Terms and Qualifications
35 years of age
The armed forces are subject to the President's direct and immediate control.
Commander-in-Chief
This allows a president to cancel a proposed bill.
What is a veto?
Oversees the defense department and advises the president.
What is the Secretary of Defense?
List in order, the line of Presidential succession through the first two successors
Vice President, then the Speaker of the House
How long is the president's term?
4 years
The President is the director of the executive branch. He directs and manages the executive branch, ensuring that people within the branch perform their duties as intended.
Chief Administrator
This releases a convicted person from having to fulfill a sentence
What is a pardon?
Advises the President on rural development, agriculture, and nutrition.
What is the Secretary of Agriculture?
Team of advisors to the president
The Cabinet
How long does someone have to reside in the United States to be President?
14 years, and they can be any 14 years.
Head of their political party
Chief of the Party or Party Leader
This is a formal rule or regulation of the president.
What is an executive order?
Advises the President on legal matters and represents the state or nation in legal matters.
What is the Attorney General?
What is the president's salary?
$400,000.00
What is the maximum length of time someone can hold the office of President of the U.S.?
10 years - two terms, and if they acted as President for two years. EX: President dies and the VP holds the office for two years and then is elected for two terms. If the VP holds the office for three years, it becomes one of the terms, and that person can only be elected to one more term.
The president is responsible for overseeing and guiding the nation's economic policy, including setting financial goals, developing and implementing financial strategies, and responding to financial challenges
Chief of Economics
Who must approve presidential appointments?
What is the Senate?
Enforces labor laws and advises the President on labor policies
What is the Secretary of Labor?
What president was elected to four terms?
FDR - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945). Only lived a few months into his fourth term when VP Harry S. Truman took over as president.
Which amendment limited presidential terms?
Amendment 22
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.
Chief Legislator
How can Congress limit the powers of the president?
•Not fund his plans or orders
•Not approve treaties or appointments
Overseeing the nation's natural resources, parks, and federal lands
What is the Secretary of the Interior?
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.