Powers of the President Vocabulary Practice Quiz

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  1. A rule or regulation issued by the President or another executive official to help enforce a treaty, law, or court ruling
  2. Your answer:
    presidential agreement
    presidential decree
    executive order
    executive privilege


  3. A presidential speech required by the Constitution, customarily given yearly at the beginning of each session of Congress
  4. Your answer:
    Treaty Message
    Presidential Address
    State of the Union Address
    Congressional Address


  5. The right of the President and other top executive officials to refuse to appear before congressional committees and to withhold information from the courts
  6. Your answer:
    executive privilege
    legislative veto
    executive order
    presidential privilege


  7. A general pardon given to a group of people who have broken the law.
  8. Your answer:
    amnesty
    pardon
    judicial hearing
    presidential parole


  9. A President's indirect veto of a bill, exercised by failing to act on it after Congress has adjourned
  10. Your answer:
    presidential veto
    legislative veto
    pocket veto
    veto


  11. The power of a President or governor to reject part of a bill while signing the rest into law
  12. Your answer:
    item veto
    pocket veto
    veto
    presidential veto


  13. The system by which classified public employees are hired and promoted on the basis of merit rather than political party affiliation
  14. Your answer:
    crony appointments
    spoils system
    civil service
    civil system


  15. The law, passed by Congress in 1973, restricts the President's use of American troops abroad by requiring him or her to generally get approval from Congress before committing troops to battle zones
  16. Your answer:
    Battlefield Resolution
    War Resolution
    War Powers Act
    Presidential War Powers


  17. A formal agreement between foreign nations that must be ratified by a 2/3 vote of the U.S. Senate
  18. Your answer:
    senatorial courtesy
    treaty
    presidential order
    executive order


  19. The U.S. is represented overseas by thousands of diplomatic personnel who are members of this branch of the State Department
  20. Your answer:
    Central Intelligence Agency
    Civil Service
    Foreign Entanglements
    Foreign Service


  21. The highest-ranking diplomat appointed to represent the President and carry out foreign policy in an assigned country
  22. Your answer:
    foreign policy expert
    consul
    ambassador
    consulate


  23. When a government official (such as a Justice of the Supreme Court, a President, or a governor) orders a delay in the carrying out of the punishment of a person convicted of a crime
  24. Your answer:
    reprieve
    pocket veto
    pardon
    amnesty


  25. The power of the President to declare that a country's diplomatic personnel must leave the U.S. (a Latin term for "unacceptable person")
  26. Your answer:
    persona non grata
    ingrate
    consulate
    singular non grata


  27. The President is called the in his role as head of the nation's military forces
  28. Your answer:
    commander in chief
    chief of state
    head honcho
    big banana


  29. The recognition of a foreign government by exchanging diplomatic representatives
  30. Your answer:
    diplomacy
    national recognition
    diplomatic recognition
    international cooperation


  31. When a President or governor legally releases someone from punishment (including imprisonment)
  32. Your answer:
    amnesty
    ex parte punishment
    parole
    pardon


  33. An agreement, not requiring the Senate's approval, between the President of the U.S. and the leader of a foreign government
  34. Your answer:
    treaty
    parole
    executive agreement
    presidential agreement


  35. A President's refusal to spend money appropriated by Congress
  36. Your answer:
    budgetary control
    executive non appropriation
    line item veto
    impoundment



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