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Executive Branch: Introduction to Exercise 3
What You Will Learn

The following exercise deals with:
Ways to limit presidential powers
  • Direct control over presidential powers
    • The judicial branch of government
    • The War Powers Resolution of 1973
  • Indirect control over presidential powers
    • The executive bureaucracy
    • The media
    • Public opinion
Key Terms


executive branch of government
executive bureaucracy
judicial branch of government


presidential power
War Powers Resolution of 1973
Watergate scandal
Click on a term for the definition and Spanish translation.
What You Will Do

Complete the passages by dragging terms from the given list and dropping them in the right spaces. Correct answers will remain in the text, and incorrect choices will go back to the list of terms.
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