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| Perks for being President |
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-Use of White house
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-Air force one
-Camp David
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| Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution |
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| Requirements for being a President of the United States |
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| Age in order to be President of the United States |
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| The head of the executive branch of the government; in the U.S., the President |
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| Enforced laws and federal court decisions, along with treaties signed by the U.S. |
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| Can appoint, with Senate approval, and remove high-ranking officers of the federal government |
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| Can grant reprieves, pardons, and amnesty |
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| can handle national emergencies during peacetime, such as riots or natural disasters. |
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| Leads the nation's armed forces |
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| Can commit troops for up to ninety days in response to a military threat (War powers Resolution) |
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| Can make secret agreements with other countries |
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| Can set up military governments in conquered lands |
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| Can end fighting by calling a cease-fire (armistice) |
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| Performs ceremonial activities as a personal symbol of the nation |
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| Dedicates parks and post offices |
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| Throws out first pitch of baseball season |
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| Lights national Christmas tree |
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| Directs U.S. foreign policy and is the nation's most important representative in dealing with foreign counrties |
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| Can negotiate and sign treaties with other nations, with Senate approval |
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| Can make pacts (executive agreements) with other heads of state, without Senate approval |
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| Can accept the legal existence of another country's government (power of recognition) |
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| Receives foreign heads of State |
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| Informs Congress about the condition of the country and recommends legislative measures |
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| Proposes legislative program to Congress in traditional state of the union address |
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| Suggests budget to Congress and submits annual economic report |
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| Can veto a bill passed by Congress |
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| Can call special sessions of Congress |
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| Makes several thousand top government appointments, often to party faithful (patronage) |
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| Tries to execute the party's platform |
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| May attend party fund-raisers |
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| May help reelect party members running for office as mayors, governors, or members of Congress. |
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The President
(The Political Party Leader) |
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| Appointing individual to government or public jobs to reward those who helped them win the presidential contest. |
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| A person who represents one country in dealing with representatives of another country |
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| Those that are necessary to carry out the President's constitutional duties |
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Just how much power the President could have
-helped this with Check and balances of the Congress and Senate |
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| Constitutional powers of the President |
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To serve as commander in chief of the armed forces and the state militias.
To appoint, with the Senate's consent, the heads of the executive departments, ambassadors, justice of the Supreme Court and other top officials.
To grant reprieves and pardons, except in case of impeachment.
To deliver the annual state of the union address to congress and to send other messages to congress from time to time
To call either house or both houses of Congress into special sessions.
To receive ambassadors and other representative from other countries.
To commission all officers of the United States.
To ensure that the laws passed by Congress "be faithfully executed".
The power to veto legislation.
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| A formal agreement between the governments of two or more countries |
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| Who has the sole power to negotiate and sign treaties with other counrties |
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| A release from punishment or the legal consequences of a crime. It restores a person to the full rights and privileges of citizenship |
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| "The President is at liberty, both in law and in conscience, to be as good as, to be as big a man as he can. His capability will set the limit... because the President has the nation behind him and the Congress does not." |
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| "The principal power that the president has is to... try to persuade them to do what they ought to do without persuasion." |
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Constitutional Requirements to Run for the Presidency (Article II, Section 1)
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Natural Born citizen
35 years old
14 years a resident in the U.S. |
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Appoints federal officials and judges
Makes treaties |
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| Powers that are necessary to carry out his or her specific responsibilities |
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| defined by the skill and ability to persuade others to play a large role in determining presidential success |
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| "Presidential power is the power to persuade." |
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| Weber's Six Principles of Bureaucracy |
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-Rests on a body of law
-All decisions are recorded in writing
-The agency establishes written rules on how it will act
-Positions are arranged hierarchically; each position is under a higher supervisor (who is responsible to the agency head)
-Employees appointed bases on a competence
-Employee salaries based on rank in the hierarchy |
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| is used to provide rationally of why certain processes are performed and to identify the specialization of skills |
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| underscores how we organize our both in the public and private sectors |
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| As commander in chief, the President can respond quickly to a military threat without waiting for congressional action. This power to commit troops and to involve the nation can upset many members of Congress. |
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| These are Presidential orders to carry out policies described in laws that have been passed by congress. These orders have the force of the law. Presidents have issued executive orders for a variety of purposes, including to establish procedures for appointing non career administrators, restructure the White House bureaucracy, ration consumer goods and administer wage and price controls under emergency conditions, classify government information as a secret, implement affirmative action policies, and regulate the export of certain items. Presidents issue executive orders frequently sometimes as many as a 100 a year. |
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| A written statement issued by the President at the time he or she signs a bill into a law. This indicated how the president interprets a law. |
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| An advisory group selected by the president to assist with decision making, Traditionally, the cabinet has consisted of the heads of the executive departments and other officers whom the President may choose. |
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| The personal office of the President. |
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| An agency in the Executive Office of the President that assists the president in preparing and supervising the administration of the federal budget. |
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| A council that advises the President on domestic and foreign matters concerning the safety and defense of the nation, established in 1947 |
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| The Courts; one of the three branches of government in the United States |
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| The body of law developed from judicial decisions in English and U.C. courts, not attributable to a legislature. |
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| A court decision that furnishes an example or authority for deciding subsequent cases involving identical or similar facts and legal issues. |
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| A common law doctrine under which judges normally are obligated to follow the precedents established by prior court decisions. |
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| Law based on the U.S. Constitutions of the various states. |
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| The body of law enacted by legislatures (as opposed to constitutional law, administrative law, or case law) |
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| The body of law created by administrative agencies (in the form of rules, regulations, orders, and decisions) in order to carry out their duties and responsibilities. |
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| The rules of the law announced in court decisions. This includes the aggregate of reported cases that interpret judicial precedents, statutes, regulations, and constitutional provisions. |
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| Spells out the duties that individuals in society owe to other persons or to their governments, excluding the duty not to commit crimes. |
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| This has to do with wrongs committed against the public as a whole |
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| What are the four major types of structures in the federal bureaucracy? |
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- Executive departments
-Independent executive agencies
-Independent regulatory agencies
-Government Corporations |
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| Fifteen Executive Departments |
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-Department of Agriculture
-Department of interior
-Department of Commerce
-Department of Justice
-Department of Defense
-Department of Labor
-Department of Education
-Department of State
-Department of Energy
-Department of Transportation
-Department of Health and Human Services
-Department of the Treasury
-Department of Homeland Security
-Department of Veteran Affairs
-Department of Housing and Urban Development |
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| Independent Executive Agencies |
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| Federal bureaucratic organizations that have a single function. They are independent in the sense that they are not located within a cabinet department. |
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| CIA (Central Investigation Agency) |
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| An example of something Congress created to protect the work of the commission from the influences not only of Congress's own political interests but also of the President. |
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| Independent Regulatory Agencies |
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| A federal organization that is responsible for creating and implementing rules that regulate private activity and protect the public interest in a particular sector of the economy. |
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| NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) |
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| Ensures that electricity-generating nuclear reactors in the United States are built and operated safely; regularly inspects operations of such reactors. |
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| An agency of the government that is run as a business enterprise. Such agencies engage primarily in commercial activities, produce revenues, and require greater flexibility than most government agencies receive. |
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Furnishes legal advice to the President; enforces federal criminal laws; supervises the federal corrections system (prisons)
Agencies: FBI, DEA,Bureau of Prisons; U.S. Marshals Service.
Under the Executive Department |
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| The government has made several attempts to reduce waste, inefficiency, and wrongdoing. For example federal and state governments have passed laws encourage employees to report any waste or wrongdoing that they observe. |
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| The Government Performance Act of 1997 has forced the federal government to change the way it does business. |
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| States that when the President believes that he or she is incapable of performing the duties of the office, he or she must inform Congress in writing of this fact. |
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How to fill a vacant VP spot
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| "Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the VP, the P shall nominate a VP who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. |
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| Council of Economic Advisors under the Executive Office of the President |
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| There is at least one federal district court in every state, and there is one in The District of Columbia. The number of Judicial districts varies over time, primarily owing to population changes and corresponding caseloads. Currently, there are ninety-four judicial districts. |
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| U.S. Court of Appeals (Appellate Courts) |
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| A court having appellate jurisdiction. An appellate Court normally does not hear evidence or testimony but reviews the transcript of the trial court's preceedings, other records relating to the case, and attorneys' arguments as to why the trail court's decision should or should not stand. |
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| How many justices have traditionally sat on the Supreme Court? |
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| The U.S. Supreme Court consists of nine justices- a chief justice and eight associate justices- although that number is not mandated by the Constitution |
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How many Court of Appeals are there?
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| How many district Courts are there? |
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| At least one for every state and the district of Columbia has one. |
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| The highest level of the three tiered model of the Federal Court System. |
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| An order from a higher court asking a lower court for the record of a case. |
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| A written statement by a court expressing the reasons for its decision in a case. When the chief justice is in the majority, they assign the task of writing the Court's opinion. |
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| These outline the reasons they feel the majority erred in arriving at its decision. |
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| Who appoints federal judges |
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| Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution authorizes the President to appoint the justices of the Supreme Court with the advice and consent of the Senate. Federal judges receive lifetime appointments. |
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| Public policy concerning issues within a national unit, such as national policy concerning health care or the economy |
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1. Issue Identification- some group will find a problem with it
1. Agenda Setting- Getting an issue on the political agenda to be addressed by Congress; part of the first stage of the process.
2. Formation and Adoption- The President, members of Congress, administrative agencies and interest group leaders typically are the key participants in developing proposed legislation.
3. Policy Implementation- This involves agencies in the executive branch. Once Congress establishes a policy by enacting legislation, the executive branch, through its agencies, enforces a new policy.
4. Policy Evaluation- This involves evaluating the success of a policy during and following its implementation. |
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| A federal government program that pays for health-care insurance for Americans aged sixty-five years or over. |
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| A joint federal state program that pays for health-care services for low income persons. |
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| 1996, The act required the states to develop plans for implementing the new welfare policy within their borders. |
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| Consists of all actions taken by the government to address the ups and downs in the nation's level of business activity. |
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| Actions taken by the Federal Reserve Board to change the amount of money in circulation so as to affect interest rates, credit markets, the rate of inflation, the rate of economic growth, and the rate of unemployment. |
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| The use of changes in government expenditures and taxes to alter national economic variables. |
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| A systematic and general plan that guides a country's attitudes and actions toward the rest of the world. Foreign Policy includes all of the economic, military, commercial, and diplomatic positions and actions that a nation takes in its relationships with other countries. |
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| A political policy of noninvolvement in world affairs. |
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| Direct involvement by one country in another country's affairs. |
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| The War of the Words, warnings, and ideologies between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted from the late 1940s through the early 1990s |
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| Chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons that can inflict massive casualties |
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| Departures from Precedence |
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Should be very carefully examined
-Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
-"The Equal Protection Clause was in Question, because separate but equal public education was inherently unequal. |
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