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9. Enumerate the chief war powers of the President.

10. What is the extent of the President's treaty-making power?

11. Outline the President's duties with respect to appointing and receiving foreign representatives.

12. What is the chief administrative function of the President?

13. Discuss the President's power to grant pardons and reprieves.

14. Explain the ordinance-issuing power of the President.

15. What is the extent of the President's veto power?

REQUIRED READINGS

1. Beard, _American Government and Politics_, chapter x.

2. Guitteau, _Government and Politics in the United States_, chapter xxv.

3. Munro, _The Government of the United States_, chapter viii.

4. Reed, _Form and Functions of American Government_, chapter xix.

QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS

1. Outline the work of the national convention. (Reed, pages 228-229.)

2. Describe the presidential campaign. (Reed, pages 233-234.)

3. Why was the presidential election of 1876 disputed? (Guitteau, pages 288-289.)

4. Describe the inaugural ceremony. (Guitteau, page 292.)

5. What is the origin of the President's right to remove officers appointed by him? (Beard, page 193.)

6. How did President Roosevelt once succeed in carrying out the terms of an international agreement without the consent of the Senate?

(Beard, pages 197-198.)

7. Why was the veto power originally bestowed upon the President?

(Beard, page 202.)

8. What is the rule of senatorial courtesy? (Munro, page 107.)

9. What is the pocket veto? (Munro, page 118.)

10. What is the President's relation to the courts? (Munro, pages 124- 125.)

11. What is the method of impeaching a President? (Reed, pages 237- 238.)

TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

I

1. The part played by your state in the last Presidential election.

2. Extent to which the President of the United States has made use of the militia of your state.

3. Compare the powers of the President of the United States with the powers of the Governor of your state.

4. Cabinet officers, past or present, who were natives of your state.

5. List some of the offices within the bounds of your state which are filled, directly or indirectly, by the President of the United States.

II

6. The biography of some one President. (Consult an encyclopedia, standard works on American history, and special biographies.)

7. The history of some one important Presidential election. (Consult a standard history of the United States.)

8. The inauguration of a President. (Reinsch, _Readings on American Federal Government_, pages 1-5.)

9. The war powers of the President. (Reinsch, _Readings on American Federal Government_, pages 22-32.)

10. Federal intervention in the Chicago strike of 1894. (Reinsch, _Readings on American Federal Government_, pages 32-46.)

11. The treaty-making power. (Reinsch, _Readings on American Federal Government_, pages 79-127.)

12. The presidential power of appointment. (Taft, _Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers_, chapter iii.)

13. The pardoning power of the President. (Taft, _Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers_, chapter v.)

14. The presidential veto. (Taft, _Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers_, chapter i.)

15. The President at work. (Reinsch, _Readings on American Federal Government_, pages 5-10.)

16. The President as party leader. (Jones, _Readings on Parties and Elections in the United States_, pages 205-211.)

17. Relations of the executive and legislative branches of the National government. (Beard, _American Government and Politics_, pages 205-214.)

18. The impeachment of President Johnson. (Consult any general work on American history, or an encyclopedia.)

19. "Why great men are not chosen Presidents." (Bryce, _The American Commonwealth_, vol. i, chapter viii.)

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