executive branch

presidential requirements

• been a resident of the united states for at least 9 years

• been a resident of the united states for at least 14 years

• at least 35 years old

• natural born US citizen

• must be 25 years old

• an election in which a party’s voters choose state delegates to the national convention and/or express a preference for their party’s presidential nomination

contest where the candidate who wins gets all the delegates chosen at the primary

• a system that gives a primary candidate a proportion of delegates equal to their percentage of the vote

• a closed meeting of party members who select delegates to a national convention

• a quadrennial meeting where major parties select their presidential ticket

•  party’s formal statement of principles

• the speech opening a national convention

president is not chosen by the people but by a group called the

step 1 to become a president