The Executive Branch

 Federalist 70

• Roles and Powers of the President
  • Key Terms: Formal Powers, Informal Powers, Vetoes and Pocket Vetoes, Commander-in-Chief, Treaties, Executive Agreements, Executive Orders, Signing Statements 
  • Foudational Documents: The Constitution
• Checks on the President
  • Key Terms: Appointments (Cabinet Members, Ambassadors, White House Staff, Federal Judges), ExecutiveOrders
  • Foundational Documents: The Constitution
• Expansion of Presidential Power
  • Key Terms: Twenty-Second Amendment, Formal Powers, Informal Powers
  • Foundational Documents: The Constitution, Federalist 70
• Presidential Communication
  • Key Terms: Stae of the Union, Bully Pulpit
• The Bureaucracy
  • Key Terms: Regulations, Fines, Congressional Testimony, Issue Network, Iron Triangle, Political Patronage, Civil Service, Merit System
• Discretionary and Rule-Making Authority
  • Key Terms: Bureaucratic Discretion, Rule-Making, Policy Implementation
• Holding the Bureaucracy Accountable
  • Key Terms: Oversight (Committee Hearings and Power of the Purse)

• Flashcard Chapter 5 - English
• Flashcard Chapter 7 - English

Executive Branch and the Bureaucracy

• Executive Branch and the Bureaucracy and Foreign Policy
• Executive Branch and the Bureaucracy
  • Short Answer
  • Multiple Choice
  • Free Response
    • Concept Application
      • Second Question
    • Argument Essay

• The Constitution
• Federalist 70

• Executive Branch
  • Bureaucracy

Interactions Among Branches of Government-Review of Unit 2