Roles of the President
What is the Commander in Chief
Length of a Presidential term
What is 4 years?
Tax collection and the production of money are two functions of this department
What is the Treasury?
The two parallel court systems in the United States
What are the State and Federal Courts?
What is 9?
President often initiates legislation and/or pressures Congress to pass that legislation into law
What is Chief Legislator?
Includes the heads of the 15 Executive Departments, plus the Vice President and other officials
What is the Cabinet?
The secretary of this department usually has military experience
What is Defense?
Held by a trial court; the court in which a case is first tried
What is Original Jurisdiction?
Article III of the Constitution describes this
The US Supreme Court?
President is an American; he attempts to do the greatest good for the greatest number
What is the Chief Citizen?
Term that describes the order that is followed should the President become unable to fulfill his/her duties
What is Presidential Succession?
This department is led by the Attorney General and includes all federal law enforcement agencies
Held by appeals courts, which reconsider cases that have been already ruled on
What is Appellate Jurisdiction?
The Supreme Court's ability to examine laws
What is Judicial Review?
President is the head of the Executive branch and serves as the boss of 3 million federal employees
What is Chief Administrator?
The President gives this address to Congress yearly
What is the State of the Union Address?
This department's job is to coordinate intelligence agencies and prevent terrorist attacks
What is Homeland Security?
Involves the government charging a person with a crime, or violation of an existing law
What is Criminal Law?
What is Checks & Balances?
President is responsible for creating foreign policy and representing the US to the rest of the world
What is Chief Diplomat?
A group pardon for an offense against the government, such as what was given to those that evaded the draft during the Vietnam War
What is Amnesty?
Foreign affairs and international diplomacy are the focus of this first executive department
What is State?
Involves lawsuits by one citizen, group, or company against another
What is Civil Law?
Decisions of the Supreme Court are models on which future legal decisions will be based
What is Precedent?