Political parties can empower presidents to set their own agendas.
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Political parties can divert accountability away from Congress.
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Free course on the presidency. One paragraph per day. 2.14 Money is power. A president’s political assets can sometimes extend beyond leadership to include money. Under today’s campaign laws, presidential…
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Political parties can amplify presidential power.
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Political parties became more important as state legislatures directed their electors to follow the popular vote in their states.
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Could political parties contribute to checks and balances within the government?
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The framers quickly embraced political parties because of their advantages.
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National political parties became more important when the popular vote became relevant to the presidency.
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Term limits protect against entrenchment, but they also deny us the opportunity to hold accountable a second-term president.
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The twenty-second amendment adopted in 1947 limited each president to a maximum of two terms in office.
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Giving citizens a role in electing presidents also gave presidents a political power base.
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Giving some citizens a role in electing presidents made presidents accountable to voters.
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Not all citizens could vote in the early days of the Republic.
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By 1828, most states linked their Electoral College votes to their popular votes.
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Citizens originally had no role in choosing presidents.
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Voters and political parties became additional sources of presidential power and accountability.
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The power to pardon creates some overlap in the powers of the presidency and those of the court.
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The Twentieth Amendment largely removed the need for power to convene or adjourn Congress.
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The president was to participate in law-making, with Congress in the lead.
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The framers gave the President limited supervisory power.
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The Written Opinion Clause appears to limit the President in several ways.
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The Constitution is silent on the related presidential power to remove.
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Several framers worried the power of appointment could be abused.
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To faithfully execute the laws of the land, the presidency was assigned executive power that was mostly undefined.