Executive Leadership and Qualifications
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing the nation's laws.
Executive Branch
This is the amount of time an elected official is authorized to serve; for the President, it is four years.
Term of Office
This is an elected or appointed position that is temporarily unoccupied.
Vacancy
This is an official addition or change to the United States Constitution.
Amendment
This constitutional system is the process through which electors formally elect the President and Vice President.
Electoral College
This person is the head of the executive branch and the leader of the United States government.
President
This official becomes President if the President dies, resigns, is removed, or is unable to serve as specified by the Constitution.
Vice President
This is the formal act of voluntarily leaving an office or position.
Resignation
This amendment established January 20 at noon as the beginning and end of presidential and vice-presidential terms.
20th Amendment
This person is selected to cast an official Electoral College vote for President and Vice President.
Elector
These are the constitutional requirements a person must meet to serve as President.
Formal Qualifications
This is the legal process that determines who assumes presidential duties when the President cannot serve.
Presidential Succession
This is the House of Representatives' formal accusation that a federal official committed serious misconduct.
Impeachment
This amendment limits a person to being elected President twice.
22nd Amendment
This is the official vote cast by an elector for President or Vice President.
Electoral Vote
This term describes a person who was a United States citizen at birth.
Natural-Born Citizen
This is the official order of individuals who may assume the presidency when both the President and Vice President cannot serve.
Line of Succession
This process can occur after the Senate convicts an official following impeachment.
Removal from Office
This amendment addresses presidential succession, presidential disability, and filling a vacancy in the vice presidency.
25th Amendment
These are votes cast directly by the people during an election.
Popular Vote
These personal qualities or experiences may be valued by voters but are not required by the Constitution.
Informal Qualifications
This word describes someone who is unable to perform official duties because of a serious illness, injury, or other condition.
Incapacitated
This word means formally approved; constitutional amendments must be approved by three-fourths of the states.
Ratified
This amendment requires electors to cast separate votes for President and Vice President.
12th Amendment
This means more than half of the total votes. With 538 electoral votes, a presidential candidate needs at least 270 to win a majority.
Majority