13. The Presidency.

1. 13. The Presidency.

2. The President’s Job Description.

3. Presidential Succession and the Vice Presidency.

4. Presidential Succession and the Vice Presidency.

5. Presidential Nominations.

6. The Election.

7. chief of state

8. chief of state the President; he is the ceremonial head of the government of the United States, the symbol of all the people in the nation

9. chief executive

10. chief executive the President is vested by the Constitution with “the Executive Power” of the United States “the most powerful office in the world”

11. chief administrator

12. chief administrator the director of the huge executive branch of the Federal Government

13. chief diplomat

14. chief diplomat the main architect of American foreign policy and the nation’s chief spokesperson to the rest of the world

15. commander in chief

16. commander in chief President is leader of the Nation’s armed forces, 1.4 million men and women in uniform

17. chief legislator

18. chief legislator the President is the main architect of its public policies

19. chief of party

20. chief of party the President is the acknowledge leader of the political party that controls the executive branch

21. chief citizen

22. chief citizen the President is expected to be “the representative of all the people”

23. presidential succession

24. presidential succession the scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled

25. Presidential Succession Act of 1947

26. Presidential Succession Act of 1947 Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro term of the Senate, and …

27. balance the ticket

28. balance the ticket presidential candidate chooses a running mate who can strengthen his chance of being elected by virtue of certain ideological, geographic, racial, ethnic, gender or …

29. presidential electors

30. presidential electors electors that cast two electoral votes

31. electoral votes

32. electoral votes votes cast by the presidential electors

33. electoral college

34. electoral college group of people (electors) chosen from each State and the District of Columbia to formally select the President and Vice President

35. winner-take-all

36. winner-take-all the candidate who won the performance vote automatically won the support of all delegates chosen at the primary; currently not in use

37. presidential primary

38. presidential primary Choose some or all of a State party organization’s delegates to their party’s national convention Express a preference among various contenders for their party’s presidential nomination

39. proportional representation

40. proportional representation Any candidate who wins at least 15 percent of the vote cast in a primary gets the number of the states Democratic Convention delegates that correspond to his or her share of that primary vote

41. national convention

42. national convention meetings at which the delegates vote to pick their presidential and vice-presidential candidates

43. platform

44. platform the party’s formal statement of basic principles, stands on major policy matters, and objectives for the campaign and beyond

45. keynote address

46. keynote address usually a barnburner, delivered by one of the party’s most accomplished orators

47. district plan

48. district plan the electors would be chosen in each State in the same way as members of Congress

49. proportional plan

50. proportional plan each presidential candidate would receive the same share of a state’s electoral vote as he or she received in the state’s popular vote