1. Limits to the Presidency include:
2. The President plays 8 roles which include: chief of state, chief executive, chief administrator, chief diplomat, commander in chief, chief legislator, party chief, and chief citizen
3. The president of the United States must be: a natural born citizen, 35 years of age, and have lived in the United States for at least 14 years
4. The order of Presidential succession is: Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro tem of the Senate, Secretary of State, each of the 13 Head Cabinet members in order of precedence.
5. The unwritten rule of Senatorial courtesy gives the Senate some control over presidential appointments
6. The President’s power to grant reprieves and pardons is absolute, except in cases of impeachment, where they may never be granted. To be effective, a pardon must be accepted by the person to whom it is granted.
7. The president’s specific powers are expressed in the constitution
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9. The basic structure of our two-party system is
10. A single-issue party is a minor party that concentrates on only one public-policy matter
11. A political party is a group of persons who seek to control the government through the winning of elections and the holding of public offices.
12. Roosevelt, Lafollette, Wallace and Wallace were all leaders of splinter parties
13. Political parties are not as strong as they used to be because: a sharp drop in the number of voters willing to identify themselves with a party, an increase in spli-ticket voting, various structural changes and reforms that have made parties more open but more internally conflicted, changes in the technology of campaigning, and the growth of single-issues organizations
14. The Supreme court exercises both original and appellate jurisdiction
15. Military personnel who have been sentenced can appeal in the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
16. The district court hears cases that pertain to bankruptcy, public lands, and civil rights
17. The ultimate exercise of Judicial Review is vested in the Supreme Court
18. In a court case, the plaintiff is the person who files the suit
19. Marbury V. Madison established the Supreme Court’s right to declare acts of congress unconstitutional, therefore establishing judicial review.
20. Constitutional Court judges serve for life unless they resign, retire, or die.
21. The ordinance power of the president is the power of the President to issue executive orders (a directive, rule, or regulation that has the effect of the law)
22. The Supreme Court’s decisions in Myers V. United States established that the president has the ultimate power of removal
23. When the president negotiates a treaty, the Senate must give its approval, by a 2/3s vote of the members present, before the treaty can become effective