Unit 2b Study Guide What are the expressed, or formal, powers of the President, per Article II? What are the inherent, or informal powers? What are

Remember from previous units: 

• Brutus No. 1 

• Federalist 51 

• Everything from Congress :)

• What are the expressed, or formal, powers of the President, per Article II? What are the inherent, or informal powers? 

• What are the checks on the executive branch? Consider the formal checks from the Judicial and Legislative branches, and the informal checks. 

• How do each of the inherent, or informal powers we studied (executive orders, agreements, and privilege) complicate the system of checks and balances?

  • Post-Nixon, under what circumstances can the president claim executive privilege?

• What are the various roles in which the president serves?

  • How does the president exercise authority in each of the roles? Connect to expressed and inherent powers.

• What are the arguments for and against an imperial presidency? (seminar) 

• What are the functions of the bureaucracy? What are the different types of bureaucracies? 

• What role does the Bureaucracy play in the policymaking process? 

• Why is the bureaucracy sometimes criticized?