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This part of the Constitution outlines all of the powers of the president

What is Article II?

This term negatively frames the vast and unending growth of presidential power

What is the imperial presidency?

The term “bully pulpit” coined by Roosevelt is now commonly used to describe the president’s use of this

What is the media?

These are 3 reasons that presidential power has grown so much

What are unity of the presidency, mass media, complication of living in America, national emergencies, and Congress’ creation of programs?

This feature of Article II has led to the growth of presidential power

What is its vagueness?

This is how a treaty can be approved

What is a 2/3 vote in the Senate?

This is the only appointed office that the president cannot remove someone from

What is judge?

The ordinance power allows the president to issue these

What are executive orders?

The president’s power to execute the law is most notably expressed when he says this

What is the Oath of Office?

These are 3 types of offices the president can appoint

What are ambassadors, cabinet members, department heads, judges/attorneys, and military officers?

This power is the primary way the president can stop legislation from passing

What is the veto?

In an emergency, the president can call Congress into one of these

What is a special session?

This is the president’s best time to propose new laws to Congress

What is the State of the Union Address?

This presidential historian says the president has 5 “constituencies” to appeal to

Who is Richard Neustadt?

This expansion of a presidential power would allow the president to eliminate specific provisions rather than whole pieces of legislation

What is a line-item veto?

This power lets the president legally forgive a specific person of a crime

What is pardon?

This power lets the president forgive a general group of lawbreakers

What is amnesty?

The power of commutation allows the president to do this to a sentence

What is reduce?

This is the general term for the president’s judicial powers

What is clemency?

The president is only allowed to use his judicial power in this kind of crime

What is federal?

This is the only Phoenix Suns player to ever score 50 points in a playoff game

Who is Charles Barkley?

This governor of Arizona was impeached in 1999, allowing AZ Sec. of State Jane Hull to take office

Who is Fife Symington?

This athlete, known for his verbal mess-ups, once said, “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”

Who is Yogi Berra? (Hall of Fame NY Yankees)

“The Who hoped to die before what in the song “My Generation?”

What is “before I get old?”

This actor has appeared in “Bennie & Joon,” “Edward Scissorhands,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and “Public Enemies”

Who is Johnny Depp?