High School American Government, Part 11: The President
What are the powers and responsibilities of the president?
What powers are granted to the president by the Constitution? Any limitations?
How are the responsibilities and power of the president as the nation's chief executive carried out?
What are the roles and responsibilities of the vice president?
- Set policy priorities
- Manage economy
- Manage federal bureaucracy
- Recruit for policy makers in executive and Judicial branches
What powers are granted to the president by the Constitution? Any limitations?
- Chief administrator
- Chief diplomat
- Commander in Chief
- Chief of state
- Limited by term
How are the responsibilities and power of the president as the nation's chief executive carried out?
- Executive order
- Appointments and Removals
- Budgetary recommendations to Congress
What are the roles and responsibilities of the vice president?
- Prepare to assume the role of president
- Presides over the US Senate
- Whatever roles assigned to him by the President