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What are the restrictions of the President?
They can have two four year terms, max of 10 years of presidency, lame duck, impeachment
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Why would a President become impeached?
Treason, bribery, other crimes
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Job Descriptions of the President
- Chief Executive
- Commander-in-chief
- Diplomat
- Leader in Congress
- Chief of State
Political party leader
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Chief Executive
He must enforce the laws, he must administer a vast bureaucracy
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Commander-in-chief
He is the civilian head of the military, Must be able to respond to danger quickly, in charge of the CIA
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Diplomat
- He initiates and implements treaties
- makes executive agreements
- will use state department or cabinet and also will use CIA and NSC to accomplish goals.
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Leader in Congress
Has to be nice to Congress to gain support for his policies, Has the power to veto
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Chief of State
Visible leader of the Country
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Political Party Leader
Only Job description not in the Constitution
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Vice President
- Takes over for president
- Votes in Senate in case of tie and has to be at every Senate hearing.
- Power of this office is increasing
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What makes up the Executive office of the president?
- White House aids
- National Security Council
- Office of Management and Budget
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Who is the Secretary of State?
John Kerry
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Bureacracy
A system in which agencies staffed largely by non-elected officials perform specific tasks in accordance with standard procedures
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How many cabinets are there?
15
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what are the three types of Independent agencies
- independent executive agencies
- Government Corporations
- Regulatory Commissions
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What are the problems of the Bureacracy?
- Red tape
- Conflict between agencies
- Duplication
- Vague goals
- waste
- Bureaucratic language
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What are our foreign policy goals?
- National Security
- Alliance Security
- International Stability
- Economic Development
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Truman Doctrine
Contain Communism
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Theodore Roosevelt policy
intimidation
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Franklin Roosevelt policy
Good Neighbor Policy
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Nixon policy
Detente Friendly conversation with China and USSR
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Department of homeland security
- Protects the United States at Home
- Tries to secure the borders
- Part of emergency response
- Fight against WMD
- Gathers intelligence
- Some believe that they threaten our civil liberties
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Problems with Media and Foreign Affairs
- Media is biased
- They Choose what you get to see
- Sometimes they make the news
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Methods to accomplish foreign policy goals
- Diplomacy
- Treaties/executive agreements
- Multinational organizations
- Military relations
- Economic relations
- Foreign Aid
- Sanctions
- Espionage
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Four Schools of thought
- Hamiltonian
- Jeffersonian
- Jacksonian
- Wilsonian
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Hamiltonian
Foreign policy should be about commerce and trade
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Jeffersonian
Maintaining democracy
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Jacksonian
About the common man's opinion and use of military
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Wilsonian
Doing whatever is right
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Evidences that we are involved with foreign affairs
- XYZ Affair
- Barbary Pirates
- Start trade with Japan
- Missionaries
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Reasons for imperialism
- Security
- Industrial expansion
- Ideology
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Gained by Diplomacy
- Hawaiian and Samoan islands
- Trade with China
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Examples of Americans being the Policemen of the world
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