US Gov. Test Ch. 8-9
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- national security adviser
- the special assistant for national security affairs that directs the NSC staff
- (1) natural-born citizen (2) at least 35 (3) U.S. resident for at least 14 years
- Constitutional requirements for the office of the president
- Twelfth Amendment
- requires that the electors cast separate ballots for president and vice president, as well as providing that if no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes, the House chooses from the three candidates who have the largest number of electoral votes; the Senate chooses from the top two candidates for vice pres.
- compensation
- salary (for the president, $200,000 per year + $50,000 for expenses)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- the thing modern presidents rely on to provide specialized advice and information needed for decision making, and to help them implement presidential decisions and to gain more control over the executive branch (created by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939)
- National Security Council (NSC)
- agency which advises the president and helps coordinate American military and foreign policy.
- electoral vote
- the official vote for president and vice president by electors in each state
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
- the largest agency in the EOP that prepares the national budget that the president proposes to Congress each year.
- Vice President, Speaker of the House, president pro tempore, cabinet officers (secretary of state)
- presidential succession
- electoral college
- the method provided by Article II, Section I, which states that each state would choose electors according to a method the state legislatures set up. Each state would have as many electors as it had senators and representatives in Congress.
- leak
- when the president-elect's team deliberately discloses some candidates' names to the news media to test the reaction of Congress, interest groups, and the public
- Twenty-Second Amendment
- secured the traditional presidential limitation of two terms, while allowing a vice president who takes over the presidency and serves two years or less of the former president's term to serve two additional terms, which makes it possible for the president to serve up to 10 years
- press secretary
- one of the president's top assistants who is in charge of media relations
- inner cabinet
- the secretaries of state, defense, treasury, and the attorney general (influential cabinet members who work closely with the president)
- cabinet
- the general term for the advisers around any head of state (consists in this case of the 14 secretaries, the vice president, and several top officials)
- electors
- members of a party chosen in each state to formally elect the president and vice president