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What the Presidency Means to Me
The office of President of the United States represents something fundamental to my understanding of democracy and citizenship.
The Constitutional Foundation:
The presidency sits at the center of our constitutional democracy. The President is elected by the people, then enforces laws made by the people’s representatives in Congress. Representative democracy in the United States is constitutional because it is both limited and empowered by the supreme law, the Constitution, for the ultimate purpose of protecting equally the rights of all the people [Annenberg Classroom].