador?
300
Proposal to get rid of the Electoral College and allow the people to vote directly for the President and Vice President
What is Direct Popular Election?
300
The Exclusive power of a President to recognize foreign estates.
What is Recognition?
300
The officials in the executive branch of a government and their policies and principles.
What is Administration?
300
A type of tax proportionate to income.
What is a Progressive tax?
300
When an Ambassador is not subject to the laws of State to which they are accredited.
What is Diplomatic Unity?
400
Vote casts by electors in the Electoral College
What is Electoral Votes?
400
A President's cancellation of specific dollar amounts from a congressional spending bill
What is Line-Item Veto?
400
The head of the Department of Justice
What is an Attorney General?
400
A declaration of taxable income and of the exemptions and deductions claimed.
What is a tax return?
400
Spying
What is Espionage?
500
Scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled
What is Presidential Succession?
500
Leniency granted to an offender by chief executive.
What is Clemency?
500
a detailed financial document containing estimates of deferral income and spending during the coming fiscal year.
What is the Federal Budget?
500
A tax weighed on the manufacture sales or consumption of goods and/or the performance of services.
What is an excise tax?
500
Forced into Military
What is Draft?