Presidential Powers
This power allows the President to reject a bill passed by Congress.
What is a veto?
This is the official title for the head of a Cabinet department.
What is a Secretary?
The Vice President's only formal duty besides succeeding the President is presiding over this body.
What is the Senate?
In most states, the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote receives all of that state's electoral votes under this rule.
What is the winner-take-all system?
He set the precedent for only serving two terms, a tradition that was later codified by the 22nd Amendment.
Who is George Washington?
A President is acting under this role when ordering troops into battle.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
This Cabinet department is responsible for conducting foreign relations and issuing passports.
What is the Department of State?
This amendment clarifies that if the President dies, resigns, or is removed, the Vice President becomes President.
What is the 25th Amendment?
This is the minimum number of electoral votes a candidate must receive to win the presidency.
What is 270?
His famous executive order, the Emancipation Proclamation, freed enslaved people in the rebellious Confederate states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
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This Cabinet department manages federal finances and the IRS.
What is the Department of the Treasury?
This is the next officeholder in the line of presidential succession after the Vice President.
Who is the Speaker of the House?
This document specifies that the President is chosen by electors, not directly by popular vote.
What is the Constitution
He expanded presidential power during the Great Depression with his "New Deal" programs.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
This presidential power is the ability to excuse a person convicted of a federal crime, often done near the end of a term.
What is a pardon?
The President's Cabinet is not established by the Constitution but by this, as an advisory body.
What is tradition?
This law codifies the complete order of succession to the presidency following the Vice President.
What is the Presidential Succession Act of 1947?
This is the term for a state that has a roughly equal chance of voting for either a Democratic or Republican candidate.
What is a swing state
He was the only U.S. President to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This is the term for the President's authority to make treaties with foreign nations, which must be approved by the Senate.
What is the Chief Diplomat role
This relatively new Cabinet department was created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
A vice president vacancy is filled by presidential?
What is nomination and confirmation
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the President is chosen by this legislative body, with each state delegation casting one vote.
What is the House of Representatives?
This President was forced to resign due to the Watergate scandal and faced almost certain impeachment.
Who is Richard Nixon?