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A 7 page research paper that describes the office of the president of the United States: the qualifications, term in office, removal from office, etc. Then, the writer describes the makeup of the executive branch and ends with a brief discussion of the views on the Imperial presidency of the current administration. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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the colonists and their elected legislative bodies. In general, governors were distrusted by the colonials and this distrust remained and state governors were largely stripped of any real political power
as each colony devised its state governmental bodies. Nevertheless, the Framers of the Constitution agreed that the nation should have a chief executive. It was decided that the chief executive,
the President, would be elected by the people, rather than by a legislative body, and thereby would be independent of that body. Qualifications for the presidency The Constitution stipulates
that the President and the Vice President should be native-born citizens, a minimum of thirty-years of age, and a resident of the U.S. for at least fourteen years. In the
eighteenth century, it was not uncommon for American statesmen engaged in diplomatic missions to be out of the country for extended periods of time (OConnor and Sabato, 2008). Therefore, with
this provisions, the Framers of the Constitutions sought to ensure that prospective candidate for the presidency would be familiar with the issues of the day (OConnor and Sabato, 2008).
Terms of office After considerable debate, the Framers decided that the President would be elected for a term of four years, with the possibility of reelection. George Washington, president from
1789-1797, sought reelection only once and a two-term limit became traditional and was the national standard for 150 years (OConnor and Sabato, 2008). However, due the national crises of the
Great Depression and World War II, Americans reelected Franklin D. Roosevelt for 4 consecutive terms during the 1930 and 40s. While Roosevelt was popularly elected, this occurrence provided the
impetus for the passage of the Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution in 1951, which limits the same person holding the office of president for more than 2 terms (OConnor and
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