Week 2 Executive Branch

What does the 22nd Amendment limit?

• Presidential Term

• Session

• Amount of people in the cabinent

• Nothing

What act creates the succession list?

• 19th Amendment

• Presidential Success Act of 1947

• 22nd Amendment

• 12th Amendment

What is the president’s salary? 

• $1 / year

• 200,000 / year

• 400,000 / year

• 1 million / year

Who determines presidential pay & benefits?

What does it mean to be Chief Executive?

• Has executive privilege

• Can do executive orders

• Head of the Executive Branch

• The boss

What does it mean to be the Chief Administrator

• Main architect of foreign policy

• Gives executive orders

• Administers the federal bureaucracy (agencies)

• Is the boss

What is executive privilege?

• Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus

• Special privileges

• An executive order

• The Executive’s conversations & counsel are confidential

Who 'makes war'?

• The President

• Congress and the President

• Congress

• The Supreme Court

What is the War Powers Act of 1973?

• President must inform Congress in writing within 48 hours of deployment

• The President can declare war

• The President can commit troops at any time he wants

• Congress can commit troops to war

What is a reprieve?

• Postpones the carrying-out of a sentence or the length of time one is in jail

• Takes off pressure on someone who is a convicted felon

• Releases a convicted criminal from their full sentance

• Reduces a sentence