Interactions among branches of government (25-36% of exam): Sabato Chapters 7-10
Time: 4 weeks (October 1 to October 26)
- Describe the different structures, powers, and functions of each house of Congress.
- Explain how the structure, powers, and functions of both houses of Congress affect the policymaking process.
- Explain how congressional behavior is influenced by election processes, partisanship, and divided government.
- Explain how the president can implement a policy agenda.
- Explain how the president’s agenda can create tension and frequent confrontations with Congress.
- Explain how presidents have interpreted and justified their use of formal and informal powers.
- Explain how communication technology has changed the president’s relationship with the national constituency and the other branches
- Explain the principle of judicial review and how it checks the power of other institutions and state governments.
- Explain how the exercise of judicial review in conjunction with life tenure can lead to debate about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s power.
- Explain how other branches in the government can limit the Supreme Court’s power.
- Explain how the bureaucracy carries out the responsibilities of the federal government
- Explain how the federal bureaucracy uses delegated discretionary authority for rule making and implementation.
- Explain how Congress uses its oversight power in its relationship with the executive branch.
- Explain how the president ensures that executive branch agencies and departments carry out their responsibilities in concert with the goals of the administration.
- Explain the extent to which governmental branches can hold the bureaucracy accountable given the competing interests of Congress, the president, and the federal courts.
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Ch.7 Congress
*Roots of the Legislative Branch
*The Constitution and the Legislative Branch
*The Members of Congress
*How Congress is Organized
*The Law-Making Function of Congress
*How Members Make Decisions
*Congress and the President
Pork
*Roots of the Legislative Branch
*The Constitution and the Legislative Branch
*The Members of Congress
*How Congress is Organized
*The Law-Making Function of Congress
*How Members Make Decisions
*Congress and the President
Pork
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Congress Powers
Legislative Powers
1. Power to make laws that are necessary and proper, or convenient and
useful, to carrying out expressed powers.
2. Power to secure patents and copyright for investors and authors.
3. Power to decide punishment for federal crimes.
4. Power to set up federal courts.
5. Power to raise and maintain military services.
6. Power to declare war.
7. Power to set up rules about the admission of new states to the country
8. Power to govern the nation’s territories
9. Power to enact naturalization laws and to regulate immigration
10. Power to establish and maintain highways
11. Power to establish post offices
12. Power to set up uniform standards of weights and measures
13. Power to regulate trade with foreign nations and among the states
14. Power to coin money and regulate its value
15. Power to decide how money will be spent
16. Power to borrow money
17. Power to levy and collect taxes
Nonlegislative Powers
1. Power to administer federal lands
2. Power to admit new states and territories
3. Power to give advice and consent
4. Power to try impeachment cases (Senate)
5. Power to bring impeachment charges (House)
6. Power to elect a President (House) and Vice President (Senate) if no
candidate
wins in a majority of votes in the Electoral College
7. Power to propose amendments and to call conventions to propose
amendments at the request of the states
8. Power to conduct investigations
9. Power to regulate elections and to judge the qualifications of elected
members
Senate stops legislation
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Ch.8 The Presidency
*The Roots of the Office of the President of the USA
*The Constitutional Powers of the President
*The Development of Presidential Power
*The Presidential Establishment
*The President as Policy Maker
*The President and Public Opinion
Wilson and the Executive Branch
Read The Tug of War above and answer the following:
1. Why was Wilson crying when handing off the presidency to Harding? (See the last sentence of the magazine article.)
2. How was Wilson a Progressive and how was he not by today's standards?
3. Relate the following quote to the leadership style of the Obama and Trump administrations:
"A problem with a President who leads by stirring moral sentiments of voters is that he has to keep stirring."
4. What change was eventually made to the Constitution as a result of Wilson's illness?
5. How was Wilson's faith in the Presidency disproved during his last years in office?
Discussion: who was the best 20th century president?
Presidents are often blamed or praised for the current economic situation but very often are powerless in impacting the economic forces that affect the country.
- Describe two economic indicators economists use in determining if a country is in a recession.
- Describe a fiscal or monetary policy presidents can use to alleviate the negative effects of a recession.
Pecha Kucha here.
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Ch.9 The Executive Branch and the Federal Bureaucracy
*The Development of the Executive Branch and the Federal Bureaucracy
*The Modern Bureaucracy
*Policy Making
*Making Agencies Accountable
student website
Make up five questions (and answers) about the bureaucracy and Congress for a Kahoot .
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Ch.10 The Judiciary
*The Constitution and the Creation of the National Judiciary
*The Judiciary Act of 1789 and the Creation of the Federal Judicial System
*The American Legal System
*The Federal Court System
*How Federal Court Judges Are Selected
*The Supreme Court Today
*How the Justices Vote
*Judicial Policy Making and Implementation
Bios on Supreme Court Justices
McDonald v. Chicago video
Lots of SCOTUS decision videos
Kavanaugh cartoons
Go to Oyez.org and show the majority, concurrent, and dissenting opinions of three cases in the last five years.
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