Presidency in the Constitution
Limits on Presidential Power
Powers of the Executive
SCOTUS and the Presidency
War on Terror
100

Length of a presidential term

4 years

100

Main check on Presidency enforced by the House of Representatives

Impeachment

100

Power the president has over the Judicial

Appointing federal judges

100

The executive limits the Supreme Court's power by taking this action

Refusing to enforce court decisions

100

The branch of government that puts the nation's laws into effect

Executive

200

Role of the President, according to the Constitution

Enforces/carries out laws

200

Branch that oversees the constitutionality of the President's actions

Judicial branch

200

The ability to use the publicity of the presidency to promote a particular program and/or to influence Congress to accept legislative proposals

bully pulpit

200

The ability of the Court to declare a legislative or executive act in violation of the Constitution

Judicial review

200

Event that triggered the War on Terror

9/11

300

Amendment establishing that the president could only seek 2 terms of office

22nd Amendment

300

Congressional resolution that requires the President to formally notify Congress upon ordering U.S. troops into military action

War Powers Resolution

300

The Executive branch's ability to decide how a law passed by Congress is implemented

Bureaucratic discretion

300

Presidential powers stated directly by the Constitution

Expressed powers

300

Directive issued by the President managing federal government operations (George W. Bush issued a multitude of these following 9/11)

Executive order

400

Main focus of Hamilton's Fed 70

A single energetic executive

400

How the Senate limits Presidential power

Approving treaties and appointments

400

When a President appoints a cabinet head, they are considering the individual's ties to ______.

Interest groups

400

An issue the Supreme Court will allow executive and legislative branches decide

political question

400
Power that enabled Obama to conduct drone strikes in the early 2010s

Commander-in-Chief of the military

500

A Presidential pardon is this kind of power

Formal

500

How Congress overrides a presidential veto

2/3 majority in the House and Senate

500

5 key roles of the President

Chief executive, chief diplomat, commander in chief, legislative leader, party leader

500

President that first refused to enforce a SCOTUS decision

Andrew Jackson

500

Government agency established by the executive following the 9/11 attacks

TSA and/or Department of Homeland Security