Here it is--your Study Guide for the Executive Branch Test!
1) Name the 3 qualifications needed for anyone to be President.
2) What is the President's term of office, as well as the maximum number of full terms that a President may serve?
3) What is the Presidential salary and allowance for official expenses?
4) What is the Vice President's term of office?
5) What is the current salary of the Vice President?
6) Study, IN DETAIL, the process of presidential succession outlined in the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.  Include the "I can't work anymore" and the "I can work again" clauses in your answer.
7) Describe the President's role as Commander in Chief, and outline the limitations placed upon the President by the War Powers Resolution Act of 1973.
8) Describe the President's treaty-making role, and any Constitutional limitations to this power.
9) Identify and describe the three judicial powers that the President has.
10) What does the Executive Office of the President do?
11) What is the Cabinet, and how do Cabinet officials get their jobs
12) Describe the roles of each of the following Cabinet departments:
a) Department of State
b) Department of the Treasury
c) Department of Defense
d) Department of Justice
e) Department of the Interior
f) Department of Agriculture
g) Department of Commerce
h) Department of Labor
i) Department of Health and Human Services
j) Department of Housing and Urban Development
k) Department of Transportation
l) Department of Energy
m) Department of Education
n) Department of Veterans Affairs
o) Department of Homeland Security
p) Describe how each of the following influence U.S. foreign policy:
--The President:
--Public Opinion
--The Senate
--The Media
--Key people in key place
The Essay Requirements! (it's a PUBLIC-POLICY ISSUE ESSAY)

It will be worth 20 points total--each part is worth 4 points:
a) Give a clearly-stated and SUPPORTED position (no fence-straddling or relegating the issue to parents, school or government)
b) Provide a supporting point that is based on core democratic values of American constitutional democracy--DON'T CONTRADICT YOUR POSITION IN DOING SO!
c) Provide one (or more) piece(s) of accurate, valid, and relevant supporting social-studies information that comes from your prior knowledge (information other than that supplied by the Data Section or a Core Democratic Value).
d) Provide one reason that acknowledges an argument from the opposing viewpoint and refutes that argument--DON'T merely acknowledge that other arguments exist)
e) Provide one (or more) piece(s) of accurate, valid, and relevant supporting information from the Data Section THAT MUST SUPPORT YOUR POSITION!
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