The American
Presidency
Instructor: Jim Bolner, Sr. - jimbolnersr@gmail.com
I. Introduction
The Importance of the President
The Need for Leadership
The Presidency in the Context of the United States Political System
II. The Presidency in the Constitution
The Presidency in the Constitutional Convention
Choosing the President and Presidential Succession
Compensating the President
Removing the President
The Vice-Presidency
III. The President as Chief Executive
“[H]e shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed...”
The President and the Senate
The Cabinet
The Appointment Power
The Bureaucracy
IV. The President as Legislator
The Power to Propose Legislation
The Presidency and Separation of Powers
The Veto Power
V. The President as Commander in Chief
Presidential War Power in War and Peace
Dealing with Military Personnel
The Military Budget
VI. The President and Foreign Relations
The Treaty Power
Executive Agreements
Internet Resources
Presidential
Trivia
The
Presidency in the Constitutional Convention --from usconstitution.net
Article II of the
Constitution
The President's Term of Office (Amendment XX)
Limiting the
President's Term to Two (Amendment XXII)
Presidential Vacancy and Disability (Amendment XXV)
The Matter of Salaries... --from Infoplease.com
Presidential Perks
--from http://everything2.com
Andrew Sullivan,
"Can Democracy Survive Tribalism?" --from New York Magazine
Anacyclosis
--from Wikipedia
Presidential
Power --from CQ Researcher (2002)
Presidential
Power --from CQ Researcher (2006)
Presidential
Power --from CQ Researcher (2015)
Three Theories of
Presidential Power --from Syracuse University
The Trump
Presidency --from CQ Researcher (2017)
The Obama
Legacy --from CQ Researcher (2016)
Presidential Elections - 1789-2016 --from the National Archives
The Election of 1800
--from 270towin.com
Michelle Goldberg,
"The
Tyranny of the Minority" --from The New York Times, September 24,
2017
Presidents of the United States
--from presidentsusa.net
Jeremi Suri's Website - [Suri is a history
professor at the University of Texas (Austin) and the author of
The Impossible Presidency
(2017).]
Click
here to read the introduction to the book.7
The Miller Center - University of
Virginia
https://millercenter.org/
The United States
–from the CIA World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
James Madison's
Notes of the Debates of the Constitutional Convention
The U.S.
Constitution Annotated
https://www.congress.gov/constitution-annotated/
The Government of the United States – Organizational Chart –from the Government
Organization Manual
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GOVMAN-2016-12-16/pdf/GOVMAN-2016-12-16.pdf
The Whitehouse Website
Trump v. the Constitution: A Guide –from Politico
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-donald-trump-constitution-guide-unconstitutional-freedom-liberty-khan-214139
Donald Trump Has Broken the Constitution –from
The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/donald-trump-has-broken-the-constitution/507146/
President Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional Violations of 2015
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428882/obama-violate-constitution-top-ten-2015
Presidential Impeachments
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/
Signing Statements
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/signingstatements.php
http://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/presidentialsigningstatements
http://www.coherentbabble.com/listBHOall.htm
Miller Center – University of Virginia
https://millercenter.org/the-presidency
American University Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
http://www.american.edu/spa/ccps/
SMU – Center for the Study of Presidential History
http://www.smu.edu/CPH/
Peter Kalikow
Center for the Study of the Study of the American Presidency
http://www.hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/hclas/presidential-studies/
Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies
http://hauensteincenter.org/about-the-hauenstein-center/
American Government (online textbook)
http://www.ushistory.org/gov/7.asp
C-SPAN Presidential Historians Survey - 2017
https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2017/?page=methodology#advisors
List of
Autobiographies by Presidents – from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autobiographies_by_presidents_of_the_United_States
LPB – The U.S. Presidency
https://lpb.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/the-us-presidency/?topic_id=1639
Presidential
Succession –from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act
Presidential Line of Succession –from U.S. Constitution Online
https://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_succ.html
Presidential Vetoes –from The American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/vetoes.php
The Presidential Veto –from Thoughtco.com
https://www.thoughtco.com/about-the-presidential-veto-3322204
The Federal Nepotism Law
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
The Best Presidents of the United States - Ranked by Presidential Historians
https://qz.com/914825/presidents-day-the-best-us-presidents-in-history-as-ranked-by-presidential-historians/
The Top Twenty Presidents of the United States According to Historians
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-20-presidents-in-us-history-according-to-historians-2017-2/#3-franklin-d-roosevelt-18
Presidential Historians Survey 2017
https://www.c-span.org/presidentsurvey2017/
The
U.S. Presidency --from PBS
David Brooks, "The Philosophical Assault on
Trumpism" --from The New York Times, October 3, 2017
Bandy Lee (ed.), The
Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (2017) --from Google Books
"Conflict of Interest and 'Ethics' Provisions
That May Apply to the President" --from the Congressional Reference Service
(2016)
M.C.E.,
"Conflicts of Interest and the President: Reviewing the State of Law in the Face
of a Trump Presidency" --from the Emory
Law Review (2016)
David Brooks,
"A
Philosophical Assault on Trumpism" --from The New York Times,
October 3, 2017
The "Dossier" Document --from Buzzfeed.com
Trump Communication to the House and Senate
Leaders on Immigration, October 8, 2017 --from whitehouse.gov
The Impeach Trump Website --from
Tom Steyer
Jeff Flake's Speech,
November 24, 2017 --from The New York Times
Federal Employees --from governing.com
Federal Government Organization --from
the U.S. Government Manual
The Executive Office of the President --from
the U.S. Government Manual
The White House Staff --from the U.S.
Government Manual
Relevant Court Cases
United States v. Nixon (1974)
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v Sawyer
(1952)
New York Times
Co. v. United States
(1971)
Medelln v Texas
(2008)
Zivotofsky v
Kerry (2015)
Deams
and Moore v. Regan (1981)