POL S 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Presidential Succession Act, Mandamus, Nonpartisanism

• School: SDSU
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S 102
• Professor: J.M E R C U R I O

Document Summary

Articles of confederation: back in the day we never had a diplomat that someone else from another country could talk to, person could vary day to day. Foreign policy: hamilton also argued that congress should be the one to issue foreign policy, now president make up the foreign policy, congress reviews it and ratifies it. Whig/constitutional theory: very limited position for president, only can do things that congress can do, President is a bureaucrat not an elite leader or anything, very narrow. Whig theory is basically dead according to john mercurio. Tho(cid:373)as c(cid:396)o(cid:374)i(cid:374)"s pa(cid:396)ado(cid:454)es: diffi(cid:272)ult e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s f(cid:396)o(cid:373) ou(cid:396) p(cid:396)eside(cid:374)t. Programmatic and pragmatic: programmatic: very detailed orientated, all the answers, all the time, for every situation always. The presidency: pragmatic: when something unlikely happens, he or she must be able to deal with the new situation, adjust to new environments or etc. John mercurio expects this to be physically impossible.