This is a formal statement of basic priniciples, stands on major policy matters, and objectives for their compaign.
What is a platform?
100
This is a legal forgiveness of a crime.
What is a pardon?
100
This is a person that works for the organization.
What is a bureaucrat?
100
This is a tax imposed on the making of a gift by a living person.
What is a gift tax?
100
Also called a conscription or compulsory military service.
What is a draft?
200
This is when a presidential candidate chooses a running mate that will strength his/her chance of being elected.
What is balancing the ticket?
200
This is the postponement of the execution of a sentence.
What is a reprieve?
200
This is the government's many administrators and agencies.
What is an administration?
200
This is the shortfall between income and outgo.
What is deficit?
200
This is the use of violence to intimidate a government or society.
What is terrorism?
300
This is the main architect of American Foreign policy and the nation's cheif spokesperson to the rest of the world.
What is Cheif Diplomat?
300
This is the power to cancel specific dollar amounts in spending bills enacted by congress.
What is a line-item veto?
300
This is also known as an "umbrella agency", it is a complex organization of several seperate agencies staffed by most of the President's closest advisors and assistants.
What is the Executive Office of the President?
300
This includes all of the money borrowed and not yet repaid.
What is public debt?
300
A period of more than 40 years during which relations between the two superpowers were tense.
What is cold war?
400
This is delivered by one of the parties most accomplished orators.
What is the key-note address?
400
This is a pact between the President and the head of a foreign state.
What is executive agreement?
400
This is the practice of giving jobs to friends and supporters.
What is a patronage?
400
When this is signed it allows agencies to continuing function without funding.
What is a continuing resolution?
400
This is the principle that is used to keep internal peace and order.
What are collective security?
500
This plan would give each presidential candidate the same share of State's electorial votes as he/she recieved in the State's popular vote.
What is the proportional plan?
500
This power arises from two sources: the Constitution and acts of congress.
What is the ordinance power?
500
This is all of the matters not diretly connected to the realm of foreign affairs.
What are domestic affairs?
500
These are taxes laid on goods brought into the US from abroad.
What are custom duties?
500
This is the strategy of maintaining currect military might of the US so it will prevent an attack on the country.