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Military Powers; Powers that are given to congress and the president to hold over the central military.

When we were writing the constitution, we knew that we would need some form of central military power. We didn't want that military to gain to much power, so we found a solution.

In our solution, we gave leadership of this military to the president, but that wasn't good enough. Too make sure that he wouldn't get too powerful we gave congress the power of authorizing the money.

"Obama has been calling for Congress to get behind his limited military action in Iraq and Syria for more than a year now" (Washington Post, December 7th, 2015)

Diplomatic Powers; Powers that are given to congress and the president that have to do with foreign countries.

The president is the chief negotiator with foreign nations and he can make treaties. In order for the president to not have all power of contact with other nations, all treaties have to pass through senate with a two/thirds majority vote.

The president doesn't have all power though, he represents our nation and acknowledges other nations, but others help him negotiate and make decisions. This holds to the 21 st century, when President Obama refused to recognize Assad as the leader of Syria.

"“The reason is not simply because of my opinion of him. It is because it is unimaginable that you can stop the civil war here when the overwhelming majority of people in Syria consider him to be a brutal, murderous dictator,” Mr. Obama said. “He cannot regain legitimacy. And if in fact he is still in power, regardless of what outside powers do, there is still going to be large portions of the population that are fighting.”" (Wall Street Journal, November 19th, 2015)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Powers given to the senate and the president to carry out orders and appoint offices.

The president has to have the executive power! He has to be able to execute orders by himself.

No! We have to give him checks, we don't want him to have all power. The senate should approve his decisions.

Then it's settled, we'll give the president the power to make executive orders by himself, but the senate will approve his appointments to offices, so the president has power, and it's checked.

That's perfect! Quick, write that down!

An executive order was made by President Barack Obama, which started as such; "By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections at all levels of Government, business, and society, to protect privacy, to ensure public safety and economic and national security, and to empower Americans to take better control of their digital security, it is hereby ordered as follows:" (www.whitehouse.gov)

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