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| The authority of a chief executive to delete part of a spending bill passed by the legislature that involves taxing and/or spending. |
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| A rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. |
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| Executive Office of the President |
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| Establishment created in 1939 to help the president oversee the bureaucracy. |
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| The restoration of all rights and privileges of citizenship to a specific individual charged or convicted of a crime. |
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| The formal, constitutional authority of president to reject bills passed by both houses of congress thus preventing their becoming law without further congressional action. |
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| A law passed near the end of the Vietnam War to limit the powers of the president to engage U.S. military forces in combat abroad without congressional consent. |
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| A formal agreement entered into by the executive branches of different countries. The agreements do not require the advice and consent of the senate. |
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| Office of Management and Budget |
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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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| The formal body of presidential advisers who head the fifteen departments. Presidents often add others to this body of formal advisers. |
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| Jobs, grants, or other special favors that are given as rewards to friends and political allies for their support. |
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| The Supreme Court ruled that there is no constitutional absolute executive privilege that would allow a president to refuse to comply with a court order to produce information in a criminal trial. |
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| Prevents a president from serving more that two terms or more than ten years if he came to office via the death or impeachment of his predecessor. |
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| actual bringing of charges against a public official; bit the hearings or trial on those charges. |
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| The name given to the program of "Relief Recovery, Reform" begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, designed to bring the United States out of the Great Depression. |
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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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| An assertion of presidential power that reasons that the president can with hold information requested by the courts in matters relating to his office. |
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| Powers of the president that can be derived or inferred from specific powers in the Constitution. |
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