United States government

According to United States Constitution the President may require the Opinion of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices (Article Two, Section 2, Clause 1).


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Executive branch
The Enclave was covert branch of the legal U.S. government and a shadow government, that was having paranoid dreams for a coup against the real U.S. government. The Enclave members acted as lobbysts for industry sector also. Federal executive departments and its branches mentioned in Fallout games were: There were independent Environmental Protection Agency present also.
 * War Department - mentioned in Maxson Log as present in year 2077 - and Defense Department - mentioned by West Tech Research Facility mainframe as present in year 2076 (Department of Defence - according to van Buren screenshot concerning HERMES armor [[Image:Vanburen.jpg|20px]] and according to "Faction Profile – the Brotherhood of Steel" [[Image:FO3 logo.jpg|60px]]; the Secretary of the Army was mentioned at Tibbets design document as present in 2040 [[Image:Vanburen.jpg|20px]]); its seat was Pentagon [[Image:FO3 logo.jpg|60px]]; in real world War Department was subsumed by Department of the Army in 1945, renamed in 1947 into Department of Defense,
 * Department of Water and Power - mentioned in Vault Locations v34.129 holodisc (however: Department of Energy was mentioned in timeline in year 2053 [[Image:Fob header.gif|60px]] and Atomic Energy Commision was present in year 2241 [[Image:Fallout2.gif|50px]] - in real world created in 1977),
 * Department of State - Soviet Consulate present in Los Angeles.
 * department or departments responsible for:
 * war bonds,
 * Unamerican Activities Force supervision (worked to ferret out communist sympathizers in the American population) [[Image:Vanburen.jpg|20px]],
 * BADTFL offices supervision (issuing of special permits for Combat Armors civilian use).

Possible Cabinet positions were:
 * Secretary of State,
 * Secretary of War (Secretary of Defence, Secretary of the Army),
 * Secretary of Water and Power (Secretary of Energy),
 * Secretary of Treasure,
 * Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as cabinet level administration officer.

Legislative branch

 * Library of Congress present - mentioned together with GECK.
 * Senator Todd Peterson mentioned at Maxson Bunker design document [[Image:Vanburen.jpg|20px]].
 * February 15 2075 - the House of Representatives and Congress both (sic!) voted unanimously to impeach the President for jaywalking (this information comes from the Sierra Depot GNN Transcript holodisk, which Chris Avellone [[Image:Fob header.gif|60px]] discards as non-canon, as it was supposedly modified by the Sierra Army Depot soldiers) [[Image:Fallout2.gif|50px]].

Afterwar succession
Constitutional foundation for United States presidential line of succession were Article II, Section 1, Section 3 of the 20th Amendment, and the 25th Amendment (see: United States presidential line of succession).

In March 2077, prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President and the Enclave retreated to remote sections around the globe and make contingency plans for continuing the war.
 * One of the few old world organizations to survive the Great War was the Enclave - before the war the shadow government within the legal government of the United States. Members of the Enclave were hardliners who both embraced the idea of a nuclear war and knew that the common man could not survive it. They believed that as long as the “important people” of the United States survived, they could regroup quickly and wipe out communism once and for all. Enclave used Poseidon Energy facilities - protected during the firestorm of 2077.
 * in 2241 NORAD was offline [[Image:Fallout2.gif|50px]], there was the large Crater [[Image:Vanburen.jpg|20px]],
 * in 2277 there were no U.S. government presence at Pentagon building and on the D.C. area [[Image:FO3 logo.jpg|60px]].

Executive branch


The Cabinet was addresse of the Project report from United States Chemical Corps and Power Plant Operations report from Atomic Energy Commision. Its seat was Executive Office on the oil rig. The only known cabinet level administration officer in the Enclave was Vice-President (President of the Senate also), the first person in the presidential line of succession. Very likely Cabinet present in the Enclave was minimally staffed (eg. the first American President appointed a Cabinet of four people). Agencies present after the War:
 * Secret Service (USSS) was present there also - if existed before the War, because of Divergence in Fallout world it could be overseen by Department of Treasure. It is not certain, if USSS was an official part of the Enclave armed forces however.
 * Atomic Energy Commision (AEC) with unknown exact status, it reported to the Cabinet (Department of Water nad Power or Department of Energy not mentioned). In real world the same named agency existed in 1946-1974 period (see: Atomic Energy Commision).
 * National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mentioned by Vice-President Bird (an idiot talking about martian canals, however there had been some pre-war space program and the Enclave evacuation plans concerned with Bloomfield Space Center); there was no significant means and resources to do anything serious connected with space affairs on the oil rig; in real world NASA is independent agency created in 1958,
 * Environmental Protection Agency branch in California (no human staff, no the Enclave presence) [[Image:Fob header.gif|60px]].

The destruction of the Enclave erased all trace of President Dick Richardson from history. According to one of Fallout 2 endings eventually the survivors of the Enclave find a home in the ranks of NCR. In that case it can be said, that there didn't survive any the USA President succesor. However according to J.E.Sawyer's Fallout PnP survived some broken remnants of the Enclave (following the Chosen One’s assassination of the Enclave’s U.S. President and the destruction of their Poseidon oil tanker headquarters off of the California coast).

Legislative branch
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 * Vice-President was President of the Senate also [[Image:Fallout2.gif|50px]].


 * 2215 August 1 - Congressman Richardson rises to power within the Enclave, aided by pressure from his father, President Richardson.
 * 2220 March 5 - Congressman Richardson is elected president for the first term of five, through aid and political pressure by his father.

Judical branch


No information about this branch, accept the fact, that court martial was performed by Armed Forces officers (part of executive branch).

See also: USA, Enclave.