Vice President of the United States

“Vice presidents who have succeeded to the presidency on the death of the President have been less effective in their conduct of domestic AND foreign policy than the men they replaced”. There have been many incidents where the vice president has had to take office. This occurs when the president is either assassinated or impeached or if they pass away. When Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson took over and when Franklin D. Roosevelt died, Truman took over for him. Kennedy and Truman focused more on

The role of the President as Chief Executive is a complex matter because it covers a wide area of responsibility and involves many government agencies and offices, that the President is responsible for overseeing. The history of Chief Executive starts in the constitution with Article II section I “Executive Power shall be vested in the President of the United States of America” this did not create the role although it was a front runner to it. Executive Power is understood to mean “seeing that laws

Legislative Branch is called The Senate. The Senate is a group of 100 senators (two from each U.S. State) who also work to propose bills, dismiss them, and carry on lawmaking. The Senate is ultimately led by the current Vice President of the United States of America. At this current time that position is held by Joe Biden. Beneath Vice President Biden is the President Pro Tempore. The current President Pro Tempore is Senator Orrin Hatch. Similarly to the House of Representatives, The Senate also has

occurred in the United States where the candidate wins the popular vote, but still manages to lose the entire election because they received fewer electoral votes. Therefore, our votes would all matter and actually make a difference if there wasn’t such a system and if the winning candidate was based off of the majority of popular votes. Every four years, a plethora of United States citizens elect the

A question that we all need to understand that is rarely interrogated is, why do we have elections in the first place? America is too big and complexed to hold public referendums on individual issues, although some states try to do it, this is called complexity. So in the case we choose representatives, we vote for people and not policies. Political scientist have a much broader way of describing this, in terms of adverse selection. “Adverse selection is a problem that can arise when we make a choice

the budget was passed and it will create a biggest tax cut in the history of United States. He mentioned about being no change in 401(k) which support middle class tax break through his tweet on 10/23/17, 6:42 am. On 10/20/17 at 5:31 am; he tweeted the crime report of United Kingdom and its radical Islamic terror. He also mentioned of keeping United States safe. 2 Vice president Mike pence seems to be not active as president Trump in using twitter. I followed his post on both Facebook and Twitter from

Regime Parties and Realignments- The topic of party realignment was one that was brought up during lecture. Critical realignment theory has stated that some Presidents have played a larger role in the realignment of their parties. The definition of a critical realignment is when the parties and the issues that are at the forefront of the American attention change. Realignments have often been the result of a pressing issue coming to the forefront of Americas attention and allowing for third parties

uncontrollable desire to know the truth behind the mystery is stirring in the minds of the people in the United States of America. With the 2000 Elections underway sides are beginning to be taken among the people. Many oppose the Electoral College because of the fact that unknowing electors choose their leader and many support it because it was

College (United States)). 538 electors make up an Electoral College, but majority of 270 is needed to win presidency. An Electoral College contains 435 are representatives, 100 senators, and 3 assigned to Washington, DC. “Four states that include the most electors are California (55), Texas (38), and New York and Florida (29)”. (Electoral College (United States)).The Electoral College was an agreement betwixt a vote in Congress and population of vote for the election of the President. Written in

way would be most effective to elect a president. The number of electors was dependent upon the number of people in that states senate, (will always be 2) and the number of the people that state had in the House, (which fluctuates every decade depending on that states census.) Choosing the electors was left up to the state, but to avoid the college choosing a “favorite” they had to cast two votes, one of which had to be for someone out of their home state. The electoral college was originally designed