Unit 3A: Institutions of National Government
Readings:
Textbook / Wilson: Read pages 365 -367
Read pages 374 -384
Read pages 386 - 395
Read pages 439 - 440
Read pages 447 - 454
Read pages 457 - 466
Green Study Guide: Read pages 93 - 101
Read pages 113 - 123
Objectives:
Executive Branch and Judicial Branch
The information on this site was created with a great deal of help from Rebecca Small who conducts a summer AP Government workshop at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA. Much of the information was adapted from that workshop.
Textbook / Wilson: Read pages 365 -367
Read pages 374 -384
Read pages 386 - 395
Read pages 439 - 440
Read pages 447 - 454
Read pages 457 - 466
Green Study Guide: Read pages 93 - 101
Read pages 113 - 123
Objectives:
Executive Branch and Judicial Branch
- What are the formal and informal powers of the President?
- What are executive orders, executive agreements, and executive privilege?
- Why are they used
- What are advantages and disadvantages?
- What is the role of the President during a war?
- What is the reaction of the country to the President during a war?
- Why does the President tend to take a more active role in foreign policy as his administration has been in office longer?
- What is the relationship between the President and Congress?
- How frequently does the President Veto or threaten a veto?
- What are the consequences of a threatened veto?
- What is the bully pulpit?
- What is the relationship between the President and the media?
- Who are the White House staffers and what effect do they have on the Presidency?
- How has the office of President changed in the past 100 years? What about the past 50 years?
- Describe the impeachment process.
- Describe the cabinet.
- What is the difference between the cabinet and the White House staff?
- Describe the role played by presidential advisors?
- How is the national court system organized?
- What is the relationship between the national and state court systems?
- Identify and describe the three levels of the federal court system. Which cases do each hear?
- How does a case reach the Supreme Court?
- How do most cases in the United States end?
- How does someone get appointed to be a federal judge?
- What is a litmus test?
- Does politics influence judicial selections?
- Compare judicial activism and judicial restraint? Which political persuasions usually espouse which? Is this always the case?
- Understand the impact of Supreme Court rulings as well as circuit court rulings.
- Why does the Supreme Court agree to take some cases and refuse others?
The information on this site was created with a great deal of help from Rebecca Small who conducts a summer AP Government workshop at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA. Much of the information was adapted from that workshop.