Executive

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Executive Branch
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What is the purpose of the Executive Branch?

• To carry-out the Laws.

John Adams
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What is the chief executive of the United States
called?

• President of the United States.

Thomas Jefferson
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How long is the term in office for the chief
executive?

• Four years.

James Madison
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How is a president elected?

• Electors from each state equal to the number of
  senators and representatives to which the state
  is entitled.

James Monroe
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What are the qualifications to be president?

• The president must be
• a natural-born citizen
• thirty-five years old
• been a resident of the United States for fourteen
  years

John Quincy Adams
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Duties of the President

• Commander-in-Chief of the
• Army
• Navy
• State militias

Andrew Jackson
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Duties of the President(continued)

• require written reports from the principal
  officer in each executive department

Martin van Buren
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Duties of the President(continued)

• grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against
  the United States

William Henry Harrison
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Duties of the President(continued)

• make treaties with the advice and consent of the
  Senate

John Tyler
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Duties of the President(continued)

• appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, and
  consuls

James K. Polk
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Duties of the President(continued)

• appoint judges of the Supreme Court

Zachary Taylor
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Duties of the President(continued)

• can fill all vacancies that happen during the
  recess of the Senate

Millard Fillmore
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Presidential Powers

• deliver a State of the Union message to Congress

Franklin Pierce
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Presidential Powers(continued)

• may recommend to Congress measures he judges
  necessary and expedient

James Buchanan
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Presidential Powers(continued)

• can convene one or both houses of Congress on
  extraordinary occasions

Abraham Lincoln
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Presidential Powers(continued)

• may settle disputes over when Congress convenes
  and adjourns

Andrew Johnson
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Presidential Powers(continued)

• receives ambassadors and other public ministers

Ulysses S. Grant
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Presidential Powers(continued)

• sees that laws are faithfully executed

Rutherford B. Hayes
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Presidential Powers(continued)

• commission all officers of the United States

James A. Garfield
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How can a president be removed from office?

• He can be impeached.

Chester A. Arthur
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On what grounds can a president be impeached?

• treason, bribery, or other high crimes and
  misdemeanors

Grover Cleveland
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Who brings a charge of impeachment?

• The House of Representatives.

Benjamin Harrison
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Who sits as the jury in an impeachment
proceedings?

• The Senate.

William McKinley
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What fraction of the Senate is needed to remove
an official from office?

• Two-thirds.

Theodore Roosevelt
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Who sits as the judge in an impeachment?

• The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

William Howard Taft