Methodology: The first step in this research was to collect executive orders, signing statements, and statements of administration policy from the first year of Presidents Donald Trump, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan. After these three documents were collected, a Word Cloud was made to help identify commonly used words from each document. Once the Word Clouds were reviewed, I picked ten words that I thought were necessary in analyzing the beliefs on the role of the national government and president power. I went back through each document and found how many time each word was used by each president and created a spreadsheet. Then, I found that the most used words across the board for each president were the words state and federal. After I determined that the words state and federal appeared so frequently in each of the President’s documents, I went back to the three documents and analyzed the usage and context of each word in each separate document for each President. It was through this process that I found the role of the national government that each President had and then I made the comparison between the presidents to see whether Donald Trump shared the same beliefs as his GOP predecessors. For each President’s belief on executive power, I counted the number of executive orders from the first year in office and recorded them in a chart. I first had to determine how each of the Republican President’s number of executive orders being studied compared with their Democrat predecessor. Every President besides George H.W. Bush has a Democrat predecessor, so this comparison was made to determine whether Kenneth R. Mayer’s theory that Democrat presidents will have more executive orders than Republican presidents holds true with these
Methodology: The first step in this research was to collect executive orders, signing statements, and statements of administration policy from the first year of Presidents Donald Trump, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan. After these three documents were collected, a Word Cloud was made to help identify commonly used words from each document. Once the Word Clouds were reviewed, I picked ten words that I thought were necessary in analyzing the beliefs on the role of the national government and president power. I went back through each document and found how many time each word was used by each president and created a spreadsheet. Then, I found that the most used words across the board for each president were the words state and federal. After I determined that the words state and federal appeared so frequently in each of the President’s documents, I went back to the three documents and analyzed the usage and context of each word in each separate document for each President. It was through this process that I found the role of the national government that each President had and then I made the comparison between the presidents to see whether Donald Trump shared the same beliefs as his GOP predecessors. For each President’s belief on executive power, I counted the number of executive orders from the first year in office and recorded them in a chart. I first had to determine how each of the Republican President’s number of executive orders being studied compared with their Democrat predecessor. Every President besides George H.W. Bush has a Democrat predecessor, so this comparison was made to determine whether Kenneth R. Mayer’s theory that Democrat presidents will have more executive orders than Republican presidents holds true with these
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