American Goverment
Terms
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- advice and consent
- powers given to the Us senate by the constitution to give its advice and consent to the president on treatis and appointments
- cabinet
- the advisore group appt by the president to advise him on decision makking. Depending on the president this group could be very imorpant or not really important at all
- commander in chief
- the role of the president as supreme commander of the Military forces and the national guard
- council of economic advisers
- staff agency in the EOP that advises the president
- emergency powers
- inherent powers used by the president during times of a national crisis
- executive agreement
- international agreement made by the president without senate approval with heads of foreign states
- executive office of the president
- establised of FOP tehn staff agencies that assist the president in carrying out major duties
- executive order
- a rule issued by teh president that has an effect of law implements and gives admin effect to provision s to the constitutions treaties and statutes
- executive priviledge
- the right to executive officials to refuse to appear before or withhold info from a legislative comittee
- inherent power
- power granted to teh president from loosly worded statment in the constitution
- office of management and budget
- assists the president in preparing the annual buget to clear and coordinate al ldept agency budgets and help set the fiscal policy
- twelth amendement
- 1804 separate election for president and vice president
- twenty fifth amendment
- establishes procedures for filling vacancies in the two top executive offices and that makes provisions fo rsituations involving presidential disability
- washington community
- individuals regularly involved in the politics in washington DC
- australian ballot
- a secret ballot prepard distributed ad tabulated by govt officials a the public expense. All states have use dthis since 1888.
- bundling
- the adding together of individual contributions to increase impact on the candidate
- caucus
- a closed meeting of party members to select candidates and propose policies
- elector
- a person that casts ballots for pres/vp number of electors in each state is equal to the states number of representatives in both chambers of congress
- independent expenditures
- non regulated leagal contributions to election campains from corps, unions, and other interests groups as long as they werent coordinated with those of the candidate
- issue voting
- voting for a candidate based on he or she stands on a particular issue
- office block or mass ballot
- a form of general election ballot in which candidates for elective offices are arranged in one column under their party affiliations
- presidential primary
- a statewide primary election of delegates to political party's national convention to help a party determing its presidential nominee
- resgistration
- entry of a persons name onto the list of eligible voters for elections age, citezenship and residency
- socioeconomic status
- a category of peoplw with in a society who have similar levels of income
- soft money
- campaing contributions which evade contribution limitations given to the pary an party comittees to help fund general party activities
- sound bite
- a brief meomorable comment that easily can be easily fit into a news broadcast
- super tuesday
- the date on which a number of presidential primaries are held including those in the most southern state
- tracking poll
- a poll taken for a candidate on a nearly daily basis as election day approaches
- voter turnout
- percentage of citizens taking part in the election process