Chief Legislator & Chief Executive

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READING: 341-378 in Edwards

UNIT TWO IDENTIFICATION TERMS
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Today's Question: How have presidential powers been enhanced beyond those expressed in the Constitution?


Learning Standards:
CON-4.A: Explain how the president can implement a policy agenda

CON-4.A.1: Presidents use powers and perform functions of the office to accomplish a policy agenda.

CON-4.A.2: Formal and informal powers of the president include:

• Vetoes and pocket vetoes – formal powers that enable the president to check Congress
• Foreign policy – both formal (Commander-in-Chief and treaties) and informal (executive agreements) powers that influence relations with foreign nations
• Bargaining and persuasion – informal power that enables the president to secure congressional action
• Executive orders – implied from the president’s vested executive power, or from power delegated by Congress, executive orders are used by the president to manage the federal government
• Signing statements – informal power that informs Congress and the public of the president’s interpretation of laws passed by Congress and signed by the president

Chief Legislator & Chief Executive

Among the various roles the president has, two of the most important are Chief Legislator and Chief Executive. As Chief Legislator, the President lays out his legislative agenda, typically through the State of the Union address and other public appearances. As Chief Executive, the President works to ensure that the laws are carried out, and often uses executive orders to help shape the bureaucracy and its enforcement.

Chief Legislator:

1. Delivers State of the Union



2. Proposes budget

3. Recommends other legislation (health care, gun control, school choice, etc)

4. Signs bills into law
*Use of signing statements? Trump example

5. Veto power over Congress

6. Line-item veto: Can the President veto certain parts of a bill?
Clinton v. City of New York, 1998


Chief Executive

1. Responsible for enforcing the law

2. Appoint people to key administrative/bureaucratic positions

3. Use executive orders (directives issued by the President that do not need congressional approval)

• Carry the same weight as laws
• May change with new president
• Orders for the bureaucracy on how to enforce
• Examples: Japanese-American internment, integration of the military, Emancipation Proclamation, stem-cell research, immigration reform

Executive Orders 101: What Are They and How Do Presidents Use Them?

Videos for Review






Limitations

Federal Judge Halts Trump's Immigration Order

How Obama has used his executive orders compared to other presidents

Trump Travel Ban Executive Order

Senate Passes Ban on Transfer of Guantanamo Bay Prisoners