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Gov Unit 5 Study Guide

Terms in this set (34)

What are the requirements to impeach a president
majority vote in the HOR to impeach a president
22nd amendment
limits president to two four year terms
25th amendment
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
Order of succession
vice president
speaker of the house
president pro tempore
secretary of state
security of the treasury
secretary of defense
constitutional duties of the president
appointment power
power to convene congress
power to make treaties
executive agreements
veto power
commander in chief
pardoing power
balancing the ticket
when a presidential candidate chooses a running mate from the same party but whose ideology, background, or demography is different than their own in order to appeal to a broader range of people
How was FDR the first modern president
trend of presidential decision making to be more important began with him
Executive office of the president
immediate staff of the current POTUS
pocket veto
president can exercise pocket veto at the end of a congressional session by not acting on the bill before congress adjourns in under 10 days
what often happens to the president party in mid term election
majority of congress becomes the opposite political party as the president
president's foreign policy powers
can appoint/remove ambassadors
can make treaties and executive agreements with other countries
recognize foreign nations
order the military
state department
federal executive department that handles international/foreign relations
represents the US in embassies
headed by the secretary of state
issues passports and visas for traveling abroad
negotiate foreign conflicts
how can the president best influence congress
president presents his state of the union address at the beginning of every year with his plan for the congress that year
bureaucrats
people hire by the gov't
person who is one of ht epos who run a gov't or big company and who do everything according to the rules of that govt' or company
What is the biggest bureaucratic agency
depot of defense
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