Should Congress Be Granted To Congress?

The powers of the President are listed in Article two, Section two of the Constitution and unlike the powers granted to Congress, the list of Presidential powers are short and vague. Before the original thirteen states declared independence from Britain, they were colonies ruled over by King George III. Although the colonists were taxed, they had no one to represent their needs in British parliament. This taxation without representation was a key factor in provoking the American Revolution, in which the newly formed union declared independence from Britain and the tyranny of the king. In order to prevent one person from having most of the power the framers of the Constitution gave legislative powers to Congress because the members were elected by the people but the framers recognized a need for quick, decisive action that Congress could not provide. “The historian Jack N. Rakove has …show more content…
As businesses expanded to foreign countries a large international economy grew that connected many countries. As the United States was relatively unharmed, they became a leader in the world. “They [The Framers] didn't know that the U.S. would some day be the richest, most powerful nation on Earth, with the power to destroy other nations in minutes. They didn't know that our economy would become so complicated and so big that it would require constant attention to keep it running smoothly” (Scholastic). The framers of the Constitution could not have predicted that the United States would someday become so large and hold so much influence over the world so they would have never thought that their vagueness in describing the powers of the President would have such an effect on the rest of the world. This new effect the United States has on the rest of the world requires more centralized leadership than the framers could have ever thought