AP US Government

1. A presidential statement upon signing a bill into law, which explains how a president's administration intends to interpret the law
5. An action by the House of Representatives to accuse the president, vice president, or other civil officers of the United States of committing "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
6. A philosophy of judicial decision-making that argues judges should use their power broadly to further justice, especially in the areas of equality and personal liberty
8. Theodore Roosevelt's notion of the presidency as a platform from which the president could promote an agenda directly to the public
11. The things a president promises voters that they will attempt to accomplish while in office
12. Authority vested in a particular court to hear and decide the issues in any particular case
14. A presidential order to the executive branch that carries the force of law. The Supreme Court can rule executive orders unconstitutional

2. The right of the president to withhold information from Congress or refuse to testify
3. A judicial philosophy in which judges play minimal policy-making roles, leaving that duty strictly to the legislatures
4. The president’s constitutional right to reject a law passed by Congress. Congress may override the president’s veto with a two-thirds vote
7. The Supreme Court’s power to review whether acts of the legislative branch, the executive branch, and state governments are consistent with the Constitution, and to strike down acts it finds unconstitutional
9. An indirect veto, which the president can use by neither signing or vetoing a bill passed by Congress fewer than 10 days before it adjourns
10. A group of presidential advisers, including the heads of the executive departments, the attorney general, and other officials chosen by the president
13. Latin for judicial precedent, this concept originated in England in the twelfth century when judges settled disputes based on custom and tradition