Executive Branch, Impeachment
and Famous Quotes
BY: Eddie Irvine and Sean
Fowler
Directions: Insert the missing commas.
Answers will appear or will be provided
on the following page.
Social Studies and Grammar Review: Executive
Branch, Impeachment and Famous Quotes
Did you catch this one?
BY: Eddie Irvine and Sean
Fowler
Directions: Insert the missing commas.
Answers will appear or will be provided
on the following page.
Executive
Branch
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1.“Ben is it true that the president executes laws since he
is the leader of the executive Branch?” Sean and Eddie
questioned.
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2. “Yes ” replied Ben “but it is more accurate to say
that he carries out the laws.
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3. “The president checks the Legislative Branch with his
power to either approve or veto proposed laws ” Ben
continued.
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4. By appointing judges which also must be approved by
the Legislative Branch the president checks the Judicial
Branch.
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1.The Executive Branch consists of the president vice
president the president’s cabinet and fifteen departments.
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2. In addition 100 independent agencies with 2.5 million
employees also are a part of the Executive Branch.
3.The Executive Branch also exists at the state level; the
governor like Arnold Schwarzenegger in California and
his lieutenant governor.
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4. At the local level for San Diego California there is
mayor Jerry Sanders and his deputy mayor.
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1. 1. In Article two of the U.S. Constitution the election process
requirements term limits and powers of the president are
outlined.
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2.The president is elected by presidential electors also known
as the electoral college who choose the president based on
the votes of the individual states.
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3.To become the president one must have been born in the U.S.
lived here for fourteen years and be at least 35 years old.
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4.The maximum time a president can be in office is ten years.
He must serve two years filling in for another president and
he must also serve two four year terms of his own.
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1.The concept of checks and balances and the separation of
powers was thought of by James Madison during the
Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania.
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2.The president is the leader of the United States and is
entrusted by the people to wisely use the following powers:
veto commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces proposing
laws negotiating foreign treaties political pardon as well as
the appointing of federal judges ambassadors and high
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officials.
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Famous Quotes
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Preamble of the Constitution: We the People of the United
States in Order to form a more perfect Union establish
Justice insure domestic Tranquility provide for the common
defense promote the general Welfare and secure the
Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America.
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Ben Franklin- June 28 1787: I've lived Sir a long time and
the longer I live the more convincing Proofs I see of this
Truth — That God governs in the Affairs of Men. - from
a speech at the convention
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Ben Franklin- November 13 1789: Our new Constitution is
now established and has an appearance that promises
permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be
certain except death and taxes. - from a letter to JeanBaptiste Leroy
Famous Quotes
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Preamble of the Constitution: We the People of the United
States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure
the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do
ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States
of America.
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Ben Franklin- June 28, 1787: I've lived, Sir, a long time,
and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of
this Truth — That God governs in the Affairs of Men. from a speech at the convention
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Ben Franklin- November 13, 1789: Our new Constitution is
now established, and has an appearance that promises
permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be
certain, except death and taxes. - from a letter to JeanBaptiste Leroy
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Alexander Hamilton- For my own part I sincerely esteem
it a system which without the finger of God never could
have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity
of interests. -Statement after the Constitutional
Convention (1787)
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Alexander Hamilton- In politics as in religion it is
equally absurd to aim at making proselytes (converts)by
fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by
persecution. - from the Federalist Papers
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On April 20 1795 James Madison declared “Of all the
enemies to public liberty war is perhaps the most to be
dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of
every other... No nation could preserve its freedom in the
midst of continual warfare.” -from “Political
Observations”
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Alexander Hamilton- For my own part, I sincerely
esteem it a system which without the finger of God,
never could have been suggested and agreed upon by
such a diversity of interests. -Statement after the
Constitutional Convention (1787)
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Alexander Hamilton- In politics, as in religion, it is
equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and
sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by
persecution. - from the Federalist Papers
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On April 20, 1795, James Madison declared, “Of all the
enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be
dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of
every other... No nation could preserve its freedom in the
midst of continual warfare.” -from “Political
Observations”
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James Madison- June 29 1787: A standing military force
with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe
companions to liberty. -from a speech at the convention
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James Madison- October 17 1788: Wherever the real
power in a Government lies there is the danger of
oppression. -from a letter to Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson- January 30 1787: I hold it that a little
rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary
in the political world as storms in the physical. -from a
letter to James Madison in reference to the Whiskey
Rebellion
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Thomas Jefferson- Monday January 28 1786: Our liberty
depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be
limited without being lost. -from a letter to Dr. James
Currie
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James Madison- June 29, 1787: A standing military
force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe
companions to liberty. -from a speech at the convention
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James Madison- October 17, 1788: Wherever the real
power in a Government lies, there is the danger of
oppression. -from a letter to Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson- January 30, 1787: I hold it, that a
little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as
necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
-from a letter to James Madison in reference to the
Whiskey Rebellion
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Thomas Jefferson- Monday, January 28, 1786: Our
liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that
cannot be limited without being lost. -from a letter to Dr.
James Currie
Impeachment
• The presidential impeachment process begins in the
House of Representatives and it requires a simple
majority vote one more than half to proceed.
• Johnson Andrew and Clinton Bill former presidents of
the United States are the only two presidents to ever
be impeached.
• Andrew Johnson was exonerated by a single vote but
Bill Clinton was exonerated by twelve votes.
Impeachment
• The presidential impeachment process begins in the
House of Representatives, and it requires a simple
majority vote, one more than half, to proceed.
• Johnson, Andrew and Clinton, Bill, former presidents
of the United States, are the only two presidents to
ever be impeached.
• Andrew Johnson was exonerated by a single vote, but
Bill Clinton was exonerated by twelve votes.
• As we reviewed our social studies in class Ms.
Schrepferwoman stated “Article II of the Constitution
outlines the process for impeaching a president.”
• While the House of Representatives decides whether
or not to impeach a president the Senate acts as the
jury to decide whether or not the president is guilty or
not.
• A two-thirds majority vote of the Senate 67 votes out
of 100 is necessary for a guilty verdict at a presidential
impeachment trial.
• As we reviewed our social studies in class, Ms.
Schrepferwoman stated, “Article II of the Constitution
outlines the process for impeaching a president.”
• While the House of Representatives decides whether
or not to impeach a president, the Senate acts as the
jury to decide whether or not the president is guilty or
not.
• A two-thirds majority vote of the Senate, 67 votes out
of 100, is necessary for a guilty verdict at a
presidential impeachment trial.
• Presiding at presidential impeachment trials the Chief
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court acts fairly
authoritatively and with conviction.
• “The vice president of the United States presides at
impeachment trials other than the president’s”
proclaimed the brilliant Benjamin Statz.
• The president powerful and supreme if impeached is
not automatically removed from office.
• Presiding at presidential impeachment trials, the Chief
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court acts fairly,
authoritatively, and with conviction.
• “The vice president of the United States presides at
impeachment trials other than the president’s,”
proclaimed the brilliant Benjamin Statz.
• The president, powerful and supreme, if impeached, is
not automatically removed from office.