Monday 10/21 & Tuesday 10/22 2.4 Roles and Powers of the President

ENDURING UNDERSTANDING:

The presidency has been enhanced beyond its expressed constitutional powers.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE:

Explain how the president can implement a policy agenda.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE:

Presidents use powers and perform functions of the office to accomplish a policy agenda.

Formal and informal powers of the president include:

Vetoes and pocket vetoes—formal powers that enable the president to check Congress

Foreign policy—both formal (commander in-chief and treaties) and informal (executive agreements) powers that influence relations with foreign nations

Bargaining and persuasion—informal power that enables the president to secure congressional action

Executive orders—implied from the president’s vested “executive power,” or from power delegated by Congress, executive orders allow the president to manage the federal government

Signing statements—informal power that informs Congress and the public of the president’s interpretation of laws passed by Congress and signed by the president


Activity # 1: Executive Branch One Pager (in your notebook)

In order to create a "divider" in your notebooks that will served to separate Legislative and Executive Branch, we are going to create a one pager over the Executive Branch.  

• A title and subtitle across the middle
• A border that includes the Powers of the Executive Branch
• A Picture in one quadrant
• Executive's checks in another quadrant (How the Prez checks the other two branches)
• The Qualifications & Term Limits (Id'ing the 2 Amendments used)
• A quadrant that has three questions you have about Executive Branch

Activity # 2: Using OSAM (Objects, Symbols, Action, Message) in your Notebook


Activity # 3: Day 1 (In your notebook) Many Hats of the Executive

Grading the President (w/ table mates):

According the roles / powers of the Executive Branch, your group needs to identify an event or policy that happened during your assigned presidents tenure.

Describe the event / policy, explain how it demonstrates that power or role, assign a letter grade on how effective the policy was in resulting the crisis / event.



Activity # 4: Closing (In your notebook)

From your collective analysis above, how would you describe the executive branch, or specifically, the presidency, in a 2-3 sentence that anyone could easily understand.