AP American Government

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The Lights of Broadway Shine Bright
Dreamgirls
And I Am Telling You Im Not Going
From the album Original Cast Recording (2006)
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AP American Government

• Unit 2 The Three Branches

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Presidential powers defined

• Theories of Presidential Power
• Whig Theory (Conservative)
• President beholden to Congress (19th Century
  examples President Hoover and Republican
  Theory until 1980)
• Stewardship Theory (Liberal)
• President beholden to the people (Lincoln 20th
  Century) and POTUS only person elected by the
  nation

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Presidential powers defined

• SCOTUS Decision on Presidential Power
• Executive Privilege United States v. Nixon
  (1974)
• Executive Immunity Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982)
  and Clinton v. Jones (1997)
• Faithful Execution of the Laws Zivotofsky v.
  Kerry (2015) and United States v. Texas (2016),
  State-legalized marijuana
• Recess appointments NLRB v. Noel Canning (2014)
  and NLRB v. SW General, Inc. (2017)

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Presidential powers defined

• War Time Powers
• Civil War Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
• WWII Korematsu v. United States (1944)
• Cold War Youngstown Sheet Tube v. Sawyer
  (1952)
• War on Terror and the Geneva Conventions of
  1947Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004) and Boumediene v.
  Bush (2008)