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Excutive vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Executive order | directive rule or regulation issued by a chef executive or subordinates based upon constitutional or statutory authority and having the force of the law |
| Treaty | a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states |
| Executive agreement | a pact made by the president directly with the head of a forgin state a binding intervention agreement with the force of law but which doesn't require senate consent |
| Executive privilege | power claimed by the president and other members of the executive branch to resist certain search warrents |
| Reprieve | an offical postponement of the exeacution of a sentence pardon |
| Commute | to change a penalty into something less severe |
| Pardon | release from the punishment |
| Amnesty | a blanket pardon offered to a group of law violators |
| Recognition | the exclusive power of president to recongnize foreign country |
| War powers Act | restrict presidents power to deploy troops aboard for combat, without prior congressional approval. |