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Prevents a president from serving more than two terms, or more than ten years if he
came to office via the death or impeachment of his predecessor |
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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 |
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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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Establishes 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 advisors who head the fifteen executive departments. Presidents
often add others to this body of formal advisors |
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Formal government agreement entered into by the president that does not require the
advice and consent of the 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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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 national government simply because it is a sovereign
body |
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The name given to the program of “Relief, Recovery, Reform” begun by FDR in 1933 to bring
the United States out of the Great Depression |
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| The Executive Office of the President |
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Created in 1939 to help the president oversee the bureaucracy of the
executive branch |
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Officer 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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A rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. All executive orders must
be published in the Federal Register |
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