Executive Branch, Impeachment

and Famous Quotes

BY: Eddie Irvine and Sean Fowler

Directions: Insert the missing commas. Answers will appear or will be provided

on the following page.

Social Studies and Grammar Review: Executive

Branch, Impeachment and Famous Quotes

BY: Eddie Irvine and Sean Fowler

Directions: Insert the missing commas. Answers will appear or will be provided

on the following page.

Did you catch this one?

Executive Branch

1.“Ben is it true that the president executes laws since he is the leader of the executive Branch?” Sean and Eddie questioned.

2. “Yes ” replied Ben “but it is more accurate to say that he carries out the laws.

3. “The president checks the Legislative Branch with his power to either approve or veto proposed laws ” Ben continued.

4. By appointing judges which also must be approved by the Legislative Branch the president checks the Judicial Branch.

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1.The Executive Branch consists of the president vice president the president’s cabinet and fifteen departments.

2. In addition 100 independent agencies with 2.5 million employees also are a part of the Executive Branch.

3.The Executive Branch also exists at the state level; the governor like Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and

his lieutenant governor.

4. At the local level for San Diego California there is mayor Jerry Sanders and his deputy mayor.

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1. 1. In Article two of the U.S. Constitution the election process requirements term limits and powers of the president are outlined.

2.The president is elected by presidential electors also known as the electoral college who choose the president based on the votes of the individual states.

3.To become the president one must have been born in the U.S. lived here for fourteen years and be at least 35 years old.

4.The maximum time a president can be in office is ten years. He must serve two years filling in for another president and he must also serve two four year terms of his own.

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1.The concept of checks and balances and the separation of powers was thought of by James Madison during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

2.The president is the leader of the United States and is entrusted by the people to wisely use the following powers: veto commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces proposing laws negotiating foreign treaties political pardon as well as the appointing of federal judges ambassadors and high

officials.

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Famous Quotes• Preamble of the Constitution: We the People of the United States in

Order to form a more perfect Union establish Justice insure domestic Tranquility provide for the common defense promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

• Ben Franklin- June 28 1787: I've lived Sir a long time and the longer I live the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth — That God governs in the Affairs of Men. - from a speech at the convention

• Ben Franklin- November 13 1789: Our new Constitution is now established and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. - from a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy

Famous Quotes• Preamble of the Constitution: We the People of the United States, in

Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

• Ben Franklin- June 28, 1787: I've lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth — That God governs in the Affairs of Men. - from a speech at the convention

• Ben Franklin- November 13, 1789: Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - from a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy

• Alexander Hamilton- For my own part I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. -Statement after the Constitutional Convention (1787)

• Alexander Hamilton- In politics as in religion it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes (converts)by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. - from the Federalist Papers

• On April 20 1795 James Madison declared “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” -from “Political Observations”

• Alexander Hamilton- For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. -Statement after the Constitutional Convention (1787)

• Alexander Hamilton- In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. - from the Federalist Papers

• On April 20, 1795, James Madison declared, “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” -from “Political Observations”

• James Madison- June 29 1787: A standing military force with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. -from a speech at the convention

• James Madison- October 17 1788: Wherever the real power in a Government lies there is the danger of oppression. -from a letter to Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Jefferson- January 30 1787: I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. -from a letter to James Madison in reference to the Whiskey Rebellion

• Thomas Jefferson- Monday January 28 1786: Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. -from a letter to Dr. James Currie

• James Madison- June 29, 1787: A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. -from a speech at the convention

• James Madison- October 17, 1788: Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. -from a letter to Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Jefferson- January 30, 1787: I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. -from a letter to James Madison in reference to the Whiskey Rebellion

• Thomas Jefferson- Monday, January 28, 1786: Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. -from a letter to Dr. James Currie

• The presidential impeachment process begins in the House of Representatives and it requires a simple majority vote one more than half to proceed.

• Johnson Andrew and Clinton Bill former presidents of the United States are the only two presidents to ever be impeached.

• Andrew Johnson was exonerated by a single vote but Bill Clinton was exonerated by twelve votes.

Impeachment

• The presidential impeachment process begins in the House of Representatives, and it requires a simple majority vote, one more than half, to proceed.

• Johnson, Andrew and Clinton, Bill, former presidents of the United States, are the only two presidents to ever be impeached.

• Andrew Johnson was exonerated by a single vote, but Bill Clinton was exonerated by twelve votes.

Impeachment

• As we reviewed our social studies in class Ms. Schrepferwoman stated “Article II of the Constitution outlines the process for impeaching a president.”

• While the House of Representatives decides whether or not to impeach a president the Senate acts as the jury to decide whether or not the president is guilty or not.

• A two-thirds majority vote of the Senate 67 votes out of 100 is necessary for a guilty verdict at a presidential impeachment trial.

• As we reviewed our social studies in class, Ms. Schrepferwoman stated, “Article II of the Constitution outlines the process for impeaching a president.”

• While the House of Representatives decides whether or not to impeach a president, the Senate acts as the jury to decide whether or not the president is guilty or not.

• A two-thirds majority vote of the Senate, 67 votes out of 100, is necessary for a guilty verdict at a presidential impeachment trial.

• Presiding at presidential impeachment trials the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court acts fairly authoritatively and with conviction.

• “The vice president of the United States presides at impeachment trials other than the president’s” proclaimed the brilliant Benjamin Statz.

• The president powerful and supreme if impeached is not automatically removed from office.

• Presiding at presidential impeachment trials, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court acts fairly, authoritatively, and with conviction.

• “The vice president of the United States presides at impeachment trials other than the president’s,” proclaimed the brilliant Benjamin Statz.

• The president, powerful and supreme, if impeached, is not automatically removed from office.