I like Trump. But he is wrong about the president having total Authority.
The States created the president, the Congress, and the courts.
They did so by their ratification of the Constitution of the United States.
The States created the president, the Congress, and the courts.
They did so by their ratification of the Constitution of the United States.
Before a sufficient number of states had ratified the Constitution, there was no federal government at all. There was a confederated government, a completely different Beast.
The states, following the wisdom of the framers of the Constitution, surrendered portions of their sovereignty and the associated powers of Those portions of their Sovereignty that they surrendered.
But they did not paraway that portion of sovereignty and deposited en masse into any single part of the federal government.
Rather, In Articles 1, 2, and 3, the states separated the donated power being reposed in to the federal government into three parts
In Article 1, Congress is endowed with all of the legislative power that the states gave to the federal government.
In the area of making legislation, Congress has all the power. The president has none. The courts have none.
In the area of making legislation, Congress has all the power. The president has none. The courts have none.
In Article 2, the president is endowed with all of the executive power that the states deposited in the federal government through the Constitution.
The president wields the entirety of all federal executive power. Neither the Congress nor the courts have executive power.
The president wields the entirety of all federal executive power. Neither the Congress nor the courts have executive power.
In article 3, the states deposited all of the judicial power donated by them to the federal government in the Judiciary.
The Judiciary exercises all of the judicial Authority given by the states. Neither the president nor the Congress exercises any judicial Authority.
The Judiciary exercises all of the judicial Authority given by the states. Neither the president nor the Congress exercises any judicial Authority.
Moreover, the states retained to themselves substantial Authority, executive, legislative, and judicial, particularly in areas of public health, safety, and morals.
So that, all of the executive Authority retained by the states is deposited in their governors.
No offense meant, he is just wrong on this point.
Tear away, not paraway.
Not every professor of constitutional law agrees with the statement that all of the executive power is deposited in the president, thus their dispute with the unitary executive Doctrine
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