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+Presidential Power
+
+- Founding of US
+ - Presidency was a unique, new US concept
+ - Power has fluctuated a lot
+ - Now, it's super important and even revered
+- Becoming President
+ - Article II Section 1
+ - 35 yrs old
+ - Natural born
+ - Common characteristics that help
+ - Previous success in business, politics, law
+ - Protestant, white, male
+ - Most presidents didn't have Ph.Ds
+
+Roles of the President
+- Chief of State
+ - Symbolic roles
+ - Host foreign dignitaries
+ - Throw the first pitch at the World Series
+- Chief Executive
+ - Heads bureaucracy
+ - Appoints SC nominees
+ - Budget roles
+ - Enforcement of enacted legislation
+- Commander-in-chief
+ - Increasing importance over time
+ - Standing army, defense department
+ - Nuclear powers
+ - Attempts to reign in power over time
+ - War Powers Resolution Act requires pres, in 48hrs, to inform
+ Congress of military deployment
+- Chief Diplomat
+ - Sort of an inherent power
+ - Directs foreign policy
+ - Treaties are passed by 2/3 vote in Congress, negotiated by pres
+ - "Executive Agreements"
+ - More temporary, less "deep" treaty
+- Chief Legislator
+ - Sets the Agenda
+ - Term-length
+ - State of the Union, yearly, mandated by Constitution
+ - Radio, TV made it more of a spectacle
+ - Used to just be a note/letter to Congress
+- Party Chief and Politician
+ - Domestic vs Foreign Policy
+ - Congressional vs Public Support
+ - Few presidents are great at both
+ - Chief Campaigner/Fundraiser
+ - Often campaigning for other politicians in party
+ - Midterms, mostly
+ - "go on the stump"
+
+Emergency Power
+ - Only during a specific national crisis
+ - Limited: president must assign his action to a specific power in
+ the code
+Executive Orders
+- Must relate to existing, delegated area of presidential authority
+- Same weight as real laws because they're meant to follow existing laws
+- 300 executive orders in eight years is average
+Executive Privilege
+ - Hide things from Congress
+ - Does not extend to crimes (Nixon)
+Inherent Powers (anything any head of state would have)
+ - ex: Diplomatic Immunity
+
+
+Impeachment
+- Defined in Constitution @ Art. I, Sec 2,3 and Art. II, Sec 4
+- Most people misunderstand the term
+ - Does NOT mean automatic removal
+ - Can try president or member of executive branch or member of gov
+ - "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"
+- House has power of impeachment
+- Senate conducts the trial
+- 20 impeachments in history
+ - 8 were removed
+ - 3 resigned
+ - 8 were acquitted
+ - 1 trial was dismissed
+ - Most were judges impeached on bribery, only 3 presidents
+ - Andrew Johnson
+ - Clinton
+ - Trump
+ - Trump *might* be reimpeached on new evidence