Unbiased University: Everything You Need to Know About the Executive Branch of the United States Government
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What is the executive branch of the United States government?
Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis. Welcome back to Unbiased Politics and to the Unbiased University Education Series. This is episode eight of the Unbiased University Series. It's also the third and final episode of the Federal Government Miniseries. So over the last week or so, we've covered the legislative branch of the federal government as well as the judicial branch. And today we are going to finish the three-part miniseries talking about the executive branch. I've said this before, but I'll continue to say it in every Unbiased University episode. I want you to think of this series as a condensed law school education. This is what law school is all about.
I want you to imagine that every time you're tuning into one of these episodes, you are sitting down in a 30 to 45 minute law school class with me as your professor. And in each class, we will cover a different topic and talk about various cases and laws that have shaped those topics. By the end of this series, you will have obtained your imaginary degree from Unbiased University, which means that you will be fully prepared for the show when I come back from maternity leave and I get back to reporting on current events. Because all of these concepts we are talking about in each of these episodes, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the branches of government, presidential elections, all of these things are in the background of every single current event that we talk about.
So it's really important that we understand these concepts on a deep level. Now, although I am on maternity leave, as a reminder, if you still are interested in getting an unbiased rundown of current events, I am still cranking out articles on Substack when I can. So definitely go ahead and subscribe to my Substack by clicking the link in the show notes for this episode. It is totally free. I just need your email address so that I can send those articles to you when they go out. Keep in mind as we go through this episode that the executive branch includes the presidency, the vice presidency, the president's cabinet, the executive departments and agencies, and the executive offices and staff, okay?
And by the end of this episode, you will understand exactly what each of those things are and how they function in relation to one another, okay? As I've mentioned in the last two episodes, the Founding Fathers intentionally designed this system with three branches of government. And each branch has its own distinct powers, but there are also mechanisms in place so that each branch can check on one another to avoid one branch becoming too powerful. And you'll see that as we go through this episode. Remember that the legislative branch makes the laws, the executive branch enforces the laws, and the judicial branch interprets the laws. And as a quick and final note, this episode was originally recorded in May 2025, so if you hear me referencing dates, some of the time frames might be slightly off, but other than that, everything in this episode is still very much accurate and relevant.
And the episode about the executive branch begins right now. So let's kick this episode off with a few of the fundamentals when it comes to the executive branch. Whereas Article 1 of the Constitution established the legislative branch and Article 3 established the judicial branch, it was Article 2 that created the executive branch. The Constitution has seven articles total, and the first three are what formed the three branches of the U.S. government. So that tells you where the framers priority was when they were drafting the Constitution. Within the executive, we have the president, the vice president, the president's cabinet, the 15 executive departments, the agencies within those executive departments, the executive office of the president and various committees, boards and commissions.
So let's start at the top with the president. The president not only serves as the president and head of the executive branch, but also the commander in chief of the military.
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