| A | B |
|---|
| Joseph R. Biden | Vice President |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | Department of State |
| Timothy F. Geithner | Department of the Treasury |
| Robert M. Gates | Department of Defense |
| Eric H. Holder Jr | Department of Justice |
| Kenneth L. Salazar | Department of the Interior |
| Thomas J. Vilsack | Department of Agriculture |
| Gary F. Locke | Department of Commerce |
| Hilda L. Solis | Department of Labor |
| Kathleen Sebelius | Secretary of Health and Human Services |
| Shaun L.S. Donovan | Department of Housing and Urban Development |
| Ray LaHood | Department of Transportation |
| Steven Chu | Department of Energy |
| Arne Duncan | Department of Education |
| Eric K. Shinseki | Department of Veterans Affairs |
| Janet A Napolitano | Department of Homeland Security |
| Rahm I. Emanuel | White House Chief of Staff |
| Lisa P. Jackson | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Peter R. Orszag | Office Management and Budget |
| Ronald Kirk | United States Trade Representative |
| Susan Rice | United States Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Christina Romer | Council of Economic Advisers |
| Separation of Powers | the division of governmental powers among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches |
| Federalism | system of government where power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units |
| Republican Government | form of government in which sovereignty rests with the people, who elect agents to represent them in lawmaking and other decisions |
| Limited Government | form of government that believes powers of the government should be clearly limited by a written document or public understanding and uses checks to ensure public rather than private interests are served |
| Popular Sovereignty | concept that ultimate political authority is based on the will of the people |
