Ch. 8 The Presidency

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Across
  1. 6. Mini-bureaucracy created in 1939 to help the president oversee the executive branch bureaucracy.
  2. 9. Authority of chief executive to delete part of a bill passed by legislature that involves taxing or spending. Ruled constitutional by the US Supreme Court.
  3. 10. Prevented presidents from serving more than two terms or more than 10 years if he came to office via death, resignation, or impeachment of predecessor.
  4. 11. Rule or regulation issued by the president that has the effect of law. All executive orders must be published in the Federal Register.
  5. 13. Powers that belong to the president because they can be inferred from the Constitution.
  6. 14. Established procedures for filling vacancies in the office of president and vice president as well as providing for procedures to deal with disabilities of a president.
Down
  1. 1. Formal international agreements entered into by the president that do not require the advice and consent of the US Senate.
  2. 2. President is limited in deployment of troops overseas to a 60-day period in peacetime (can be extended for extra 30 days to permit withdrawl) unless Congress explicitly gives approval for a longer period.
  3. 3. Formal, constitutional authority of the president to reject bills passed by both Congress houses, thus preventing them from becoming law without further congressional action.
  4. 4. Power delegated to House of Representatives in the Constitution to charge the president, vice president, or other "civil officers" (and federal judges) with "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." The first step in constitutional process of removing government officials from office.
  5. 5. Office that prepares president's annual budget proposal, receives the budget and programs of executive departments, supplies economic forecasts, and conducts detailed analyses of proposed bills and agency rules.
  6. 6. Implied presidential power that allows the president to refuse to disclose information regarding confidential conversations or national security to Congress or judiciary.
  7. 7. Ruled that executive order can be unconstitutional in certain cases. Ruled against Nixon saying that his involvement with the Watergate Scandal and his hiding of crucial tape recordings was unconstitutional. Nixon was impeached but resigned before the Senate approved impeachment.
  8. 8. The formal body of presidential advisers who head the 15 executive departments. Presidents often add others to this body of formal advisers.
  9. 12. Executive grant providing restoration of all rights and priveleges of citizenship to a specific individual charged or convicted of a crime.