The Presidency http www historyplace com specials portraits presidents port-washington jpg http

The Presidency http: //www. historyplace. com/specials/portraits/presidents/port-washington. jpg http: //www. foxnews. com/images/138803/13_23_092104_bush_un 3. jpg From Washington to Obama

Chief of State http: //www. whitehouse. gov/stateoftheunion/chamberessay/images/web-4 -sou-laurabushwave-p 26159 -13 -ss-398 h. jpg Chief Citizen http: //www. in-forum. com/gfx/photos/full/20050203 bush-state-of-the-union. jpg

Chief Executive & Chief Administrator http: //employees. oneonta. edu/farberas/arth/Images/ARTH 200/bush_photos/oval_office_12_14_03. jpg

Chief Diplomat http: //www. unc. edu/depts/diplomat/item/2005/1012/rynh/bush_sharon_1. jpg http: //www. thespoof. com/picstore/politics/bush_jintao. jpg

Commander In Chief http: //yaleglobal. yale. edu/display. image? id=4235 http: //www. brumax. com/images/bush_uniform. jpg

Chief Legislator n What a president can do with legislation: n 1. Sign 2. Veto 3. Ignore 4. Pocket Veto n n n http: //www. september 11 news. com/Oct 26 Bush. Sign. Terror. Bll. jpg HE also signs EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Qualifications: http: //www. photo. net/philg/digiphotos/200209 -los-angeles/reagan-library-oval-office. jpg

Before After http: //wwwimage. cbsnews. com/images/2004/07/26/image 632003 x. jpg http: //clinton 1. nara. gov/White_House/Family/images/raw/INAU 18. GIF

Before http: //pristina. usmission. gov/images 6/in 3 b. jpg Now http: //www. chinadaily. com. cn/english/doc/2006 -02/01/xin_2702030113292112496011. jpg

Lucky Presidents http: //eyeball-series. org/prezsec/pict 240. jpg

Balancing The Ticket http: //www. visualparadox. com/images/no-linking-allowed-/scales 800. jpg

Why The Electoral College? http: //www. library. cornell. edu/olinuris/ref/2004 Electoral. png http: //esri. com/industries/elections/graphics/results 2004_lg. jpg

Electoral Politics

An Appointed President Last VP To Move Up? http: //www. chinafoundation 1. org/images/Gerald. Ford. jpg

Presidential Scandals

Presidential Approval Ratings

Bush Approval Rating

Average Approval Ratings http: //www. gallup. com/poll/113980/gallup-daily-obama-job-approval. aspx

Executive Amendments n 12 th: Election of Prez. And VP n 22 th: Presidential Term Limits n 25: Presidential Disability Under the Twelfth Amendment, each elector must cast distinct votes for President and Vice President, instead of two votes for President. No elector may cast votes for Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates who both inhabit the same state as that elector (Habitation Clause). It is, however, possible for an elector to cast a vote for one candidate that is from the same state as that elector. The Twelfth Amendment explicitly precluded those constitutionally ineligible to be President from being Vice President

Impeachment: n Article One of the Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power of impeachment and the Senate the sole power to try convictions.

Other Executive Amendments n 20 th LAME DUCK Amendment n 23 rd Washington DC right to vote in Electoral College

n n EEOB: Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to White House: EOP (1939) National Security Council (Prez, VP, Sec. Of State, Sec. Of Defense, national security advisor) Council of Economic Advisors (3 member body) Office of Management and Budget (5 -7 political appointees with 100’s of bureacrats) EOP

White House Staff n n n Chief of Staff Deputy Chief of Staff (2) Press Secretary Counsel Rahm Emanuel Senior Advisor (3) Asst. to the president for Philip Schiliro Jim Messina legislative affairs David Axelrod Mona Sutphen Peter Rouse Robert Gibbs Valerie Jarrett Gregory Craig

Balance of Power?

THE WAR POWERS RESOLUTION n n Because it limits the President's authority in the use of force without an official resolution or declaration of war by Congress, there is controversy as to whether the provisions of the resolution are consistent with the Constitution. The reports to Congress required of the President have been drafted to state that they are "consistent with" the War Powers Resolution rather than "pursuant to" so as to take into account the Presidential position that the Resolution is unconstitutional. IS IT CONSTITUTIONAL? ? ?