1. Unit 2: The Three Branches

2.  Theories of Presidential Power  Whig Theory – President beholden to Congress  Stewardship Theory – President beholden to the people  History of Presidential power  Pre-Civil War  Reconstruction  Progressivism through the 1920s  FDR – The Depression and World War  The Modern Presidency

3.  SCOTUS Decision on Presidential Power  Removal Power – Myers v. United States (1926) and Humphrey’s Executor v. United States (1936)  Executive Privilege – United States v. Nixon (1974)  Executive Immunity – Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) and Clinton v. Jones (1997)  Legislative Veto – Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)  Line-item Veto – Clinton v. City of New York (1998)  Sole Organ of Foreign Relations – U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright Exports (1936) and Zivotofsky v. Clinton (2015)  NLRB v. Noel Canning (2014) – recess appointments

4.  War Time Powers  Civil War – The Prize Cases (1863) and Ex Parte Milligan (1866)  WWII – Ex Parte Quirin (1942) and Korematsu v. United States (1944)  Cold War – Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer (1952) and United States v. Reynolds (1953)  War on Terror – Rasul v. Bush (2002), Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004), Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006) and Boumediene v. Bush (2008)