<p>Can someone please quickly answer this for me:</p>
<p>Is the president's State of the Union Address something found in the Constitution? Is there anything saying the president must keep the people informed? I don't think so, but I remember seeing it in a m.c. once and thinking I was wrong...</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, the president must make a SOTU address...forget where, but he must keep the nation informed...it's in there.</p>
<p>Okay
I am taking this exam and I thought it was going to be super easy. I have a pretty good teacher and I am really into politics. I ace my class tests and think I'm ready for the essays UNTIL I finally opened the Barron's book I bought today. Wow! It goes into so much detail and the q's are so much harder than the old tests we've taken. Is Barron's just super hard or is it just me?</p>
<p>barrons multiple chocie if u get 45~ish questions you're doing well</p>
<p>they have STUPID STUPID INCOCRECT MISTAKES in there
especially in the ap gov book.</p>
<p>the essays..e.h...some are hard..some ar enot..depends on luck..and what u know</p>
<p>I'm worried now...I do really well on the m.c.'s, but I'm looking at some past essay q's and for some, i have NO CLUE where to begin, simply because I'm not informed enough on current events by myself, and we haven't covered it in the class.</p>
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um no, that was the 25th amendment that outlined the vp as next in line after pres....article 2 just talked about impeaching a vp
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<p>I never said specifically who takes over, just was referring to the fact that Article II provided the foundations for implementing the 25th amendment. The poster requested Constitution in regards to the Vice President --- I thought that meant implied reference, as well.</p>
<p>My mistake if that was misinterpreted.</p>
<p>"Yes, the president must make a SOTU address...forget where, but he must keep the nation informed...it's in there."</p>
<p>Um no....it says he must keep congress informed. i belive it was teddy roosevelt that started what we know today as the state of the union address. people please get your **** straight before posting</p>
<p>tlaktan, dont get all hurt. you were wrong. face and learn from it</p>
<p>I am not studying for the AP gov test.</p>
<p>Looked at CB's sample questions. Answered them with 100% accuracy and felt it was sufficent.</p>
<p>Same thing happened with AP Env Sci. and I easily aced that.</p>
<p>why does the president's party lose seats during mid term elections?</p>
<p>cuz people are fickle and the economy is never as good as they want it. It appears to decline under every president (sometimes it does) so they blame the president (and therefore his party) so the president's party lose seats during mid term elections</p>
<p>i agree...this guy knows his ****. you can also relate it to the honemoon period experienced between Congress and Executive right after an election</p>
<p>can you expand on that? i don't think i get what ur saying</p>
<p>right after a presidential election legistaltion that the president wants passed is more likely to happen because the country is happy with president yadda yadda yadda...this soon diminishes esp. with a divided government and after a pres. looses popularity, which almost all do</p>
<p>Between Primaries and General Elections...when are candidates more extreme in their views?</p>
<p>They're extreme in primary to appeal to party, then more moderate in general to appeal to more people, right?</p>
<p>right on the money addicted</p>
<p>I'll try.</p>
<p>I big reason new presidents get elected is a desire for change (especially economically). this was the reason Franklin Roosevelt was overwhelming elected over Herbert Hoover after the start of the depression. It really wasn't hoovers fault that the stock market crashed and the depression set in, but people blamed him regardless (think Hoovervilles and hoover blankets and hoover flags). </p>
<p>Franklin Roosevelt arrived onthe scene as an electrifying man who many thought could get us out of the depression. No one really knew abouthis policies to get us our of the depression, but they figured Hoover sucks so maybe FDR is better.</p>
<p>Well during his presidency, the economy did not improve as much as many Americans hoped. Sure he enacted the New Deal to give many jobs to the unemployed, but America had not yet ogtten out of the depression and many were starting to lose hope in Roosevelt. In FDR's second run for presidency, he won by a much narrower margin than when he defeated Hoover. This was due to Americans' discontentment with present economic conditions</p>
<p>so apply this to Congress. Americans tend to identify Congressman by their party afffiliation (Democrat or Republican). They also identify the president by party affiliation ( Democrat Franklin Roosevelt or Republcan Bush). Since people lose hope in the president, they lose hope in the party and are less likely to vote for a Congressman who belongs to the president's party.</p>
<p>I hope that was accurate and lucid</p>
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I'll try.</p>
<p>I big reason new presidents get elected is a desire for change (especially economically). this was the reason Franklin Roosevelt was overwhelming elected over Herbert Hoover after the start of the depression. It really wasn't hoovers fault that the stock market crashed and the depression set in, but people blamed him regardless (think Hoovervilles and hoover blankets and hoover flags).</p>
<p>Franklin Roosevelt arrived onthe scene as an electrifying man who many thought could get us out of the depression. No one really knew abouthis policies to get us our of the depression, but they figured Hoover sucks so maybe FDR is better.</p>
<p>Well during his presidency, the economy did not improve as much as many Americans hoped. Sure he enacted the New Deal to give many jobs to the unemployed, but America had not yet ogtten out of the depression and many were starting to lose hope in Roosevelt. In FDR's second run for presidency, he won by a much narrower margin than when he defeated Hoover. This was due to Americans' discontentment with present economic conditions</p>
<p>so apply this to Congress. Americans tend to identify Congressman by their party afffiliation (Democrat or Republican). They also identify the president by party affiliation ( Democrat Franklin Roosevelt or Republcan Bush). Since people lose hope in the president, they lose hope in the party and are less likely to vote for a Congressman who belongs to the president's party.</p>
<p>I hope that was accurate and lucid
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<p>That seems pretty accurate; there seem to be rare occasions where local officials associated with a national party are able to disassociate themselves from the mainstream. That's fairly uncommon, though, so I'd say you're accurate.</p>
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tlaktan, dont get all hurt. you were wrong. face and learn from it
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<p>I'm not hurt. I'm correcting the vagueness of my own actions. I don't need to be told what amendments control Vice Presidential ascension to the Presidency; that's stuff you know intrinsically. TMK, the OP requested references to the Vice President in the Constitution. I simply answered it exactly, not referring to the Amendments.</p>
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"Yes, the president must make a SOTU address...forget where, but he must keep the nation informed...it's in there."</p>
<p>Um no....it says he must keep congress informed. i belive it was teddy roosevelt that started what we know today as the state of the union address. people please get your **** straight before posting
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<p>And once again, you're wrong. </p>
<p>Article II, Section 3 specifically states that:</p>
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"The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the ** State of the Union ** and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." (Article II, Section 3)
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<p>Explicit enough, don't you think? Although it doesn't determine how long, in what frequency, etc., the SOTU address must be given, it sets the preliminary requirement of having to issue a SOTU address.</p>
<p>Historically, you are also incorrect. George Washington issued addresses similar to the State of the Union (and thus, fulfilling the Constitutional mandate), but it wasn't called the State of the Union. I'll give you brownie points for that; however, Thomas Jefferson discontinued issuing addresses directly to the Congress, since the State of the Union is arguably derived from the Throne Speech (Speech from the Throne) issued in many monarchial nations.</p>
<p>If you also remember correctly, Wilson reinitiated the direct address, but it was ** Roosevelt, Fr. ** that began referring to the address as "State of the Union." 1935.</p>
<p>Before him, Coolidge issued the first state of the union on radio, and Truman the first to deliver it on television.</p>
<p>During the time from Jefferson to before Wilson, the SOTU was commonly known as the "Address to the Congress." I believe during Jefferson's period, to conform to more Republican-esque political ideologies, the SOTU was just read by a Congressional clerk.</p>
<p>right on the money</p>