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I. "The president of the United States functions in many capacities: head of state, head of government, commander in chief of the armed forces, and leader of the president's political party. The president is thus the single most unifying force in a political sys ....

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.... elected as president at a transitional period in the United State's history, and lost most of his power very quickly. Jimmy Carter's beginning was a very simple and typical "American style" start. Jimmy was born James Earl Carter, Jr., on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. His parents were James Earl Carter and Lillina Gordy Carter. His family lived there for the first three years of Jimmy's life, and then moved to Archery, Georgia, just outside of Plains. He lived there until he was seventeen years old, participating in the family's peanut farm. In the year of 1941, Jimmy graduated from high school, which wasn't common for a farm boy at the ....