consider : how have presidential powers changed over time?
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Consider: How have presidential powers changed over time?
Homework: Assignment 10 for tomorrow
Consider: How have presidential powers changed over time?
Homework: Assignment 10 for tomorrow
Unit 4: President
AP Government and Politics
Development and Expansion of
Presidential Power
Development and Expansion of Presidential Power
Establishing Presidential Authority: First Presidents
Incremental Expansion of Presidential Powers: 1809-1933
Creating the Modern Presidency – FDR to the present
7.3
Establishing Presidential Authority: First Presidents
George Washington Puts down Whiskey
Rebellion Asserted presidential
power to conduct foreign policy
Idea of Inherent powers – dealing with neutrality in French/British war
Thomas Jefferson Louisiana purchase
another good example of inherent powers
7.3
Incremental Expansion of Presidential Powers: 1809-1933 Andrew Jackson Democratization of the
presidency Surpassed all vetoes
combined before him Abraham Lincoln
Extraordinary war powers – Suspends habeas
corpus Needs of the nation =
inherent powers
7.3
Creating the Modern Presidency
General trend – Moves from a strong
Congress (up to 1865) to more assertive presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) Dealing with crises - Great
Depression, New Deal, World War II
7.3
An Imperial Presidency?Perhaps the lesson to be taken from the presidents since
Kennedy is one Arthur Schlesinger suggested almost 40 years ago, writing about Nixon: “The effective means of controlling the presidency lay less in law than in politics. For the American President ruled by influence; and the withdrawal of consent, by Congress, by the press, by public opinion, could bring any President down.” - Robert Dallek
Power and the Presidency, From Kennedy to Obama
“He’ll sit here and he’ll say, ‘Do this, do that’, and nothing will happen. Poor Ike, it won’t be a bit like the army”
- Harry Truman
Why are Republicans often unable to challenge what they consider “executive fiats”?
Is the “imperial presidency” the only option in a divided government?
If Obama has continued and “improved” upon the use of executive action, are we destined to see increasing use by subsequent presidents, especially if divided government remains the norm?
Is there any recourse for a president who uses executive orders to the extreme?
Questions on the reading