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    In every presidential election, political debates occur with the political party’s main candidate where they offer their views on running the country then citizens decide who should be the president of the United States. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale participated in their second debate against each other. Four panelists on the topic of defense and foreign policy issues would prompt the two candidates to certain issues of their concern. Some issues in the dispute that were discussed

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    M I D T E R M 1) The President of the United States is certainly one the most powerful people in the free world, but interestingly, the Constitution 's drafters did not expect this to be the case. Constitutional provisions limited the early presidency. James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution”, was worried that the "power balance" tilted toward the House of Representatives. Madison believed that its control in terms of taxes and spending and its ability to legislate laws that narrowed the powers

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    One of the chief principle roles of the President of the United States is as Chief Executive. As Chief Executive, it is the president 's duty to "faithfully executive the laws" that are passed by Congress. The way the president accomplishes this is through the bureaucracy, which is broken down into the four types of bureaucracy. These types are Cabinet Departments (Department of State), Independent Executive Agency (Central Intelligence Agency), Independent Regulatory Agencies (The Office of Personal

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    As president, Eisenhower adopted a style of leadership that emphasized the delegation of authority. He filled his cabinet with successful corporate executives whose gave his administration a businesslike tone. Eisenhower’s first priority was to balance the budget of deficit spending. As a moderate on domestic issues, he accepted most of the New Deals programs as a reality of modern life and even extended some of them. During his first two terms in office, social security was extended to 10 million

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    United States President

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    The President is not only the head of state and government in the United States; he is also the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. The President, according to the constitution, is supposed to be responsible for carrying out and enforcing the laws created by Congress. The executive branch is made up of many departments. There are fifteen executive departments that are led by a chosen member. These departments are joined with other agencies like the CIA and EPA to fulfill daily requirements. The

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    shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. The presidency ranks among the most important in the United States. Under the Constitution, the President serves as head of the state and head of government. The President has the tremendous power to initiate as well as implement foreign policy through response to foreign events through Commander in Chief, and negotiate treaties as Chief Diplomat, which is greater power than over domestic matters. The President has two additional informal

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    The President of the United States, Jackson M. Washington, was six-foot three-inch’s tall, athletic build, salt and pepper graying hair; he was fifty-three years old. He had served in the Marines after College for four years and ended up getting out as a Captain after his first hitch. From there he started his political career by volunteering for certain candidates for Congress and the Senate that had a message that resonated with him. Back then he switched party affiliations often, like changing

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    In 1787 our founding fathers believed that that the general population was not educated enough to select the president of the United State (Bronson, K and Dove, L 2015). This was one of the concerns our founders had when the wrote the Article II, section 1 of our constitution which laid out the framework for the electoral college process that we use still to this day. An article by Bronson, and. Dove” stated that the Electoral College provided security to concerns that the governing people had in

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    The president of the United States (POTUS) “authorized U.S. Central Command to work with partner nations to conduct targeted airstrikes of Iraq and Syria as part of the comprehensive strategy to degrade and defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.”1 October 2014, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that “U.S. military operations against ISIL in Iraq and Syria had been named Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR). Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), a US and international coalition

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    The 16th president of the United States was the one and only Abraham Lincoln. He was a well accomplished man and one of the greatest heroes in America. He was proficient at a lot of things in the world, such as protecting the Union during the United States Civil War and many more things. There were many events that led up to the main event that took place on November 6, 1860, which was when an historical affair took place and divided the Democratic Party, and made Lincoln the first republican to

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