Analytical Essay #3



Analytical Essay #3

Introduction

President is the focal person of any country in order to deal with internal as well as external matters. Article II of the Constitution established the presidency. This article holds the entitlement of executive powers in a single president. The powers available at the disposal of the president are vested in the constitution. Obeying the constitution is considered to be the beauty of democracy. The moment the president diverges from the constitution, the highly aim of the democracy vanishes. A president has constitutional, institutional and political sources of power. However, of these powers, constitutional powers are the weakest. United States of America is considered to be the superpower; it has interests all over the world in order to protect its sovereignty and to sustain hegemony. The role of the president in that context becomes particularly crucial as the environment of the world is changing over the passage of time. President utilizes state machinery to protect the aims of the country through all the sources of power - political, institutional and constitutional. These sources provide unlimited power except one i.e. constitutional. Constitutional power limits the acts of the president in different ways and becomes the guiding principle for future perspective. Many of the powers president exercises are not found in the constitution but are provided by congressional statutes and resolutions. My thesis is that the president complements his constitutional powers through the use of political and institutional resources.

Discussion

Presidency

Constitutional powers of presidency

Article II of the constitution laid down the foundation stone of the presidency. This begins by asserting “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America”. This article further describes the pattern of selecting the president. Section 2 and 3 describes the powers and duties of the president of USA. These two sections specifically identify two sources of powers namely: expressed powers - granted by the constitution and delegated powers - delegated by congress. Expressed powers are part of the constitution, and congress cannot revoke them; however, delegated powers are at the discretion of congress to carry out its matters (Ginsberg, 2013, p. 309).

Expressed powers come directly from the words of the constitution; following are the expressed powers as defined by sections 2 and 3 of Article II (Ginsberg, 2013, p. 311)

1. Military

This article provides the president as power of Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.

2. Judicial

This category provides the power to grant official pardon and amnesty for the offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

3. Diplomatic

Section 2 also provides the power of making Treaties, section 3 delegates the power to receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers.

4. Executive

This category authorizes the presided to peruse that all laws are executed with right faith; section 2 assigns the power to appoint or remove, and supervise all executive officers and to appoint all federal judges.

5. Legislative

Article I and III entrusts president the ...