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POLI 2051 Chapter 13 Exam Questions
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35 years old - ✔✔To qualify for President you must be how old?
14 years - ✔✔To qualify for President you must have resided in the US for how long?
Twelfth Amendment - ✔✔Which amendment ratified in 1804 made is so that candidates are elected for
president and vice president separately?
Twelfth Amendment - ✔✔Which amendment specifies that VP must meet the same eligibility
requirements as presidents and that they be from different states?
Presidential Succession Act - ✔✔In 1792, Congress passed this which designated the president pro
tempore of the Senate as next in line, and then the Speaker of the House.
cabinet secretaries - ✔✔In 1886, Congress changed the order of succession to include only ________ in
order of their creation
Speaker of the House - ✔✔In 1947, Congress changed presidential succession once again, putting the
order of succession as vice president, ___________, president pro tempore, followed by the cabinet
secretaries.
Twenty-Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Ratified in 1967, required the president to nominate a replacement vice
president, who must be approved by a majority of the House and the Senate.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - ✔✔Which president was elected to four terms?
Twenty-Second Amendment - ✔✔Ratified in 1951, limits the president to two elected terms
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VP - ✔✔The clearest path to the White House is through the office of the
Presidents - ✔✔Most ________ have some combination of service in the military, in state legislatures or as
governor, in the U.S. HOR and Senate, and in prior presidential administrations.
imperial presidency - ✔✔The historian and presidential adviser Arthyr Schlesinger Jr. used the term
"___________" to describe the power of the president to speak for the nation on the world stage and to set
the policy agenda at home
legislative - ✔✔Which powers did the framers enumerate?
"executive power" - ✔✔In Article II, they "vested" the president with a general grant of "_________" and
then, later in the article, stated certain additional powers and responsibilities of the executive
general grant of executive - ✔✔It is the __________ that has allowed the presidency to become the
powerful office it is today
all - ✔✔The president directs ____ war efforts and military conflict.
Congress - ✔✔Has the power to officially declare war and to authorize funding for the war effort
impeachment - ✔✔The president has the power to grant clemency, or mercy, for crimes against the US,
except in the case of _______ from federal office
Power to Pardon - ✔✔What is the only "unchecked" power the President is constitutionally given
foreign regimes - ✔✔The president's authority in foreign affairs includes the power to "receive
Ambassadors and other public Ministers," which allows the president to recognize the legitimacy of
foreign nations - ✔✔The president or his designated representatives has the power to negotiate and sign
treaties nations
2/3 - ✔✔For a treaty to be valid, _______ of all senators must approve it
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POLI 2051 Chapter 13 Exam Questions
Complete Solutions Current Update
35 years old - ✔✔To qualify for President you must be how old?
14 years - ✔✔To qualify for President you must have resided in the US for how long?
Twelfth Amendment - ✔✔Which amendment ratified in 1804 made is so that candidates are elected for
president and vice president separately?
Twelfth Amendment - ✔✔Which amendment specifies that VP must meet the same eligibility
requirements as presidents and that they be from different states?
Presidential Succession Act - ✔✔In 1792, Congress passed this which designated the president pro
tempore of the Senate as next in line, and then the Speaker of the House.
cabinet secretaries - ✔✔In 1886, Congress changed the order of succession to include only ________ in
order of their creation
Speaker of the House - ✔✔In 1947, Congress changed presidential succession once again, putting the
order of succession as vice president, ___________, president pro tempore, followed by the cabinet
secretaries.
Twenty-Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Ratified in 1967, required the president to nominate a replacement vice
president, who must be approved by a majority of the House and the Senate.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - ✔✔Which president was elected to four terms?
Twenty-Second Amendment - ✔✔Ratified in 1951, limits the president to two elected terms
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, 2|Page
VP - ✔✔The clearest path to the White House is through the office of the
Presidents - ✔✔Most ________ have some combination of service in the military, in state legislatures or as
governor, in the U.S. HOR and Senate, and in prior presidential administrations.
imperial presidency - ✔✔The historian and presidential adviser Arthyr Schlesinger Jr. used the term
"___________" to describe the power of the president to speak for the nation on the world stage and to set
the policy agenda at home
legislative - ✔✔Which powers did the framers enumerate?
"executive power" - ✔✔In Article II, they "vested" the president with a general grant of "_________" and
then, later in the article, stated certain additional powers and responsibilities of the executive
general grant of executive - ✔✔It is the __________ that has allowed the presidency to become the
powerful office it is today
all - ✔✔The president directs ____ war efforts and military conflict.
Congress - ✔✔Has the power to officially declare war and to authorize funding for the war effort
impeachment - ✔✔The president has the power to grant clemency, or mercy, for crimes against the US,
except in the case of _______ from federal office
Power to Pardon - ✔✔What is the only "unchecked" power the President is constitutionally given
foreign regimes - ✔✔The president's authority in foreign affairs includes the power to "receive
Ambassadors and other public Ministers," which allows the president to recognize the legitimacy of
foreign nations - ✔✔The president or his designated representatives has the power to negotiate and sign
treaties nations
2/3 - ✔✔For a treaty to be valid, _______ of all senators must approve it
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