Before a candidate can become the future President of the United States he or she must be able to pass certain criteria; such as: be a U. S citizen, must be at least thirty-five years old, also must have lived in the United States for at least fourteen years. These requirements are all found under the U. S Constitution, Article II. Once the president has been elected, he or she is sworn to office and is immediately given several of responsibilities that he or she ought to become responsible during his four year term of presidency.
Its duties are the following: Serve as administrative head of the nation, Act as commander in chief of the military, Veto legislation, appoint various officials, Make treaties, and Grant pardons. Some of the president’s expressed powers are the president has the responsibilities of serving as administrative head of the nation. This means he needs to ensure that the Law is being faithfully executed. The president will get this done by being the role model, supervisor, and offer leadership to various departments such as; agencies and additional programs that are created by Congress.
Because being the administrative head of the nation is time consuming he or she will not have enough time to enforce the policies that he or she has created. Another duty that the president is in charge of is to act as commander in chief of the military. This is a crucial responsibility that the president is in charge of because he is able to control the U. S armed force: Army, Navy, and the Marines. He decides where they will settle and what forces are assigned certain task. However, he will only be in power for a certain amount of time.
For example, he only can be in charge of U. S armed forces for sixty days and he has an additional thirty days to retrieve forces. Not only is he appointed to become commander in chief, but he also has the power to convene congress. Meaning that the president can call Congress to come together for “extraordinary occasions. ” This rarely happens, but when it does happen it is because it is an urgent matter. Such as trying to pass a law right away or to carry out a certain actions. The president is allowed to convene either one or both house of congress.
For example if there would be a terrorist attack in the United States president Obama would able gather Congress together to fine a resolution to the power, so he ultimately has the power to stop congress and get them together as the state of the union. The president also has the power to veto legislation. He is able to turn down any bill that congress is trying to pass. By the president having this significant amount of authorization, the president can prevent the passage of legislation. By doing so or just mentioning the possibility of a threat of a veto can cause a change in the bill that Congress is trying to pass.
The President only has ten days to act on legislation or it will automatically become a law. Under this power their is two types of vetoes: a veto and a pocket veto. The veto is the rejection of a bill that the president has rejected, but Congress can override a veto with two-thirds vote in each house. Unlike the veto where it can have the possibility of being overridden, the pocket veto can be overlooked by the president meaning the president neither signs the bill nor returns it back to Congress, but they must adjourn within ten days.
Equally important to veto legislation, is the power to appoint various officials. The president is given the authority to appoint important positions in government. He has the resobislity to appoint court judges, ambassadors, cabinet members, and other key policy makers, and lesser officials. This is important to Congress because if the President is a Democratic or Liberal than he will appoint people that see eye to eye with him, so this will change the way certain bills are passed during his four term in presidency Another duty that the President is in charge of is being able to make treaties.
Although he is able to do this, it must be passed by at least two-thirds of senators who are voting at the time, he can also make treaties with foreign powers. He is also has the right to decide If their would be an emergency regarding to declare war or disaster the President has the authorisation to decide on what is the safest and best solution to the public’s well being. This is known has the emergency power. Lastly, he has the President has the power to grant reprieves and pardons for federal crimes. A receptor temporarily allows it postpone a punishment for a crime that was made.
A pardon forgives the crime and the penalty for the crime. These two do not need the approval of Congress as long as the President grants reprieves and pardons for the federal crime. In conclusion, once the President of the United States is sworn in he automatically is has big shoes to feel in. He has several different of powers. Such as enumerated powers, emergency powers, inherent powers, expressed powers, executive orders, and executive privileges. All these powers are different types of authorization that the president is given to successful be able to do the correct thing while being the president.
Some of these are found in the U. S constitution while others are given to the president by the presidency house. In my opinion there are more positive effects than there is negative ones when it comes to the President’s enumerated powers. One reason whis because the President does has the ability to avoid addressing certain issues with Congress and therefore be able to resolve certain issues without Congress disagreeing. This will ultimately from them wasting valuable time, if the country would be under state of Emergency.