Week 4: Volkomer, Chapter 8–The Chief Executive (President)

Please respond to the discussion using 100 words or more.

Indicate here when you have read all of Volkomer Chapter 8 on “The Chief Executive.” Give here too your rolling analysis of the chapter, citing specific facts to specific page numbers in the text. What are some of the key powers of the POTUS (President of the United States)? What are some of the major constraints on presidential power? How does the character of individual presidents shape the office? Feel free too to virtually step into, and walk around in, POTUS’s official residence, The White House.