AMSCO AP Government Chapter 10 Vocabulary correctly answered rated A+

AMSCO AP Government Chapter 10 Vocabulary ad hoc - correct answers Several subordinates, cabinet officers and committees report directly to the president on different matters. this structure allows great flexibility, minimizes bureaucratic inertia, and generates ideas and information from disparate channels, but it risks cutting the president off from the government officials who are ultimately responsible for translating presidential decisions into policy proposals and administrative action. ambassadors - correct answers a diplomat sent from another country in an effort to make peace or continue peace bully pulpit - correct answers A public office or position of authority that provides its occupant with an outstanding opportunity to speak out on any issue. (Media in the case of the president) Cabinet - correct answers A body of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister to head the executive departments of the government and to act as official advisers. chief of staff - correct answers The person who is named to direct the White House Office and advise the president. circular system - correct answers Several of the president's assistants report directly to him. The circular method has the virtue of giving the president a great deal of information, but at the price of confusion and conflict among cabinet secretaries and assistants. Clinton v. City of New York (1998) - correct answers struck down the Line-Item Veto Act and prevented the president from using a line-item veto Cold War - correct answers a period of time in which America and Russia were hostile and competed without actually being in a war commander in chief - correct answers The role of the president as supreme commander of the military forces of the United States and of the National Guard units when they are called into federal service. electors - correct answers people entrusted to vote for the president of the United States executive agreement - correct answers resembles a treaty but isn't, depends on the willingness to keep peace between both countries Executive Office of the President - correct answers Has responsibility for tasks ranging from communicating the President's message to the American people to promoting our trade interests abroad Overseen by the White House Chief of Staff, has traditionally been home to many of the President's closest advisers. executive order - correct answers A rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law. executive privilege - correct answers The privilege, claimed by the president for the executive branch of the US government, of withholding information in the public interest honeymoon period - correct answers first days after a president is sworn in Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935) - correct answers Court ruled that FTC Act was constitutional and that the firing of a bureaucratic executive based on party affiliation was unjust impeachment - correct answers To charge (a public official) with improper conduct in office before a proper tribunal imperial presidency - correct answers used to describe a president who acts without consulting Congress or acts in secrecy to evade or deceive Congress inherent powers - correct answers powers given to the president in the Constitution