Amendments
The amendment that moved the start date for the presidential term from March 6 to January 20
What is the 20th Amendment?
The president who issued the most executive orders in history
Who was FDR?
"[The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided ________ of the Senators present concur"
two thirds
The department that manages the nation's financial systems and collects federal taxes
What is the Department of the Treasury?
An act by the president that has the force of law and creates or shapes policies without congressional approval
What is an executive order?
What is the 22nd Amendment?
Three words that Woodrow Wilson loved to use when describing the office of the presidency and the government in general
elastic, organic, living
Each state has a minimum of ____ electors, including ___________ (hint: 23rd Amendment)
3; Washington, D.C.
The department that oversees Medicare and Medicade
What is the Department of Health and Human Services?
The secretaries who preside over the various federal government agencies or who offer advice on vital issues
What is the president's cabinet?
The amendment that caused the vice-president to be elected separately from the president
What is the 12th Amendment?
The "closet monarchist" LOVED using this word in Federalist #70
What is energy?
"[The President] shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of ___________"
Impeachment
The largest federal department
What is the Department of War?
An act that a president can perform that restores a person to the state of innocense that he/she had before being guilty of a crime
What is a presidential pardon?
This amendment outlines procedures for presidential succession, especially in the case of disability.
What is the 25th Amendment?
Founding Fathers : protecting rights :: Progressive Era :
PROVIDING rights
"neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office [of the Presidency] who shall not have attained to the Age of _________ Years, and been ________ Years a Resident within the United States"
thirty five; fourteen
The person in charge of the Department of Justice
Who is the Attorney General?
A statement by the president, usually after he has signed a piece of legislation into law, about how he intends to enforce the law
What is a signing statement?
This amendment prohibits those who engaged in rebellion (after taking an oath to support the Constitution) from holding the office of the presidency.
What is the 14th Amendment (section 3)?
The Supreme Court Case that challenged the president's liberal use of executive orders and established that all executive orders have to be supported in some way by the Constitution
What is Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (aka "steel seizure case")?
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, ______, _______, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
The department that oversees the U.S. Census Bureau
What is the Department of Commerce?
The act of Congress granting the president broad authority to respond to a crisis
What is "delegation of powers"?