Three Branches Of Government

Students will analyze ten presidential executive orders that had consequential ramifications on American society.

This lesson will give students the opportunity to hear from other presidents and think about how their character/president might relate to them. It gives the students an opportunity to become a certain president – to look at presidents in a slightly different manner.

This lesson would be in a Junior level U.S. Government course, once they have a complete idea of the Articles of the Constitution and have had a chance to explore Article 1 and Legislative Branch. It will require the student to apply their growing base of knowledge on the Power/Role of the President to their knowledge of life in American(Present, Past and Future).

Supreme Court rulings in the Shaw v. Reno (1995) and the Shelby County vs. Holder (2013) cases relied heavily on the reasoning behind the passage of the Voting Rights Act (1965). Students in AP Gov’t and Politics are required to know both cases as part of the cannon of cases and the precedents set as part of the course standards.

Student will rank the Presidential powers from most important to least important.

Discuss and Research Emergency Powers of the President

Students will analyze the boundaries of presidential power through primary sources and complete a performance task.

Students will use online resources from presidential libraries, Library of Congress, other websites that have presidential executive orders and other policies. Students will understand how a president (or multiple presidents) used presidential power of speech and words to enact legislation

For students to investigate the expansion of executive powers by President Richard Nixon and the debate about the scope of executive power.

Students will discuss the difference between executive orders and bills becoming laws
Students will view examples of executive orders from various Presidents.