| A | B |
|---|
| Election of 1800 | Election heavily influenced by political parties |
| Winner of the election of 1800 | Decided by the House of Representatives |
| Governor | The office held by a majority of presidential nominees |
| The rise of political parties | spurred changes to the electoral system |
| Chief Executive | executive power to enforce and lead the nation |
| Commander in Chief | directs and controls the military |
| Chief Legislator | works with Congress on the budget |
| Chief of Party | Negotiates ageements and treaties |
| Chief of State | Acts as the symbolic leader of the country |
| Chief Citizen | Represents the people by focussing on public interests |
| Chief Administrator | Directs the executive branch to carry out their duties |
| Executive branches effect on law | Decides how to enforce it |
| Executive orders | Part of faithful execution off the laws |
| Article II of the Constitution | Often called a loosely drawn segment |
| Presidential appointees | Must be approved by a majority of the Senate |
| Veto | Legislative power |
| Bureaucracy | Complex administrative structure that handles the everyday business of an organization |
| Bureaucrat | Employee within a bureaucracy |
| Department of Justice | Hedaed by the Attorney general |
| Department | Cabinet level agency in the executive branch |
| Pyramid | Structure of a bureaucracy |
| Congress | Controls revenue and how it will be spent |
| Federal government's largest source of revenue | individual income tax |
| Benefit that the federal government must pay | Entitlement |
| Deficit | Annual shortfall between money coming in and money being spent |
| (OMB) Office of Budget and Management | Agency that reviews spending requests from the executive branch |
| Diplomatic Immunity | legal immunity that ensures diplomats are given safe passage and are considered not susceptible to lawsuit or prosecution under the host country's laws, although they can still be expelled |
| The totality of the Federal Government's official statements and actions as it conducts foreign relation | Foreign policy |
| (CIA) Cental Intelligence Agency | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Electoral college | U.S. system of electing the president |
| Necessarry electoral votes neede to win the presidency | 270 |
| State of the Union | President's annual speech to Congress |
