Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The Presidency
The Presidency
Explicit/Enumerated Powers
Veto Appointment
Diplomacy
Legislation to Positions
Pardons/Commutations
• Pardons – often
after the fact and a
formal gesture
• Commutations – end
sentences early for
people still
incarcerated
Implicit Powers
• Wage War
• Is it possible for the people or Congress today to add in the constitution
specifically what the President needs to do as the Commander in Chief of
the Army and Navy since it's vague? Why might Congress want (or not want)
to do this?
• Domestic Security
• Executive Agreements
• Executive Privilege
• Populism
• Has the increased connection between
the president and the American people
contributed to a rise in presidential
power?
The Evolution • The Spoils System
of the • Party Building
Presidency • Unilateral Presidential Action
• Executive Orders –
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/s
tatistics/data/executive-orders
• Do you think executive orders are beneficial or
detrimental and why?
FDR
• Executive Orders
• Advantages and disadvantages?
• Executive Agreements
• If you were representing a foreign country negotiating
with the US, would you prefer an executive agreement or
a treaty?
• Signing Statements
• Why would a President do this?
Appointments
• Cabinet Appointments
• Only 27 failed Cabinet Appointments in history
• 9 failed confirmation votes, the rest withdrawn
• Last failed vote in 1989
• 12 of the failed appointments have been since 1989
• Judicial Appointments
• Most powerful appointments by a president
• Lifelong appointments
• https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/apptsbypres.pdf
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