Civics Midterm 3
Terms
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- mandate
- strong support from the people
- executive office of the President
- staff that helps oversee the executive branch
- lobbyist
- someone whose job it is to influence members of Congress as they prepare to vote on bills
- partisan
- following a certain party
- political appointee
- a person that the president names to a job in the executive civil service system
- patronage
- government jobs
- executive order
- regulation about how laws are to be carried out
- liberal
- believes that the federal gov. should expand its role by actively promoting programs such as health care and equal opportunity
- spoils system
- appointing supporters to public offices
- bureaucrat
- federal employees
- White house office
- part of the executive office of the president that includes the presidents key staff and personal advisers
- cabinet
- people that advise the president and help set policy for the nation
- diplomat
- person who represents the nation in dealing with government of other nations
- inner cabinet
- the heads of the Defense, State, Treasury and Justice Departments
- conservative
- believes that the federal gov. should limit its role in social and economic programs
- execute
- to carry out, or perform the duties of the president