1. Chapter 6: The Executive Branch

2. Chapter 6: The Executive Branch
Objectives: Explain essential Characteristics of the political system of the United States, including the organization and functions of political parties and the process of selecting political leaders.

3. Chapter 6: The Executive Branch
Essential Question:
What is required of leaders?

4. Lesson 1: The President and Vice President
Objective:
Compare changes in social and economic conditions in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

5. Lesson 1: The President and Vice President
Vocabulary:
Elector
Display
Outcome
Resign

6. Link Video: Presidential Succession

7. Qualifications of President at least 35 years old, lived in the United States for at least 14 years, and must be a native-born American citizen.

8. Electoral College group of people appointed by each state to vote for the presidential candidates.

9. President and Vice President chosen by the Electoral College.

10. The Electoral Votes each state has is equal to the number of U. S
The Electoral Votes each state has is equal to the number of U.S. senators and representatives the state has. Total electoral members 538.

11. If a state is geographically large, the number of electoral votes it has could be high or low, depending on how many representatives the state has.

12. Results of a presidential election become official after Congress counts the electoral votes. (Candidate must get at least 270 electoral vote)

13. Most states give all the electoral votes to the candidate who wins the popular vote in the state-- “winner-take-all.”

14. Twenty-Second Amendment limits the president to two elected terms

15. Vice President oversees the Senate cast a tie-breaking vote

16. Vice President becomes president if the president dies, is removed from office, falls seriously ill, or resigns. VP has role in deciding if president is able to do his job.

17. Presidential Succession Act of 1947 indicates the line of succession after the VP

18. Lesson 1: The President and Vice President
Complete the graphic organizer with requirements and characteristics of the president.
The President
Requirements
Characteristics
Male
All but one Protestant Christians
Most had college education
Many were lawyers
Came from states with large populations
35 years old
Native-born American Citizen
Lived in the U.S. for at
least 14 years

20. Lesson 2: The President’s Powers and Roles
Objectives: Compare duties and functions of members of th legislative, executive, and judicial branches of Alabama’s local and state governments and of the national governments.

21. Lesson 2: The President’s Powers and Roles
Vocabulary:
Executive order
Pardon
Reprieve
Amnesty
Ambassador
require

22. Link Video: President of the United States

23. Lesson 2: The President’s Powers and Roles
Complete the chart with the roles of the president. Role of the President
Roles
Description
Carry out the nation’s laws; name people to serve as justices of Supreme Court; grant pardons, reprieves, and amnesty.
Chief Executive
Leads the foreign policy of the U.S.; Names people to serve as ambassadors.
Chief Diplomat
Head of State
Living symbol of the nation. Builds goodwill.
Commander of nation’s armed forces; order troops into battle.
Commander in Chief
Legislative Leader
Propose new laws he wants Congress to pass.
Economic Leader
Plan the federal govt. budget.
Party Leader
Leader of his/her political party.

24. Executive Power means the president is responsible for carrying out the laws passed by Congress

25. The President names the Cabinet department heads and other top government offices. They must be approved by the Senate

26. Chief Diplomat
The president leads the foreign policy of the U.S. This role includes naming people to serve as ambassadors—official who represent the U.S. govt. in other nations.

27. Executive order is a presidential rule or command and has the same power and force as a law.

28. President Truman ended the segregation in the military

29. Supreme Court is the final authority in deciding whether a law is acceptable under the Constitution

30. President Gerald R. Ford granted a pardon to former president Nixon

31. Amnesty pardon involving a large group of people

32. War Powers Resolution troops sent into battle must be brought home within 60 days unless Congress approves and president must let Congress know within 48 hours when troops are sent into battle.

33. Congress have the sole power of introducing bills

34. President may help his or her political party to raise money

36. Lesson 4: How the Executive Branch Works
Objective: Identify contemporary American issues since 2001, including the establishment of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the enactment of the Patriot Act of 2001, and the impact of media analysis.

37. Lesson 4: How the Executive Branch Works
Vocabulary:
Cabinet
role
Federal bureaucracy
Executive agency
Government corporation
Regulatory commission
Political appointee
Civil service system
Spoils system
Merit system

38. Link Video: History and Functions of the Presidency

39. Executive Office Agency
As you read p.205 – 211 identify the agency and give a brief description of each.
Executive Office Agency
Name
Description
EOP
OMB
NSC
CEA
Independent Agencies
NASA
CIA
EPA
FCC
OPM
Executive Office of the President
Helps President do his job.
Office of Management and Budget
Prepares the federal budget
National Security Council
Advises president on matters of national security
Counsel of Economic Advisors
Gives advise on economic policy—job growth, prices, trade
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
Runs the Space program
Central Intelligence Agency
Provides policy makers with Intelligence information
Establishes and enforces regulations that protect human health and the environment
Environmental Protection Agency
Makes rules for TV and radio
Federal Communications Commission
Directs the civil service system. Sets standards for federal jobs.
Office of Personnel Management

40. White House Office most important part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), they work directly for the president.

41. Executive Office of the President (EOP) 2,000 experts, advisers, secretaries, and clerks who assist the president, first set up under Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939.

42. Office of Management and Budget-- monitors the spending of executive branch agencies.

43. Joint Chiefs of Staff top commanders from the four parts of the armed services

44. National Security Council
Includes VP, secretaries of state and defense, the chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Director of National Intelligence.
The National Security Advisor heads the NSC.

45. Intelligence-- information about the actions and plans of other governments

46. Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) group that gives the president advice on job growth, prices, trade, and other economic issues

47. Cabinet group of advisers to the president that includes the heads of 15 top-level executive departments, they meets whenever the president says

48. Secretary another name for an executive department head

49. Department of Homeland Security created by President George W. Bush
Department of Homeland Security created by President George W. Bush. Homeland Security Act of 2002

50. Attorney General head of the Department of Justice Eric Holder

51. Federal Bureaucracy is the agencies and the employees of the executive branch of government

52. Independent Agencies Not part of a cabinet department. Three types
Executive agencies
Government corporations
Regulatory commissions

53. Executive Agencies Independent agencies that deal with certain specific areas within the govt.

54. Government Corporations businesses that are owned by the govt.
Tennessee Valley Authority

55. Regulatory Commissions independent agencies that protect the public by making and enforcing rules that an industry or group must follow

56. Federal Communications Commission regulatory group that makes rules for television and radio stations

57. Political Appointees appointed by the president and must leave their jobs when a new president is elected

58. Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 passed in response to the spoils system (people won jobs as a reward for political support)

59. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directs the civil service system and sets standards for federal jobs

60. Merit system hiring people into govt
Merit system hiring people into govt. jobs on the basis of their qualifications. (Must pass the civil service test or met civil service standards.)

61. Presidential Art
Illustrate and explain one of the rolls of the president.