Chapter 14 The Presidency

Question 1

Adopted in 1951; prevents a president from serving more than two terms, or more than ten years if he came to office via the death, resignation, or impeachment of his predecessor

Answer 1

Twenty-second amendment

Question 2

The power delegated to the House of Representatives in the Constitution to charge the president, vice president, or other “civil officers,” including federal judges, with “Treason, Bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” This is the first step in the constitutional process of removing government officials from office

Answer 2

impeachment

Question 3

An implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose information regarding confidential conversations or national security to Congress of the judiciary.

Answer 3

executive privilege

Question 4

Supreme Court ruling on power of the president, holding that there is no absolute constitutional executive privilege allowing a president to refuse to comply with a court order to produce information needed in a criminal trial

Answer 4

U.S. v. Nixon (1974)

Question 5

Adopted in 1967 to establish procedures for filling vacancies in the office of president and vice president as well as providing for procedures to deal with the disability of a president

Answer 5

Twenty-fifth amendment

Question 6

The formal body of presidential advisers who head the fifteen executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of formal advisers

Answer 6

Cabinet

Question 7

Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not require the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate

Answer 7

executive agreements

Question 8

The formal, constitutional authority of the president to reject bills passed by both houses of Congress, thus preventing them from becoming law without further congressional action.

Answer 8

veto power

Question 9

The authority of a chief executive to delete part of a bill passed by the legislature that involves taxing or spending. Ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court

Answer 9

line-item veto

Question 10

An executive grant providing restoration of all rights and privileges of citizenship to a specific individual charged or convicted of a crime.

Answer 10

pardon

Question 11

Powers that belong to the president because they can be inferred from the Constitution

Answer 11

inherent powers

Question 12

The name given to the program of “Relief, Recovery, Reform” begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to bring the United States out of the Great Depression.

Answer 12

New Deal

Question 13

A mini-bureaucracy created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive ranch bureaucracy

Answer 13

Executive office of the President

Question 14

Th office that prepares the president’s annual budget proposal, reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments, and conducts detailed analysis of proposed bills and agency rules

Answer 14

Office of Management and the Budget

Question 15

Rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. All executive orders must be published in the Federal Register

Answer 15

executive order