Executive Branch, Federal Bureaucracy, and Foreign Policy

The scheme by which a presidential vacancy is filled. If a President dies, is disabled, or is impeached, the Vice President becomes President.

• Presidential Succession
• Presidential Impeachment
• Vice Presidential Appointment
• Executive Order Succession

The United States Constitution sets the dates at which federally elected offices end

and identifies who succeeds the President if he or she dies. It was ratified in 1933.

• 21st Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 20th Amendment
• 22nd Amendment

It was ratified in 1951 and addresses limits on presidential terms. It ensures that no one person be elected to more than two four-year terms as President of the

United States.

• 22nd Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 25th Amendment
• 1st Amendment

It ratified in 1967 and addresses presidential succession in more detail. This amendment allows for the Vice President to become President in the event of the President’s death, incapacitation, resignation, or impeachment.

• 25th Amendment
• 27th Amendment
• 20th Amendment
• 22nd Amendment

It was ratified in 1804 and provides for the election of the President and the Vice

President by the Electoral College. It goes further to outline how these offices are elected should there NOT

be a majority vote. The background of this amendment goes back to colonial times.

• 12th Amendment
• 11th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• Constitutional Convention

Each state has as many electors as the

number of House of Representative members plus Senators representing that state. The electors are expected

to choose the candidates for President and Vice President who receive the most popular votes. After the

general election is held, the electors meet in their state capitol on a date set by Congress.

• Electors are determined by the state's population alone.
• Electoral College

• Each state has one elector regardless of its size.
• Electors are equal to the number of Senators only.

The President has direct and immediate control over all of the troops and nation’s military arsenal. This Constitutional directive can be found in Article II, Section 2. Congress does have to the authority to declare war under our nation’s system of checks and balances.

• The President has no control over military decisions.
• The President declares war; Congress controls the military.
• Congress manages the military operations directly.
• Commander in Chief

This power is broad and covers both domestic and foreign affairs. The role of chief executive includes: supervise the executive branch of government, prepare the executive budget, and appoint and remove executive officials.

• Executive Legislative Power
• Judicial Authority
• Chief Executive Power
• Foreign Affairs Control

The President’s role includes: scheduling the agenda for the State of the Union address, determining policy initiatives of the government, setting the budget, and deciding on priorities for legislation to be supported by the executive branch.

• The President's role is to oversee the judicial branch of government.
• The President's role includes managing the military operations directly.
• The President's role as chief agenda setter.

• The President's role involves organizing international sports events.

The President is the ceremonial head of the United States government. He symbolizes all of the American people.

• The President as chief of state.

• The Vice President of the United States.
• The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• The Speaker of the House.