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Executive Branch

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Pardon: A pardon is a government decision to allow a person who has been convicted of a crime, to be free and absolved of that conviction, as if never convicted.
Reason: This picture shows the meaning of the word because the judge is allowing the criminals to be free like a nice judge.

Cabinet: a government in which the real executive power rests with a cabinet of ministers who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature.
Reason: This is the cabinet for president Obama.

Veto: When the president denies a new law from congress.
Reason: What a veto would look like on a document.

Executive Order: a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.
Reason: The President holding up an executive order.

Executive Privilege: he privilege, claimed by the president for the executive branch of the US government, of withholding information in the public interest.
Reason: shows how the president can hide stufff lawfully

Bureaucracy: a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
reason:

Administration: the officials in the executive branch of government under a particular chief executive.
Reason: these people are the administrators for the branch.

Executive Departments: the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development.
Reason: these are all executive departments, and their logos.

Independent Agencies: agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments,
reason: NASA is probably the biggest/ well known independent agency.