Branches Of The Executive Branch

The Executive branch is a part of the three main branches that make up the United States of Americas government. This branch in particular is run mainly by the president and that person has a range of powers that they can use to run this country to their liking and for the peoples liking and enforce the overall law of the land. Through the years from Thomas Jefferson to Obama and even to Trump(somehow) these executive leaders have and most likely will spread and enforce their power onto the people for better or worse. The power given to these leaders is a privilege and should not be taken lightly and used in a way to protect and serve the people with care and as an American citizen everyone should know the privileges given to our commander …show more content…
There have been many court cases between the U.S. and presidents with the issue some being extreme and some being sort of like you cannot do that because it is not justified. Now with that in mind it would seem like this privilege should not be so, but the vagueness of the constitution allows this to be possible and is like a un seen weapon for the executive branch being the legislative has a little more power than its counterpart and the judicial is there in a way of just to watch the two so that way they would not break any constitutional laws or natural rights for the people. Which in in return brings us back to the issue of should our commander in chief be able to keep information from its counterparts and the people or not. Well in the document by Mr. Rozell and Mitchel Sollenberger they point out an apparent reason to why the presidency would use such a tool. There for stating “In the extreme case, Congress has the power of impeachment—the ultimate weapon with which to threaten the executive. Clearly this congressional power cannot routinely be exercised as a means of compelling disclosure of information and consequently is not going to constitute a real threat in commonplace information disputes. Nonetheless, in the case of a scandal of Watergate-like proportions where all other remedies have failed, Congress can threaten to exercise its ultimate power over the president. For a time, Congress in 1998 considered an impeachment article against President Clinton for abuses of presidential powers, including executive privilege. Congress ultimately dropped that particular article.”. This brings up a pretty significant point on to why the president would want to hide things form the people and well congress. The problem with this is the peoples bill of rights and their right to know what is going on with the government and the country. When this