POL SCI 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unitary Executive Theory, Space Weather, Executive Privilege
3 Nov 2016
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Only congress can declare war: otherwise, pres is in charge, get around that for the past half century. Every war involved right now for the us is a military action responding to an emergency. Pres made cases that it is not a war, just ^ Conducting foreign policy less for the pres than conducting military affairs. Staff that works for pres to build policies, control other bureaucracies who work for fed gov. In charge of carrying out the laws passed by congress: ambiguity on how the laws should be exactly carried out. Pres asset powers implied by the executive power: congress = investors make decisions. When pres orders executive to do things, need to do things within the authority given by congress: unless military or foreign things where he has more power. Article 2, sec 1: executive power shall be vested in the pres of the usa.
