1. Executive Branch & Presidential Leadership

2. Reminders Embed vocabulary into your Notes
Use them in the explanation of concepts
Explain:
Who What When Where Why How
Look at “Find Out” at the beginning of each section. Include that as STGs. Answer them.
Look at the “Checking for Understanding” questions. Explain these in your notes.
Use Graphic Organizers: Charts, tables,…

3. Required Items MUST INCLUDE: Definition or explanation & examples.
Chapter 8, Section 1
Compensation
Presidential succession
Twenty-second Amendment (include year)
Twenty-fifth Amendment (include year)
Section 2
Elector
Electoral College/Electoral vote
Twelfth Amendment
Winner Takes All System
Election By the House (pg 224)
Ideas for Election Reform
Direct Popular Election
Inauguration

4. Required Items Section 3 cabinet leak
The Cabinet: selections, background, role
Robert Weaver
Frances Perkins
inner cabinet

5. Required Items Section 4 central clearance national security adviser
press secretary
EOP (pg 235-Copy List into notes)
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
National Security Council (NSC)
Homeland Security Council
The Council of Economic Advisers

6. Required Items-Questions
Chapter 8, Section 1
Who are the first four officers in line of succession to the presidency?
What are three informal requirements of a president?
Section 2
Why do you think presidential candidates who represent moderate views usually win elections?
Who do presidential candidates spend more time in states with large populations?

7. Required Items Section 3
What role does politics play in the appointment of cabinet secretaries?
How have factors that limit the role of the cabinet as an advisory body affected the relationship between cabinet officers and the presidents they serve?
Explain how the decline of the cabinet as an advisory body to the president weakens the system of checks and balances.

8. Required Items Section 4
What historic changes have made the Executive Office of the President (EOP) necessary? (Give 3 reasons why)
In what ways are the members of the White House office similar to and different from the president’s cabinet? (Use a Venn diagram)
What are the three oldest agencies in the EOP and what roles do they play?
How does the influence of key presidential aides affect the checks and balances established by the Constitution?

9. Required Items Chapter 9: Section 1: Presidential Powers mandate forum
congressional override
War Powers Act, 1973
Marbury v Madison (1803)
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v Sawyer

10. Required Items Chapter 9, Section 2: Roles of the President
executive order
impoundment
reprieve
pardon
amnesty
patronage
treaty
executive agreement

11. Required Items Chapter 9, Section 3 de facto covert
executive privilege
United States v Nixon, 1974

12. Required Items-Questions
Chapter 9, Section 1
Why do presidential powers tend to grow in times of national emergency?
What are the sources of and limits to the powers of the president?
Chapter 9, Section 2
How do the presidential roles of head of state, chief diplomat and commander in chief work together to provide leadership in foreign relations?
What is the president’s role in the growth and stability of the American economy?

13. Required Items-Questions
Chapter 9, Section 3
Why are communication skills so important to being an effective president?
What leadership quality do you think is most important to the success of a president?

14. Executive Order What is an Executive Order? Source of Power: Examples:
Why would a President use this power?
Gridlock and Lack of Agreement with Congress
Statistics on Federal Bills

15. Executive Orders Fact or Fiction?
Register of Current President's Executive Orders

16. Congress & President Butt Heads
House Sues Obama to Stop Executive Orders

17. How important is $ in a Presidential Campaign?
Articles\2016 We need a middle-class president (Opinion) - CNN.com.htm
Text format
Articles\We need a middle-class president CNN.docx

18. VidClips Gridlock President Obama and Executive Orders
Why the House Sues President Obama