Executive Branch Vocab

Impeachment

• An action by the House of Representatives to accuse the president, vice president, or other civil officers of the United States of committing "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"

• A rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law

• A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body

• A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president

Appointment

• 15 heads of the major executive departments plus the V.P. and others selected for cabinet rank

• A rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law

• President's power to select people for non-elective positions in the Executive Branch

• Order in which the office of president is filled if it becomes vacant before an election

Electoral College

• The thousands of federal government agencies and institutions that implement and administer federal laws and programs

• A rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law

• 15 heads of the major executive departments plus the V.P. and others selected for cabinet rank

• A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president

Executive Cabinet

• Order in which the office of president is filled if it becomes vacant before an election

• 15 heads of the major executive departments plus the V.P. and others selected for cabinet rank

• The thousands of federal government agencies and institutions that implement and administer federal laws and programs

• A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president

Succession

• A rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law

• Order in which the office of president is filled if it becomes vacant before an election

• The thousands of federal government agencies and institutions that implement and administer federal laws and programs

• President's power to select people for non-elective positions in the Executive Branch

Head of State

• The executive role that symbolizes and represents the people both nationally and internationally

• The role of the president in recognizing foreign governments, making treaties, and effecting executive agreements

• The role of the president as supreme commander of the military forces of the United States and of the state National Guard units when they are called into federal service

• The role of the president as head of the executive branch of the government

Bureaucracy

• Order in which the office of president is filled if it becomes vacant before an election

• A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president

• 15 heads of the major executive departments plus the V.P. and others selected for cabinet rank

• The thousands of federal government agencies and institutions that implement and administer federal laws and programs

Commander-in-Chief

• The role of the president in recognizing foreign governments, making treaties, and effecting executive agreements

• Term for the president as architect of public policy and the one who sets the agenda for congress

• The role of the president as supreme commander of the military forces of the United States and of the state National Guard units when they are called into federal service

• The role of the president as head of the executive branch of the government

Chief Executive

• The role of the president as supreme commander of the military forces of the United States and of the state National Guard units when they are called into federal service

• The role of the president as head of the executive branch of the government.

• Term for the president as architect of public policy and the one who sets the agenda for congress

• The executive role that symbolizes and represents the people both nationally and internationally

Chief Diplomat

• The role of the president as supreme commander of the military forces of the United States and of the state National Guard units when they are called into federal service

• The role of the president as head of the executive branch of the government

• The role of the president in recognizing foreign governments, making treaties, and effecting executive agreements

• Term for the president as architect of public policy and the one who sets the agenda for congress