Executive Branch Questions

1. What are the official roles of the president according to the Constitution?
2. What does it mean to say the president is the chief citizen?
3. What are the official qualifications for a person to run for president?
4. Which president served more than two terms in office?
5. Describe the 22nd Amendment.
6. How are electors to the Electoral College chosen?
7. What three primary characteristics have most presidents shared?

8. What is the difference between an appointment and a nomination?

9. What are Executive Orders?
10. What is Executive Privilege?
11. What is the difference between a treaty and an executive agreement?
12. Who can declare war?
13. What kind of formal and informal checks does the president have on his power?

14. Who is the top person in the White House Office?

15. Who handles interactions between the press and the president?
16. Who is in the National Security Council?
17. What is the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
18. What is the role of the president’s Cabinet?