CSPAN House Republican Lawsuit Against President Obama July 19, 2014
Fit with reality. Congress general capacity over funding the executive branch of the government gives Congress Lots of authority to rein in the president. President s have used their Statutory Authority in very large ways. The framers of the constitution came close to giving us a legislatively centered government. But in august of 1787 in a very dramatic period at the very end of the Constitutional Convention led by governor morris of pennsylvania, rufus king of new york, they gave the president independent authority. They gave the president for the first time the authority to negotiate treati...