Any high school graduate knows the constitution gives presidents a lot of power. The executive branch has always been the most powerful branch. In the last several decades, the Supreme Court has become the most powerful branch of government (because of the ideology of Chief Justice Rehnquist).
Presidents control the military, CIA, the Justice Department, the Treasury, the Border Patrol, the Department of Homeland Security, the D.O.E., the USDA, the Health and Human Services Department, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Commerce, etc.. And presidents' powers are expanded during the time of war.
Presidents also have the right to attack other countries anytime they deem it necessary (and congress has the right to declare war). High school graduates know F.D.R. and Truman decided the outcome of World War 2, not congress.
2007-05-02
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