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| chief of state | ceremonial head of the government of the United States |
| chief executive | Constitution gives the President the executive power of the United States, immensely broad in both domestic and foreign affairs |
| chief administrator | President heads the government |
| chief diplomat | President is the main architect of American foreign policy and the nation's chief spokesperson to the rest of the world |
| commander in chief | Military is under President direct and immediate control |
| chief legislator | President is main architect of public policies |
| chief of party | acknowledged leader of the political party that controls the executive branch |
| chief citizen | Means that the president is expected to be representative of all the people |
| presidential succession | the plan by which a vacancy in the presidency would be filled. |
| presidential electors | the persons elected by the voters to represent them in making a formal selection of the President and Vice President |
| electoral college | presidential electors chosen in each state and the District of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the president and vice president |
| presidential primary | Depending on the state; it is a process in which those who vote in a party's primary elect some or all of a State party organizaton's deelegates to the national convention and/or express a preference among the various contenders for that party's president |
| winner-take-all | candidate who won the preference vote automatically won the support of all delegates chosen at the primary |
| Keynote address | speech given at a party convention to set the tone for the convention and the campaign to come |
| platform | written declaration of the principles and policy positions of a political party; usually adopted at that party's convention |
| electorate | mass of people who actually cast votes in an election |
