Roles of the President
The role the President plays when deciding where troops will be stationed.
What is the Commander in Chief?
Manufactures coins/currency, collects taxes, and serves as financial division of the government.
Votes cast directly by constituents (voters).
What is the popular vote?
When the President rejects a law. Can be overridden by a 2/3 Congressional vote.
What is a veto?
270 electoral votes
What is the amount of Electoral College votes needed to become President?
Role President plays when performing ceremonial duties and celebrating holidays.
What is the Chief of State?
Oversees the armed forces and ensures America's security.
What is the Department of Defense?
Group of electors, chosen by political parties in each state, to elect the President of the United States.
Power that allows the President to select Cabinet members, ambassadors, diplomats, federal judges, and military officers.
What is Appointment power?
A group that acts as advisors to the President
Role President plays when setting foreign policy, representing the U.S. abroad, negotiating treaties, and receiving foreign dignitaries.
What is the Chief Diplomat?
Promotes job creation and business, supervises trade, and aims to improve living standards.
What is the Department of Commerce?
# of House of Representatives + # of Senators
What are the number of electoral votes per state based on?
When the President ignores a bill and it dies due to Congress not being in session.
What is a pocket veto?
Directive that is based on powers given to the President by the Constitution that manages agencies of the federal government.
What are executive orders?
Role the President plays when vetoing bills and using Executive orders.
What is the Chief Legislator?
Improves the health/safety of America and manages Medicaid/Medicare programs.
What is the Department of Health & Human Services?
System used in 48 states that says whoever wins the popular vote in each state, gets all of that state's electoral votes.
What is the winner-take-all system?
Judicial power that the President has to grant legal forgiveness of a crime.
What are pardons?
Method utilized by Congress to put checks on Presidential power that brings charges of wrongdoing on him/her.
What is impeachment?
Role the President plays when meeting with economic advisors and business/labor leaders.
What is the Chief Guardian of the Economy?
Protects and maintains public parks/lands and oversees relations with Native Americans.
What is the Department of the Interior?
When electors vote for someone other than whom they pledged.
What are Faithless Electors?
Power to issue executive orders to carry out constitutional duties.
What is ordinance power?
Ordered the President to report to Congress within 48 hours if forces are committed to combat and that they must be pulled out within 60 days if no Congressional declaration has been made.
What is the War Powers Act?