presidency

Executive Branch
 Food for Thought…

 What makes a President a “Good President?”

 What Makes a President popular with the people?

 Does a President have to be moral in order to be a good president?

 Chief Commande
Executive  r in Chief 

Chief Chief
Diplomat Citizen

Chief of Chief of
State Party

Chief Chief
Legislator  Economist 
 CHIEF
EXECUTIVE
Here President Obama meets
with his cabinet at a cabinet
meeting
 CHIEF OF
S TAT E
President Obama welcomes
Indian Prime Minister to the
White House
CHIEF DIPLOMAT

●
President Obama signs
treaty with Russian leader

●
Treaty: a formal
agreement between the
governments of two or
more sovereign states
COMMANDER IN
CHIEF
President Obama discusses
the potential use of drones in
the Middle East.
 CHIEF
L E G I S L AT O R
President Obama gives a
Speech to Congress asking
them to pass the Affordable
Care Act.
 CHIEF OF
PA R T Y
President Obama agrees to
speak at a rally for the
election of Democratic
Illinois Senator, Tammy
Duckworth during her
campaign.
CHIEF ECONOMIST

●
Obama discusses a plan
with Congress to decrease
the unemployment rate.
 CHIEF CITIZEN

President Barack Obama,

swooping in for a somber
look at Sandy’s storm-
whipped destruction, pledged
to the hurting people of New
Jersey and beyond on
Wednesday that ‘‘we are here
for you and we will not
forget.’’
 PA P E R D O L L
PROJECT
Pick a President. Each group of 2-3 does 1
President.

Clothes & a hat representing each role.

The action you pick needs to be SPECIFIC.

So this will require some research.

Write on the back what the action does.

Present these in class how your doll matches

with your role and what your president did to
fulfill that role.
Q U A L I F I C AT I O N S
FOR THE
PRESIDENCY

“Natural Born
Citizen”
35 years old
14 years a resident
of the US

What are some

informal
qualifications?
 THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH:
AMENDMENTS

• Amendment 20: Inauguration Day: Jan. 20, if President elect dies

before taking office, Vice President elect shall become new
president

• Amendment 22: Known as the FDR amendment, no president shall

serve more then 2 terms or 10 years in office
THE EXECUTIVE
BRANCH:
AMENDMENTS
President Reagan, moments
before he was shot on March
30, 1981, by a would-be
assassin. The Twenty-fifth
Amendment solves the problem
of presidential disability by
providing for an orderly
transfer of power to the vice
president.
 “I am the
Vice President.
In this I am nothing, but I may be everything.”
John Adams
 Official Duties
of the Vice President

The Vice President will preside over the Senate

• Article I, Section 3, Clause 4

Help decide the question of presidential disability

• 25th Amendment

Serve as a “President-in-Waiting”
• Article II
People often identify with candidates who are from their
own region of the country. Therefore, the more
geographical areas the ticket represents, the better.
In 1960, presidential
candidate John F. Geography
Kennedy, a U.S. Senator
from Massachusetts, Religion
chose Lyndon B.
Johnson, a southerner Age &
from Texas, as his Experience
running mate. This is an
example of balancing the Ideology
ticket based on:
In 1980, presidential
candidate Ronald Geography
Reagan, a conservative
Republican chose Religion
George H.W. Bush, a
moderate Republican, to Age &
be his running mate. Experience
This is an example of
balancing a ticket based Ideology
on:
 Domestic vs. Foreign Affairs

Domestic Foreign
Affairs: Affairs:
• Issues • A nation's
relating to a relationship
country's with other
internal countries 
matters
 Power of the POTUS

Imperial
Presidency
THE EXECUTIVE
E N F O R C E S L AW
 Executive Orders: Examples:
Orders issued by the 1.FDR’s internment of
President that carry the Japanese-Americans during
force of law World War II

2. Clinton’s “Don’t Ask Don’t

Tell” policy of gays in the
military.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDSeb2zHQ0
Executive Agreements: Examples:
∙International agreements 1.Jefferson’s purchase of
made by a president that has Louisiana from France in 1803
the force of treaty 2.George H. W. Bush and U.S.-
∙does not require Senate Japanese trade agreements re:
approval the auto industry
∙Usually trade agreements 3.GWB ‘s announced cuts in the
between US & other nations
US nuclear arsenal without a
treaty
President
Trump
signed 90
executive
actions in
his first
100 days.
Executive Privilege: Examples:
1.Nixon’s refusal to turn over the
1. Certain information is Watergate tapes. The Supreme
Court in U.S. v. Nixon, though it
withheld from the public, did not strike down the practice of
including courts and executive privilege in general, ruled
Congress that Nixon must turn over the tapes

2.Clinton’s refusal to turn over

evidence re: an alleged affair with
Monica Lewinsky. The Supreme
Court ruled against Clinton
 The Powers of Clemency

● President’s power to grant reprieves and pardons is absolute,

except in cases of impeachment
○ Pardon: release from punishment or legal consequences
of crime
○ Impeach: to bring formal charges against a public
official
○ May only be used in cases involving federal offenses
The Power to Say No

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 Veto
 Veto message
 Pocket veto
 Line-item veto
 Executive Privilege
 Impoundment of Funds
 Signing Statements
 Are Signing
Statements an
informal Line
Item Veto?
The power given to
President Clinton
(and then found
unconstitutional) to
sign parts of a law
and veto other
parts.
 The Imperial Presidency
Signing Statements
McCain Detainee A written statement that accompanies the
President’s signature on a bill/law.
Treatment Act (2005)
“America does not torture The statement generally details the
detainees at Guantanamo Bay” president’s interpretation of the law and his
plans on enforcing the law.

* Signing statements are not mentioned in

the Constitution.

Signing Statement to the McCain Detainee Amendment

The executive branch shall construe...the Act...in a manner consistent with the
constitutional authority of the President to supervise the unitary executive branch
and as Commander in Chief…[to]
protect the American people from further terrorist attacks.