| What are the three limits to a President's power? | Changing power over their time in office, congress, supreme court and the constitution, election cycle and divided government |
| What are the first 100 days of a presidency? | most productive a president will be, the peak of their power |
| What does the term lame duck mean? | a politician or administration in. the final period of office, after the election of a successor |
| What was the highest approval rating after the first 100 days? | John F. Kennedy - 83% |
| What was the lowest approval rating after the first 100 days? | Between 40-45% |
| What do poor approval ratings do? | embolden opponents in congress to use non legislative tools such as investigative oversight to weaken presidential power |
| Quote from American political science review June 2019? | "one of the biggest constraints on executive action is not the formal system of checks and balances but the informal one of public opinion" |
| What are key aspects of Lame duck presidency? | Free to make decisions with little fear of consequences, such as executive orders, pardons, or other controversial edicts, they tend to have less political power, result of term limits, planned retirement or electoral losses |
| How did Donald Trump avoid being a lame duck President? | by signing execution orders for 1/4 of those on federal death row and pardoning many people |
| What are the three formal checks on presidential power? | Senate confirmation required for some presidential appointments, impeachment and power of the purse |
| How does impeachment limit the powers of the president? | The president and his executive officers can be removed from the office through impeachment. Trump was tried for impeachment twice, starting in Dec 2019 but both times the Senate voted to keep him |
| How does Senate confirmation of presidential appointments limit the powers of the president? | Senate can stop appointments to the Supreme court made by the President as they have to confirm the appointment. This was seen when Obama tried to appoint Merrick Garland a left wing Judge to the Supreme court |
| How does the power of the purse limit the powers of the president? | Article I gives Congress full power over the collection and expenditure of public funds, failure for congress to pass the executive's budget may lead to government shutdown |
| Why is divided government a good thing? | it means they will only do things that matter with a broad consensus such as the welfare reform package with Bill Clinton |
| Why is divided government a bad thing? | extreme partisanship causes gridlock in congress |
| What factors hindered Obama when dealing with congress? | Republicans had control on the senate, speaker Boehner refused to debate the immigration reform |
| What factors hindered Trump when dealing with congress? | lack of support from his own party due to different factions wanting different things |
| What do powers of persuasion seem to depend on? | Numbers due to increasingly partisan politics |
| What is an example fo this extremely partisan politics? | Democrats would not vote for Trump's bills |
