The Presidency: Powers and Practice

1. The Presidency: Powers and Practice

2. Partisan Support for the President in Congress

3. Growth in Presidential Speech Making

4. Trends in Presidential Use of the Veto

5. Pocket Veto • Presidential veto after congressional adjournment, executed merely by not signing a bill into law.

6. Line Item Veto • Presidential authority to negate particular provisions of a law, granted by Congress in 1996 but struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998.

7. Size of the White House Office

8. The Presidential Legislative Agenda: It’s Largest in the First Year

9. Executive Order • A presidential directive that has the force of law, though it is not enacted by Congress.

10. Significant Executive Orders, 1900-1996

11. Executive Privilege • The right of members of the executive branch to have private communications among themselves that need not be shared with Congress.

12. Impeachment • Recommendation by a majority of the House of Representatives that a president, other official in the executive branch, or judge of the federal courts be removed from office; removal depends on a two-thirds vote of the Senate.

13. Decline in Presidential Popularity Over the First Term

14. Presidential Character