9-12 Benchmark 3-A: compare and analyze the structure, power and purpose of government at the local, state, tribal and national levels as set forth in their respective constitutions or governance documents:
A#2 Performance Standards
Analyze the structure, powers and role of the executive branch of the United States government, to include: specific powers delegated in Article II of the constitution; checks and balances; development of the cabinet and federal bureaucracy; roles and duties of the presidency, including those acquired over time such as “head of state” and “head of a political party;”
What Is the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government? | History
●Identify qualifications to be President
America 101: What Qualifications Do You Need to Be President? | History
●Identify qualifications to be President
America 101: Why Do We Have Presidential Term Limits? | History
●Know the 22nd and 26th Amendments
26th Amendment & Voting Age - Decades TV Network
●Know the 22nd and 26th Amendments
What Were the Pentagon Papers? | History
●Understand Executive Privilege and checks and balances as applied by the Supreme Court in U.S. v Nixon
Power to the President: What Does the President of the U.S. Actually Do? | History
●Examine Presidential powers, limits placed on executive powers
Presidential Power: Crash Course Government and Politics #11
●Examine Presidential powers, limits placed on executive powers
Presidential Powers 2: Crash Course Government and Politics #12
●Examine Presidential powers, limits placed on executive powers
How Presidents Govern: Crash Course Government and Politics #14
●Analyze role of the cabinet
What Is Veto Power? | History
America 101: What is the Cabinet? | History
Executive Orders: What Are They, and How Do They Work? | History
Sample Question:
Which constitutional power is a check that the President has against Congress?
A.the power to veto bills*
B.the power to pardoncriminals
C.the power to nominatejudges
D.the power to make constitutional amendments