PSC 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pocket Veto, Executive Privilege, Qualified Privilege
15 Oct 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
25th amendment: provides mechanism for replacing president who becomes disabled or cannot perform his duties. Vp, speaker, president pro tempore, secretaries of state. If men were angels, no government would be necessary. Government must have the power to govern but also to control itself. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition: checks and balances: each branch of government can check the other. 12th amendment: president and vice presidential candidates are separate. Election of president: led to 2 party system, on ballot vote for each office separately, but in campaign run as a ticket, electoral college. Each state has electoral votes equal to its total congressional delegation (#hr. Elector casts 2 votes (one p, one vp) at least one of which must be for a. Candidate receiving majority of electoral votes is president if no majority is achieved, president is chosen by house of representatives; vice-president chosen by senate.
