Rule-Making Authority
Implementing Federal Policies. Many agencies within the executive branch can make rules for how they operate, or rules on industries which they regulate. In keeping […]
Research
Bureaucracy: The Agencies
Where Congress’s Law is Carried Out. The Bureaucracy, or the so-called “Fourth Branch” of government executes, enforces, and administers national policy. It collects taxes, arrests […]
Best President in History?
C-SPAN tries to Answer. This C-Span survey summarizes the scores these presidential historians and biographers gave U.S. presidents. Notice that in addition to an overall ranking, presidents […]
Presidential Libraries
Standing and Online Museums. Once a president leaves office their memory and legacy lives on in the form of presidential libraries. Congress appropriates a set […]
State of the Union
From Time to Time. Article II of the Constitution states the president “shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information on the state […]