Show:
Terms and Qualifications
The President's Job Description
The Electoral College
The Vice Presidency
Miscellaneous
100
Does the President need to be a natural born citizen? Define natural born citizen.
Yes. A person born abroad to American citizen parents or someone born in the United States. (Someone who is an American at birth)
100
The President is the commander in chief. What does that mean?
It means the armed forces are subject to the President's direct and immediate control.
100
How did the Framers of the Constitution intend for the President and Vice President to be chosen?
The President and Vice President were to be chosen by a body of presidential electors who would each cast two electoral votes, each for a different candidate. The person with the second most votes would become Vice President.
100
What are the two formal duties of the Vice President?
To preside over the Senate (President of the Senate) and to help decide the question of presidential disability.
100
Which amendment limited presidential terms?
The 22nd Amendment
200
What is the age requirement to be president?
35 years of age
200
Describe the President's role as chief administrator. What does the President do in this role?
The President is the director of the executive branch. He directs and manages the executive branch, getting people in that branch to do their jobs they way they are supposed to be done.
200
What changed the Founders idea of Presidential election to the way it is today?
1) Party nominations for the presidency and vice presidency 2) the nomination of candidates for presidential electors pledged to vote for their party's presidential ticket 3) the automatic casting of the electoral votes in line with those pledges
200
Why do most Vice Presidents get nominated for the position nowadays?
Because they balance the ticket, i.e. the presidential candidate chooses a running mate who can strengthen his chance of being elected by virtue of certain ideological, geographic, racial, ethnic, gender, or other characteristics.
200
List the line of Presidential succession through the first three successors.
Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro tempore of the Senate, Secretory of ...,
300
How long does someone have to reside in the United States in order to be President? Do they need to be consecutive?
14 years and no, they can be any 14 years.
300
2 of the President's roles are not explicitly given in the Constitution. Name and describe them.
Chief of Party: the acknowledged leader of the political party that controls the executive branch. Chief Citizen: the President is expected to be the representative of all the people.
300
How are electors chosen?
By popular vote in every state. Most are chosen at large, meaning that it is a winner-take-all sort of thing. The candidate receiving the largest popular vote in a state regularly wins all of that State's electoral votes.
300
How is a vice presidential vacancy dealt with?
The President nominates a Vice President who takes office after the passage of a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
300
The Framers of the Constitution intended the electors to act as "blank blank".
Free agents. This ended after the rise of parties and the election of 1800.
400
Name two informal qualifications for President.
Gender, education, party affiliation, religion, etc...
400
Describe some differences between the President of the United States and leaders of other nations. Which role differentiate the President from the Queen of England?
Chief of state: the President is the ceremonial head of the government, the symbol of all the people of the nation.
400
What are the three major flaws of the electoral college system?
1) the winner of the popular vote is not guaranteed the presidency 2) electors are not required to vote in accord with the popular vote 3) any election might have to be decided in the House of Representatives
400
Which amendment allows for the Vice President to succeed to the role of President?
The 25th Amendment.
400
What is the President's salary?
$400,000.
500
How long is the President's term? What is the maximum length of time someone can hold the office of President
4 years and 10 years.
500
Describe the Presidential role of chief legislator.
This means that the President is the main architect of U.S. public policy. He does this by setting the overall shape of the congressional agenda, and by initiating, suggesting, requesting, insisting, and demanding that Congress enact much of its major legislation.
500
Would the Framers of the Constitution like the current electoral college process? Why or why not?
Answers may vary.
500
What is presidential disability? How is it decided?
A decision that is made in the event a President becomes disabled in some way. The Vice President becomes Acting President if (1) the President informs Congress in writing that he cannot perform his duties or (2) the Vice President and a majority of the members of the Cabinet inform Congress in writing that the President is incapacitated.
500
Name three other benefits that the President of the United States receives.
White House, Air Force One, Camp David, a team of doctors and nurses, etc.