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| chief of state | the President is the ceremonial head of the government of the US. |
| chief executive | the President is vested by the Constitution with Executive Power of the US. |
| chief administrator | the President is the director of the Federal Government. |
| chief diplomat | the main architect of American foreign policy and the nation’s chief spokesperson to the rest of the world. |
| commander in chief | the President is in charge of the army. |
| chief legislator | the main architect of its public policies. |
| chief of party | the acknowledged leader of the political party of the controls the executive branch. |
| chief citizen | the President is expected to be “the representative of all the people.” |
| presidential succession | the scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled. |
| presidential electors | people chosen from each State and the Districts of Columbia to formally select the President and Vice President. |
| electoral college | the group of people chosen from each State and the Districts of Columbia to formally select the President and Vice President. |
| presidential primary | the election in which a party’s voters choose some or all of a State party organization’s delegates to their party’s national convention. |
| winner-take-all | the candidate who won the performance vote atomically won the support of all delegates chosen at the primary. |
| national conventions | the meeting at which the delegates vote to pick their president and vice-presidential candidates. |
| platform | its formal statement of basic principles. |
| keynote address | a speech delivered by one of the party’s most accomplished creators. |
| electorate | the people who vote in election. |
| executive order | a directive, rule, or regulation that has the effect of law. |
| executive agreement | a pact between the President and the head of a foreign state or between their subordinates. |
| federal budget | a very detailed estimate of receipts and expenditures. |
| executive departments/cabinet | traditional units of federal administration and each of them built around some broad field of activity. |
| progressive tax | the higher one’s income, the higher the tax. |
| tax returns | a declaration of that income and of the exemption and deductions he or she claims. |
| payroll taxes | the amounts owed by employees are withheld from their paychecks and also paid by employers. |
| regressive tax | taxes levied at a flat rate, without regard to the level of a taxpayer’s income or his or her ability to pay them. |
| excise tax | a tax laid on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of goods and/or the performance of services. |
| estate tax | a levy imposed on the assets of one who dies. |
| gift tax | one imposed on the making a gift by a living person. |
| custom duty | taxes on goods brought into United States. |
| deficit | when you don’t have enough money. |
| public debt | how much money the government borrowed. |
| continuing resolution | emergency law that lets the government keeps spending money on last year’s budget. |
| isolation | a purposeful refusal. |
| foreign policy | many differences policies on many topics. |
| right of legation | the right to send and receive diplomatic representatives. |
| ambassador | an official representative of the United States. |
| passport | a certificate to its citizens who travel or live abroad. |
| diplomatic immunity | the ability of every nation to conduct its foreign relations and accepted to practice. |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency. |
| terrorism | the use of violence to intimate a government or a society. |
| foreign aid | economic and military aid to other countries. |
