Executive Branch• Page 25• The President and his Peeps!

Executive Branch

-One of the three branches of government

• E branch: Article II• Article 2 explains

Pres.’ duties, limits, requirements...

-Duty: carry out the laws of the Nation

• E Enforce the law!

-Executive Branch is the largest of the branches with millions of employees

• Around 3 million

President

-Considered the leader of the United States

-Often considered the most powerful person in the world

-Can not run the nation alone

• has A LOT of help:• Advisors• Cabinet• heads of cabinet• Executive agencies...

Qualifications

-3 Requirements• at least 35 years old• native born/on U.S.

soil• U.S. citizen @least

14 yrs.• **V.P., speaker of

house, etc...must meet SAME requirements.

• WHY?

-Other Characteristics----

• Intelligent• Military

background• College

educated• male

Presidential Terms-elected through the

electoral college system-Process of electing the President—each state is assigned a number of electors equal to its representation in Congress and a majority of electoral votes is required to be elected

• otherwise the House chooses the President

• 270/538 electoral votes to win

-Presidents serve 4 year terms

-limited to serving two 4 year terms-22 Amendment

Vice- President

-Main responsibility is to be ready to replace the President

-Official head of the Senate

-Is usually heavily involved in the policies pursued by the President

-Must meet same qualifications

Presidential Succession

-What happen if a President dies or is unable to do his job???

-25th AmendmentPresidentVice-PresidentSpeaker of the HousePresident Pro-TemporeSecretary of State

• 1951- FDR elected 4 times (1st 1932) HITLER

• A change away from Roosevelt, who had led the nation through the Great Depression, did not seem wise.

• Nominated for 3rd term, and won.

• When 1944 rolled around, changing leaders in the middle of World War II, which the United States was now engaged in (not a good idea to leave)

• FDR ran for and was elected to

a 4th term.• Harry Truman, became

President upon FDR's death less than 100 days after his inauguration.

• FDR's leadership was a key reason that the U.S. came out of WWII victorious, the Congress was determined, once the war ended to do 22