A#2 Executive Branch

Structure and Function of the U.S. Government

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