The President

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The President
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The Line of Succession(as of today!)

• The VP The Speaker
• President pro tem Secretary of
  State
• Robert Byrd (D
  WV)

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The Means of Obtaining Office

• Elections
  Successions
• 
  death of president
• 
  
• resignation of
• president

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Constitutional Powers of the President

• Article II, Section 1 The executive Power
  shall be invested in a President of the United
  States of America.
• Section 2 No person except a natural born
  Citizen . shall be eligible for the Office of
  the President neither shall any person be
  eligible to that Office who shall not have
  attained the Age of thirty five Years, and had
  been fourteen Years a resident within the United
  States.

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Constitutional Powers of the President

• Commander in Chief (control of military and the
  Militia of the several States

may require the Opinion of the principal
Officer in each of the executive Departments
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Constitutional Powers of the President

• Pardons and reprieves
• negotiate
  and sign treaties
• Appoint ambassadors
• appoint
  Justices
• and judges

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Constitutional Powers of the President

• Appoint Heads of Departments
• give
  the State of the Union address
• recommend to their Consideration
• such Measures as he shall
• judge necessary and expedient

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Constitutional Powers of the President

• Section 4 The President, Vice President, and
  all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be
  removed from office on Impeachment for, and
  Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high
  Crimes and Misdemeanors.

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Informal Expansion of Power

• events public demands

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Informal Expansion of Power

• personalities war and crisis
• custom

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the President and Congress

• Chief Legislator recommends and negotiates
  bills with Congress
  
• signs
  or vetoes bills
• Convenes special sessions

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the President and Congress

• President must sign legislation within ten days
  of passing Congress
• No line-item Veto must sign or veto bill as a
  whole
• pocket veto no override possible if bill
  passed in last ten days of a session

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Executive Orders
An executive order is a directive issued by the
President, the head of the executive branch of
the federal government. U.S. Presidents have
issued executive orders since 1789, usually to
help direct the operation of executive officers.
Some orders do have the force of law when made in
pursuance of certain Acts of Congress, when those
acts give the President discretionary powers.
Although there is no Constitutional provision or
statute that explicitly permits executive orders,
there is a vague grant of "executive power" given
in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution and
the statement "take Care that the Laws be
faithfully executed" in Article II, Section 3.
Executive Orders Issued by President George W.
Bush
Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions
- washingtonpost.com
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Congress and the Military

• Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 To declare War,
  grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make
  Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water
• Clause 12 To raise and support Armies, but no
  Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a
  longer Term than two Years
• Clause 13 To provide and maintain a Navy
• Clause 14 To make Rules for the Government and
  Regulation of the land and naval Forces
• Clause 15 To provide for organizing, arming, and
  disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such
  Part of them as may be employed in the Service of
  the United States, reserving to the States
  respectively, the Appointment of the Officers,
  and the Authority of training the Militia
  according to the discipline prescribed by
  Congress

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The President and the Military

• Article II, Section 2 The President shall be
  Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the
  United States, and of the Militia of the several
  States, when called into the actual Service of
  the United States
• Nonconstitutional duties the use of
  presidential authority to move troops into combat
  situations without overt Congressional approval

Johnson and the Gulf of Tonkin address
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The President and National Security

• The War Powers Act
• The president must notify Congress 60 days after
  moving troops into combat situations.
• Also must consult Congress whenever possible and
  regularly
• Conflict between Congressional power to declare
  war and the president as Commander in Chief

• Examples of the Act
• 1986 Granada
• 1989 Panama
• 1990 Gulf War
• 1993 Somalia
• 1994 Haiti
• 1995 Bosnia
• 1997 Kosovo
• 2001 Afghanistan
• 2003 - Iraq

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President as Party Leader

• Support for legislation
• from party
  Fundraising
• Use of pork barrel

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President as Party Leader

• Campaign assistance
• 
  Photo Ops
• National spokesman

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The President and the Public

• Public Approval and its impact
• affects
  ability to pass leg.
• affects ability to mobilize the public
• (i.e GHW Bush and the Gulf War)

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The President and the Public

• Public approval (cont.)
• Mandates directive
  from the
• 
  people to pursue
• a
  particular policy
• or
  course of action
• the New Deal
• 
  the Square Deal
• The Fair Deal
• 
  Whats the
• 
  Big Deal?

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The President and the Public

• Use of the media the bully pulpit
• TV Radio
  Press
• 
  Internet

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Roles of the President

• Chief Diplomat Ceremonial Chief of
  State
• Commander in Chief Chief
  Legislator

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The President and Foreign Policy

• Constitutional powers of the President
• Receive and appoint ambassadors
• Recognize countries
• (i.e. Vietnam, 1994)
• Negotiate and sign treaties
• Commander-in-chief role

• Constitutional powers of Congress
• regulate commerce with foreign Nations
• to declare war,make rules concerning captures on
  land and water
• To ratify treaties made by the President

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The President as Chief Executive

• The Cabinet Heads of Government Agencies
• the National
  Security Council
• Council of Economic
• Advisors
• Chief of
• Staff
  

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The Vice President

• The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of
  warm . John Nance Garner (1932
  1940)
•     

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The Vice President

• Constitutional duties
• Take over for the president in case of death of
  disability (25th Amendment)
• Preside
  over the Senate

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The Vice President

• Informal roles

Administration Spokesman
Advisor
Ceremonial
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First Ladies

• ceremonial

• activist
• (Hot!)

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