As a kindly gesture, the President may ask Congress for permission to do something, but he or she does not really require their assent.
Our society's obsession with the president is both a cause and a consequence of his immense power.
Unlike the hyper-partisan "Do-nothing" Congress so often derided by Harris, the president, by virtue of being a single person, is not hampered a lack of consensus.
If left unimpeded by a passive Congress and deferential courts, the president as head of the executive branch may simply enforce the nation's laws in any way he pleases.
Under these circumstances, it should come as no surprise that presidents are increasingly pushing their luck and creating new laws unilaterally.
Rather than lead a fight from the Senate to reassert the authority of Congress, and thereby limit the damage a bad president can inflict, as she certainly could, Harris has been campaigning to increase the president's power.
Her main critique is not that the president is too powerful, but merely that the wrong person is in office.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/september/23/kamala-harris-and-the-cult-of-the-presidency/
Our society's obsession with the president is both a cause and a consequence of his immense power.
Unlike the hyper-partisan "Do-nothing" Congress so often derided by Harris, the president, by virtue of being a single person, is not hampered a lack of consensus.
If left unimpeded by a passive Congress and deferential courts, the president as head of the executive branch may simply enforce the nation's laws in any way he pleases.
Under these circumstances, it should come as no surprise that presidents are increasingly pushing their luck and creating new laws unilaterally.
Rather than lead a fight from the Senate to reassert the authority of Congress, and thereby limit the damage a bad president can inflict, as she certainly could, Harris has been campaigning to increase the president's power.
Her main critique is not that the president is too powerful, but merely that the wrong person is in office.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/september/23/kamala-harris-and-the-cult-of-the-presidency/
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