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The Executive Branch DBQ Packet # 1The executive branch?of our Government is in charge of making sure that the laws of the United States are obeyed. The President of the United States is the head of the executive branch. The President gets help from the Vice President, department heads (called Cabinet members), and heads of independent agencies.Directions: The following tasks are based on the accompanying documents. As you analyze the documents, be sure to:Carefully read each document-based question carefully.Read and re-read each document carefully, underlining key phrases and words that address the document based question. You may also want to use the margin to make brief notes. Answer the questions for each document.Based on your knowledge of the information, you will apply what you learned to the President which you are assigned next week.Document 1:Task # 1: Read the following primary source document excerpt from Article II of the Constitution of the United States. This will better help you identify the parts of the Presidential project at the end of this unit.‘The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.’Q: Who is the Executive branch led by? Point out a specific part of the text using a highlighter. A: Q: How long is the term served? Point out a specific part of the text using a highlighter.A:Document 2:Task # 2: Read the following primary source document excerpt from Article II of the Constitution of the United States. This will better help you identify the parts of the Presidential project at the end of this unit.‘No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.’Q: What are the qualifications one must possess in order to head the Executive branch? Point out a specific part of the text using a highlighter.A:Document 3:Task # 3: Read the following primary source document excerpt from Article II of the Constitution of the United States. This will better help you identify the parts of the Presidential project at the end of this unit.‘Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."Highlight the oath that the President takes before beginning his/her term.Q: What would you include or delete from this oath?Document 4:Task # 4: Read the following primary source document excerpt from Article II of the Constitution of the United States. This will better help you identify the parts of the Presidential project at the end of this unit.‘The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments’Q: As Commander in Chief, make a list of the duties and responsibilities of the President? Point out a specific part of the text using a highlighter. A:Q: Are there any other duties and/or responsibilities you would give the President as Commander-in-Chief?A:Document 5:Task # 5: Read the following primary source document excerpt from author, Kirk Bailey. This will better help you identify the parts of the Presidential project at the end of this unit.The President’s Cabinet is composed of the principal appointed officers of departments of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. The Cabinet meets weekly to advise the President on matters relating to the duties of their respective departments. The Cabinet traditionally includes the Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments: Q: Who is included in the President’s cabinet? Point out a specific part of the text using a highlighter.A:Q: What are some different departments that may exist in the President’s cabinet?A:Document 6:Task # 6: Look at and read the following primary source document. This will better help you identify the parts of the Presidential project at the end of this unit.The presidential seal is shown usually when the President makes speeches or holds press (media) meetings).Q: Where are some places that the presidential seal may be displayed as s/he makes speeches and holds meetings?A:Q: What are some things included on the Presidential seal? Why do you think they are there?A:Document 7:Task # 7: Look at the image. This will better help you identify the parts of the Presidential project at the end of this unit.Q: What do you think Donald Trump is doing in this picture?A:Q: Who do you think he is addressing (speaking to) in this picture?A:Document 8:Task # 8: Read the following primary source document excerpt from Article II Section 3 of the United States Constitution. This will better help you identify the parts of the Presidential project at the end of this unit.‘He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States’Q: What is the name of the Speech that the President delivers to Congress? Point out a specific part of the text using a highlighter.A: ................
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