Question by Tricia: What power allows the president to act outside the constitution?
What power is granted to the president in the constitution which allows the president to act outside the constitution, and, therefore allows for the president to check or balance of the executive branch?
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Answer by Mujer Alta
Please give an example. All of us – including the president – who’ve taken the oath to “…protect and defend the Constitution ….” aren’t given a list of exceptions. The Constitution is not very specific in a lot of areas so the president has some wiggle room but he can’t “check and balance himself. By definition the checks and balances come from the other branches of government.
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