Cabinet Assignment

As per your request, below find the Cabinet questions from Friday's class. You will not turn these in but are responsible for them none the less.

In your notes you are responsible for the following information about the Cabinet.

1.            What is the Cabinet?

2.            What does the Constitution say about the

     Cabinet?

3.            What president created the Cabinet?

4.            What did the first Cabinet consist of?

5.            How do you get to be a Secretary of an

     Executive Department?

6.            What must occur for another department to

be added to the Cabinet? In other words

how is a 16^th department added?

Part 2.    Take each department (there are 15) and write a mission statement. In other words, what is the most important task of that department for our country? This mission statement should be 1 or 2 sentences maximum.

Mr. Thompson