Transcript Article II - SteveTesta.Net

Executive Branch
 The
executive Power shall be vested in a
President of the United States of America.
He shall hold his Office during the Term
of four Years, and, together with the Vice
President, chosen for the same Term, be
elected, as follows:
4
years
 No term limits
 AMENDMENT XXII 1951
• No person shall be elected to the office of the
President more than twice, and no person who
has held the office of President, or acted as
President, for more than two years of a term to
which some other person was elected President
shall be elected to the office of President more
than once.
 10
year maximum
 Washington
• Precedent
 FDR
• Rule
 Article
I, Section 3
• [4] The Vice President of the United States shall
be President of the Senate, but shall have no
Vote, unless they be equally divided.
 Serve
at the will of the President
 Be ready to take over in the absence of
the President
 12
– 1804
• Electoral college vote counted on separate
ballots for President and Vice President
 20
– 1933
• Inaugural dates, succession, congressional
action
 25
– 1967
• Succession finalized, disability
 Vice
President
 Speaker of the House
 President Pro Tempore
 Cabinet
• Secretary of State
to
• Homeland Security
 [2]
Each State shall appoint, in such
Manner as the Legislature thereof may
direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the
whole Number of Senators and
Representatives to which the State may
be entitled in the Congress: but no
Senator or Representative, or Person
holding an Office of Trust or Profit under
the United States, shall be appointed an
Elector.
 Win
the state’s popular vote by any
margin and get all the state’s electors
• Number of electors equal to the whole
number of senators and representatives
• Appointed by state legislatures
• No one in office
 12
– 1804
• Separate ballots
 20
– 1933
• Change the dates
• Lame duck
 23
– 1961
• Count Washington DC
 Political
parties
• Control campaigns
• Influence elections
• Nominate electors
 Educated
public
 Informed voters
 Populous states
 Campaigning
 Not fair
 Third
Party
 Tradition
 Majority rule
 Political will
 Disenfranchising