Chapter 6: The Executive
Branch
Section 1: The Presidency
Section 2: Powers and Roles of the President
Section 3: Executive Departments and the Cabinet
Section 4: Independent Agencies and Regulatory
Commissions
Section 1: The Presidency
The Presidency
The Vice Presidency
The Rules of Succession
Vocabulary
 presidential succession
The Presidency
 Constitution has three qualifications
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native-born US citizen
at least 35 years of age
resident of the US for at least 14 years
 1951: 22nd Amendment set a two term limit

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) only president to
serve more than two terms (1933-1945)
 Salary of $400,000 a year
 $50,000 non-taxable allowance
 White men had run and won office until
recently, women and minorities have also run
and in 2008, Barack Obama became the first
African-American president
The Vice Presidency
 Serves as president if president dies or is
unable to fulfill duties
 8 presidents have died in office; 1 resigned
 Salary: $208,100 and $10,000 taxable
expense allowance
 Presides over the Senate

Not a member; cannot debate and only votes
to break a tie
 Represent US overseas
The Rules of Succession
 25th Amendment: The vice president, now the
president, may nominate a new vice
president
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Must be approved by majority vote in both
houses
 20th Amendment: If
president and vice
president die Congress
has the power to set
up the succession
Order of Presidential Succession
 President
 Vice President
 Speaker of the House
 President Pro Tempore
 Members of president’s
cabinet in order their
department was created