Presidential roles
By: Kaitlyn Lambert
Chief Citizen
- Role model of good citizenship
- Performs the responsibilities and duties of citizenship
- encourage patriotism, service, and models the traits of good citzenship
Chief executive
- Head of the executive branch
- Manages the bureaucracy
- Carries out / enforces laws
- Issues executive orders
- Appoints members of cabinet and administration
Chief of State
Comammander-in-Chief
Chief of Party
- Carries out ceremonial duties
- Greets visiting leaders, give medals to citizens, attends ceremonies
- Stands as a symbol of the united states
- Speaks for the whole nation
- Expresses the values and goals of the American people
- Leader of the armed forces
- sets military goals
- Approves military tactics and strategy
- Temporarily sends troops to foreign countries
Chief Diplomat
Judicial Chief
- Leader of his political party
- Supports his party's goals and candidates
- Supports members of his party with speeches and fundraisers
- Carries out objectives of his political party
Chief Legislator
- Represents USA in the international community
- Develops and carries out foreign policy
- Appoints ambassadors
- Makes executive agreements with other countries
- Negotiates and signs treaties
- Chooses Supreme Court justices and federal judges
- Grant reprieves: reduces or delays a punishment issued by court
- Grant pardons: forgives a crime or releases criminals from punishment
- Proposes legislation / laws
- Gives the State of the Union Address
- Influences how Congress votes
- Approves or vetoes legislation
- Creates the budget
- Can convene sessions of Congress or adjourn them
Vocabulary words continued
Adjourn: Break off (a meeting, legal case, or game) with the intention of resuming it later.
Ambassador: An accredited diplomat sent by a country as its official representative to a foreign country.
Convene: Come or bring together for a meeting or activity; assemble.
Diplomat: An official representing a country abroad.
Domestic Policy: Administrative decisions that are directly related to all issues and activity within a nation's borders.
Foreign Policy: A government's strategy in dealing with other nations.
Pardon: The action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offense.
Reprieve: Cancel or postpone the punishment of (someone, especially someone condemned to death).
Treaty: A formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.