Title: Presidential Power, Explained. | Tenth Amendment Center
Headings: Presidential Power, Explained.
Presidential Power, Explained.
Bob Greenslade
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Content: The remaining powers, for the most part, relate to the internal operation of the federal government and have no direct effect on the everyday lives of the American people. Unfortunately, the chances of a debate being restricted to the constitutional powers and duties of the president are slim to none. The American people have lived all their lives under the federal government’s usurpations of power and demand that it continue. A candidate who ran on a pure constitutional platform would not stand a chance of getting elected because most of the crap the federal government does would go away. It has been said that a people get the government they deserve. As long as the American people keep begging for more federal control over their lives, presidential candidates will continue to respond with ideas on how to continue and expand federal usurpations of power. End Notes: 1-Executive Orders and Proclamations. A congressional committee report has noted: “ Because the president has no power or authority over individual citizens and their rights except where he is granted such power and authority by a provision in the Constitution or by statute, the President’s proclamations are not legally binding and are at best hortatory unless based on such grants of authority.”