Government: Chapter 8 Terms Daniel
Vroman
1.
articles
of impeachment – The specific charges brought against a president or a federal
judge by the House of Representatives
2.
Cabinet
– The formal body of presidential advisers who head the fifteen executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of
formal advisers
3.
congressionalist
– One who believes that Article II’s Provision that the president should ensure
“faithful execution of the laws” should be read as an injunction against
substituting presidential authority for legislative intent
4.
executive
agreement – Formal government agreement entered into by the executive branch
that does not require the advice and consent of the Senate
5.
Executive
Office of the President – Establishment created in 1939 to help the president
oversee the bureaucracy
6.
executive order – A rule or regulation issued by the
president that has the effect of a law.
All executive orders must be published in the Federal Register.
7.
executive
privilege – An assertion of presidential power that reasons that the president
can withhold information requested by the courts in matters relating to his
office
8.
impeachment – The power delegated to the House of
Representatives in the Constitution to charge the president, vice-president, or
other “civil officers,” including federal judges, with “Treason Bribery, or
other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
This is the first step in the constitutional process of removing such
government officials from office
9.
inherent
powers – Powers of the president that can be derived or inferred from specific
powers in the Constitution
10.
line-item veto - The authority of a chief executive to
delete part of a bill passed by the legislature that involves taxing and/or
spending. The legislature may override a
veto, usually with a two thirds majority of each chamber.
11.
12.
New
Deal – The name given to the program of “relief, recovery, reform” begun by
President FDR in 1933 designed to bring the
13.
pardon
– An executive grant providing restoration of all rights and privileges of
citizenship to a specific individual charged or convicted of a crime
14.
patronage – Jobs, grants, or other special favors that are
given as rewards to friends and political allies for their support.
15.
presidentialist
– One who believes that Article II’s grant of executive power is a broad grant
of authority allowing a president wide discretionary powers
16.
stewardship
theory – The theory that holds that Article II confers on the president the
power and the duty to take whatever
actions are deemed necessary in the national interest, unless prohibited by the
Constitution or by law
17.
Taftian
theory – The theory that holds that the president is limited by the specific
grants of executive power found in the Constitution
18.
Twenty-Fifth
Amendment – Adopted in 1967 to establish procedures for filling vacancies in
the office of president and vice president as well as providing for procedures
to deal with the disability of a president
19.
Twenty-Second
Amendment – Adopted in 1951, prevents a president from serving more than two
terms or more than ten years in office
20.
21.
veto powers – The formal, constitutional authority of
the president to reject bills passed by both houses of Congress, thus
preventing their law without further congressional action.
22.
War
Powers Act - Passed by Congress in 1973; the president is limited in the
deployment of troops overseas to a sixty-day period in peacetime (which can be
extended for an extra thirty days to permit withdrawal) unless Congress
explicitly gives its approval for a longer period