Go to the websites listed below and then answer the questions that follow.

American President: An Online Reference Resource
(http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident)
Information about U.S. presidents and the history of the presidency. Features essays about presidents and their lives and includes essays on the history and current state of the presidency.

Document Archive of The American Presidency Project
(http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index_docs.php)
This site contains a searchable database containing presidential messages and papers, election results, and media files pertaining to the American presidency.

"What the 'Unitary Executive' Debate Is and Is Not About," Cass R. Sunstein
(http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2007/08/what-the-unitar.html)
Professor Sunstein's explanation on the University of Chicago Law School's faculty blog of what the current debate regarding the "unitary executive" is about.

1			What is the main thing you notice from a comparison of the lives of a mid-nineteenth-century president and a mid-twentieth-century president?
2			What is a common theme in presidential inaugural addresses of most of the twentieth century?
3			Do you think the "unitary executive" theory is valid and useful today? If you were president, do you think you would adhere to the theory yourself as you carried out the laws passed by Congress? Why or why not?