Lesson on Friday, April 27, 2018

Aim: How does constitutional authority over foreign policy differ between the executive and legislative branches?  

Bell Ringer: Current Events - CNN 10 (10 min)

Objectives:

19.1 Compare the constitutional authority over foreign policy granted to the executive branch with that of the legislative branch. 

19.2 Identify the executive branch agencies that formulate foreign policy and describe the principal functions of each.


Agenda:

1. Finish grading FRQ (10 min) 

19.1

Lecture Launcher: What is the relationship between most presidents and the State Department? What should the relationship look like?

2. Foreign policy intercourse between the Senate and the Executive Branch:

Congress shall 1. give advice and consent to treaties made by the president. 2. give advice and consent to the appointment of ambassadors and various other public officials involved in foreign policy. 

*The Senate can break treaties or reject treaties made by the president. 

*Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations. Who won? 

*War Powers Resolution (1973)

19.2

The Department of State, The Department of Defense, The National Security Council, The Intelligence Community, 

3. Journal 127 - What are the different roles played by the various foreign-policy bureaucracies? 

4. Journal 128 - What are the obstacles faced in having so many bureaucracies involved in foreign policy making?

5. AP GOV Foreign Policy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMhIQNkO_Y0 (10 min)

Terms to know: executive agreement, proclamation, Intelligence Community, isolationism, containment, NATO, nation building, Nixon Doctrine, detente, peace through strength, enlargement and engagement, preemptive action, sovereign wealth funds, comparative advantage, fair trade, protectionists. (16)

*note: The 'previous chapter review' section of this final vocabulary quiz will consist of the two most important terms of each chapter between chapters 7 and 15, WITH a word bank (18, 2 from each chapter) = 34 terms. 

*Chapter 19 Vocabulary Quiz: Monday, April 30, 2018 / NO MAKE-UP; IF YOU'RE ABSENT, YOU WILL RECEIVE A ZERO. 


Home Learning: 

1. Read 19.3, 19.4, and 19.5

2. Journal 129 - How might we distinguish between foreign policy and global policy? (19.3)

3. Journal 130 - Why has the United States backed away from international climate treaties? (19.4)

4. Journal 131 - In evaluating the two models of democracy, majoritarianism and pluralism, which better fits foreign policy making in the United States? (19.5)