Topic 5: The Executive Branch Vocabulary

The plan by which a presidential vacancy is filled is known as 

• 24th Amendment

• presidential succession

• Balance the ticket

• Executive Agreement

the presidential candidate chooses a running mate who can strengthen his chance of

                   being elected by virtue of certain ideological, geographic, racial, ethnic, gender, or other characteristics

• amnesty

• first lady

• reprieve

• balance the ticket

provides informal advice, advocates for particular policies, and performs a number of symbolic functions.

• first lady

• cabinet

• congress

• courts

the power to issue executive orders

• ordiance power

• executive reasoning

• constitutional privlege

• executive oreder power

the postponement of the execution of a sentence

• clemency

• leniency

• pardon

• reprieve

legal forgiveness for a crime

• amnesty

• leniency

• clemency

• pardon

the power to reduce the length of a sentence or the amount of a fine imposed by a court

• amnesty

• pardon

• commutation

• leniency

general pardon offered to a group of law violators

• amnesty

• pardon

• repreive

• clemency

leniency or mercy

• clemency

• treaty

• pardon

• reprieve

chief executive's power to reject a bill passed by a legislature; literally (Latin) "I forbid"

• line item veto

• veto

• reject the bill

• No