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Hi students of the American Presidency. I ask you to please introduce yourselves here in this forum.   This way you can share your thoughts with one another. You are not required to post replies to these introductions, though you may if you find some common ground, but for the rest of these you will be asked to do so. If you are stuck for words, consider letting us know a little about you like where you live, what your learning goals are, what interests you about the presidency and so forth. Heck, tell us your prediction for the 2022 midterms! But, above all else, please ask one burning question you know you would like answered by the end of this course. This blog is open to our class only.

Please create a new post as way of introduction. You don’t need to make comments to this specific post; just see who your colleagues are. This is also practice for those of you who have yet to use WordPress. You need to be sure you can post and see your post in the correct place. I will not grade any posts that are not in the correct location. For help with WordPress please contact the Elearning experts, I am not, frankly, very good with technology and tend to only know what I need to know.

Have a lovely Labor Day weekend!

Hi my name is Lilian and I am a junior majoring in Political Science and Business Administration. I have done a bit of wandering around in getting my undergraduate degree but I am excited to be back in Alaska for the last year and a half. I am especially interested in how presidential power has evolved over time. In times of crisis Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson both expanded the powers of the presidency. This wasn’t beyond what was allowed in the Constitution but more a reinterpretation of the powers in the Constitution. I think this evolution is very interesting and I would like to know how that happens and when it has happened in the contemporary era.