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Article 2 Section 1
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Executive power is president 4 years w/ vice, each state appoints electors designated by legislature, equal to number of senators and representatives, none of them are electors, one of them isn't an inhabitant, list of all persons voted and number of vote, power to elect in states, not people, lists voting, popular vote can still lose, natural born citizen, 35 year, 14 years a resident w/in us president death / discharge, vice pres 2nd in line, compensation, oath, Lyndon Johnson took oath w/ justice of peace w/ dead jfk on air force one
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notes that might be on quiz
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john Hanson of Maryland technically serves as the first president presidents killed in office: James Garfield, Abe Lincoln, William McKinley, John F Kennedy, Washington was the only president actually to lead troops into combat while in office take care clause of article 2 is source of much of the presidents power,
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executive privilege
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doctrine that the president does not have to share certain information w/ congress of the judiciary,
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US vs Nixon
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need for confidential communications is constitutionally based, but it doesn't outweigh the demand for evidence ina criminal trial, so unless he wanted tobe chargedhe had to turn over the recodngs |
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Clinton vs Jones,
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president can be sued while in office for actions unrelated to his official conduct
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22nd amendment
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restricts president to two full terms, or ten years if filling the unexpired term of another president |
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federalist 70
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alexander Hamilton maintains that a strong executive is essential to good government |
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bush v gore
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fasted supreme court opinion faster than any other case, supreme court decision determined winner of presidential election first time in US history,
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starbucks ification of our political life
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Charles fried, electoral college ensures that national issues do not overshadow regional differences |
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your vote does not count
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john lewis, opposed any attempt to prevent votes from being counted during the 2000 electin |
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Article 2 section 2 |
commander in chief, lists powers of the president, opinion in writing of principal officer in each of executive departments, deals with cabinet, bureaucracy, power to grant padons and reprieves except in Impeachment, treaties, advice and consent is senate approval of treaties, appoint ambassadors, ministers, consuls, judges, and officers, fill up vacancies that happen during recess of senate |
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War powers resolution
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makes it so congress has to approve deployment of troops for more than 60 days w/o the approval of Congress, seen as unconstitutional |
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article 2 section 3
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give congress information of the state of the union, convene both houses, case of disagreement, adjourn them when he thinks proper, so far, a president has never adjourned a session of congress, receive ambassodors and ministers, laws faithfully executed, shall commission all the officers of the US |
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article 2 section 4
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impeachment b/c of treason bribery, and other high crimes, |
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mrs president
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Abigail adams was mrs president, Geraldine ferraro 1st woman nominated to a major party ticket as vice president,
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notes that could be on quiz
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Samuel chase first controvercial impeachment, supreme court justice, Andrew Johnson 1st impeachment, Nixon first to avoid impeachment by resigning, Clinton and Lewinsky, Whitewater investigation, |