In today’s age, a President must win 270 electoral votes to become President. I no candidate wins a majority of electoral votes, the 12th amendment to the Constitution provides for Presidential election by the House of Representatives with each state delegation receiving one vote. The electors are chosen by the states and the District of Columbia on the day of the general election. The electors in each state have to meet to cast their votes.…
In order to become the president of the United States, the candidates must first announce their intentions to run. Primaries then take place to determine the candidate that will represent the party as a whole, which is finalized during the national party conventions.…
It is required that you have a clean criminal background, you are able to pass the drug and lie detector test, you have good hearing and vision and you need to have U.S Citizenship.…
person to be elected as president in U.S. history. As a young boy, Kennedy had an elite…
Currently in the United States, we have a system setup where the average citizen is allowed to run for a seat in the House of Representatives or the Senate as long as they meet specific age and citizenship requirements. According to the United States Constitution, “No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen (U.S. Archives 1). Additionally the United States Constitution states that, “No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen (U.S. Archives 1). With these minimum restrictions put in place by our Founding Fathers 236 years ago, they believed that an average citizen of the United States would have gained enough education, “worldly” experience, and maturity in order to successfully make the important decisions needed to run our country and provide checks and balances upon the President of the United States.…
The Presidency as a whole has changed in many ways throughout the course of history; specifically, in the relationship between the president and the public. The Constitution is vague when it describes communication of the president: a president must say why they veto a bill, and they must inform the public on the state of the union (Ellis 82). President George Washington had the task of establishing how the president would interact with the public. During the early days of the presidency the President communicated seldomly with the public; this is because the president was supposed to be held at a higher standard than the public, and they were supposed to communicate with Congress. Washington worked towards having the office of the president…
In order to become president you have to be 35 years old, a resident of the country for at least 14 years, and a natural born citizen. You can be elected 2 times for four years each time. The president’s main/official office is obviously the Oval Office in the White House. The White House is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwestern in Washington D.C. There is a lot of responsibilities that the president has and here are some of them.…
They argue about how easy it is to be president when all they ask for is you have to be thirty five years old and have resided in the U.S. at least fourteen years. A group of boy scouts say the president didn’t have to be a boy scout when he was younger but should promise to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. Our next president could have been in a gang or committed some type of crime and they would still win the president election. The citizens want someone who will be role model to all ages and prove by his/her actions, not just words. “This article may be about the ideal qualities we want in a president, but most of all, if you read between the lines, it’s really about the ideal qualities we want in ourselves” (p105). Arturo statement is true because we all want to be perfect but we all mistakes and so will the president, but at least there’s one person who will have all the qualities that we need to run the U.S. This one argument I strongly agree with from the beginning all the way to the end with the written Constitution Café Article. A president should give their full duty to our country and of course believe in…
We have had 43 presidents and each one has been an important part of our history. Our presidents are elected every four years on the first Tuesday in November. To run for presidency you have to be born in the United States, be over 35 years old, and have lived in the United States for 14 years or more. After being elected the president is sworn in on January 20 in Washington, D.C. and recites an oath. You can only be president for eight years. The president picks his cabinet members after the inauguration and he and his family move into the White House. I have chosen to research our 6th president, John Quincy Adams.…
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."…
An orderly transition of power was needed for George Washington to set the constitution in stone. It stipulates that no president may serve more than two elected terms. But a president who has succeeded to the office beyond the midpoint in a term to which another President was originally elected may serve more than 8 years. And no more than 10 years in any case.…
Bill Clinton did not have much experience in foreign affairs prior to his presidency. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the unpredictability of the world after the Cold War produced a number of foreign policy crises. Many of these problems challenged Clinton's abilities as a politician. Several weeks before Clinton took office, President George Bush sent American troops into Somalia, a country located in eastern Africa. In October of 1993, the humanitarian mission to combat poverty grew into a gruesome military conflict. The public was concerned, and so in March 1994, Clinton announced a full withdrawal of U.S. forces out of Somalia. The failure of American troops to be properly equipped for the mission created the impression that President…
A job that opens up every four years and requires great responsibility, is a job that some strive to take. Being a U.S. president comes with many high expectations. The people of America wants to vote for someone who they can rely on when it comes to protecting their rights and their country. Throughout history some of the U.S. presidents were able to win over the hearts of many by their accomplishments during their terms in office. Then there were those who ended up being blamed for causing unfortunate events to occur during their presidency. One president that had that happen to them was no other than president Herbert Hoover. Hoover who was known the 31st U.S. president has an interesting background before he became president and he definitely…
According to Article II of the Constitution of the United States, no individual is to be allowed to hold the office of the president except a natural born. The persons who have been a citizen at the time of the adoption of the constitution are also eligible for the candidacy. The individual must have also been residing in the United States for fourteen years and must also be thirty-five years and above. The twelfth amendment to the Constitution provides a procedure that is to be followed in electing the president and the vice president replacing the original procedures in Article II. In this study, the argument is to progress the presidency and naturalization on what should be made of the issue of naturalization and what should be revised to widen the presidency voting seat. Naturalization is a Plan in the constitution of the United States that requires that one must have been naturally born in the U.S for them to qualify for the presidential seat. The primary concern of this plan is to enable the states to have a president that will always have an undivided loyalty to the United States.…
In America, every four years there is a presidential election that gives everyday Americans the right to vote. The United States is a role model to other countries for giving the concept that all citizens should have equal say in the government and the way it is run. The Electoral College ruins the voting and creates an unfair system that is not equal. It destroys the fundamental part of democracy that gives everyone a fair right to vote. The Electoral College raises the question "Is the United States a Democracy?". With the Electoral College, it is a winner take all system which makes some voter feel that their vote is practically useless. The founding fathers believed that most people were uneducated and therefore make uninformed decisions…