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Executive Branch Vo
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Administration | A team of executive branch officials appointed by each President. |
| ambassador | Official representatives to foreign governments. |
| biennial | two years or occurring every two years. |
| budget | A plan for rising and spending money. |
| bureaucracy | An organization of government departments, agencies, and offices. |
| cabinet | An important group of policy advisers to the President, made up of the executive department heads and few other officials. |
| commute | to reduce to one less severe. |
| diplomacy | the relations and communication carried out between countries. |
| electoral college | A body of representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president. |
| electors | a person who has the right to vote in an election. |
| embassy | the official residence or offices of an ambassador. |
| executive agencies | An executive agency is a part of a government department that is treated as managerially and budgetary separate, to carry-out some part of the executive functions. |
| executive department | branch of federal and state government that is broadly responsible for implementing, supporting, and enforcing the laws made by the legislative branch and interpreted by the judicial branch. |
| federalism | the division of powers between the states and the federal, or national, government. |
| government | the governing body of a nation, state, or community. |
| impeach | when a majority of the members of the house of representatives accuse the president or other high government officials, such as federal judges. |
| order of succession | persons may become or act as President of the United States if the incumbent President becomes impeach, dies, or removed from office. |
| pardon | a government decision to allow a person who has been convicted of a crime, to be free and absolved of that conviction. |
| regulatory commission | to oversee the country's interstate transmission and pricing of a variety. ( natural oil, energy resources, and electricity) |
| reprieve | cancel or postpone the punishment. |
| state of the union | a yearly address delivered each January by the president. |
| separation of powers | dividing government power among legislative, executive, and judicial powers. |
| veto | a constitutional right to reject. |
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