Executive Branch Test Review

Chapters 13.1, 13.2 14.1-14.4, 15.1 15.2 15.315.4

1. Who ratifies treaties made by the president?

2. What does the National Security Council do? Who makes it up?

3. How does the Cabinet help the president?

4. What are the 15 Cabinet departments and what do they do?

Know the secretary of the three major departments (State, Defense & Justice)

5. What is the Executive Office of the President (EOP)? What offices make up the EOP?

6. Who confirms nominees to the Cabinet and Supreme Court made by the president?

7. What percent of votes in Congress does it take to override a presidential veto?

8. Under the War Powers Resolution, the president may send troops to a foreign country for ___days.

9. Who can declare a war?

11. What are the president’s legislative powers? Include veto powers and policy-making powers.

12. What are the president’s foreign policy powers?

13. Does the president have more power in domestic or foreign policy?

14. What are the requirements to be the U.S. president?

16. Define Executive Order, Executive Agreement and Ordinance Power

17. What is the job of the Office of Management and Budget?

18. Who was the only president to resign from office?

19. What presidents have been impeached? (Articles of Impeachment have passed in the house)

20. Review the roles of the president and give an example for each role.

  • Chief executive-
  • Chief diplomat-
  • Chief of the Economy-
  • Chief of the Party-
  • Chief of State-
  • Commander-in-Chief-
  • Chief legislature-
  • Leader of the Free World-

21. Review Presidential Powers

  • Veto Powers -
  • Ordinance Power-
  • Military Powers-

Treaties-

Executive Agreements -

Recognition-

Persona non grata-

Commander and Chief-

Wartime Powers-

  • Judicial Powers

Pardon

Reprieve

Commutation

22. Who was the president elected four times? What did the 22 Amendment limited terms to?

23. What are the three different types of Independent Agencies and how are they different?

24. Give two examples each for the three different types of independent agencies.

25. What does the Constitution say about presidential powers?

26. How long is the president’s term?

27. What is the Reorganization Act?

28. How is the president elected?

29. What does it mean to be impeached?

30. What was the last declared war?

31. Which president is responsible for expanding the government in the 1930s?

32. Does the Constitution provide a loose or strict definition of the role of the President? Why?