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Constitutional Requirements. The Constitution requires Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates to be native-born Americans. They can not be naturalized citizens. Someone born in Mexico or elsewhere outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States of American citizens parents is a native born U.S. citizen under the principles of the jus sanguinis. Candidates must be at least 35 years old and must have had an American residence for the previous fourteen years. Strategic Positions from which to run for U.S. President
Running for President
2008 Election Results: Sen. Barak Obama/Joseph Biden 365 electoral college votes and John McCain/Sarah Palin 173 New York Times Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates Year Party Victor
Loser 1948 D Truman and Barkley Dewey and Warren 1952 R Eisenhower and Nixon Stevenson and Sparkman 1956 R Eisenhower and Nixon Stevenson and Kefauver 1960 D Kennedy and Johnson Nixon and Lodge 1964 D Johnson and Humphrey Goldwater and Miller 1968 R Nixon and Agnew Humphrey and Muskie 1972 R Nixon and Agnew McGovern and Shriver 1976 D Carter and Mondale Ford and Dole 1980 R Reagan and Bush Carter and Mondale 1984 R Reagan and Bush Mondale and Ferraro 1988 R Bush and Quayle Dukakis and Bentsen 1992 D Clinton and Gore Bush and Quayle 1996 D Clinton and Gore Dole and Kemp 2000 R Bush and Cheney Gore and Lieberman 2004 R Bush and Cheney Kerry and Edwards
2008 D
Obama and Biden
McCain and Palin
FUNCTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT 1. Head of State 2. Chief Executive Head of Government Top Politician 3. Chief Diplomat 4. Commander in Chief 5. Chief Bureaucrat 6. Chief Economist 7. Chief Legislator 8. National Spokesman (Moral Leader of Country) 9, Head of His Political Party The Presidents and the Presidency The Man and the Office Organizational Structure I. Executive Office of the President II: The Executive Branch of Government The Cabinet The Cabinet is a traditional body
dating back to the Administration of President George Washington. Today,
it is composed of the President, Vice President, the fifteen Department
Secretaries, and anyone whom the President grants cabinet rank. Under
President George W. Bush, "Cabinet-level rank also has been accorded to
the Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Director, Office of
Management and Budget; the Director, National Drug Control Policy; and the U.S.
Trade Representative." In previous administrations, the U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations had Cabinet rank. The following is a link to the Cabinet of
President George W. Bush as of September 28, 2006. It lists the
departments and the current department heads.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html
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