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| Adopted in 1951; prevents a president from serving more than two terms, or more than ten years if he came to office via death, resignation, or impeachment of his predecessor |
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| The power delegated to the House of Representatives in the Constitution to charge the resident, 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 |
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| An implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose information regarding confidential conversations or national security to Congress or the judiciary. |
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| Supreme Court ruling on the power of the president, holding that there is no absolute constructional executive privilege allowing a president to refuse to comply with a court order to produce information needed in a criminal trial. |
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| 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. |
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| The formal body of presidential advisers who head the 15 executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of formal advisers. |
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| Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not require the advice and the consent of the U.S. senate. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Passed by Congress in 1973’ the president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a 60 day period in peacetime (which can be extended for an extra 30 days to permit withdrawal) unless Congress explicitly gives its approval for a longer period. |
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| An executive grant providing restoration of all rights and privileges of citizenship to a specific individual charged or convicted of a crime. |
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| Powers that belong to the president because they can be inferred from the Constitution |
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| 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. |
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| Executive Office of the President (EOP) |
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| A mini-bureaucracy created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy. |
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| Office of Management and Budget (OMB) |
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| 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. |
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| Rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. All executive orders must by published in the Federal Register |
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