exam part 1

20th amendment

• ensures that no one person be elected to more than two four-year terms as President of the United States. 

• sets the dates at which federally elected offices end and identifies who succeeds the President if he or she dies. 

• ensures that no one person be elected to more than two four-year terms as President of the United States. 

• provides for the election of the President and the Vice President by the Electoral College. It goes further to outline how these offices are elected should there NOT be a majority vote

22nd amendment

• sets the dates at which federally elected offices end and identifies who succeeds the President if he or she dies. 

• allows for the Vice President to become President in the event of the President’s death, incapacitation, resignation, or impeachment.

• ensures that no one person be elected to more than two four-year terms as President of the United States. 

• provides for the election of the President and the Vice President by the Electoral College. It goes further to outline how these offices are elected should there NOT be a majority vote

25th amendment

• ensures that no one person be elected to more than two four-year terms as President of the United States. 

• sets the dates at which federally elected offices end and identifies who succeeds the President if he or she dies. 

• provides for the election of the President and the Vice President by the Electoral College. It goes further to outline how these offices are elected should there NOT be a majority vote

• allows for the Vice President to become President in the event of the President’s death, incapacitation, resignation, or impeachment.

12th amendment

• provides for the election of the President and the Vice President by the Electoral College. It goes further to outline how these offices are elected should there NOT be a majority vote

•  allows for the Vice President to become President in the event of the President’s death, incapacitation, resignation, or impeachment

• ensures that no one person be elected to more than two four-year terms as President of the United States. 

• sets the dates at which federally elected offices end and identifies who succeeds the President if he or she dies.

electoral college

• a government in which one person holds unlimited political power.

• an informal advisory committee

• provides for the election of the President and the Vice President by the Electoral College. It goes further to outline how these offices are elected should there NOT be a majority vote

• comprised of electors from each state. 

commander in chief

• scheduling the agenda for the State of the Union address, determining policy initiatives of the government, setting the budget, and deciding on priorities for legislation to be supported by the executive branch

• The President has direct and immediate control over all of the troops and nation’s military arsenal.

•  the President is the ceremonial head of the United States government. He symbolizes all of the American people.

chief executive

• The President has direct and immediate control over all of the troops and nation’s military arsenal.

• scheduling the agenda for the State of the Union address, determining policy initiatives of the government, setting the budget, and deciding on priorities for legislation to be supported by the executive branch

• supervise the executive branch of government, prepare the executive budget, and appoint and remove executive officials.

•  the President is the ceremonial head of the United States government. He symbolizes all of the American people.

chief agenda setter

• The President has direct and immediate control over all of the troops and nation’s military arsenal.

• the President is the ceremonial head of the United States government. He symbolizes all of the American people. 

• scheduling the agenda for the State of the Union address, determining policy initiatives of the government, setting the budget, and deciding on priorities for legislation to be supported by the executive branch

• The President has direct and immediate control over all of the troops and nation’s military arsenal.

chief of state

• The President has direct and immediate control over all of the troops and nation’s military arsenal.

• scheduling the agenda for the State of the Union address, determining policy initiatives of the government, setting the budget, and deciding on priorities for legislation to be supported by the executive branch

• the President is the ceremonial head of the United States government. He symbolizes all of the American people. 

• The President has direct and immediate control over all of the troops and nation’s military arsenal.

cabinet

• the powers of government are divided between a central, or national, government and several lower levels of government

• an informal advisory committee

• power is held by a small, often self-appointed elite

• supreme power rests with the people. The government is conducted only with the consent of the people.