This powerpoint explains presidential requirements under the Constitution, the length of terms using analysis of Federalist 70, term limits (George Washington's Farewell Address analysis) and presidential succession.

1. Presidential Unit: Day II

2.  Sign-up dates for current event presentation
(starting this upcoming Monday)
 Partner presentation
 Select a current event to present to the class that
involves some form of government action.
 Give details: what exactly occurred in the
event, when/where/who was involved, what
implications this has for American society and
government policy?

3.  Objective: SWBAT define presidential
requirements, terms, compensation, and
succession and analyze the Constitutional roots of
each.
 DOL: Given a multiple choice/constructed response
exit ticket, SW (80% accuracy)
 Identify the correct response
 Write a 2-3 sentence justification for each using
evidence from the Constitution

4.  Natural-born citizen
 Born as US citizen
 At least 35 years of age
 Roosevelt youngest at
42
 Reagan oldest at 69
 Residency for at least
14 years
 Does not have to be
consecutive

6.  Read Handout: Excerpt
from Perkins v. Eng. (1939)
 Explain Pierrepont’s
definition of “natural born
citizen” and eligibility to
run for President of the
United States.

7.  Read Federalist 71 by Alexander Hamilton.
 Answer reading questions throughout.

8.  22nd Amendment (Congress passed in March, 1947 and
ratified Fed. 1951)
 No person shall be elected to the office of the President more
than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or
acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which
some other person was elected President shall be elected to the
office of the President more than once. But this article shall not
apply to any person holding the office of President when this
article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any
person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as
President, during the term within which this article becomes
operative from holding the office of President or acting as
President during the remainder of such term.
 Paraphrase the four major provisions of the 22nd
Amendment.

9.  Precedent set by George Washington.
 Read Washington’s Farewell Address (1796) and
answer reading questions.
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (March 4, 1933 –
April 12, 1945)
 Served three terms, won four elections.

10.  Lyndon Johnson (1963)
 Vice president 1961
 Allowed to run twice.
 Gerald Ford (1974)
 Nixon’s term began in
1973, took over for Spiro
Dec. 6, 1973.
 Allowed to run once.

11.  Set by Congress.
 The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a
compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished
during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he
shall not receive within that period any other emolument
(compensation) from the United States, or any of them.
 Paraphrase the selection from Article II Section I about
presidential compensation.
 Speaking fees
 Writing memoirs
 Serving on corporate boards of directors

12. If a pay raise were to affect Obama in his second term, by when
would it have to be passed?
Inauguration Date: Monday, January 21, 2012

13.  25th Amendment
 Read the text and paraphrase each section of the 25th Amendment
 Invoked six times since ratification:
 Gerald Ford as V.P (1973) when Spiro Agnew resigned from the
office of V.P.
 Gerald Ford as President (1974)
 Nelson Rockefeller as V.P. (1974) when Gerald Ford became
president
 George H.W. Bush (1985) to take over for Reagan after
assassination attempt
 Dick Cheney (2002, 2007) while George W. bush underwent a
colonoscopy.

14. 1) According to the term limits imposed by the
Constitution
1) The president cannot be elected to the office of president
more than twice
2) The president and vice president cannot serve more than
two terms in office
3) The president and his cabinet cannot serve more than eight
years in office
4) The president cannot be elected to more than four terms of
office (Roosevelt)
5) There are no limits on the number of terms a president may
serve by tradition, since George Washington’s refusal to
serve a third term, president’s only serve two terms.

15.  All of the following are constitutional
requirements to become president except:
1) Natural-born citizen
2) 35 years old
3) Resident for 14 years in Washington D.C.
4) A resident of the United States for 14 years

16. 3) Write a detailed description to explain
presidential compensation.
▪ Which body of government sets the president’s salary?
▪ When can a salary change take into effect?