presidency

(noun)

The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the president.

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Examples of presidency in the following topics:

  • The Vice Presidency

    • As President of the Senate, the Vice President has two primary duties: to cast a vote in the event of a Senate deadlock and to preside over and certify the official vote count of the U.S.
    • Under the Constitution, the vice president is President of the United States Senate.
    • Initially, it was unclear whether the vice president actually became the new president or merely an acting president.
    • Gerald Ford was the first vice president selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as vice president.
    • In doing so, he insisted that he was the president, not merely an acting president.

  • The 25th Amendment

    • The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.
    • In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
    • Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
    • Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
    • Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

  • The Executive Branch

    • The executive power in the government is vested in the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Cabinet and federal agencies.
    • On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became our 44th President and current President .
    • A president must:
    • As first in the line of presidential succession in the U.S., the Vice President becomes President upon the death, resignation, or removal of the President.
    • Under the Constitution, the Vice President is President of the Senate.

  • The 22nd Amendment

    • Bush and Barack Obama have been elected president twice.
    • The only president who could have served more than eight years was Lyndon B.
    • He became President in 1963 when John F.
    • 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 the President more than once.
    • But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

  • The President

    • The idea that the president has greater autonomy in foreign than domestic policy is known as the "Two Presidencies Thesis."
    • War powers provide a key avenue for presidents to act in foreign policy.
    • After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush's Office of Legal Counsel argued that as commander in chief President Bush could do what was necessary to protect the American people.
    • As head of state, the President serves as the nation's top diplomat.
    • Presidents often have a wide range of influence on US foreign policy.

  • Presidential Action

    • The President of the United States has limited legislative powers.
    • The Constitution's Ineligibility Clause prevents the President from simultaneously being a member of Congress.
    • Therefore, the president cannot directly introduce legislative proposals for consideration in Congress.
    • If both houses cannot agree on a date of adjournment, the president may appoint a date for Congress to adjourn.
    • Identify the role of the President in drafting and passing bills into federal law

  • Chief Legislator

    • The president has many official and unofficial roles.
    • The formal powers and duties of the president are outlined in Article II of the Constitution.
    • As chief legislator, the president shapes policy.
    • The president may suggest and request that Congress enact laws he believes are needed.
    • President Barack Obama signs legislation in the Oval Office, Dec. 22, 2010.

  • The 20th Amendment

    • It also deals with scenarios in which there is no President-elect.
    • The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
    • If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President.
    • If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
    • The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.

  • The 12th Amendment

    • The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President.
    • The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
    • And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.
    • But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
    • Describe the changes the Twelfth Amendment brought to the procedure for electing the President and Vice-President

  • Expressed Powers

    • The expressed powers of the President are those expressed in the Constitution of the United States.
    • Article Two of the United States Constitution creates the executive branch of the government, consisting of the president, the vice president, and other executive officers chosen by the president.
    • Constitution the president and vice president are chosen by electors, under a constitutional grant of authority delegated to the legislatures of the states and the District of Columbia.
    • Along with the armed forces, the president also directs U.S. foreign policy .
    • Discuss the expressed powers of the President in the Constitution of the United States