Goverment Chapter 5.txt

• - Be at least 35 years old
• - Natural-born citizen of the us
• - lived in the USA for 14 years.

4 years

• a. Limit term of president to 2 terms
• b. If a person acted as president for more than 2 years of a term to which someone else was elected president, he/she cannot be president more than once.
• c. Ratified on february 27, 1951

• a. Presidential can be forced from office temporarily if: 1) the VP and mayority of congress or 2) the VP and presidents cabinet secretaries........declares the president unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office.
• b. The VP becomes president until the president returns to office
• c. Allows the president to appoint a new VP if VP resigns, dies, impeached, or becomes president.

Ratified on february 10, 1967

• 1. Vice President
• 2. Speaker of the House of Representatives
• 3. Senate president Pro Tempore
• 4. Secretary of State
• 5. Secretary of Treasury
• 18. Secretary of Homeland Security

• Legislative
• Administrative
• Budgetary
• Judicial
• National Security Powers
• Executive Agreement
• War power

Note: Memorize Only 5

• a. Present information on the state of the union to Congress
• b. recommend legislation to Congress
• c. Can call special meeting of either the House or the Senate, or both on extraordinary occasions
• d. adjourn Congress if the House and Senate cannot agree on adjournment
• e. Veto legislation (Congress may override with two-thirds vote of each house)

• a. 'Take care that the laws be faithfully executed", regardless of any personal feelings about these laws
• b. Supervise executive branch of government
• c. Nominate federal officials as provided for by Congress, subject to agreement of majority of the Senate
• d. Can remove top officials, subject to agreement of the majority of the Senate
• e. Request written opinions of administrative officials
• f. Fill administrative vacancies during congressional recesses

Prepare an annual budget for presentation to Congress (this budget is simply a set of recommendations)

• a. Grant reprieves, commutations, and pardons for federal offenses (except impeachment)
• b. Nominate federal judges, who are confirmed by a majority of the Senate

• a. Serve as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces
• b. Make treaties with other nations, subject to the agreement of two-thrds of the Senate
• c. Nominate ambassadors, with the agreement of a majority of the Senate
• d. Receive ambassadors of other nations, thereby conferring diplomatic recognition of other governments

is a formal bur often secret agreement between the president and leaders of others nations that does not require the approval of the Senate.

Only valid while the president signed is the present president.

Is the power to keep executive communications confidencial

Directive issued by the president or governor that has the force of law

• Is divided by the Constitution as such:
• Congress = power declare war
• President = power to wage war

• - Passed by Congress in 1773
• - The president is limited in the deployment of troops overseas to a 60 day period in peacetime, unless congress explicity giver its approval for a longer period.
• - Can be extended for an extra 30 days to permit withdrawal.
• - The 60 day period starts when the president makes a report to congress.

• 1) To be ready to take the ____ of office in case the president cannot.
• 2) Preside over the Senate

Rule: under no circunstances con the president formal in remove his VP

Salary: $230,700/yr

Rule: by law, immediate members of president's family cannot be appointed to federal goverment positions.

Responsibility acts as the social host of the White House often active in social issues.:

Its purpose is to implement laws.

IS a set of complex hierarchical departments, agencies, commissions, and their staff that exist to help a chief executive officer carry out his or her duties.

• The bureaucracy implements laws by:
• - Regulating private activities
• - Providing services and products.

• 1. Departments
• 2. Independent Agencies
• 3. Independent Regulatory Commissions
• 4. Goverment Corporations

• - Are 15 in total
• - Largest organizations
• - Report to the president
• - Each has a unique mission and is organized differently
• - Each headed by a department secretary

• - Are about 60
• - Report to the president
• - Service specific groups or work on specific problems

• - Do not report to the president
• - Designed to regulate people and corporations
• - Decisions subject to judicial review.

Voting

By the Senate

• 1. Be a natural-born or naturalized US citizen
• 2. Be at least 18 years of age on Election Day
• 3. Be registered over for at least 30 days immediately preceding Election Day

By the merit system

Are the department, Independent agencies, Independent regulatory commissions and goverment corporations.

• 1. motor-voter registration system
• 2. local marriage license offices
• 3/ public high schools
• 4. any volunteer deputy registar
• 5. by mail

• If a person:
• 1. will not be in his of her county of residence during the entire voting period and on election day
• 2. is at least 65 years old
• 3. is or will be physically disabled on Election Day, including those who expect to be confined for childbirth on Election Day.
• 4. is in jail

• Step 1: nomination (January-June)
• -Must win political party's nomination
• -method used depends on the state's political parties
• -method - cauctus method, primary election (open or close) , open primary election and Closed Primary Election. Been a register voter
• Step 2: Convention (summer). The delegates "Officially" vote for presidencial and vice presidential candidates.
• Party also vote on platform and rules
• Step 3: General Election. 1st tuesday after the first monday in november.

From January through June

In summer

the 1st tuesday after the first monday in november

• Depends on the States:
• 1. By nomination
• 2. Pay a fee

• 1)# of electoral College votes of a State= # of US Congressional districts + US seats (2)
• 2)Minimun # of Electoral College votes a state con have= #(1) Congressional District + (2) US Senate Seats= 3
• 3) Total # of Electoral College votes= (435) US Congresional + (100) US Seante seats= 535 + (3) Washington DC= 538
• 4) # of Electoral College votes needed in order to win presidency+ Majority, 270 min,

• Votes are based in the entire state.
• In order to win, the candidate must receive PLURALITY, most # of votes.
• If win, The candidate gets ALL OF THEM of the State's Electoral College votes

Texas and Washington, DC

• - Each US congressional?Distric represents 1 Electoral College vote.
• - In order to win, the candidate must receive PLURALITY of the votes in that US CONGRESIIONAL District.
• - The remaining 2 Electoral College votes are based on the votes in the Entire State.
• - In order to win, the candidate must receive PLURALITY of the votes.

Nebraska and Main

• -The decision goes to the US House of Representatives.
• PROCESS:
• 1) Choose among top three candidates
• 2) Each State has ONE vote
• 3) The candidate that receives majority votes, becomes the president

• Decision goes to the sentae
• Proces:
• 1) Choose among two candidates
• 2) Each state has one vote
• 3) the candidate that receives majority votes, becomes the Vicepresident

• - Do not report to the president
• - Designed to make money through the sale of services
• - The largest is the USOS, and AMTRAK

• Acts as the president advisor
• Is appointed by the president, subject to senate confirmation
• salary 197,400 year

• - Manage programs that asist community development.
• -Help provide affordable housing for loe income families.
• The secretary today is Julian Castro

• The responsable for protecting the American people aqnd their homeland
• Includes vast of agencies from emergency preparedness to immigration
• Secretary is Jeh johnson