The president has just negotiated a trade agreement with ...

[mpobi80]

The president has just negotiated a trade agreement with Canada.What must happen to make it binding and enforceable?
 
  A) The US House of Representatives must vote to approve it.
  B) The US Trade Representative must sign it.
  C) A successful ratification vote must occur in the US Senate.
  D) Nothing must happen, as presidents have sole authority to negotiate binding treaties.

Question 2

With respect to economic policy, what evidence supports Edward S. Corwin's claim that the history of the presidency is the history of aggrandizement? Provide specific examples.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[Ksanderson1296]

Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

The ideal answer should:
a. Discuss how the public's expectations of presidents, the formal responsibilities granted them, and the explicit sources of statutory authority have all steadily increased over time, noting that presidential involvement in the economy is not new.
b.Describe how the EmploymentAct of 1946 provided formal recognition of the president as the most important steward of the American economy by legitimizing the federal government's and president's role in improving the nation's economy and placing the president at the center of federal efforts to manage the economy.
c. Demonstrate that presidential power continued to increase with the passage of the Economic Opportunity Actof 1964 that not only created a range of agencies and programs designed to end poverty but also established important precedents, especially the ability of the federal government to reach into local economies across the country.
d. Show how the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment increased presidential power by giving presidents the leading role in developing and reforming national tax policy, as illustrated by the Tax Reform Actof 1986.

[mpobi80]

Excellent

[ricroger]

Gracias!