1.
22nd Amendment
Adopted in 1951, it prevents a president from serving more than two
terms for more than ten years.
2.
Impeachment
The power delegated to the house of Republicans in the constitution
to charge the president, vice president, or other with Treason, bribery,
or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
3.
Executive Privilege
An implied presidential power allows the president to refuse to
disclose confidential conversations or national security information to
Congress or the judiciary.
4.
U.S. Vs. Nixon (1974)
Key Supreme Court ruling on the power of the president, finding that
there is no absolute constitutional executive privilege to allow a
president to refuse to comply with a court order to produce
information needed in a criminal trial
5.
25th Amendment
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
6.
President's Cabinet
The formal body of presidential advisers who head the fifteen
executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of
formal advisers.
7.
Executive Agreements
Formal government agreement entered into by the president that
does not require the advice and consent of the U.S. senate.
8.
Veto
The formal, constitutional authority of the president to reject bills
passed by both houses of Congress, thus preventing their becoming
law without further congressional action.
9.
Line-Item Veto
The authority of a chief executive to delete part of a bill passed by the
legislature that involves taxing or spending. The legislature may
override a veto, usually with a two-thirds majority of each chamber.
10. Pocket
Veto
a bill fails to become law because the president did not sign it within
ten days before congress adjourns
11. War
Powers Resolution
Passed by Congress in 1973, the president is limited in deploying
troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime (which can be
extended an extra 30 days to permit withdrawals) unless Congress
explicitly gives its approval for a more extended period.
12. Pardon
An executive grant provides restoration of all citizenship rights and
privileges to a specific individual charged or convicted of a crime.
13. Inherent
Powers
Powers not in the constitution, which the president claims
14. Executive
Office of the President (EOP)
It was created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive
branch bureaucracy.
15. Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
The office that prepares the president's annual budget proposal
reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments,
supplies the economic forecasts, and conducts detailed analyses of
proposed bill and agency rules.
16. Executive
Orders
a rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect and
formal status of legislation
17. Lame
Duck President
A politician who is still in office after having lost a reelection bid
18. Signing
Statement
A written declaration that a president may make when signing a bill
into law. Usually, such statements point out sections of the law that
the president deems unconstitutional.
19. State
of the Union Address
A speech given annually by the president to joint session of Congress
and to the nation announcing the president's agenda