the president has the power to make laws in america.
who has the power to make laws in america?
the president
in 1983 president ronald reagan, through proclamation no. 5030, claimed a 200-mile exclusive economic zone. in december 1988 president reagan, through proclamation no. 5928, extended u.s. territorial waters from three nautical miles to twelve nautical miles for national security purposes. however a legal opinion from the justice department questioned the president's constitutional authority to extend sovereignty as congress has the power to make laws concerning the territory belonging to the united states under the u.s. constitution. in any event, congress needs to make laws defining if the extended waters, including oil and mineral rights, are under state or federal control.
united states territory
the legislative transfer the power of making laws to any other hands. for it being but a delegated power from the people, they, who have it, cannot pass it over to others. ... and when the people have said, we will submit to rules, and be govern'd by laws made by such men, and in such forms, no body else can say other men shall make laws for them; nor can the people be bound by any laws but such as are enacted by those, whom they have chosen, and authorised to make laws for them. the power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other, than what the positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.
nondelegation doctrine