Executive Branch

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Executive Branch

• President Barack Obama
• Carries out (enforces) laws
• Serves as Commander-in-Chief
• Makes treaties
• Nominates/receives ambassadors
• Recommends legislation to Congress
• Appoints Supreme Court Justices
• President serves 4 year terms-only 2 consecutive
  terms are allowed

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Executive Branch

• Vice President Joe Biden
• Becomes President in the event of the
  death/resignation of the President
• Presiding officer of the U.S. Senate
• Drafter and spokesperson for administrations
  policy
• Advisor to the President

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Executive Branch

• Cabinet (not all are listed)
• Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
• Secretary of Defense,
• Department of Justice,
• Department of Labor, Elaine Chao
• Department of Education, Margaret Spellings
• Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff

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Executive Branch

• Leading Democratic candidates running in 2008
• Hillary Clinton
• Barack Obama
• John Edwards

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Executive Branch

• Leading Republicans running in 2008
• Rudy Giuliani
• Fred Thompson
• John McCain
• Mitt Romney

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Legislative Branch

• Congress House of Representatives and Senate
• Makes laws
• Coin money
• Maintain military
• Declare war on other countries
• Regulate interstate and foreign trade

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Legislative Branch

• House of Representatives
• Representatives are based on states population
• There are 435 members
• Representatives serve two-year terms

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Legislative Branch

• House of Representatives
• Some of our local
• representatives are
• Louise Slaughter
• Tom Reynolds
• Randy Kuhl

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Legislative Branch

• Senate
• There are two senators for each state
• There are 100 members
• (2 x 50 states) 100
• Senators serve six-year terms

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Legislative Branch

• Senate
• The two senators from New York are
• Chuck Schumer
• Hillary Clinton

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Judicial Branch

• Courts The Supreme Court is the highest court
• Interprets laws this is known as judicial
  review the Supreme Court can decide if a law is
  constitutional or not

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Judicial Branch

• Supreme Court
• There are nine justices
• John Roberts (Chief Justice)
• John Paul Stevens
• Antonin Scalia
• Anthony Kennedy
• David Souter
• Clarence Thomas
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Stephen Breyer
• Samuel Alito

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Fun Facts

• The first female justice of the Supreme Court
  was Sandra Day OConnor

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Fun Facts

• The first African American justice of the
  Supreme Court was Thurgood Marshall

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Fun Facts

• The president who served more than two
  consecutive terms was Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Fun Facts

• The youngest president, at 42 years of age, was
  Theodore Roosevelt