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Terms and Qualifications
The President's Job Description
Powers of the Pres
Cabinet
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

This allows a president to cancel a proposed bill.

What is a veto?

100

Oversees the defense department and advises the president. 

What is the Secretary of Defense?

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

This releases a convicted person from having to fulfill a sentence

What is a pardon?

200

Advises the President on rural development, agriculture, and nutrition.

What is the Secretary of Agriculture?

200

List the line of Presidential succession through the first two successors.

Vice President then Speaker of the House

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

Head of their political party

What is the chief of the party or party leader?

300

This is a formal rule or regulation of the president.

What is an executive order?

300

Advises the President on legal manners and represents the state or nation in legal manners. 

What is the Attorney General?

300

Team of advisors to the president

What is the Cabinet?

400
Name two informal qualifications for President.
Gender, education, party affiliation, religion, etc...
400

Describe the President's role as the Chief of Economics.

Chief of Economics: The president is responsible for overseeing and guiding the nation's economic policy, including setting economic goals, developing and implementing economic strategies, and responding to economic challenges

400

Who must approve presidential appointments? 

What is the Senate?

400

Enforces labor laws, and advises the President on labor policies

What is the Secretary of Labor?

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 the 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

When the president addresses Congress it is called the

What is the State of the Union Address?

500

Overseeing the National Intelligence Program (NIP), and acts as the principal advisor to the President

What is the Director of National Intelligence?

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.