Chapter 11 - The Presidency

the role of the president as head of the national military and the state National Guard units

• Executive prerogative

• Commander in chief

• Party leader

• Military leader

specific powers granted by the Constitution to Congress (Article I, Section 8) and to the president (Article II)

• expressed powers

• implied powers

• inherent powers

• delegated powers

Constitutional powers are assigned to one governmental agency but are exercised by another agency with the express permission of the first.

• expressed powers

• inherent powers

• implied powers

• delegated powers

powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution but are inferred from it

• expressed powers

• inherent powers

• implied powers

• delegated powers

powers derived from the necessary and proper clause of Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution; such powers are not specifically expressed but are implied through the expansive interpretation of delegated powers

• expressed powers

• inherent powers

• implied powers

• delegated powers

an agreement, made between the president and another country, that has the force of a treaty but does not require the Senate's "advice and consent"

• executive order

• executive statement

• executive agreement

• executive privilege

the claim that confidential communications between a president and close advisers should not be revealed without the consent of the president

• executive order

• executive statement

• executive agreement

• executive privilege

a president's constitutional power to turn down acts of Congress; May be overridden by 2/3 vote of each house of Congress

• pocket veto

• veto

• executive order

• executive statement

a veto that is automatically triggered if the president does not act on a given piece of legislation passed during the final 10 days of a legislative session.

• pocket veto

• veto

• presidential statement

• pocket statement

The president's advisers and heads of the fifteen executive departments are appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate.

• Cupboard

• Cabinet

• White House staff

• Executive Office of the President (EOP)