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The Government of United State of America
The US president has many roles to perform as formulated by the constitution. The president has executive powers and roles that he plays in the state. They include;
Chief executive. As the head of the executive branch, the constitution provides a few instructions concerning the president. In this power provided by the constitution the president has specific administrative powers to perform, these task include; appointment and removal powers, budgeting, clemency and law enforcement,
Legislative. The president has a role in legislating. According to the constitution, this will be with the help of congress and thus there must be a good relationship between congress and executive. Through array of resource, the president can influence public policy by veto, the legislative proposal, executive orders and emergency powers.
Foreign affairs. This is done through treaty power, executive agreement and recognition and appointment power
He is the Commander in chief.
He is the Chief of the state. He presides over the ceremonial functions in the state.
Political factors may have caused ‘apparent’ expansion of the authority. Perhaps one of the reasons why the power of the president overstretches is constitutional text on the subject is notoriously unspecific which allows one writer to maintain for the office compared to the specific powers granted by the constitution to the congress. This makes the president to possess significant inherent powers. This proves that the constitution is indeterminacy of the president. In addition it is evident that the case law on presidential power is kind of underdeveloped. This is because there are few Supreme Court cases which analyses the presidential power. When some factors such as military action and national crisis call for exercise it allows the president to expand his/her power. Take an example of executive uses of authority such as Obama appointing the new party member namely Danny K Davis
A legal definition of the word responsible party is people who are in group or are personal and are legally liable for an action and therefore responsible for its outcome. In today’s politics, the political parties wouldn’t want to be considered to be responsible for action made. The reason as to why is because; despite the fact a decision would be made and many benefit from it always there are those who are hurt by that same decision made. It is definitely unavoidable. After some time the ‘pain’ wouldn’t bare it anymore and they will finally get the attention of the media from that they get a story. When this happens it becomes widely known by many and mostly blown up out of the actual circumstance by the media. If the political party stands to be responsible they ultimately lose. This is true despite that many benefited beyond the perceived harm. The result of this is that there would be no action taken to resolve bad situation and as well there will be creation of governmental paralysis.
The system of check and balance has become ‘unbalance’ due do the changing responsibilities in the current political scene. Since the power of the president is open-ended, the opposing political party to check the balance of the state. Those of the opposing political party are offered jobs and that makes it difficult to against the existing state. This is similar to that we have in congress currently.
The political parties are essential when it comes to local, state and national level as it facilitates in the equal distribution of the resources as they are responsible of check and balances of the government. The matter of the security is as well checked due to presence of the political parties.
Democrats and republican parties have differences in their policies which distinguish between the two. In terms of economic ideas, the democrats favor minimum wages and progressive taxation while republican believe that there should be no increment of taxes to any person including the wealthy and the free market should set the wages. A new voter should understand the difference before voting because this would impact their economic status despite of the class of the voter. Third parties don’t offer organization, pluralism and electoral process only because for them to influence the voters they have to use their resources. Unlike the third parties the first party uses the governmental framework to influence voters. It will come a time when a party needs to be identified will be through what they have contributed in the society. The identification of the party will be through record of performance to the voter.
Work cited
Wilson, Woodrow. Constitutional Government in the United States. Ew Brunswick, NJ [u.a.: Transaction Publishers, 2002. Print.
Katz, Richard S. Handbook of Party Politics. London [u.a.: Sage, 2006. Print.
