Mastery Project
Essential Questions
1. Formally, the president is the head of the armed forces and the leader and face of our nation. Informally, the president makes sure laws are executed properly and he heads the cabinet.
2. The president can implement executive orders to get things done because executive orders are the closest thing to laws, except they don't have to go through congress and the process of a bill becoming a law. He uses the bully pulpit to influence policy making.
3. As long as each of the three branches play fairly, checks and balances work out quite nicely and the president is just powerful enough to benefit the country and act on the best interest of the citizens. However, the president can stretch his powers a bit too far and create scandal, like Nixon and the Watergate scandal.
4. The role of the government is specifically addressed in public policy making.
5. Iron triangles form between congress, interest groups, and the executive branch. Together, the three corners railroad public policy making in an effort to avoid pork barrel spending.
6. The people are supposed to control the bureaucracy. Citizens vote for the president and vote for congress. Congress then makes laws and approves funding which controls the bureaucracy. Of course there are inner workings that we citizens aren't privy to and that's up to the president. We have a representative democracy and our representatives control the bureaucracy.
7. If our elected officials receive a paycheck from bureaucrats, then our democracy isn't really democracy because it isn't pure Machiavellian politics. Everyone is bought and that isn't what the framers had in mind for this country.
8. Citizens MUST take the initiative and create and sign petitions to slow down the bureaucracies and make them less prevalent in out current democracy.
9. Bureaucracies create a lot of jobs, jobs necessary to keep the economy afloat and our citizens thriving. Cracking down on bureaucracies would make life simpler, but it would ultimately hurt the American public.
10. Expansion in bureaucracies have more to do with creating jobs than fulfilling actual purposes that help the American people.
1. Formally, the president is the head of the armed forces and the leader and face of our nation. Informally, the president makes sure laws are executed properly and he heads the cabinet.
2. The president can implement executive orders to get things done because executive orders are the closest thing to laws, except they don't have to go through congress and the process of a bill becoming a law. He uses the bully pulpit to influence policy making.
3. As long as each of the three branches play fairly, checks and balances work out quite nicely and the president is just powerful enough to benefit the country and act on the best interest of the citizens. However, the president can stretch his powers a bit too far and create scandal, like Nixon and the Watergate scandal.
4. The role of the government is specifically addressed in public policy making.
5. Iron triangles form between congress, interest groups, and the executive branch. Together, the three corners railroad public policy making in an effort to avoid pork barrel spending.
6. The people are supposed to control the bureaucracy. Citizens vote for the president and vote for congress. Congress then makes laws and approves funding which controls the bureaucracy. Of course there are inner workings that we citizens aren't privy to and that's up to the president. We have a representative democracy and our representatives control the bureaucracy.
7. If our elected officials receive a paycheck from bureaucrats, then our democracy isn't really democracy because it isn't pure Machiavellian politics. Everyone is bought and that isn't what the framers had in mind for this country.
8. Citizens MUST take the initiative and create and sign petitions to slow down the bureaucracies and make them less prevalent in out current democracy.
9. Bureaucracies create a lot of jobs, jobs necessary to keep the economy afloat and our citizens thriving. Cracking down on bureaucracies would make life simpler, but it would ultimately hurt the American public.
10. Expansion in bureaucracies have more to do with creating jobs than fulfilling actual purposes that help the American people.