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 - Cuts taxes, opposes free trade
 - Opposes government regulation
 - Anti-abortion (sort of)
+# American Government
+## Constitutional Convention (1787)
+- Tasked with designing a new government and writing a new constitution
+- *More points in slides*
+### Article II The President
+- The executive power shall be vested in a president of the united states of america
+- Executive power refers to the power to execute the law passed by congress
+- **The Presidency**
+	- Commander and chief of the military branches
+	- Supervision of government functions
+	- Pardon criminals
+	- Make treaties
+	- Appoint ambassadors, other members of the executive branch and supreme court justices
+	-  *More points in slides*
+
+| 19th Century                                           | 20th Century                                                                         |
+| ------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| More prestige than power                               | Nationalization of politics                                                          |
+| President was a secondary figure                       | Weakening of political parties                                                       |
+| Most presidents were politically weak                  | Presonalization of the presidency (Focus on Candidate rather than party)             |
+| Military figures                                       | Top five presidents from the 20th century:                                           |
+| 2 strongest presidents: Andrew Jackson and Abe Lincoln | Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson |
+
+### The Vice President
+- If there was no consensus, at first, on what exactly the power of the president should be there was even less consensus on what the powers of the vice president should be and yet even less consensus on who the vice president should be
+- Until 1801, the vice president was the person who second finished in the presidential election (A tie in 1800 meant that this system clearly had to be changed)
+- Now the candidate for president selects their running mate
+- Together they constitute a ticket (the Republican Ticket and the Democratic Ticket)
+### Duties of the Vice President
+- There are formal duties
+- The vice president is the presiding office of the Senate, but only votes to break a tie
+- The vice president presides over impeachment hearings, but not over the impeachment of the president
+- Most importantly the vice president takes over the office of the president in any event of the presidents removal
+### The Vice-Presidency
+- In addition to formal duties, the vice president has both informal and symbolic responsibilities
+- Informal: Advise the president
+- Symbolic: Balance the ticket (Joe Biden was and old and white man, but Kamala was a black woman, 22 years younger. Donald Trump has led a controversial life but Mike Pence is an evangelical Christian who appeals to an important Republican consistency)
+- Tim Waltz is an older white man who was former teacher and high school coach. JD Vance is a Harvard education ... *more on point in slide*