Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Executive Branch
- The President
- Both head of state and
head of government of the US
- Resposible for the execution and
enforcement of the laws created by Congress.
- Vice President
- Responsibility is to be ready at any moment
to take presidency
- Is also elected by electoral college and is president of
the US Senate
- The Cabinet
- body made up of
the heads of the 15
executive
departments
- Appointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate
- Executive Office of the President
- created in 1939 by
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt
- responsible for
communicating the President's message to the
American people.
- 15 Executive departments