Vocab 2
These constitutional authorities allow the President to command the military, appoint officials, make treaties, and issue pardons.
What are presidential powers?
This presidential election required an Electoral Commission to decide disputed votes in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, ultimately awarding the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes.
What is the Election of 1876?
This senior official leads a major executive department and advises the President on issues such as defense, education, or foreign policy.
What is a Cabinet Secretary?
Adopted in 1951, this amendment limited presidents to two elected terms, a reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four consecutive victories.
What is the Twenty-Second Amendment?
Delivered each year, usually in January, this presidential address reports on national conditions and recommends legislative priorities.
What is the State of the Union Address? .
As supreme commander of the U.S. Armed Forces, the President holds this constitutional title.
What is Commander in Chief?
Although this candidate won the national popular vote in 2000, he lost the Electoral College after the Florida recount controversy.
Who is Al Gore?
This part of the Constitution creates the presidency, outlines its powers, and explains how the President is elected and removed.
What is Article II?
his amendment, ratified in 1804, ensured electors cast separate ballots for President and Vice President, preventing political rivals from serving together as they did in 1796.
What is the Twelfth Amendment?
Known as the supreme law of the land, this document establishes the structure of U.S. government and the rights of the people.
What is the Constitution?
This constitutional system ensures each branch can limit the others—for example, the Senate must confirm presidential appointments.
What are checks and balances?
n exchange for accepting Hayes as President in 1876, Democrats secured the withdrawal of federal troops from the South—an agreement known by this name.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
To serve as President, a person must meet these three constitutional criteria.
What is presidential eligibility?
This amendment granted Washington, D.C. the right to participate in presidential elections by awarding it three electoral votes.
What is the Twenty-Third Amendment?
This term describes someone who becomes a U.S. citizen at birth, either by place of birth or parentage.
What is a natural-born citizen?
This Senate procedure, also called “advice and consent,” determines whether presidential nominees are approved for office.
What is Senate confirmation?
This Supreme Court case effectively ended the Florida recount during the 2000 presidential election, handing the electoral victory to George W. Bush.
What is Bush v. Gore?
The President’s authority to forgive or reduce penalties for federal crimes (except impeachment cases) is known as this.
What is the pardoning power?
By moving Inauguration Day from March 4 to January 20, this 1933 amendment shortened the “lame duck” period between election and taking office.
What is the Twentieth Amendment?
This constitutional process allows Congress to remove a President for “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
What is impeachment?
A formal change or addition to the Constitution—such as those shaping presidential elections or succession—is known as this.
What is an amendment?
This Democratic candidate won the popular vote in 1876 but lost the presidency after an Electoral Commission awarded disputed electoral votes to his opponent.
Who is Samuel J. Tilden?
Appointed by the President, this diplomatic representative manages embassies and conducts relations with foreign countries.
What is an ambassador?
Under the Twelfth Amendment, if no candidate wins an electoral majority, this chamber of Congress chooses the President, with each state casting one vote.
What is the House of Representatives?
The President’s power to select Cabinet members, judges, and ambassadors—subject to Senate approval—is called this.
What is the appointment power?