Presidency
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- Created on: 12-06-14 11:33
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- Presidency
- Qualifications
- Natural born American citizen
- At least 35 years old
- Living for at least 14 years in total in the USA
- Can't have already served two terms
- Powers
- Veto Legislation
- Presidential weapon
- Used only two times by Obama
- Threat can be used
- Presidential weapon
- Propose Legislation
- State of Union Address suggests new changes
- Propose at any time
- Pardon
- Ford pardoned his predecessor Nixon over the Watergate related matters
- Clinton pardoned 140 people in his last day in office including fugitive Mark Rich
- Commander in Chief
- Particularly important between 1940s and 1980s, Roosevelt in WWII or Truman in Berlin
- Chief Executive
- In charge of running the executive branch of the federal government
- Submit the annual budget
- Congress wouldn't pass Obama's in 2013 led to shutdown
- Sign Legislation
- Bill signing ceremony
- Gives the President credit
- Nominate branch officials
- Nominated Eric Holder for Attorney General in January 2009 and was confirmed by the Senate in February 2009
- Nominate all federal judges
- Obama nominated Elena Kagan in May 2010 and was confirmed by the Senate in August 2010
- Negotiate treaties
- The treaty of Versailles was rejected in 1920 with President Wilson
- The Comprehensive Test Ban treaty was rejected in 1999 with President Clinton
- Veto Legislation
- Original Founding Fathers President
- Strengths
- They created a president who would be both head of state and head of government which gives him/her quite a lot of power
- Singular executive: single person has the power and doesn't share it with anyone e.g. the cabinet
- Extremely limited duties: delivery of the State of the Union Address annually and proposing legislation
- Weaknesses
- Indirectly elected: electoral college, not chosen by the people
- Limited: everything he/she does is checked e.g. nominate judge checked by Congress
- Symbolically, in the Constitution, Article 1 specifies the powers of the Congress, While Article 2 makes the President responsible for representing the nation in foreign affairs and carrying out the wishes of Congress
- Strengths
- Qualifications
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