What is the stewardship theory of presidential power?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers should identify this as President Theodore Roosevelt’s theory in which he called for greater presidential influence in making both foreign and domestic policy. Answers should explain that Roosevelt believed that the president should be a “steward” of the people’s needs. The significance of this theory is that Roosevelt called for the president to be constrained only by “specific restrictions and prohibitions” in the Constitution and by the law.

Political Science

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a. industrialized democracies. b. current and/or former Communist states. c. the Global South. d. Europe. e. the United States.

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The Affordable Care Act generally requires that Americans have health insurance

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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In which type of election is money not the most important resource?

a. municipal b. county c. state d. federal e. none of these, as money is important in all types of elections

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Identify two theories of international relations that are alternatives to realism and explain the defining characteristic of each.

What will be an ideal response?

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