A review for a government class test on the executive branch.

1. Executive Branch Review
1. List the qualifications for being President.
35 years old, natural born citizen, has lived in the U.S. at least 14 years
2. Which of these qualifications did the first seven Presidents not adhere to?
Natural born citizen
3. What is the military title of the President?
Commander in Chief
4. Who can declare war on another country?
Congress
5. List the 15 Cabinet Departments
State, the Treasury, Defense, Justice, the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor,
Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services,
Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development
6. Which President pardoned his predecessor because he believed it would
severely hurt the country to have a former president in jail?
Gerald Ford
7. Who was the former President that was pardoned?
Richard Nixon
8. President Obama recently gave amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants
9. How long is the President’s term?
4 years
10. How many terms may the President serve?
2
11. What is a primary?
a preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the
candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election
12. What is a caucus?
a meeting of the members of a legislative body who are members of a particular
political party, to select candidates or decide policy.
13. This group actually elects the President.
Electoral college
14. What is meant by “balancing the ticket”?
Making your vice president someone from different demographics than you.
15. What is meant by the “bully pulpit”
a public office or position of authority that provides its occupant with an
outstanding opportunity to speak out on any issue.
16. Where is the political party’s nominee for President actually chosen at?
National convention
17. How many electors for President does each state get?
The number of representatives they have+the number of senators they have
18. What is the purpose of the Cabinet?
To advise the president on specifics he could not possibly know.
19. Which were the first three Cabinet departments under George Washington?
Treasury, War, State
20. What is the primary power of the President?

2. Sign or veto legislation
21. Name one check that the President has on Congress? On the Supreme Court?
Veto, appointing Supreme Court members
22. Name one check that Congress has on the President? One the Supreme Court
has on the President?
Impeachment, wartime powers
23. Which Article of the Constitution addresses the Executive Branch?
II
24. Name three positions that the President has the power to appoint.
Federal judges, ambassadors, Members of the Cabinet
25. Name a check that the Legislative branch has on the President’s power to
make treaties with foreign countries.
Two thirds of the Senate must agree to make a treaty.
26. What is a pocket veto?
The President neither signing nor denying a bill
27. Name the 8 roles that the President must serve.
Chief Executive, Chief Diplomat, Chief Legislator, Chief Citizen, Commander in Chief,
Chief of State, Chief Administrator, Chief of Party
28. What is the name of the yearly speech that the President makes to Congress?
State of the Union
29. What are the duties of the Vice President?
Presiding officer of the Senate, ceremonial assistant to the President
30. List benefits of being the President.
Salary cap, White House, Air Force One, Cadillac, Marine One, Camp David, Secret
Service, diplomatic passport
31. Who will become President if the President and Vice President are both
killed?
Speaker of the House
32. How can the Congress override a Presidential veto?
Passing the act by a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate
33. Which body can declare action taken by the President as unconstitutional?
Courts
34. Describe why many Presidents have said that being President is the loneliest
job in the world
Everything they do is heavily criticized.