An In-Depth Look at the Constitution: The Executive Branch
In
1787, our founding fathers drafted the Constitution of the United
States —our foundation and governing document
in this country. This Constitution is the reason that we have the freedoms that
we have today, and the reason that our government isn’t as oppressive as it
could be. However, this Constitution has been torn apart. Amendments,
unconstitutional laws, and unconstitutional court rulings have plagued this
nation, and, just like the Declaration of Independence says, it is our
responsibility to get back to the Constitution and back to good government:
“…when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new
guards for their future security.”
One
of the key elements to the Constitution was the idea of three branches of
government: the legislative branch (Congress), the judicial branch (the
courts), and the executive branch (the President and his cabinet). One of the
most genius ideas that is found in the Constitution is the idea that these
branches could check each other and balance each other out so that one branch
would not become so powerful as to abuse the power given to it. The
Constitution set up checks and balances to ensure that this would happen.
However, conspiring men have found ways to alter and abolish these checks and
these balances for their own profit and power.
The
branch of the Constitution that I’m going to be talking about today is the
executive branch. This branch of government mainly consists of the President of
the United States
and his cabinet, and everything about the executive branch is found in Article
II of the Constitution.
Let’s
begin with the process of election for the President and Vice President of the United
States . In Section I of Article II of the
Constitution, this process of election is laid out. The states each appoint a
number of electors based on the number of Congressmen and Senators that the
given state currently has in office. These electors are the ones who choose the
President and Vice President. An elector must be an honorable person that is
not holding any office under the United States .
These electors must also be strictly anonymous; for fear that their votes could
be influenced by others. On a date and time chosen by Congress, the electors
meet in their respective states and vote for two people: one president and one
vice president. They then send their votes to the Senate, and the votes are
counted. A president and vice president are then chosen. The twelfth amendment
made miniscule changes to this process, but for the most part, the fundamental
format of the election process stayed the same.
Electors
were originally designated so that conspiring men would not deceive the
majority of the people. However, look at America
today. The Electoral College still chooses the president, but did you watch the
last election? All people care about is the popular vote, which shouldn’t even
matter. The vast majority of states in the United States today have laws that
govern what electors do and who they vote for. Most states have laws that say
that their electors must vote for the person that the majority of the people
vote for, and as a result of this, many conspiring men have been elected to
office (just look at our president today). This is just one of many of the
checks and balances that have been demolished by unconstitutional laws.
Next,
the Constitution covers the qualifications of a president. All of these
qualifications are found in Section I of Article II, and all of these
qualifications apply to the Vice President of the United
States (because he becomes president if the President
is unable to execute his office). Here are the qualifications:
- Must be a natural born citizen of the
- Must be at least 35 years old
- Must have been a resident of the
In
Article II, Section II of the original Constitution, a list of powers given to
the President of the United States
was created:
- To serve as commander-in-chief of the army and navy in times of war
- To grant pardons and reprieves for offences against the
- To fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate
The
President was also given a list of powers that are meant to be given him under
the advice and consent of the Senate:
- To make treaties
- To nominate and appoint ambassadors or other public ministers and consuls
- To appoint the judges of the Supreme Court
- To appoint all other officers of the
In
the Constitution, it specifically talks about how these powers are given to the
President under the Senate. If they desired, the Senate could easily stop the
President from appointing any offices of the United
States . However, look at today’s United
States . The Senate is vastly Democratic, and
they are totally on the side of the President of the United
States . Their agenda is very similar to his.
Why would they want to take away his power?
In
Section III of Article II of the
Constitution, a final list of powers and duties is given to the President of
the United States :
- To inform Congress from time to time on the State of the
- To recommend legislation or action that the Congress may take
- To convene in either or both houses of Congress
- To adjourn Congress in case of disagreement
- To receive ambassadors and public ministers
- To take care that all laws be faithfully executed
- To commission all the officers of the
If you did not watch the President’s 2014
State of the Union Address, I would encourage you to go watch it. It is very
eye opening to see what President Obama is doing to usurp and abuse his power.
After the preamble, the first phrase of the Constitution states: “All
legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United
States …” Notice how all legislative powers are given to Congress, not to the President.
The President can only recommend that Congress do something. He cannot and
should not make laws, yet he does. The President has abused his power to put
executive orders into action. One of the President’s first powers mentioned in
Article II is the power to serve as commander-in-chief of the army and navy in times of war.
The
Founders created the commander-in-chief position so that the President could
act in times of emergency. This included the power to create executive orders,
but this power has been utterly abused. The President now feels that he has all
power. He feels like he can do whatever he wants; that he can make laws
whenever he desires. The executive branch of the United
States was originally designed to be
limited, but our president is currently pushing past that and creating laws,
which is severely unconstitutional. Go watch the 2014 State of the Union
Address. Barack Obama basically says that he would like to work with Congress, but
he says that if they don’t cooperate, he will take matters into his own hands
and do it himself. It is our right and duty as the people of the United
States to stop this from happening.
The
only way back to what America
once was is through the Constitution. We need to get back to this divine
document. It was designed to limit the powers of our government. We need to stop
Barack Obama. We need to stop Congress. We need to stop the Supreme Court. We
need to stop unconstitutional law. We need to stop giving in to this death,
desolation, and tyranny in these states. It is our right; it is our
duty, to throw off our oppressive government and to get back to the principles
that made us a nation. We must become a more perfect union. We must get back to
the Constitution.
An In-Depth Look at the Constitution: The Executive Branch
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