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Describe the president's influence over the executive branch. Identify specific powers of the administrator in chief.
 
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Which president began the modern presidency, in which presidential decision making assumed greater importance than congressional decision making? Explain how.
 
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Answer to Question 1

An ideal response will:
1. Explain that the Constitution designates the president as administrator in chief by giving him or her the power to require the opinion of agency and department heads upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.
2. Identify specific powers that the president can use to influence executive branch agencies, including appointment power and the power to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.

Answer to Question 2

An ideal response will:
1. Name Franklin Delano Roosevelt as beginning the modern presidency.
2. Include information that Roosevelt was in office from the Great Depression until World War II.
3. Describe how the presidency changed with the creation of a new bureaucracy to manage the new federal agencies needed to implement the New Deal.
4. Include information about how he built a relationship with the people with his fireside chats.
5. Include information about him taking a leading role in domestic and foreign policy.





 

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