Checks and balances: you are asked to assert the relationship between the White House and the other branches of government.

In this paper, you are asked to assert the relationship between the White House and the other branches of government.  There are many ways to tackle this paper.  You could do an in-depth study of a particular President and a particular Congress (for example, the 104^th Congress which was held from 1995-1997 saw the Republicans win back control of both houses for the first time since 1954 and worked alongside President Clinton); you could look at patterns of elections over time (has Congress tended to change hands at a particular time during a Presidency? How has this impacted the way that the Executive and Legislative branches have engaged?); you could look at the relationship between the President and the Supreme Court (the recent disagreements over how to replace Justice Scalia tell us a lot about how the three branches relate to one another); or another idea.