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☆☆☆☆☆1. A select committee is a committee consisting of 15 main members from different parties. It's job is to keep the Government in check and to monitor their many departments. A select committee can monitor Government, ensuring they are held accountable for their actions. It can also embarrass the Government by scrutinizing them, often via reports which suggest appropriate changes that should be taken and the Government must consider this advice.
2. They are panels set up for some specific purpose and, most often, for a limited time. The Speaker of the House or the president of the senate appoints the members of theses special committees, with the advice of the majority and minority leaders.
Most select committes are formed to investigate a current matter.
The electoral college
The extension of voting rights to all white males.
An executive order
The 25th Amendment (ratified in 1967)
People say that the Vice President is "only a heartbeat away" from the presidency because the vice president is first in the order of succession. If the President's heart should stop beating, the Vice President takes over the office.
If the president dies or otherwise become incapacitated, the vice-president becomes president.
The Vice president became the president.
When the president accepts another country as a nation of the world community it becomes a partner of other countries in the world community. However, the president is not held responsible for the actions of the country.
Directed Congress to appoint a president
Each of the following factors contribute to the presidential selection system we use today except
Informed Citizens
The President nominates a new Vice President.
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have the president appointed by the senate. (grad point)
to choose delegates for the national convention
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