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| Adopted in 1952 that prevents a president from serving more than 2 terms in office, or no more than 10 terms if he came into office because of the death, impeachment, or resignition of the president |
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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 power of the president, holding that there is no absolute constitutional 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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| Name 6 powers of the President |
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- The power to Appoint
- The power to Convene Congress (come together)
- The power to Make Treaties
- Veto Power
- The power to Preside over the Military as Commancer in Chief
- The Pardoning Power
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| Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not require the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate |
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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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| Relief, Recovery, and Reform for the nation during the Great Depression to jumpstart the American Economy; begun by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 |
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| The Executive Office of the President |
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| A mini-bureaucracy created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy who have become the primary policy makers in their fields of expertise. |
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| How did James David Barber characterize presidents based on their energy levels? |
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| Whether they were active or passive; and positive or negative |
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| How important is public opinion to presidential success? |
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| It allows president to gain support from the people on policies when going public; it allows president's ratings to go up; |
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| Who does the president depend on to get bills passed? |
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| Advocating to the public; his party; |
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| The Office of Management and Budget |
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| The office that prepares the president's annual budget proposals, reviews the budget and programs of the executive departments, supplies economic forcasts, and conducts detailed analyses of proposed bills and agency rules. |
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| Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer |
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| 1952, Court unequivocally stated that Truman had overstepped the boundaries of his office as provided by the Constitution |
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