Executive Branch Key Terms

Order in which the office of president is to be filled if it becomes vacant

• Ambassadors

• Presidential Succession

• Joint Chiefs of Staff

• Bureaucracy

Formal documents that allow U.S. citizens to travel abroad

• passport
• social security card
• driver's license
• visa

Official act by the president forgiving a person convicted of a crime and freeing that person from serving out his or her sentence

• convict
• acquit
• pardon
• consul

Independent agencies created by Congress that can make rules concerning certain activities and bring violators to court

• Governmental organizations
• Private corporations
• Regulatory commissions

• Executive agencies

Official who heads an executive department in the federal government

• Governor
• Secretary
• President
• Mayor

Written agreements between nations

• agreements
• pacts
• treaties
• contracts

Documents that allow people from one country to visit another

• Visa
• Driver's license
• ID card
• Passport

Highest ranking officials representing a government in a foreign country

• ambassadors
• presidents
• consuls
• diplomats

Chief legal officer of the nation or state

• Secretary of State
• Chief Justice
• Chief Financial Officer
• Attorney General

The many departments and agencies at all levels of government

• bureaucracy

• consulate

• diplomacy

• embassy