CMC Introductory American Government -- Honors: The Presidency I

For Wednesday:

The Constitution and Federalist

"The ingredients which constitute energy in the Executive are, first, unity; secondly, duration; thirdly, an adequate provision for its support; fourthly, competent powers."

. "It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another to be dependent on the legislative body.

"But the convention have pursued a mean in this business, which will both facilitate the exercise of the power vested in this respect in the executive magistrate, and make its efficacy to depend on the sense of a considerable part of the legislative body. Instead of an absolute negative, it is proposed to give the Executive the qualified negative already described. This is a power which would be much more readily exercised than the other."

Congress checking the president: NAIL:

The presidency and national security:

Federalist 8: "It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority."
Democracy in America: "If executive power is weaker in America than in France, the reason for this lies perhaps more in circumstances than in the laws. It is generally in its relations with foreign powers that the executive power of a nation has the chance to display skill and strength. If the Union’s existence were constantly menaced, and if its great interests were continually interwoven with those of other powerful nations, one would see the prestige of the executive growing, because of what was expected from it and of what it did."

Roosevelt – stewardship
Taft – constitutional
Wilson – leadership of public opinion (more on Wed!!)
Trump: "hen I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President. But I don’t even talk about that because they did a report and there was no obstruction."

CMC Introductory American Government -- Honors