1. Today’s Essential Questions:
How does the Executive Branch work?

2. The Executive Branch

3. Why do you think the presidency is called a Glorious Burden??

4. Who assists the President?
When George Washington was President, people recognized that one person could not carry out the duties of the President without advice and assistance.

5. The President receives help from the:
Vice President
Cabinet Members
Heads of Independent and Executive Agencies.
Unlike the powers of the President, their responsibilities are not defined in the Constitution.

6. The Executive Branch

7. The Presidency
I Want you to learn about the Executive Branch! So, listen to Mrs. Carter , one of this nations greatest teachers!

8. I need to have all these Qualifications!!!!

12. The Vice President
You have a distinct old man smell, get away from me……
As soon as these cameras are gone so am I….

14. Presidential Succession
Eight U.S. presidents have died while in office. One president resigned. In each case, the vice president took the oath of office and became president as provided by the Constitution.

15. William H. Harrison, Natural Causes
John Tyler, Vice President

16. Zachary Taylor, Natural Causes
Millard Fillmore, Vice President

17. Abraham Lincoln, Assassinated
Andrew Johnson, Vice President

18. James A. Garfield, Assassinated
Chester Author, Vice President

19. William McKinley, Assassinated
Theodore Roosevelt, Vice President

20. Warren Harding, Natural Causes
Calvin Coolidge, Vice President

21. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Natural Causes
Harry Truman, Vice President

22. John F. Kennedy Assassinated
Lyndon Johnson, Vice President

23. Twenty-fifth Amendment
adopted in 1967
new president nominates a new vice president
Nomination must then be approved by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.

24. The Order of Presidential Succession
The Vice President
The Speaker of the House
The President pro tempore of the Senate
Members of the president’s cabinet in the order in which their departments were created

25. Powers and Duties of the President

26. Powers and Duties of the President
Chief Executive Officer of the United States

27. Powers and Duties of the President
Prepares annual budget for Congressional approval

28. Powers and Duties of the President
Appoints Cabinet Officers, Ambassadors, Supreme Court Justices and Federal Judges

29. Powers and Duties of the President
Approves and Vetoes Legislation

30. Powers and Duties of the President
Negotiates Treaties
October 26, 1994 Peace Treaty Signing: Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, President Bill Clinton, King Hussein of Jordan

31. Powers and Duties of the President
Administers the Federal Bureaucracy

32. Powers and Duties of the President
The State of the Union Address

34. Powers of the President

35. Commander and Chief
Commands all of the armed forces

36. Chief Legislator Proposer of the legislative agenda
Recommends laws to Congress
Approves or Vetoes bills

37. Chief Financial Planner
Head of the Executive Branch of U.S. Government
Prepares the Budget
Recommends laws to help the community

38. Ceremonial head of the U.S. Government
Chief of State
Ceremonial head of the U.S. Government
from the
President

39. Judicial Powers
Appoints federal Judges
Grants reprieves/Pardons

40. Chief of Party leader of a political party helps the party raise money
Campaigns for party members

41. Chief Citizen
Representative of the American People

42. Checks and Balances

43. Executive Branch checks on the Legislative Branch
I called you all here today because I can!!
Vetoes laws
Calls Congress into special session

44. Executive Branch checks on the Judicial Branch
Appoints federal judges
John Roberts at his nomination for the Supreme Court with President George Bush.
OOHH Pick me pick me pick me

45. Legislative Branch Checks Powers OVER the President
Senate approves treaties and presidential appointments
*The House of Representatives appropriates money
*Congress can override veto Congress can impeach and convict the President and Vice President
BUT..I WAS THE PRESIDENT!! AGGH! I HATE RULE OF LAW!

46. Judicial Branch Checks Powers over the President
The Supreme Court can rule Executive Acts unconstitutional
Hey What Do You Expect..we only have one document to use here! Just follow it!
Geez

47. Executive Branch Checks Powers over the Legislative Branch
Judicial Branch
Vetoes laws
Convenes (calls) Congress into special session
Nominates Supreme Court Justices and federal judges
Grants pardons and reprieves
Legislative Branch Checks Powers over the President
Judicial Branch Checks Powers over the President
*Senate approves treaties and presidential appointments
*The House of Representatives appropriates money
*Congress can override vetoes
*Congress can impeach and convict the President and Vice President
*Grants pardons and reprieves
*The Supreme Court can rule Executive Acts unconstitutional

48. How the president influences policymaking (Laws/legislation)

52. ALL: WE ARE THE MEDIOCRE PRESIDENTS YOU WON'T FIND OUR FACES ON DOLLARS OR ON CENTS!
THERE'S TAYLOR, THERE'S TYLER THERE'S FILLMORE AND THERE'S HAYES THERE'S WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON HARRISON: I DIED IN THIRTY DAYS!
ALL: WE... ARE... THE... ADEQUATE, FORGETTABLE OCCASIONALLY REGRETTABLE CARETAKER PRESIDENTS OF THE U-S-A!

54. Executive Departments
Help carry out and execute the laws
Executive Departments

55. Executive Departments
Congress has the power to establish, reorganize and to eliminate executive departments

56. Executive Departments
Each department as a specific area of responsibility

57. Executive Departments
Heads of the Executive Departments make up the President’s Cabinet

58. Cabinet
Not mentioned in the Constitution, but every President has had a Cabinet
Advise the President and help implement federal laws
Title of most cabinet members is secretary
Head of the Department of Justice is the Attorney General

59. Department of the Interior Department of Treasury
Department of State
Department of Defense
Department of Justice
Department of the Interior
Department of Treasury
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Transportation
Department of Education
Department of Labor
Department of Veteran’s Affairs
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Energy
Department of Commerce
Department of Agriculture
Department of Homeland Security

60. Independent Agencies and Regulatory Commissions

61. Independent Agencies and Regulatory Commissions
Created by Congress
Help keep the government and the economy running smoothly

62. Independent Agencies and Regulatory Commissions
Separate from the executive departments because they perform specialized duties
Help to carry out federal laws

63. Independent Agencies and Regulatory Commissions
Provide Public Goods and Services such as national defense, highways and the Postal Service
Enforce Federal Laws

64. Independent Agencies and Regulatory Commissions
Establish guidelines that protect health and safety
Oversee the way individuals and companies do business

66. The Federal Bureaucracy
Formed by the departments and agencies in the executive branch
3 million people work in the bureaucracy
Operates under heavy rules and regulations that create “red tape