Civics Executive Branch Vocabulary

Organizations of departments and agencies below the cabinet

• Amnesty

• Federal bureaucracy

• the President

• FBI

Pardon towards a group of people

• Amnesty

• Pardon

• Executive Order

• Electoral College

A rule or command that has the force of law

• Electoral College

• National security

• Executive Order

• treaty

Declaration of forgiveness and freedom from punishment

• Executive agreement

• Federal bureaucracy

• Cabinet

• Pardon

An indirect method of electing the President where we choose a slate of electors to vote for the president

• Ambassador

• Electoral College

• Embargo

• Trade sanction

Efforts to punish other nations by imposing trade barriers

• Trade sanction

• Foreign policy

• Amnesty

• Pardon

President's policy for dealing with countries outside the United States

• Executive Order

• Trade sanction

• Foreign policy

• Federal bureaucracy

An agreement between the president and the leader of another country

• Federal bureaucracy

• Cabinet

• Executive agreement

• Electoral College

A group of presidential advisers that include the heads of the 15 top-level executive departments.

• Executive Order

• Federal bureaucracy

• Cabinet

• Electoral College

An agreement among a group of nations that prohibits them from trading with certain nations.

• treaty

• National security

• Amnesty

• Embargo