APGovCh.7.Jimmy.Dimas

Question 1

bully pulpit

Answer 1

The view that a major power if the presidency, albeit not one prescribed by the Constitution, is to draw attention to and generates support for particular positions.

Sentence: The view of bully pulpit has greatly increased over the last presidencies because of the increase of the Internet and social media which are used to get votes across the nation quicker.

Question 2

Cabinet

Answer 2

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

Sentence: The Cabinet is important because they help the president make decisions and establish new executive laws.

Question 3

executive agreements

Answer 3

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

Sentence: Executive agreements are a great alternative to treaties because the next president can undo the agreement and they are not binding.

Question 4

Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Answer 4

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

Sentence: The individual units of the Executive Office of the President have recently consisted of primary policy makers from their field, since they help advance a specific policy.

Question 5

executive order

Answer 5

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

Sentence: The only catch with issuing an executive order is that future presidents can retract the order entirely.

Question 6

executive priviledge

Answer 6

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

Sentence: The power of executive privilege was questioned in the Watergate scandal because Nixon wanted to refuse details, but in U.S. v. Nixon it was ruled that executive privilege can not be used in Supreme Court cases.

Question 7

first lady

Answer 7

The designation provided to the wife of a president or, at the state level, of a governor; no specific analogue exists for a male spouse.

Sentence: Nowadays, the first lady is a prominent influencer in society since they take it upon their own to get something they love done.

Question 8

inherent powers

Answer 8

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

Sentence: At any time, if the president uses power that are not his inherent powers, the government can charge him with overstepping his boundaries.

Question 9

League of Nations

Answer 9

A multilateral diplomatic organization that existed from 1920-1946 that sought, unsuccessfully, to prevent future wars; the United States never joined.

Sentence: The League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations, but it still was a huge step into helping nations around the world resolve their differences.

Question 10

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Answer 10

The office that prepares the president’s annual budget proposal, reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments, supplies economic forecasts, and conducts detailed analyses of proposed bills and agency rules.

Sentence: The Office of Management and Budget is a crucial component of passing bills, since the budget and policy experts know how to successfully put a price on a bill so it can be defended.

Question 11

pardon

Answer 11

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

Sentence: In cases of impeachment, the president cannot exercise his power of granting of pardon for himself, obviously.

Question 12

president

Answer 12

The chief executive officer of the United States, as established by Article II of the U.S. Constitution.

Sentence: Some people don’t agree whether our current president is fit to run the nation with the past scandals he’s been in.

Question 13

Presidential Succession Act

Answer 13

A 1947 law enacted by Congress that provides for the filling of any simultaneous vacancy of the presidency and vice presidency.

Sentence: The Presidential Succession Act never has had to be used since a vice president was always available to take place and this was later strengthened by the twenty fifth amendment.

Question 14

signing statements

Answer 14

Occasional written comments attached to a bill signed by the president.

Sentence: Signing statements have become another way for president’s to use informal powers to influence policy since it helps express their opinion.

Question 15

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Answer 15

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.

Sentence: The Twenty-Fifth Amendment is an import amendment in emergencies because it helps decide who the next person in line to take office is.

Question 16

Twenty-Second Amendment

Answer 16

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.

Sentence: The Twenty-Second Amendment was ratified after many people disagreed with the length President Roosevelt was in office.

Question 17

U.S. v. Nixon (1974)

Answer 17

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

Sentence: U.S. v. Nixon helped make the president more like citizens of the U.S. by making them comply with court order like a regular person would.

Question 18

veto

Answer 18

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

Sentence: The president was given the power to issue a veto, but it can be overruled by a majority vote of two thirds in each house of Congress.

Question 19

vice president

Answer 19

An officer created by Article II of the U.S. Constitution to preside over the U.S. Senate and to fill any vacancy in the office of president due to death, resignation, removal, or (since 1967) disability.

Sentence: The vice president holds various tasks, but one of the most important is to help the president and step in when they are unable to do so.

Question 20

Watergate

Answer 20

A scandal in the early 1970s involving a break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate office complex. The involvement of members of the Nixon administration and subsequent cover-up attempts led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation from office and jail sentences for some members of his administration.

Sentence: The Watergate scandal was a shock to many people and even caused a case to emerge, U.S. v. Nixon, because President Nixon refused to give details of the scandal.