{"id":16812,"date":"2023-04-24T02:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T02:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-central-theme-of-this-week-is-the-presidency-using-the-required-readings-chapter-11-from-wtp-the-ouyang-and-morgan-article-answer-the-following-questions\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T02:33:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T02:33:33","slug":"the-central-theme-of-this-week-is-the-presidency-using-the-required-readings-chapter-11-from-wtp-the-ouyang-and-morgan-article-answer-the-following-questions","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-central-theme-of-this-week-is-the-presidency-using-the-required-readings-chapter-11-from-wtp-the-ouyang-and-morgan-article-answer-the-following-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"The Central theme of this week is The Presidency. Using the required readings (Chapter 11 from WTP &#038; the Ouyang and Morgan article), answer the following questions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Framers viewed Congress as the most powerful branch of government. The presidency was designed as \u201can effectual check\u201d upon the legislature. Yet, the 20th century saw a shift of that institutional balance with increasing executive power and prominence in American politics and governance. The presidency was designed as \u201can effectual check\u201d upon the legislature. Yet, modern presidents have increased the use of their power with their emergency powers. What are some key examples of this in the past 50 years? Do you agree with how Presidents have utilized their executive power? Should Congress assert itself more against the President?   What would you tell former Pres. Trump, who says, he can do whatever he wants due to Article II in the Constitution? https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sl_gO3uOds8&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You will be required to write post of 400-600 words or more addressing the questions provided pertaining to the material reviewed for that particular week.  This will be due 4\/23 by 11:59 PM. Your initial post will be graded out of 40points.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Framers viewed Congress as the most powerful branch of government. The presidency was designed as \u201can effectual check\u201d upon the legislature. Yet, the 20th century saw a shift of that institutional balance with increasing executive power and prominence in American politics and governance. The presidency was designed as \u201can effectual check\u201d upon the legislature. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[706],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/16812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/16812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=16812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}