No Cell Phones Allowed out in Class

1. No Cell Phones Allowed out in Class • Put phones away • One warning • Second time it is out the phone will be placed in a bucket • Argue and it goes to the office for your parent to pick up

2. Chapter 14 • You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the structure of the National government as outlined in Article II of the Constitution.

3. Due Dates • Presidency Test Feb. 27 • Journals due Feb. 27 for half of the 100 points • Presidential Papers due March 3

4. Feb. 25 • 1. Review • 2. Notes/group work/discussion over Presidential Powers • 3. Review for Test

5. The President has the power to remove any officer he nominated except ______________________. • Executive agreements do not require ____________ consent. • ______________ indicates that the President acknowledges the legal existence of another country.

6. Legislative Powers • The President has the power to PROPOSE legislation. • The president also has the power to deal with a bill. He can do one of four things • Sign It • Veto It • Hold it for 10 days while Congress is IN session • Pocket Veto (hold for 10 days while Congress NOT in session) • Line Item Veto • Supreme Court found it to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL • Because it gives the president power to “rewrite a bill” -- which is a legislative power

7. Message Power • Chief Executive regularly sends three major messages to Congress • 1. State of the Union • 2. Budget message • 3. Annual Economic Report • He calls on Congress to enact those laws he thinks are necessary

8. Judicial Power • The Constitution gives the President the power to (only in cases involving federal offenses) • Reprieve – postponement of a sentence • Pardon – legal forgiveness • Clemency – mercy or leniency • Commutation- power to reduce a sentence • Amnesty – blanket pardon offered to a group

9. A famous pardon was Ford’s pardon of NIXON. • An example of granting amnesty: • Carter granted amnesty in 1977 to all Vietnam War draft dodgers

10. Presidential Military Problems • The Constitution makes the President the Commander in Chief of the nation’s armed forces. • The President’s powers as commander in chief are almost without limit.

11. The President has the final authority over and responsibility for all military matters. • Presidents have used the armed forces in combat without a declaration of war by Congress.

12. Congress had declared war eleven times. The last time was during WWII. • The long military conflicts in Korea (1950 to 1953) and Vietnam (1965-1973) were two of the largest conflicts that were “undeclared wars.”

13. Congressional Resolutions • Joint resolutions that give the President the authority to meet certain international crises with military forces

14. Read pages 402-403 • What are three Congressional resolutions that Congress has approved? • What three events used military forces without a Congressional resolution?

15. War Powers Resolution of 1973 • The nation’s frustrations and growing anguish over the war in Vietnam led to Congress passing the War Powers Resolution.

16. Read page 403 • What three provisions does the War Powers Resolution provide?