Presidential Powers
The President serves in this role over the armed forces.
What is Commander-in-Chief?
This term describes when Congress is controlled by a different political party than the White House.
What is divided government?
These presidential aides are not confirmed by the Senate.
What is the White House office & staff?
Presidential candidates choose a vice-presidential running mate mainly to do this.
What is add balance and appeal to the national ticket?
This describes when presidents use mass media to speak directly to the public about policy.
What is going public?
The President can appoint Supreme Court justices, but with this requirement from the Senate.
What is the advice and consent of the Senate?
This is how a President is removed from office.
What is the House votes for impeachment and the Senate conducts a trial and reaches a guilty verdict?
This office helps the President sort out the competing budgets of executive departments.
What is the Office of Management and Budget?
This is the minimum age required to be President.
What is 35 years old?
Presidents most successfully influence the courts by doing this.
What is appointing judges with similar judicial philosophies?
The President can grant this for federal offenses.
What are pardons?
Presidents are especially effective at influencing Congress by using this.
What is using the media to set the policy agenda/bully pulpit?
The Chief of Staff, Press Secretary, and Counsel work in this part of the executive branch.
What is the White House Office?
This amendment provides rules for presidential succession and disability.
What is the 25th Amendment?
True or False: A president may deny campaign reelection funds to legislators who oppose presidential policies.
False
This veto power would allow a President to reject specific parts of bills. President Clinton was the last to utlize this.
What is the line-item veto?
This was passed in 1973 to limit the President’s authority to commit troops overseas.
What is the War Powers Resolution?
Presidents choose top-level administrators primarily because they are this.
What are political supporters of the President?
This amendment limits the number of terms a President may serve.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
The War Powers Resolution was designed to do this to presidential war powers.
What is to limit presidential powers?
True or False: This constitutional power does not belong to the President - forming new cabinet-level departments.
True
The President must bring troops home within this time unless Congress extends the deployment.
What is 60 to 90 days?
Presidents appoint federal judges to shape the judiciary using this process.
What is the appointment process?
In presidential elections, voters technically vote for these individuals, who then formally choose the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
The President is constitutionally required to do this when delivering the State of the Union.
What is address Congress on the state of the Union?