Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Unit 3: Executive Branch
Anmerkungen:
- notes on budget will be in a separate map
- The President
- founders' intent
- chief clerk,
subservient to
legislature
- acts as "the
face" of the
US
Anmerkungen:
- easier to think about one than many people (congress)… also, for foreigners, the pres manages foreign affairs
- Qualifications
- 35 years old min
- Native born citizen
- Lived in US for 14 years
Anmerkungen:
- at founder's time, many were educated in europe
- role
- term limit 4 yrs
Anmerkungen:
- 7 Roles of the president
- electoral college
- Each state has minimum 3 electors bc minimum 1 rep and always 2 senators
- 538 electors; Need 270 to win
- safe states v. swing states
- Electors are chosen by the state political party that won
- why the electoral college?
- founders afraid of the mob
- at founders time,
collecting/transporting all
individual votes would have
been nearly impossible
- The Vice President
- ignored by constitution
- Must meet the same
qualifications as the
president
- Chosen to “balance the ticket”
Anmerkungen:
- Sometimes, pres vice pres don’t even like each other, just use each other for political goals: Marriage of convenience
- Idea: president should choose someone a little more to the
right/left than they are, shouldn’t just have a yes man
- Also, helps pres appeal to voters who might not necessarily like the pres themself
- the president's executive office
- executive departments: the
president's cabinet (15 depts)
- Independent Agencies
- presidential succession
- list (see notes)
Anmerkungen:
- Vice president
Speaker of the House
More rep. of broader will of the people
Elected by the people
President Pro Tempore
Secretary of State
Sec Treasury
Sec defense
Attorney General
Heads Department of Justice
(Cabinet/executive Sec. Interior
Sec Agriculture
Sec commerce
Sec labor
Sec health & human services
Sec housing & development
Sec transportation
Sec energy
Sec education
Sec veterans’ affairs
sec homeland security
- presidential disability
Anmerkungen:
- if the president gets really sick? Goes crazy? Is otherwise “unfit”?
- President OR VP/majority of cabinet informs congress in writing of incapacity